Show 4 Victim in Town Dave Coleman one of the many victims vic-tims of the Butte horror is i the city for medical treatment Mr Coleman Cole-man is about as badly used up man as one would meet in 2 days travel He has a bad wound just over the left eye a couple of badly crushed fingers on the right hand and an ugly hole in his left arm caused by flying debris Coleman was injured by the first ex pOosion and was being carried away by two men when the second came He says they dropped him instanter and made a swift run for shelter i Being in a somewhat dazed condition I he did not realize what was going on and walked away escaping shock No 3 NoThe The force of the concussion was so great that one man found dead had not a mark upon him while in the house of a broth rinlaw of his a mile and a quarter away the window was blown in and the lamp hurled from the table There would have been a much greater loss of life and destruction of I property in the opinion of Mr Coleman i Cole-man had the accident occurred in warm weather As it was the powder was frozen and its explosive quality was greatly lessened There is no doubt of the fact that had I been June instead o January onehalf of Butte would have been leveled to the ground while the destruction o human life can not be conceived The fire department was warned that i explosives were stored in the burning t building but with that intrepedity which characterizes firemen generally they tion dashed down to their destruc tionMr Mr Coleman is at St Marys hospital hosit1 He affirms that none of his wounds give him much trouble excepting the hole in his left arm which was caused by a piece of an iron roof |