Show MAN TELLS or Of AWfUL CRIM Admit AdmitS That He Started the Fire Which Caused Explosion sion and Killed Hilled F Five ve in Boulder Colo Cob BOULDER Colo Cola Aug 14 John John W. W Beeves Reeves a brakeman employed on on the Colorado Northwestern railroad who has be been n held as as-a as a suspect in connection connection con con- with the destruction of of the Colorado Colorado Colo Cob rado and Southern station by fire and dy dynamite amite early Saturday morning has confessed that he was responsible for forthe forthe forthe the terrible catastrophe The result of his diabolical act was was' the wiping out of five lives and the injury of half a hundred others besides besides besides be be- sides the destruction of property valued valued valued val val- at half a million dollars Reeves Beeves conf confessed to to the tle district attorney attorney at at- torney his assistant and s several v ral police officers He said that he had set fire tire to a caboose belon belonging ng to the road he worked for because he was angered at the company for some imaginary wrong done him The fire spread to the Colorado and Southern freight house Reeves Beeves implicates three other men in his confession but their n names namee mes are being withheld As soon as it became known that Reeves Beeves had confessed a mob gathered at the county jail for the purpose of lynching him Reeves Beeves was spirited out of the jail by officers and taken to Denver in a carriage carnage |