Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1895-01-19
Big FIRE !
City Of Butte, Montana, Severely
SCOrChed.
Powder Explosion Spreads
Death and Destruction.
A Calamity Almos! In'qusllrd In l.
MANY Horrors
DEArH OP NAM flhkMkN.

Butte, Mont Jan. H. 4 tire broke ont
IN the Bait. Hardware company ware.
house IN the southern part IT the city NJ
. 80 las, night Ten minutes later = ter
rifle rHJ,loeiun ,rcurr-d. which broke near.
ly all the large plate glass windows IA tue
city mile away Snd shook hnildiugs u"
their foundations, The hremrn lighting
the flames we're nearly all blown I" plec-s
Two more explosions fnllow-'i at intervals
~ FIVE minutes each, Killing and wounding
many people The excitement IL int-n--
The hro attracted a large crowd and hun.
dr-ds wsre standing near the sceu- when
the hrst explosion nccurr-d Men, women
aud children v-r- cut duwu 10y the ter
ribe force of the explosion The debris
from the cArs standing E.Ar ia" ware.
house aud adjoining buildings wAs scat.
,rrrd high IN the air and fut half a luii-
away, many flaming ArtlcIrs sr,kin. p-".
pi- ~ the crowd aud Ahuut the city At
y 10 the nr- drrArtment rrspund,Di I" =
call num buA ~ The hrrmen heard q
rumur that there war I"~drr N the build
ius. hu, this WAS d-ulrd, aud Af,rr = m".
in-nts h-rltati"u thry i-g.n nghi,nk th~
hr- At 10 OS. when the men hal har-.y
started Ia work. there WAr all rAi i,-i"u
which rhnuk Butte tot i,r very fuuuiAtuu-
The powder III The wnr"huuH" hlrN a.,
-pr-RIing death Aud run Al lu, thr""
hi~inru we're Killed Ihrr" were heroes
amuug the SPECTATORS, h"~-Nrr, rt,d ~
soon ~ the rtuu If the ph,-k ,tr-I
away, while n,Inr ran ~ terror. "tli"i=
began pulling the hu'llAir'i Iri'"s II III"
hr-m-n and inju,,-i fium tue pr"lIm,ty i
the nam-s frnui sll oyer the cItS the
people legsn moving ,"warNi ia" hrr sni
the crowd hAd greatly increased ~I,hIu
hive minutes The second -xpln~lnn WAS
almost equal ~ volume I" the hrri aud
h-Igh,-n,-i the terror all over the city and
rpr-Ad death AMI d-splAtiou ~ the scene
of the disaster. In this etplual"n scores
e c,isen~ were killr-i and the Injured
/
f--, One msn near the Northern 'acIhc
water tank was almost struck 10y the leg
and thigh of y human h-lng
There w-r~ still h.ru-s lei, To- help pull
the rhrieking wounded. aud gr"AninE dy.
ing "a q distance, but people ny town
! h-sitAt-d. There had been rumurH II
carloads II pow,i-r ~ the vlriulty hrsid-r
tina, stored IN the war-honr-H FIVE min.
ut-s later third -IpIosinn rarn-. hut /,
WAS = mild one. and II il believed very
, few II any were injured ia thir l. had
all ccurr,-i lu fifteen minutes, the m"rI
horrible quarter uf All hour IA Butte
! history The awiunrsS "f th" seen" Al
, ter the explosions was beyond description
words r"Ild give nu rirA IT II, II pre-
r-nt-d m"rr the ArI~ArAnr- II hN'tlr
hrld than ANY thIur else The dead were
ptr-wn every where, And crl-r and gr,Hns
"f the injured aud dying presented n
scene altogether un-arthly Blu"d aud
brains were spatt-Irl around anil h"r'
and there were pieces II u 'sh, B"t"""I
l
the Northern Pacific AMI tie Gr-Ai North.
-rn d-po,s. n space IT Ao feet "i ground
was literally covered with part" If tru'
m.n hui,rs and with the dead and lujur.
| ell
Th. scene was "n- II utter aud Ahru
lutte destruction Hnus-H IN the vicinity
~"r~ a. thor ,ushly wrecked ~ II ary
clone hal pAss-si lhr"ngh them. One a"
thu r-scu,ng corps ga 'h-r-i twenty rrv"i
dead bpiirs ~ un- pile. eight ia smother
ani twn Rnh three were ia other Inlrs
The r-rcuers pulled some h'sii-s nut rtIl
autv-rlng, ani remnants "f human hrIngI
n,ill grnanlug, whll- l-Rr aud Armr liza,
been uIrn ~. hhHI-l--r trunks Imvrr
rd aud died IN the Srmr m IA" living
The work II r-rcur WAS prosecuted II
earnest Every vehicle ~ the city wa
brought into I-rV SO, Ia carry away th
scores ~ dead Rnd hundreds ~ injured
The Hospitals w-r. filled, suSrrr~nnS ~
hotels ~.rr taken, Nud private h'ur-
w.rr thrown uI-u whri- u wAs ~, ~
ssry
Chief Cameron directed the AttS, X "l
th. builiiny, aud " ~lll- rrtn-1 ~ The tire
men hauled liu-r nf h,@- along, dhr'
I .tAr,.si IN a. tsAT IN IA. iron covering "a
IA, bnLing ~ thry could sri NJ 'h
batnrs just A. th-y had rIr - I''l n
Irariug N Ia IL the c"vrrl0E S".I scout
! eel rulIAurr. the lrrt rLId,ri.u 's'n"
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