The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-24
DEATHS AWFUL CALL
The Testimony in the Explosion InVsS-
tigatiOn Yesterday.
AS THE FATAL BLAST CAME
The Evidence Goes to Show The
Terrible Slaughter Was the Re-
suit of an Exp oslon
Sure Enough.

had seen giant powder unloaded from a
car marked "iron" into the Kenyon-Con-
nell warehouse on or about Jan. 5, was
called to the stand when the investigation
was resumed this morning. He stated
that he had been unable to get the num-
Der of the car referred to, but he was posi-
tive that he had seen one of the Kenyon
Connell warehouse men unloading what
appeared to be dynamite from the car.
The man had four boxes bearing the
trade mark "Hercules"-which is the
brand of powder handled by the Kenyon
Connell company-on n truck and was
wheeling them from the car into the ware
house. The witness said he saw some fiat
iron in the car. The iron was loose and
the boxes seemed to be piled on top of it.
He would not be positive that the boxes
contained dynamite.
Fred Dell, one of the drivers for the
Kenyon-Connell company, was the next
witness. He lives west of Missoula gulch,
in the Hope addition. He stated that he
worked around the warehouse on the
forenoon of Jan. Is, counting magnesia
coverings. They had just commenced to
take stock, but had not reached the pow
der. He hadn't been in the powder room
in the warehouse, he said, for about a
week before the day of the explosion. The
last time he was in there he went in to pile
up few fish plates. At that time he
thought there were about 10 or 10 boxes of
powder in tho room, although he would
not be positive, as he did not notice them
particularly. Asked how many boxes of
powder he usually brought in from the
magazine, the witness replied: II have
brought in 10 and 10 boxes, and one time
when we had large outside orders l
fv,E h. H. I
out to the magazine before the explosion
was on Thursday, which was the Gagnon
powder day. l brought in % boxes on
that day and delivered 81 at the Gagnon
and four at the warehouse"
"WhaJ was the condition of the maya
zine on that day?'
ut was in good condition. / found it
locked and left il the same way"
"How many boxes we're there in the
magazine that day?"
II don't know, but 1 should say about
200 or $50 boxes"
"Where is the powder now owned by
your company"
AT the magazine"
"Where was the powder on the day of
the explosion"
ut must have been at the magazine. 1t
was all there when / went down after
some the next day."
"How much powder was there in the
warehouse on Tuesday, Jan. 1872
II don't know exactly. All / know
about it is the four boxes that left there
on the Thursday before?"
"How big an order have you filled from
the warehouse?"
'As high as Is or Is boxes, | presume"
Isn't it fact that you filled a great
deal larger orders than that from the
warehouse when you were rushed?''
ut was according to how much we had
on hand there. We had a bigger stock
there about the first of the IN onth til an at
any other time and we might have filled
orders of 10, Is, 20 or as high as % boxes
about that time"
Now tell US just how many trips you
made to the magazine between Jan. l and
Is and what you brought in each time"
II went to the magazine on Jan. and
got 80 boxes, 10 of which were delivered to
the Silver Bow shaft No. 1. l don't re-
member what disposition was made of the
others. l went out again on Thursday be-
fore the fire and brought in % boxes, 81 %
which went to the Gagnon and four TO the
warehouse. These are the only trips that
/ remember having made to the maya
zine between Jan. l and 15."
The witness said he did no know any,
thing about slight fire having occurred
in the warehouse on Tuesday afternoon
and had not heard anything about it.
The witness stated that he was at his
home in the Hope addition when the first
explosion occurred. Asked what remark
lie made he replied: Il said there goes
Kenyon's store or warehouse or boiler
at the Parrot smelter."
"As a matter of fact" asked Mr.. Wines,
"didn't you say to your mother after the
first explosion there goes Kenyon's ware
house or store and don't you go near it for
there will be an awful explosion?'"
II don't think said that exactly. The
Parrot smelter was in direct line wi tn
the warehouse and thought that boiler
there might have exploded"
Didn't your mother wa mt TO go down
town with you and didn't you tell her to
stay at the house for fear that she might |
get hurt even at that great distance from |
the scene of the explosion?"
well, she wanted to go down with me |
but l wouldn't let her go because l didn't |
think it would be a nice place for lady. |
l knew there was powder in the ware |
house. l didn't know how much, but / |
thought there might be 10 or 20 boxes at |
least"
explosion?'
II went to the house of William Cole, a |
friend of mine, at No. 307 West Quartz |
street. and stayed there"
'Why didn't you go or down to the |
scene of the explosion
~ didn't go any further because didn't |
want to see any dead people. Ikuew that
there must be some dead people and was
afraid that there was some more powder
there"
Where we're you when you heard the
second explosion"
"Just stepping up onto Coles porch. | |
didn't know where the second one came
from. but told Willie Cole that if Ken
yon's warehouse had gone that of the
Butte Hardware company would 90 too for
bad seen powder stored there. / had
seen powder piled upon their platform and
in their warehouse
When
well, | guess il was five or six DAYS be-