The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-24
DEATHS AWFUL GALL
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second big explosion seemed TO me Il
come from the Kenyon building also, but
was not looking toward the fire at that
time. / helped pick up Charles Aston
RICHARD GURKA.
Richard GuTka was about two blocks
from the scene when he heard the whist les
sounding the alarm and he ran to the fire,
arriving about minute after tho fire de-
Dartment. lie said: Tho fire was IN
the northwest corner of the henyon-Con-
nell warehouse. Some of the firemen
started to cut an opening into the build
ing with axes while others we're behind
with the hose. After the first little puff
came j came back about 10 feet IN a
northweStcrly direction and stood behind
the boilers. When the first heavy cXplo-
sion went off / crowded under the boilers
and waited until the debris quit falling
and then l went home. ] was told by n
boy just after the first small explosion
that there was more powder in the build
ing and that was why / moved farther
back. The first heavy explosion was in
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT warehouse. l did
not see any of the firemen after the first
big explosion
NJ. T. HARTNETT.
NJ. Z. Hartnett testified that inc was at
home, three doors south of tho Montana
Central car shops, when he heard the
alarm and he reached the scene Just after
the flremen had lald the hose and before
the water was turned on. He said he and
John j. Enright, one of the killed, went
up together and passed in between the
warehouses of the Butte Hardware COM
pany and Kenyon-Connell company. Tho
fire was in the northwest corner of the
Kenyon-Connell building and the firemen
went to work there to cut an entrance and
get water OH the fire. Mr.. Hartnett testi-
fed: "After the first little explosion the
fireman with the axe and those with the
hose ran back toward the Hardware com
pany's warehouse. A man in the crowd
cried Don't run away, boys, there's
no more powder in the building; and the
firemen went back 10 work. | stepped
back to the boilers. just as the iircmen
got back TO the building the first heavy
explosion came and we were all knocked.
down. When ! rcgancd my feet started
TO look for my nephew, j. j. Enright, who
was standing shoulder to shoulder with
me when the explosion came. | could sec
n lot of bodies lying around the building
in which the explosion occurred. The
first man l came to was alive and he
asked me TO help him get away. | told
him that / would come back later on.
Then l encountered three dead and badly
mangled bodies one after the other. just
as / was STOPPING down over tho third
body the second explosion went Off and |
was blown 30 or 40 feet in a northwesterly
direction.
plosion, but from the direction in which /
was blown l don't think that il could
have come from anywhere but the Ken
yon-Connell warehouse. After that ex-
plosion Newton, n Montana Central
switchman, came up to me and said:
There's more powder in that id
building; let's get out of here / took
his advice and we walked over towards
Arizona street. did not see tho third ex-
plosion, but believe that all of the ex-
plosions were IN the Kenyon-Connell
warehouse. A quantity of six inch pipe
was scattered around by the first heavy
explosion"
You are positive that at least three
men were killed by the first heavy ex-
plosion?'
"Yes, and besides the three that | OK
amined there were dead bodies all around
me-
The inquest was then adjourned until
10 o'clock tomorrow.