The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-08-11
FIRE FOLLOWED
 BY EXPLOSION
and Flames Cause Ruin and Injury
HUNDRED PERSONS HURT
Freight Depot of Colorado and South ern Burns and Powder House Ex- plodes-Heroic Work Is Done
 By the Train Crew.

Boulder. Colo. Aug 10-Fire that start ed early today in the Colorado and South ern freight depot here, destroyed the depot with a quantity of freight. and spreading distance of 100 feet, enveloped a powder house containing 1000 pounds of dynamite, which exploded with a ter rife shock. njurlng perhaps 100 persons and breaking the plate glass in every business house in the city, as well as the windows in hundreds of residences 1t is believed that two of the injured will dIe. The property loss is estimated at S25O gO0. The fire originated from some unknown cause, and Is believed to be incendiary. Twenty-Five of the injured were taken to local hospitals. The others were removed to their homes.
 The fatally injured:
 Roy Lafavre, volunteer fireman, builder. Ike O. Wilson, volunteer fireman, Boulder.
 Among the others injured are
 Jack Livingston, Denver, d machinist, blown fifty feet against the side of a building.
 Edward Cook.
 Alexander Spartell.
 Erbe Miller, carpenter.
 Family named Ramsey, living in a small
 
 over their heads four members of the family badly injured.
 Water Pressure Off.
 When the alarm was first turned in only a small blaze was visible at the west end of the depot. The firemen, han dicapped by low pressure of water, fought bravely in utter ignorance that half ton of explosives was stored near by. No warning was given, and when the sheet iron shack 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. Lafavre and Wilson. who were nearest the store house, were freightfully man gled
 Across the street from the freight depot a big two-story brick warehouse had great cracks driven in its walls and it's roof blown off.
 Several shacks along the tracks, oc- cupied by squatters, were reduced to splinters.
 In the business section plate glass win dows fell in pieces on the sidewalk, not a whole pane of glass remains in the center of the city Guards of armed men were thrown about the banks and mercan- tile establishments to prevent footing.
 Work of Volunteers.
 Scarcely had the eddying smoke from the explosion drlfted away than band of volunteers rushed into the powder house, and fighting their way through the choking mist and flames located several kegs of giant powder which had failed to explode and which they carried out to a safe place.
 On a sldetrack at the platform of the burning depot stood a car containing eight tons of dynamite Despite the fact that cinders were falling on its roof and that little fickers of flame were apparent on its walls. a switching crew backed down and coupled to the smouldering car and while the brakemen beat out the sparks the engine pulled the car two miles into the country, where 1t was left on side track.
 The Boulders clubs weekly reception had just been ended and many men and women were standing on the sidewalk a few blocks away awaiting for their car riages. A half hundred of them were blown of their feet by l. force of the explosion.
 lncendiarism Suspected.