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Show GIANT POWDER STORED IN CITY. Building Catches Fire and Frightful Explosion Follows. nouldor, Colo. Fire, originating from nn unknown causo, In tho western west-ern end of tho Colorado & Southern freight depot at 1 o'clock Sunday morning, destroyed tho dupot with a vast quantity ot freight In half an hour, and, spreading n distance of 100 feet, enveloped n powder houso con-tnlnlng con-tnlnlng 1.000 pounds of dynamite, which exploded with a tremendous shock, throwing firemen and hundreds of spectators to tho ground, fatally injuring two men and breaking tho plnte glass In every business house lu town, as well as hundreds of residences. resi-dences. The loss Is estlmnted nt $250,000. A brick house occupied by J. J. Mc-Cabc, Mc-Cabc, half n block from thu freight house, wns wrecked. |