The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-20
Butte Department.

in the northeast corner OF the building
but they were not disturbed by the ex-
plosion. The coils of wire were strung
out in a northeasterly direction from
the Butte Hardware warehouse. He
saw one coil of wire with a bar of iron
on top of II, and another coil and an
other bar on top of It. The Ken
yon-Connel1 company carried the Her
cules brand of giant powder and the
Butte Hardware had Judson powder.
The witness found some unexploded
sticks of Judson powder scattered
about on the morning after the explo-
sion but saw no Hercules powder. Or
cult said there were no red letters or
red marks on the Hercules powder
boxes, but that the name was printed
in black letters. There were a lot of
candle boxes I'm the warehouse with red
labels. The witness contradicted the
testimony of the witness Graham that
there was any powder stored in the
south side of the building. He also tes-
tilted that he went down to the North
ern Pacific tracks yesterday morning
to the point indicated by the witness
Goddard, from which the latter claimed
he witnessed the fire and explosion In
the Kenyon Connell warehouse. circuit
said he could see nothing from the
point indicated owing to the high
banks.
On cross examination by Mr.. Nolan
the witness said he was still in the
employ of the Kenyon-Connell COM
pany. and had worked for that con-
Germ for five years before the explosion.
He said the maps or diagrams of the
two buildings were drawn under his d.
rections and he furnished the data only
two weeks ago, nearly a year after the
explosion. He said he was in the Butte
Hardware house on the very day Of the
explosion. At the coroner's' inquest he
testified that he did not remember
when last he had been in the building,
and when Mr.. Nolan called his atten-
ton to the discrepancy in his two
statements the witness became con-
fused, and said:
well, let that statement CO."
But won't let IL co." said Mr.. No
Ian, and when he pressed the witness
for an answer he admitted finally that
he could not remember when he had
been in the building last. In reply to
another question he said that he could
not remember when he saw powder In
the Butte Hardware house. and said
that some of the powder indicated on
the map had been put there by the
draughtsman on his own responsibility.
At first he said he had been in the
Butte Hardware warehouse as often as
five times a day. Later he changed II
to weeks, and finally said he could not
name a single month in which he saw
powder in that building, at the one
place indicated by the map. but he
thought 1t must have been on the first
OF some month.
How much powder did you see In
there on the first of December?"
We'll. now you are getting down too
close" replied the witness.
'T'll give you the benefit Of a general
observation, and ask you how much
powder you saw there on any &C.
casion?"
Very little-about six or seven
cases.
circuit said he did not go on the
ruins of the warehouses until 3 or 10
O'Clock the next morning, and did not
see the coils of wire and bars until that
time. He said he got a case of powder
at the Butte Hardware warehouse
about the middle of December and
saw quite a stock" of powder at an
other location than the place indicated
before.
How much did you see at that
timer"
"All of so cases."
circuit said that candle boxes closely
resembled powder boxes He would
not say that the witness Graham was
not in the Kenyon Connell warehouse
on the day preceding the explosion and
admitted that the witness, Con Shee-
han, was in the building on the Sat-
urday preceding the explosion. The
witness said he instructed the
draughtsman to put bars of iron there,
or powder here or something some
where else, and the draughtsman put
as many of each article as he wanted
to.
Then this is another dream of the
architect" said Mr.. Nolan, indicating
a representation of about a score of
pieces of iron where the witness said
there had been only about half a
dozen.
One side of the building was repre-
scented TO have been occupied by steel
ranges.
do you know what became of all
those ranges?" asked Mr.. Nolan.
up in a balloon" replied the wit
ness. getting funny.
do you know whether the balloon
got down yet or not?'
IT don't know"
ranges SINGER"
"Only pieces"
f. r. Griffin said he was in the City
hotel. on Utah avenue, at the time the
fire alarm sounded. He was in bed at
the time. and got up and went down in
the barroom and took up a position on
the bar and looked out of the window.
He saw the firemen at work on the
Kenyon-Connell building. and after the
small "puff' or explosion. the small
building between the Butte Hardware
and the Kenyon-Connell was burning
and the flames then spread to the
Butte Hardware and the northeast
corner of the building had been burn
ing about Ave minutes before the first
big explosion occurred. The explosion
came out OF the Butte Hardware build
ing. The explosion broke the window
out of which Griffin was looking, and
the glass cut his face. He went out
into the kitchen to wash the blood of
his face, and when he came back the
second big explosion occurred and
threw five rabble heads into the house
He was sure the rabble heads were
thrown by the second explosion. Grit