| Show testimony is being given before the coroners jury at victor train crew throw but little light on awful affair victor june 10 the lory empanel ed by coroner george hall has commenced hearing ice on the independence explosion jas dooner who was an fn charge of the en gine of the train which was just pulli ing in at the independence station at the time of abo explosion tofU fied as follows at on toe morning of the ati we were pulling in when an explosion came I 1 was blowing down to make the stop we stopped about 75 feet from the depot and men ran up and informed us that the depot was blown up we lighted some torches and went down and found debris on the tracks and one dead body I 1 then moved the engine nearer to the depot and we picked up what wounded men we could find and backed into tho victor depot wo got a telephone message there that there were more wounded men and the dispatcher gave orders for us to return to independence for them I 1 think we took eleven dead men to victor on the two trips I 1 did not mabe any examination of the depot ground until we returned then conductor watson went through the depot and some fridg like 75 yards up the hill sido we uld not have sufficient time to thorough examination and we did not see alagna of any infernal nachine tho testimony of the rest of the train crew was practically the same as that of the engineer missed in the court of general sessions the indictment was procured on a chaise that healy bad placed to hie account belonging to the central alaskan exploration company 0 which he was president district attorney jerome explained tia U any crime had been committed it was outside the courts jurisdiction |
