Gunnison Valley News | 1919-07-11 | Page 2 | Blow up Mine Office

BLOW UP MINE OFFICE. Butte, Mont. Explosion of dynamite dyna-mite placed in the entrance of the Ana comla Copper Mining company's pay office early Sunday damaged that and surrounding buildings in the heart of the business district. An Iron grating was brown against a building across the street, narrowly piissing a street cur heavily loaded with miners, Mintage was said not to exceed IfoOOO. Windows in half a dozen nearby-stores nearby-stores were shuttered, but the charge, thought by the police to have been a dozen sticks of dynamite, was not properly placed to do great damage to the brick and concrete pay office, which Is across the street from the Western Federation of Miners Hall, which was dynamited in 1914 during a factional union controversy. Three men have been arrested and held for investigation.