New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-08-11
EXPLOSION HURTS 100.
rBpTD BLOWN FROM FEET
Erirc IN Colorado & Southern Station
Thought EncendiGry.

ro,ise~ Col Aug t0.-Fire that stared early
.,dav in the Colorado and Southern freight sta
-len here destroyed TIE station. Wit, erge guam
iii. Of freight and .nre'ci'e1 ioTGer house con
tanning a thousand pc3pds "f dynamite. which
exploded with tremendous shock. injuring per
hans one hundred persons and breaking the plate
glass in every business house in the city well
as the windows in hundreds Of homes. il is be-
leved that two Of the injured men will die. The
property loss is estimated at S25a.Gea The fire is
believed have been incendiary- Twenty-Five of
the injured taken hospitals.
When the alarm was first turned In only small
blaze visible at the west end Of the station
The firem.n. Handicapped 10y low pressure of
fought bravely. in utter ignorance that half
a ton Of explosives stored near by No warn
ing was given. and when the sheet iron shack
containing the dynamite split open with a dull
the manning the hose and every person
"itlin radius of one hundred yards were hurled
to the ground
L. Favre and Wilson. two volunteer iremen,
zho were nearest the storehouse. were fright
fully mangled- la Favres leg blown off
above the knee Wilson. = cripple with ar arti1-
cial leg. had his other leg blown away The
wooden limb aiso ras el,a+sarad and fragments of
II were driven into his body.
Across the street from the freight station big
tTo-story brick warehouse had great cracks
broken in its walls. and its roof was blown on
In the business section plate glass windows tel
in splnters on the sidewalk. follwonig the expo.
sion Guards OF armed men were thrown d"oul
the banks and mercantile establishments to pre-
looting
Scarcely had the eddying smoke from the expo
sion drifted away when band OF volunteers
rushed into the powder house. and hgh'ins thel,
way through the choking fumes found several
kegs Of gizl,l powder which had failed 10 explode
which they carried ont in their arms TO q safe
place.
On a side track at the platform of the burning
depot stood car containing eight tons Of dyna-
mite Despite that cindeTs were falling on
its roof and little 1ickers Of flame were ap-
parent on its walls. switching crew backed down
and coupled TO the smouldering car. and while the
brakemen beat out the sparks. the engine pulled
the miles into the country where II was
left a side track
The Boulder Clubs weekly reception had Just
been ended and many men and women were stand
irg the side walk a few blocks away waiting
tar their carriages 4 half hundred of them were
blown by the force OF the explosion
The fact that dangerous explosives were stored
so near the station. and that feU persons were
aware cf the fact. will be made the subject Of
rigid inquiry BIZ the city authorities Railway
officials explain that the storage was only fem
porarv. pending shipment TO the mines
Denver Col. Aug. 1--we have proof that the
fire in the depot of the Colorado & Southern at
Boulder last night of incendiary origin. said
A D. Parker. vice president Of the Colorado &
Southern to-day. The misc-eants may not have
Looked for the awful results that followed through
the explosion of the dynamite. but upon their heads
the blame Of the catastrophe must rest VIII NOT
say whom suspect