The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-11
DYNAMITE
 PLAYS HAVOC Was Stored in a Burn
 ing Depot. FIREMEN BADLY MANGLED Over One Hundred Persons Were
 Injured. Plate Glass i'm Every Store in Town and Windows of Hendricks of
 Residences Were E
 Shattered.


 started early today in the Colorado and Southern freight depot here, de- stroyed the depot with q quantity of freight, and. spreading a distance of 100 feet, enyeloped a powder house containing 1000 pounds of dynamite. which exploded with a terrific shock. inturing perhaps 100 persons and breaking the plate glass In every busi- ness house in the city as well as the windows of hundreds of the residences. It is believed that two of the injured will die. The property loss is estimate ed at $250, 900.
 The ire originated from some un- known cause. and Is believed to be in~ cendiary. Twenty of the injured were taken to local hospitals The others were removed To their homes.
 The fatally injured:
 Roy La Favre. volunteer fireman. Boulder.
 Ike o. Wilson. volunteer fireman Boulder.
 Among the others injured are:
 Jack Livingston, Denver. a machin- ist; blown fifty feet against the side of a buildin.
 Edward Cook.
 Alexander SparteII.
 Erby Miller. carpenter.
 Family named Ramsey. living In q 8Uldif house near me HkaAiUnt house wrecked over their heads, four mern@ bers of the family badly injured.
 When the alarm was first turned In, only small blaze was visible ct the west end of the depot. The dremen. handicapped by low pressure of water, fought bravely. in utter ignorance that half ton of explosives was stored nearby. No warning was given, and when the sheet iron containing the dynamite split open with a dull roar, the men manning the hose and every person within radius of 100 yards. were hurled to the ground,
 La Favre and Wilson. who were nearest the store house. were fright fully mangIed.
 Across the street from tue freight | depot, a big brick two-story warehouse. | had great cracks driven in its walls and it's roof blown or. Several shakes I along the tracks, occupied by squat | ters. were reduced to sp1intera. In l the business section. plate glass wir- not whole plate of glass remains In l the center of the city. Guards of arrn- l cd men were thrown about the hanks and mercantile establishments to pre- | vent footing.
 Scarcely had the eddying smoking I from the explosion rifted away than hand of volunteers rushed Into the powder house. and. fighting their way 1 through the choking mist and flames. located several kegs of giant powder which had failed to explode. and which | theS carried out to safe place. On 6 side track at the platform of l the burning depot, stood car con- taining eight tons of dynamite. De- spite the fact that cinders were fali- l ing on its roof, and that little ntckern | of flame were apparent on its walls. a | switching crew backed down and cou- | pied to the smouldering car, and. wnile | inc brakemen beat out the sparks. the ] engine pulled the car two miles into the country, where 1t was left on a | side track.
 l The Boulder Clubs weekly recenfinn ! had just been ended and many meh l and women were standing on the side~ | walk a few blocks away waiting Tor l their carriages. A half hundred o1 | them were thrown off their feet by the | force of the explosion.