Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-01-25
ANXIOUS SEARCH
The Butte COrOner's Jury Still En-
gagged in Hunting For All
the Facts.
NOTHING THAT IS POSITIVE
Has as Yet Been Revealed as to the
Amount Of Powder In the
Warehouses.


Special to The Tribune.
BUTTE, Jan. 23.-The third days in.
vestigation by the coroner's jury of the
facts relating to the great explosion %
the night of Jan. 10 opened this morn
ing with the usual large number of spec
tators. The attorneys who are present
believe that the investigation will last at
least one week longer, there still being a
large number of witnesses who have i'm
portant testimony to give.
Thomas Burns, the railroad man, who
testified yesterday that he had seen dy-
Mantle unloaded from a car at kenyon's
warehouse some weeks ago, was the first
witness this morning. He said that he
had been unable to get the number of
the car. He was positive that he had
seen a man unloading what appeared to
him to be dynamite from a car. The
OF a truck and was wheeling them out
Of the car into the warehouse. The wit
ness said he had seen a quantity of fiat
iron in the car. The iron was loose and
the boxes in the car seemed to be piled
on top of the iron. Mr.. Burns would
not be positive that the boxes contained
dynamite.
Fred Dell, a driver for the Kenyon
Cornell Commercial company, was the
next witness. He said he was assisting
Charles circuit in taking an inventory
of the stock at the Kenyon warehouse on
Jan. -. Dell said he had not been in
the powder room for more than a week
preceding that date. At that time. he
said, he went in to put away some fish
plates and rabble heads. He had
noticed several boxes Of powder there,
at that time. The last time he was out
at the powder magazine was on the
Thursday preceding the explosion. He
brought in % boxes of powder, q of
which we're taken to the Gagnon mine.
lie did not know how much powder
there was at the warehouse on that day.
lie frequently filled an order for 10 or Is
boxes from the warehouse. On Jan. ,
he made a trip to the magazine and
brought in 80 boxes of powder. II of
which he took to the Silver Bow mine.
The others he left on the platform, from
which six or seven were sent to the
Colusa that afternoon. When he heard
the explosion Dell said he was at home
and remarked that that was kenyou's
store or kenyon's warehouse. or the
boiler At the Parrot sme.ter.
John F!annery. 4 member Of the paid
tire department. who owes his life to the
fact that be Was coupling the hose to d
1ydraLt At the time Of the explosion. vas
the first witness this afternoon. Mr.
f.aLLery r~e=poLIed to the alarm from
o31 = % ta- Iight Of the 18th, and after
-:ttt1g 10 Franks warehouse they ran 4
Ice u hose to the burning building. He
mad rL!y gigeG the hy5raLt valves d few
r-C-= Taen tbs explosion occurred. lie
rz- back toward the building and found
Z number II dead d few feet north Of the
Kenyon building, The Butte Hardware
compaLg= warehouse Tas a wreck when
ne got there, and the Kenyon building
Tas blown to PIECES at the time Of
the as:oad explosion. which he To-
Gated in the Butte Hardware com
pany7 building, The witness vas about
fttty feet north Of the building The first
explosion vas the heaviest in his c~stinIs-
ton. Flannery said that the line Of hose
was destroyed near the building. and that
bars Of iron. corrugated iron aud other
material we're scattered all around the
front Of both Of the warehouses;.