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Show C0LO10 STRIKE BECOIESSEIUS Giant Powder and Dynamite Bombs Used at Trinidad and Boulder. r Tit INI DAD. - Colo., Oct. 3. Fifteen kegs of blnck and two cases of giant powder exploded in the relay powder house of the Primrose, an independent mine at Rugby, early this evening, shattering tho house, the company store-' and shook tho town. No ono was injured. in-jured. Tho damago is estimated at a few thousand dollars. Mine Superintendent Malott tonight was unable to assign a cause for tho cx-plosiuu. cx-plosiuu. The mino is oporatcd by nn independent company that has refused 10 sign up with tho striking coal minors min-ors in tho southern Colorado fields. Mine guards left tonight for tho scone. An official investigation is planned for tomorrow. BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 3. Six dyna-mite dyna-mite bombs were thrown into the stock: ado surrounding tho Mitchell Mino company's property near Lafayette at 11 o'clock tonight. The bombs struck tho rear of a company boarding houso, demolishing it. Twenty-five men were usloop in the house at tho time, but all escaped without injury, tho force of the explosion being confined to tho renr of the houso, some distance from tho sleeping quarters. Immediately following, follow-ing, 50"0 shots wcro fired from rifles into the compnnv's camp, but with no effect. |