The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-12-19

| not admissible. and the other parts ~
IL were then read to the jury. Mr.. Hail
| said that Hercules powder, or nitro
| glycerine. froze at AZ degrees, and that
at 20 OF rs degrees II would most read
fly explode and exert itself TO the
highest degree. He testified that at
the time of the first big explosion he
was about to go to bed in his resi-
dence on West Galena street and the
shock would have thrown him down N
he had not taken hold of the bed. He
rushed out of the house and saw thou
sands of burning sticks of powder In
the air. He dressed and went 20 the
scene of the explosion and arrived
there after the. third explosion and
saw them carrying away the dead and
wounded. and saw the general havoc
wrought In his opinion not much less
than two and a half tons of Hercules
powder. of IS per cent. nitro glycerine,
could have caused the damage or made
the defamation. and providing the pow
der had been thawed out and ready
for use. He also said there were large
quantities lying around that had not
exploded because frozen.
Two insurance policies on the Ken
yon-Connell warehouse were offered in
evidence to show a permission given by
the companies to carry in storage 100
pounds of powder Mr.. Wines objected
on the grounds that the evidence was
Incompetent as Ii would not show that
the Kenyon-C onnell company had ever
stored as much as 1t had been permit
ted to store by the policies. Mr.. Walsh
replied that the policies were in the ma.
ture of contracts between the ware
house company and the insurance COM
panies, and that IL was a fair deduc
ton to assume that the defendant in
tended to store that amount of powder,
or IL would not have obtained that per-
rr1fcciOn The CrQfQfnpd oh
lection.
John Caddy. the next witness, testi-
fed that ait the time of the first explo-
sion he was at home. about two blocks
from the Kenyon-Connell warehouse.
The explosion knocked the clock of a
dresser onto the floor and stopped It.
The witness afterwards looked at the
clock and saw that it had stopped at
1910 O'Clock. --
w. p. Evans and Charles Goddard
testified about seeing Albert Goddard's
watch, which was found on the ground
after the explosion. officer Sinsel tes-
titled that he received the watch from
the man who found it. 1t was covered
with blood. "a
Sophia Goddard, the plaintiff in the
case, and widow of Albert Goddard,
was the next witness and said she had
been married to him a little over a year
at the time of his death. He was a
mason by trade, 20 years of age. weigh
ed $50 pounds and was in a healthy
condition. He earned IS a day at his
trade On the evening of the explosion
she and her husband were visiting at
a neighbours. She identified the watch
referred to by other witnesses as her
husbands watch. She saw ii at 8
O'Clock that evening and it was then
running. When the fire alarm sounded,
about $3.50 O'clock her husband left her
and said he was going to the fire. She
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when her brother-in-law brought 1t to
her. 1t had then stopped running The |
watch was introduced in evidence and |
indicated 1000 o'clock as the time of |
the explosion. Mrs. Goddard further |
testified that her husband had been a |
sober and industrious man, and that |
they had lived happily together. At the |
of Mrs. Goddard's testimony |
court adjourned for the day, the plain |
tiff's attorney announcing that the di- |
rect evidence had about all been pre- !
scented. a..t-D |