The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-22

ne thought would be enough TO supply the
| demand?"
Il don't know"
AS general manager of your company
should you not have known how the ex-
! plosives were being handled ?"
Il thought did know about il. but il
seems that / don't. When the powder
was brought in part of it was left at the
warehouse. part al the retail store and
| the rest was delivered to customers. If
we got an order for less than a box of
| powder II would be filled from the box at
the store. If we got an order for two
boxes 1t would depend upon how much
we had at the warehouse and store to-
gether and as to whether it could he filled
! without sending out TO the magazine. Ii
was generally understood that we were to
| live up to the law and always supposed
that these orders were being lived up to,
although l never paid very close atten-
ton to the matter"
| MIR. Watson was temporarily excused
after promising to go through the books
and secure the desired information.
w. Il. Kenyon was the next witness. He
stated that he is vice president of the
henyon-Connell Mercantile company, the
| board of trustees of winch is COMPOSED of
| NJ. j. Connell, j. L. Gaylord, c. ii. Palmer,
/ Alex j. Johnston and himself. The COM
| pany deals in hardware and mining sup
| plies and had two warehouses, one near
| the Northern Pacific and the other the
one destroyed on Tuesday night at the
| Montana Central depot. Mr.. KENYON
testified that he was at his homo on Up
per Montana street when the first explo-
sion occurred. He at once started for the
scene, but could not remember where he
was when the second and third explosions
took place. lie drew a diagram of his
warehouse and the adjoining buildings
ana stated that there was a space of about
70 feet between his warehouse and that
of Caplice d Co., which adjoined it on the
west.
Mr.. Cotter conducted the examination
OF MIR. Kenyon and he went into details
very thoroughly.
What was stored in your warehouse on
the night of Jan. 1872"
Bar iron, sheet iron, stoves and ranges
and a quantity of rabble heads which |
think were stored IN the northwest corner
of the building. We carry Hercules giant
powder which runs 80, 40 and 60 per cent.
in nltro-glycerine."
How much powder had you on hand
Tuesday night?"
II don't know. The warehouseman,
Charles circuit, would know. The DOW
der was stored IN the magazine, about a
nall or three-quarters OF a mile below the
Bell smelter. l don't know how much
powder we had on hand Jan. l, and will
not know until we take an inventory, as
we buy our powder outright. We sell a
good deal of powder in car load lots, and
III AlcSS cases IL IS naulcu uIrect 10 inc
mines. When powder Is received for re-
tail 1t is hauled by j. Ii. McQueeney from
the depot to the magazine. We always
keep one or two boxes III the store, and
the powder is brought IN from the maya
zIne Tor delivery to customers. In order
TO keep a supply on hand We have more
brought IN from The magazine than the
orders call for, and a part is left at the
warehouse and part at the store.'
DO you know how much powder was
stored IN your warehouse on Tuesday
nlght"n
Il don't, but presume there was some.
on could find cut, however. from the
Marchouseman. l never made any in
curry OF the warehouscmln as TO how
much powder he had on hand. About
two years ago | found five or SIX boxes of
powder IN the store and | told the men
never 10 let that occur again. as we had
so, % or 10000 worth OF insurance,
which we could not afford to leopard re. !
never went through tnC warehouse to see .
how much powder was stored there. / .
had not been IN the warehouse in six .
months AM don't know # there was 100 .
or LOO pounds there Oh Tuesday night. | .
was Informed by the men tllt there were /
two and one-halt 'Nrs ~ the store that /
night. The men = 50 iniormc me that /
they saw a drLy Ioal Of powder being
moved irom another establishment that |
night"
In response to other questions. Mr..
Kenyon said: II have not visited the
scene OF the explosion since Tuesday
night. L could not ascertain Just how
much powder we had on hand Jan. 10, al
though | could come pretty close TO 1t.
The best way 10 get at that is to examine |
he drivers and the warehouseman. The
Hercules powder is manufactured in Cali
-ornia and IL Is generally consigned over
he Union Pacific and Montana Union.
Z is never handled by the Great Nor, hern.
There were no other explosives in the
building. There were no shovels wire |
Dipe or wheclbarrows in the warehouse
hat was destroyed. They were kept IN
he other building. There might have
been some WIRE screen and waste in the
building and possibly some oakum."
The witness testified that when he Wis.,
ted the warehouse the last lime the
abble heads were piled up for safety
Iround the powder III little room in the
northwest corner of the building. This
DOM, he admitted, had been built for the
forage of powder. 1t was large enough
o hold a ton. but the witness did not
now of its ever having contained that
much. He did not know what was the
argest quantity that had ever been stored
n IT. lie said that in a cases out of 10, |
ustomers wanting powder had to wait
ntil 1t could be brought from the maya
me. lie stated that he was not a powder
Npert and d d not know what force would |
e required TO explode giant powder. lie
ld not know whether a fireman in chop
ing at the side of a wall against which |
he powder was piled could strike hard !
nough TO explode the powder or not. Mr.. i
Lenyon stated that there were also some
andes IN the building. but he said. IN |
eply to Cotter, that they were not ex-
losive.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Kenyon's tes- I
mony, Mr.. Haldorn raised the question |
the right of the corporations attorneys !
} cross-eXamIne witnesses. He did not {
aim this right, hut said the questions (
ould be asked through the courtesy of {
the coroner.
The county attorney objected to the re- I
lest and stated that a cross-eXamina- d
on would not onlv prolonC tho invrs'i-,a- {
Awarded