Show AN EXPLOSION Of DYNAMITE Hundreds of Spectators at Fire In Boulder Thrown lathe to t the Ground by One Boulder L Colo Cola Aug Au 10 Fire grig originating mating from rain an unknown cause causi In the western end of tho the Colorado South Southern Souther era ern er freight depot a 1 1 this morn mern mornIng morning Ing destroyed iio hu 1 ot wih with a I vast quantity of ot height In ho half haff i an i hour houn lour and spreading a n of fC feet jeet el enveloped containing 1000 pounds of dynamite which ex cx exploded exploded with a tremendous shock Eho k throw throwIng lug Ing firemen fremon and Ind hundreds hUndred of spectators to the ground fatally Injuring two men mel melad and ad breaking the plate glass In ln very every business house houto hou e in town as well wel in hundreds or uC residences The TInt lost losS As ta s estimated at t The Tho fire fr was WI wa ro re reported ported under control at nt The Boulder police report that 10 persons were elo Injured by tho the explosion and that 25 are ure being cared for tOl In hos lios hospitals The following were fatally injured Roy Hoy LaFavre volunteer fireman foul Boul Boulder Doulder foulder der derIke Ike Iko O 0 Wilson Wison volunteer Boulder Among the other Injured are ale Jack Livingston Denver Dener a n machinist blown Do ll O feet against the tho side ot at a a building three ribs broken clothes burned off ot Edward Cook Coole side and arms arnie badly burned bruised braised Alexander blacksmith clothes burned off oft badly burned about tho the body bedy Erble Miller ier carpenter badly baly hurt by falling ns timbers Ur bers Family named name Ramsey Bamsey living In a I small house near the station staton house wrecked over oer their heads four mom mem members bore bers of or family badly injured Injure When hen the alarm was W first turned In only a small blaze was wal visible at nt the Ue I west end of or the tho depot dept I Tho The firemen handicapped by b low pressure fought bravely In utter Ignorance Igor ance cinco that half hal a n ton of ot explosives were stored within feet reet ef of the burning buring building The warning was a given ulven and ond when the tho sheet Iron shack split spilt open wih with a a roar the men me manning the tha hose ose osen until and n ovary every person per on within a 1 of yards yanK wore were hurled hurle to the tho ground Joun Jouney Roy ty ey LaFavre and Ike O 0 Wilson VIBon who were ero nearest tho the storehouse were wera frightfully mangled La La left len lenIe Ie leg was WI blown off oft above the tho to knee Wil WI Wilson son a I cripple wih with an In artificial leg I had his right leg blown away and time tha wooden limb scattered and fragments nf or It driven Into his hil body boY Across the tho street from the tho freight t depot a I a big brick warehouse had bar great I cracks driven In its ith It walls snaIls and Its 11 roof root blown off of Several shacks along nong the tho tracks oc occupied by b squatters were reduced to m splinters In tho the business section of ot the hit city rent great sheets of or heavy glass tell fell tel In splinters on the llo 91 dc 1011 Hollowing the tho Not a a pane Tano of or glass elMS Is left In the to center of or the city Guards of or ler armed arme 1 men were snore thrown about abut the banks and mercantile establishments to prevent looting Scarcely had ha tho the smoke from the ex cx explosion drifted away than a band dt Of volunteers rushed Into the powder house and aid fighting their way staY through the choking mist and name flame located loea several kegs of or giant slant powder which had failed to explode and which they carried out to a n safe place On a sidetrack at nt the platform of or orthe the burning depot stood a car cal contain containing lag ing eight tons of or dynamite Despite Despie the fact that cinders cinder were welo falling faIling on the roof and that little flickers of flame me were apparent on Its walls wals walsa a fn switching crew crow backed down and coupled a the tIuS car and while the brakemen brakemen beat out the sparks the tha engine hauled the tho cute car two miles mie Into the country where it tt was WIS left lert on a 0 sidetrack The Boulder clubs cloIn weekly reception had Just been ended and many mans men and women were standing on the sidetrack waiting smiting for or their carriages when the explosion occurred About CO rio lO women were stere blown off of their A brick house occupied by J J 3 Mc lc Cabo halt half a n block blo tho freight bouse b use watt was wrecked All the windows Inthe in lite University building were blown out olt and the tho pIns plas plaster pIa ter tell fell fel from the thew walls snails ls and ceiling of ot the tho main building d Thirty cars mere crI com destroy destro destroyed ed cd with their contents consisting ot of valuable merchandise The Th fact that dangerous explosives were mere stored so near the depot and that a few Cow persons were wern aware alre of ot tho tha fact will wi bo be made the subject of a rigid Inquiry by b the Iho city clY authorities railway officials explaining that tho the storage wad Wi only temporary pending shipment to tho the mines miles We Wo have havo proof that the tho fire fro In the tM depot of pf ft the Colorado Southern Souther at Boulder last luot night was of or Incendiary origin said Vice President A D Parker of or o the tho Colorado Southern railroad today The miscreants may not have looked for tor the awful results that followed through the explosion of or orthe the dynamite but hu I upon their heads the blame blamo of the catastrophe must rest restI rest I will not notlY say whom I suspect |