Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-09-22
4 Gun ACCIDENT
BOY SHOOTS HIMSELF AND WILL
PROBABLY DIE.
THE GUN FROM WAGON.
First Accident Reported of the Hunt
ing Season-Need of Care
Z in the Fields.
BoZeman, September 10.

D. MlltOH SteWarI, the son OF j. y. oIeW-
art, who resides on the East Gallatin,
was severely, and possibly, fatally in
jured by the premature discharge of a
gun on Monday morning He was taking
the gun from a wagon with the muzzle
toward him and very near his right arm
midway between shoulder and elbow,
the gun was in some discharged,
the shot tearing away almost all the
flesh leaving the bare bone DIR. Mccoy
was and repaired to the scene
of the accident with all speed, but the
loss of blood a been So great in the
meantime that the chances OF recovery
are not at all good.
Word was received this morning from
Belgrade, a small town on the Northern
Pacific about ten miles west OF here,
that a fire had occurred during the night
which destroyed a number OF buildings
in the town, n that one man had lost
his life in the flames. 1t appears that a
man named West Riley, who belongs to
one Of the many threshing crews in the
valley, had come to town to spend a few
days, as the rain had caused a suspen-
sion of threshing operations, and during
the day had managed to imbibe too free
ly. He retired to his room in the Bel
grade hotel at a late hour, and it is sup
posed that he either upset a lamp or that
1T had been placed too near the bed, set"
lluS the Ueu clOlueS Oh IRE ADOul Three
O'clock this morning Mrs. Warburton
was awakened by the smoke, and hastily
removed her children from the building,
which being an old structure, burned
like finder, Notwithstanding the soak
Ing rain storm that had prevailed for two
days. In rescuing the children she was
somewhat scorched, but managed to get
them to a safe place. Riley was beyond
help when the flames were first dlscov-
cred Besides the hotel, the home and
meat market of Jerome Waterman, The
Valley Trading Co. store, w. Browns
barber shop, Hans Knutson's saloon,
Murphy's blacksmith shop and a small
building of the Belgrade Company, lin
tied, were entirely consumed by the
flames. A portion of the stocks in the
several buildings were saved by being
carried out by willing hands. Every
one turned out to help subdue the flames,
but owing to the entire absence of fire
fighting implements no Roadway was
made against the fierce flames, and they
finally died out for want of fuel. The
which there is insurance of about $4,000.
mostly on stocks. At last accounts
these losses had not been given SO that
it could be told how much encn o. the
different owners had lost. This is the
second cont1agration that has visited the
little town, the loss by the former fire
having been a serious blow to the people
who lost their property by it. Had there
DeGn any WlnO, IL Is more lIlhH piopdoiC
that the entire town would have been
wiped out, and nothing but a heap of
ashes remain where once a thriving little
town stood.
P. E. G.. Smith is short a reaping ma
chine, the loss coming about in a very ex-
asperating way. He had been at work
in the field with a team that showed a
great dislike to work and he had any
amount of trouble to keep them going.
A friend, who was driving by, was
hailed by Mr.. Smith, who wanted to
speak a few words to him, n to DO SO
4 more conveniently he stepped from the
machine. Hardly had he let go the relns
4 when the horses started on a wild run
through the grain field Bundles We're
coming out of the machine at the rate of
q thousand a minute, SO it seemed. In
the mad run the horses jumped a often
hat was about seven feet wide, but the
! machine made the jump in as good shape
h as did the horses, still turning out pun
i dies Then the horses tried a new dodge.
They made for the fence, and after now
ing down a few panels and getting the
4 barbed wire tangled up in the works, the
machine gave up doing business.
broke down in so complete a manner
that Mr.. Smith found it necessary to
come to town and buy a new machine
with which to finish his work. Hereaf-
! ter he will look out for horses that DO
not seem to have life enough left to move,
I and be sure of them by anchoring them
to a stout fence pole. or other SOLID NIX
ture.