Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1895-01-19
TERRIFIC EXPLOSION.
Several Cars of Giant Powder
Explode at Butte, Montana.
sEvENTY-FIvE PERSONS KILLED AND
MANY WOUNDED.
One Million Dollars Worth Of Prop
erty Destroyed.

BUTTE, Mont, Jan. ia special TO the
Salt Lake Tribune says: A fire broke out
In the Bate Hardware Compsny's ware
house 10 the southern part Of the city 81
9 O'Clock this evening. Ten minutes
later q terrific explosion OF powder 90.
CURED, which broke nearly all the large
| plate glass windows In the city. q mile
away, and shook buildings TO their foupda-
| ton. The fremcn were fighting the lanes
81 the time and nearly all Of them were
| blown to pieces. 1t is reported that only
| one fireman escaped with his life. Two
moro explosions followed at intervals OF
five minutes each, killing and %wounding .
number Of people.
The excitement is intense. At The pres.
emf time 10 csnnot be harmed how many
people have been killed. A general alarm
has just been sent from the City Hall, al
IL o'clock, calling for assistance Of eli cit
isens TO care for the dead and wounded.
The fire attracted q large crowd and hun
dreds we're standing near the scene when
the fret explosion occurred. Men, women
and children were cut down by the ter
| rible force OF the explosion. Debris from
the cars standing near the warehouse and
adjoining buildings was scattered high in
the air and for half q mile away. many
flaming articles striking people in the
crowd and about the city.
The ground was strewn like q field OF
battle with the injured and dead. Owing
to the fact that there were several cars Of
powder still on the track and the report
that one Of the burning warehouses also
contained q quantity Of powder. few dared
after the first explosion TO venture TO
the assistance OF the injured, and when
they did they we're met by the second ex-
plosion like 9 raking fire from an army.
Then followed a third explosion.
After the third explosion the work Of
| picking up the dead and carrying off the
wounded began. Fifteen dead bodies we're
piled together, many Of them mangled 10
such an extent that they could not be iden.
tilted. Every house in the vicinity Is
turned into a hospital. The scene about
the explosion is beyond description.
At 9:l5 O'Clock the Fire Department re-
sponded to a call. the call Of death to all
bu, three Of the firemen. They had barely
started to work when an explosion occurred
which shook Butte to its foundations. The
powder in the warehouse blew up, spread
ing death and rain to all who were near.
| Scores OF citizens we're killed and injured.
Parts of bodies we're hurled hundreds OF
feet away. One man was almost struck by
the leg and thigh OF q human being, driven
by the force OF dynimite from the fearful
scene.
II had all occurred In fifteen minutes.
the most horrible quarter OF an hour 10
Butte's history. The dead we're strewn
everywhere and the ories and grosns OF
the injured and dying presented . scene
altogether unearthly. Blood aud brains
we're spst.ered around, and here and there
pieces Of flesh. One resouing pa ty gath.
cred tw~enty.seven dead bodies 10 one pile.
Some of the bodies pulled out Of the debris
still quivered, while legs and arms had
been torn of. shApeless trunks quiysred
aud died Ia the arms Of the living.
Al least rs persons were killed outright,
and |, 10 impossible al this time to give
the number injured. The damsgo TO
property Ia estimated at 81, 900. 900.