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Show LOLU THEATER FALLS MD IHJUBES HIMEI Budc'.s .New Building, Because of Defective Foundations, Collapses With Crash. Special to The Tribune. BUTTE, Mont., Sept. 7. Rumbling like :in earthquake, then crashing like an explosion of d3'namite, the Lulu theater the-ater building, in tho course of construction con-struction on West Broadway crumbled and fell into a shapeless, tangled mass this morning, injuring three workmen and tangling up in the debris sixteen others. They climbed out of the -wreckage like spiders out of a. destroyed web, or ants struggling about an overturned over-turned ant hill. The injured are; Thomas Watt, J. 11. Hamlc and Frank Fairehild. It needed no word of mouth to bring, in less than a minute, thousands ' of people, who choked Broadway, imped-ed imped-ed street car traffic and brought an army of nervous, hysterical women, excited ex-cited men. ambulances, dead wagons, fire carts and hose before the cloud ofdust had settled above tho ruins of Butto's proposed four-story theater. ITun lreds crowded within the fenced enclosure in time to see the workmen escape, and see men, like wounded animals, ani-mals, drag themselves out of the mass of brick, stone, steel, splimers aud mor-! mor-! tar. Two men had to bo dug out. One ! was cut out from the timbers, while j another was pulled out of a mass of brick, whero he tragically shouted: "Hero T am; get mo out of here, for t God's sake." j Tho loss at this lime is hard to estimate es-timate until the debris is cleared away. Defective foundations caused the collapse. |