Show FREAKS OF EXPLOSrvESI Incident Brought to Mind By the Destruction of the Maine Helena Independent No event of I the nature of a public calamity has so 1 i Interested the people of Montana In recent years as has the recent explosion explo-sion of the United States battleship I Maine in the harbor of Havana I i has been the topic of conversation j I of men of every walk of life since It I happened Inevitably many theories I have been advanced to account for the explosion Some of the theories may prove in time to have been well I founded That time alone will tell perhaps There are many reasons for thinking that the true story will never be known said Judge W E Cullen recently I re-cently vhen the conversation had turned in that direction The strange i freaks of explosives have been proven I here in Montana to be more than man i can account for The use of explosives of various sorts is understood to some extent by many of the people of this state on account of the extent of minIng > min-Ing and other operations under way hereOne I I One case that illustrates the futility of trying to explain the action of explosives ex-plosives happened at the Mullan tunnel when the Northern Pacific Railroad company was driving I through the backbone of the Rocky mountains A carload of dynamite stood on the track at the mouth of the tunnel and an engine was coming up the grade intending in-tending to go up the switching back instead of turning onto the tunnel track Too late to save himself the |