The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-25
BLOWN UP in HIS SLEEP
Hondish Crime Committed In Butte Early
Yesterday AoFnine.
fully Injared by NJ ExplU~soa nj
0laat Powder-His Wife and
som Arrested.

Special Correspoudeuce Of <he standard.
BUTTE, Oct. 2A.-The most ftendish and
diabolical plot to take human life that was
ever attempted in this city was hcralded
by q terrific explosion at 6:1O O'Clock this
morning. People living along West Park
sstreet between Main and Academy all
Aboard Il, windows were raised, heads
vthrust out, and soon men were hurrying
through the streets To discover the cause.
In the Immediate neiRhborhood of the ex-
plosion, buildings were shaken and win
dow panes shattered. Officer Andy Daum
went on duty at d o'clock and had AIKEN
but a very few steps along West Park
street when u little hoy, who il was he
could not afterwards tell. came running
out Of little p~assagcway and told the
NofiiceP excitedly: "A man i'm here has
just been blown to smithereens."
Oficer Daum followed the hoy into IA
little ~passaReway running northward from
Park street and about half way between
FzMbout two and onc.half feet wide. just
wide enough to admit the body. of "a man.
: sna rSn, 10 to . |. .s l"nai"f I, rs%.n a T bitterly s: sais
morning, and at the time dark as pitch.
In iDr the co S19 sr;g Ssca ss% Ma6 q, ai raSn iSsh hs sas
way through the open door OF a frame
court. He entered a room filled with
smoke, SO that he could scarcely BREATHE.
and so dark that he could not see. A bed
stead stood i'm the southeast corner. and
i'm u heap on the floor within the bcdstcad
1, wsr. the slom MH' Ssrn;n and sndaa1iYa oMenSe
among the women outside, who II was Ii
not known, screamed:
"There is more powder there. DohtGo
Who Il was that knew there was more
amined the bedciothes aud found a stick
of giant powder UNEMPLOYED: The stick
w"s eight ant inches nSnes 'one S ana nnt conn.csed
with q fuse and was found above the
mattress and under the bedcloshes near
q went away to lind Chief of POLICE smith:
! A man had been lying on this bundle of
away before the officer arrived. The man
was Oscar teinberg. n painter. he had
ing and moaning, and taken across the
alley to the house where his wife and
children live. 1t was believed at the time
that there was hut lutte life left.
Investigation made by the police and by
STANDARD reporters later i'm the forenoon
The court which was the scene of the
tragedy is situated about midway between
West Park street and am alley known as
West Park alley, which runs parallel with
Park street and north OF IT. The outlets
to s'h; this ,s s"i.r' sa ars sns i'i in,o p M..ss Psrk
northward into West Park alley. The
street and eastward to another alley
which runs north and south between West
On the north side of the court, separated
by the ~passageway- which leads To West
ark la n twO Irnrue tnlIIlIllKS. u Hal
west of the passage is the d~welling-house
where live Mr.. S,einbers's wife and
sa0e is Mr.. Steinberp's paint shop. The
so,Sth end OF the basement of tls. paint
anon has been fitted into a sleeping room
for Mr.. Steinberu. as he has not lived
wifi, his family for some months, Al
thc time THE STANpARD reporter was
aIuittssd tn the room il was
" cn',,uiete wreck. The plaster at tho
south east corner OF zinc room was knock.
ed down. Every name of glass i'm the win.
INV, wns Shattered and tile glass of the
ransom over the door was broken. The
hei was "A rliu. feathers from the pillows
were stickin9 TO TIN. ceiling and walls and
v,cre scnttcrs.d ali over the room, Til.
n'attress was nnrtly burned. TIN wire
snr;nu 1nnttress had am Immense. hole
/ nhn,,t three feet sunar,. i'm the corne,
nearest the south wall.
Tho room contnined besides the he'd, ar
.rn, chair. n hook case i'm the uorth-ras
corner the glass of which had beer
s,,ashs.l Inv the rxplosion on the NORTH
.iic ciothiEv hanging against the wall; Ia
the northwest corner "a briC-a-brac stand
on the west aide "a urnshstand and looking
0iass. and i'm the center of the room, {
stove There is blood on the bcdstead
~, IN. wirr ,nattrrs, and on IN, b.,l cloth