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Show i p ' Vs -- SV.. THB LOGAN NATION. LOGAN. UTAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY, 18,1805. VOL. 4. FEARFUL CALAMITY! EXPLOSION AT BUTTE Bends More Than Fifty People Into Eternity. THE FIRE IEPARTHEIT WIPED OUT. Three Ous of Powder Explode While Fire ia in Proffrere ud Without IfoMDt'a Warning Soores of People era Hurled Into tarn tta City ia ProatriUd. I ' ity--B- i One of Um greatest end most dastructivqtexploeions to life and property n the worlds history and by far the most disastrous ever in fhe WeBt occurred at Bntte, Mbntana, at 10 oclock Tuesday night The following compiled from the Miner of that city gives one an idea of its horror and magnitude: By far the most disastrous accident to life and property that ever occurred in the west took place in this city at 10 oclock last evening. The accident wbs in the nature of a fire and an explosion of giant powder caused by the fire, considerable of the explosive going off at three distinct periods of the conflagration and scattering death and deeolation in its wake. The fire broke out in the warehouse of the Boy ah Milling company, situated a short diet, east of the Montana Central depot, and spread to the warell house of the Commercial company adjoining. In this building there was a large quantity of powder and as soon aa the flames reached it the explosion occurred and simultaneously with it at least 35 souls were hurled into eternity without a moments warning. Supposing that this was all the damage that could be done by powder, those of the spectators who had escaped injury by the explosion began the task of gathering np the dead and wounded, when suddenly a second explosion, almost as terrific as the first, took place and many more of them either fell before it or weje blown through the air to their death. The fire continued and soon burned its way into another batch of the explosive with a similar result Then followed a list of the killed and injured, as near aa could I e ascertained. Among the killed was a Utah boy, a grandson of President Brigham Young and eldest son of Dr. Alma B. Dunfurd of Salt Lake. His mother is Mrs. Susa Young Gates and she is now a r eeident of Provo. nt Kenyon-Conne- : . " 1 HEARTRENDING SCENE. It is believed the injured number more than 100.' The scene of the disaster beg- gars discript ion. From what could be learned last night no one suspected the presence of powder in the warehouses, and aa is customary when a fire is raging in Butte people were crowded around the homing structure as close as they could get. The firemen had arrived only a minute or two before and were almost in the act o f turning on the first stream of water when a small explosion took place. This seemed to be a sort of warning of what was to follow, for no sooner bad the first cried, while the eyes of strong BILL BOOK IS IN JAIL men were moistened. Every person who had a relative or a dear friend feared the The Notorious Oklahoma Outworst had befallen him and could law Captured at Last. : not be consoled. The sight was s terrible one. DILL SATS HE ISNT A VERT BID MAI pnff occurred than people began to suspect the presence of a greater quantity of the explosive in some other part of the structure and some of them fell back. Before they bad reached a place of safety, however, the first great explosion took place and hundreds of people were hurled right and left and mangled beyond recognition. Bodies were strewn for hundreds of yards in all directions. Some were thrown against houses and mashed to a jelly, while flying d bris literally knocked the heads from others where they stood. One body was seen flying through the air at a heighth of two or three hundred yards. Blood, brains, aims, legs and other pieces of bodies were lying around everywhere. Many of the wounded were a pitiable siirht, for after the first explosion occurred they remained near the fire and the heat only intensified the pain they were suffering. They begged to be taken away, but there was no way to take them all at once. A haokman, seeing the terrible state of affairs, drove np and attempted to assist in the removal of two or three, but while in the act the second explosion took place and killed him and his horses. Notwithstanding .the poesibility of more explosions, people could not withstand the temptation to aid reacne the IN THE MORNING THE LATEST. Investigation bnt adds to the horrors of last nights teriblfe accident. The brillant glare of the skies has passed away only, to be succeeded by the leaden gray of early morn, thus giving to tbs awful scene a more fitting canopy. The excitement of the moment immediately following the terrifying crash of the giant explosive has given place to a calm survey of the situation and all the sorrow and pain sorrow among the citizens of the community and bain unspeakable among the bereaved families of the dead. Nevor did a battle field present a more appalling spentale than that whiph greeted the gaze of the excited throng which gathered about the scene of the explosion last evening never did a landscape bear more impressively the record of the great destroying force of powder that the gloomy, blood-stain- wreck which ed appears in the first faint light of the morn. Nearly all of the dead bodies of men have been removed from the scarred and furrowed ground,but the mamomth heaps of debris, the cluured remains of the hnilding, the warped and shattered fire engines and the mangled bodies of the dead horoea which lie where the noble animals met theii fate, aie all moet eloquent reminders of the terrible work of the fateful night In addition to the sickening slaughter of hnman beings the destruction of property is great. Where vast sums of money were d warerepresented in houses, nothing remains bnt a black and ghastly pile, and the walks a round the Btreets of the city sparkle and glisten with broken glass. Bntte has more the Appearance of a besieged city in days of war that that of a busy center of commerce and industry in times of peace. On some streets there is hardly a store whose front does not stare ont through the jagged openings made by the shattering of panes, and rich plate glass, strong though it was, gives evidence in s myriad of fragments of the great force of the shock which it was nnable to resist. All ia quiet in the resident portion of the city, where last night families stood in trembling and terrified groups, wondering whether it were safe to reenter their shaken dwellings and though many will awaken in homes other than their own from which they were driver by the shattering of windows, they have the sweet consolation of knowing that a great calamity has been passed withont bodily injury to themselves or their loved ones. The hour for practical work has arrived and it is believed that the relief meeting callsd by Mayor Dugan will be largely attended. the wonded and bodies of the dead and rushed madly in regardless of the consequence what might follow. Vehicles of all classes were soon rushing back and forth from the the morgne and hospitals. The wonnded were attended to first, but while they were being placed in wagons the bodies of the dead were being gathered np and placed by side en the' little nlatean just north of the burning ware house. In one row there were and in another twelve, twenty-si- x and the features of only a few were recognizable. About twenty, fonr of the injured were taken to Murray & Freunds hospital, fifteen to tlw St James hospital and fifty to other places in the city. . Several died daring the night and their bodies were removed to Borne one of the undertaking eetablisliments. Dave Magee, John Flannery, Alfred Jackson and Harry Kinney, firemen, escaped injury, but Magee had a very close call and would have shared the feats of a majority of his brother firemen had he not been behind the hones attached to the hose wagon. Magee is the driver of the wagon team and when he arrived at the firo lie got down from his neat and began to "While so blanket the animals. hiB remarkbrother William doing ed to him that then was danger of an explosion and began to move away, bnt he had not taken more than two or three steps before the disaster oocured. William' was killed, bnt the horses saved Dave, the one nearest to him falling on him. John Flannery was at the fire hydnnt and thus escaped. Up to a late hour the body of Chief Cameron had not been identified among the dead. As to the fate of Dave Moses, there was con sider&ble doubt. Several parties reported having seen him, but if he was alive his nlatives could not find any trace of liim. SCENES ABOUTTIIE WBECK well-fflle- Killed by Ivaqul Indians. Hermossilla, Mex., Jan 16. Frank Debs, a young American making horse backtrip from tbs city of Msxico ts Han Francisco, baa been killed by WOKEN WEBB EBANTIO- OVEB THB RELATIVES. LOSS Of Ivaqul Indiana in tbs mountains The scene about the place after southeast of hare. Debs was warned the wreck was heartrending in the not tu attempt to cross the Ivaqul extreme and is beyond description. country, but was allured into the Women who had canes to suspect dangerous section by the report that thBt their loved ones ware among mines of fabulous richness were te bs the killed and maimed hovered their hands and found there. about and . wrong j Claims He Has Never Killed a Mas Nor Committed Half the Crimea Charged to Him Big Rewards for Hie Capture. All our readers have heard of Bill Cook one of the mi et notorious outlaws of modern limes. According to reports he, bos been killed many times bnt instill alive. The following Associated Frees dispatch , from Santa. Fe, New Mexico, will lie of interest: United States Marshal Hall today received a dispatch from Sheriff G. C. Perry of Chaves county, who yesterday captured Bill Cook, the notorious Oklnhoma outlaw, stating that the prisoner had been safely landed in the county j ail at Roswell this The outlaws capture was affected at an isolated cattle ranch sodhonse on the great plains, a few mil ds southeast of old Fort Sumner. Perry and two deputies were in search of hornethieves east of Fort Summer yesterday, when Sheriff Perry met and recognized Cook at the first glance. Quicker than a flash Ierry and his meu had their Winchesters up, and Cook was so thoroughly surprised that he lost his nerve, and, although he hod two about his - waist, his hands went np at the command of the sheriff. Handcuffs were put on his wrists and he was. mounted and strapped on his horse which was found tied on the plains near the cabin. One .deputy animal, while" Sheriff. Perry and' his other depnty rode behind them. Thus the trip to Roswell was mode, a distance of sixty-fiv- e miles. Marshal Hall expects to hear from the United States district attorney of Oklahoma, 'Arkansas and Texas, to whom he wired last night, announcing Cooks capture. It is said that with the state, express and railroad companies offers there is a reward of 15,000 for Cooks capture. In an interview with the captured bandit at Roswell, ha himself as Bill acknowledged Cook, and said that wlieu captured he was on his way to old Mexico, and meant to quit the highway business. He continued: The officers have me and will take me bock where I am known, and there is no nse for me to deny it, but dont givo me hell like the other fellows have, for I have not committed half the crimes that are charged to me. I have done all my working on the open highway, never killed any one, nor have I ever robbed a poor man unless it was of a horse or food that I was compelled to have when dodging the officers. My brother Jim wan never connected with my train robberies, and I never had anything to do with the Rock Island or Texas Pacific robberies, bat we did rob the Frisco at Red Fork last July. Five other boys were with me. I had nothing to do with bank I was not in bnt one robbery, and if indicted for that nnderthe name of Bill Cook, I will plead guilty. . fere-oon- -. : rs NO. 77. Til E HULL UF II UXOR. RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT BROOKLYN'S BIB STRIKE. Logans people are patriotic Adopted by the Fourth District Court, January 12th, 1806. and believe that right should prevail and wrong doers lie made to The Nation is requested to pub- Strikers Growing Desperate suffer for their wrong doings. As lish the following resolutions of and Trouble is Feared. most of our rnoders know Roll of Honor fund has been started by the Balt Lake Tribune to prevent rascally politicians from stealing the Constitutional Convention and thus perpetrating the greatest and most transparent frnnd ever attempted in America. A popular fund has been started and it is desired that every honcet and patriotic citizen in Utah who can should sulweribe. Fearly $500 have already been raised but this is not sufficient for the legitimate purpnee needed the upholding of the peoples will and maintaining sscrodly the very foundation of Americas freedom, holding sacred the ballot boxes. Logan and Cache county should coma forward and do their share and we fool assured they will. In Salt Lhke democrats as well as Republicans are subscribing and the lists are open to all who desire ty, see justice triumph and the guilty, whoever they may be brought to ju1 tice. Quite a number of Lognn citizens have expressed their desire to subscribe and it has been suggested that Thb Nation receive the contributions. Subscriptions will be received st this office' fur the purpose named,in auiouuts from 25 cents to $5. The money will be received here and forwarded to Salt Lake in a lump. The lists are now open and the names and amounts Bulmcribpd will be published iu each issue of The Nation until the needed amount is raised. All patriotic citizens who desire to see an honest election and a fair count are invited to subscribe. respect, adopted by members of the Bar of the Fourth District Court of Utah Territory, at Ogden City, ou January 12tli, 1895. Whereas, By a decree of the Supreme Ruler of the universe, our uumbeis have suffered a loss iu the death of Cuptaiu Jluusfunl Smith; now, therefore, as a tribute to the respect we owe his memory, lie it Resolved, That iu life wn recognized iu him au uffubie, able and distiiiggubed member of the profession, whose unquestionable integrity and rijie wisdom were the admiration of all with whom ho came in contact; a brave defeu der on the buttle fields, in the preservation of the Union, iu the nations hour of distress; a stout advocate of the n itural and inde- feasible rights of mankind; a die-V ished, upright and admirable witizpn; a kind, affectionate husband and father. Resolved, That ii, bis death we deeply mourn the loss of one whoa memory fiuds lodgment iu our tenderest affections. Resolved, That we extend our heartfelt sympathies to the widow and family of deceased iu this the sad hour of their lreav incut. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be spread upou the records of the Fourth judiciiil district court aud of the Supreme court of Utah territory, and that a copy lie engrossed aud presented to the widow and family by selected committee for that pur-poeand that copies lie Beut to each of the daily paners in Utah, for .publication.. - e, -- Dft) HE EAT GLASSf EtANS, E. T. IIllakiski, He Did and Wantod L. R. KotiKii", tq Die. J. II. MacMillan, A little excitement was created Janes N. Kimdall,' in the usually quiet town of Committee. afternoon Smithfield Sunday when it was rumored that T. S. Walker had attempted suicide. FIRST WARD ENTERTAINMENT. The fellow ia prolmbly fifty or sixty years of ago and gives one Several Local Favorites Appear the impression lie is a crank of Tomorrow Night. the hobo order. He Imils from Oregon and occasionally sells The First ward will give an fruit trees end dry goods box entertainment in the Opera House churns. Two or tlireo months ago tomorrow a he married daughter of a re evening and it promises 8iectabla family in the western to be one well worth witnessing. part of the valley. Evidently lie Nearly all our well known and thinks marriage ia s failure for to favorite artists, R. 0. Easton, Miss it he attributes most of hiB troubles- - Sunday afteruixm his Bessie Morehead, Mrs. Nettie wife attended church and when Slosu and Mrs. Ida Langton and she returned home found her hus- others will appear. Aside from band falling all over the floor the regular program in which the and acting as if he had the snakes in his Opera House Orchestra, mandolin hydrophobia, Miss Luua boots and half s dozen other and guitar dun, , Thatdn-rinMiss Mariou She Hcoles, complaintsimmediately formed some of the neighbors of Messrs. Easton, Wilson, Lewis his strange actioi.s and they Farrell aud others apjienr there rushed to the house to see what bs a farce eutitled: will laughable was wrong. The fellow quit Lis Wife which in My neighbor's to tell them howling long enough that he hail not lieou happy siuce J. P. Smith, B. (I Thatcher, he committed matrimony and that A J. Curtis, Miss llnttio Carter, to end his misery he hodooucl ud-e- d Miss M, Scoles an.l Mrs- Ray to get out of this wort d the Ormsliy take part. Taken all in ho could. He said way quickest ho found s small gloss bottle which all the entertainment promises to he hammered up fine and then be a highly interesting one and swallowed with Buicidal intent A will doubtless draw out a full Logan physician was summoned house. Admission to parquette by telephone and drove at break is 50 cents, to gallery 25 cents Tor neck . speed he thinking 15 adults cents and for children lio the means of saving a might life. When he arrived he rx nmiued the fellows pulse and UP AND DOWN. it was quite normal. He found s. informed the doctor that he hnd attempted suicide by eating shuts Syracuse Puat: Unto thn editor's room be weal, and when asked why he (Tnl not take strychnine said he did not bliss; with have any. Upon being asked if stairs he wanted some he answered, no. The general opinion seems up NOTICE. s rode to prevail that the fellow was The qnsrtely coufct slice ot the only carrying on to see if his IJs would Relief Societies of Ui ic Stake, will wife feel very sorry An intsrviow, a word or two be held In the Taberm Ip at Sinitb-21- : if lie ahnul die, also to test IIs field on mondsy, Jan at 10: s. tho feelings of the community. It down m. and 2: p. in. Im riant business is not thought he took anything, will lie transacted and stairs full atteml- - lie ones sold a few blackberry like once Is required. bushes end takes pride in calling Isiht himself the Blackberry King. Adeline Babber. Prcsident, . T. 8. Walker Says A COINAGE MEW MIRT FOR DENVER. Fours are Entertained That Disuter Use Overtaken the Nsnenn Arctio Explorers Jim Williams Would Like to Have Another Scrip. Brooklyn, Jan. 15. Both sides iu the electric railway strike show determined front today. On the Conrt street line twenty ears are lieing ran at irregnlar intervals, each guarded by two to eight policemen. Strikers or their friends obstructed the frocks by upsetting barrels of ashes. The rubbish was cleared sway by laborers and a mail car was sent out at 7 :42 oclock, preceded by six mounted policemen, while eight unmounted policemen roda in the car. It passed through the district where the strikers an reported more reckless than elsewhere, but the manner in which it was guarded overawed any who have been inclined to lawiV lessness. The United States mail oar on the Flatbush avenue line was started out at o'clock and the cnmjmny an non need it was determined to run mail cars all day. The strikers contemplated presenting a petition to Mayor Rhieren today asking him to end the by virtue of. his official will cite the action and (tower, taken by Mayor Pingree of Detroit, in 1891, when he said the railroad companies hod violated the. ten. honr law if the strike then in progress was not over in twenty-foboon, he would declare their charters forfeited. A meeting of the strike committee of the surface lines was held early today. They refused' to tell what action had been taken. . - 9.-2- tie-u- p nAnuJ ur HAIL CAB'CAPTUBED. A mail car on the fifth auenne line was captured by strikers- - The steamboat squad has been ordered ou strike duty. - BEPOBTND BIOTINS. it is reported there has been street rioting at Twenty-fonrt- h and Fifth avenue and many hart- COINAC1X MINT AT DENVER. Denver, Jan. 15. A special to thq Times from Washington says : The Henate'committee on finance today authorized a favorable ou Wolcotts bill to establish a coinage ment at Denver. Senator-said to the Times correspondent that there would be an effort to get the bill up and (mss it tomorrowjind he was hopeful from what he knew of the feel-iu- g in the Senate, the bill would be passed with but little difficulty. re-pn- rt Teller JIM WANTS A SCRAP. Denver Jsu. Jim Williams, the champion middle weight pugilist of Utah, has challenged. Woods, of Chicago, to Billy a finish for any purse and at any place Woods may name. 15. CRAVE FEABS EXPRESSED. roh-berie- I London, Jan 15 The Pali Mall Unzette says grave fears regarding tho Nansen Arctic expidition are general among Arctio voyagers oC Great Britan and Scandinavia. Lieutenant Hovgaard, of the Dim-pinexpedition, wracked in 'the Kara sea, has expressed the opin ion to the Danish Geographical society that there is no question bnt that the Tram has lieen crushed in the ice and Dr. Nansen and party are retreating. na |