VOL. VIII
THE DALLES, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1895.
NO. 15
AN AWFUL EXPLOSION
Nearly a Hundred Victims
of the Butte Disaster.
DEAD WERE STREWN EVERYWHERE
Ylreinen Respond to Their Last Call
Shapeless Trunks Qalrer and Die
In the Arms of the Living.
Butte, Mont., Jan. 17. Fire broke
: out in the Eutte Hardware Company's
warehouse in the southern part of the city
1 at 9 :50 o'clock last night. Ten minutes
later a terrific explosion of powder oc
curred, which broke nearly all the plate
glass windows in the city a mile away,
and shook the buildings to their foun
dations. Firemen who were fighting
the flames at the time were nearly all
blown to pieces. Two more explosions
followed at intervals of five minutes,
each killing and wounding numbers of
men.- The excitement was intense.
The fire attracted a large crowd. Hun
dreds standing near the scene when the
first explosion occurred were cut down
by the terrible force of the explosion.
The debris from the cars standing near
the warehouse and adjoining buildings
were scattered high in the air for a half
mile away, many flaming articles strik
ing people in the crowd and around the
city.
At 9:55 o'clock the fire department
responded to a call from box 72 the call
of death to nearly the entire depart
ment. The firemen heard a rumor that
there was powder in the building, but
this was denied, and after a moment's
hesitation they began fighting the fire.
At 10 p. m., when the men had barely
started to work, an explosion shook
Butte to its very foundations. The
powder in the warehouse blew up
spreading death and ruin to all near.
All but three Bremen were killed. He
roX among the spectators, as soon as
the stnn of the shock had passed away
while some ran in terror immediately
began 'pulling the mutilated bodies of
the firemen and injured from proxim
ity with the flames. From all over the
city people began moving toward the
fire, and the crowd had greatly increased
within five minutes.
The second explosion, almost equal in
volume to the first, heightened the gen
eral terror, and spread death and de
struction at the disastrous scene. In
this explosion scores of citizens were
killed and injured. Farts of bodies
were hurled hundreds of feet away.
One man near the Northern Pacific
water-tank was struck by, the leg and
thigh of a human being, driven by the
force of the dynamite from the fearful
scene. Still, heroes were left to pull
the shrieking wounded and groaning to
a distance, but the people of the town
. hesitated. There had been more ru
mors of carloads of powder in the vi
cinity besides that stored in the ware
house. Five minutes later a third ex
plosion4 did come, but it was mild
injuring but lew.
All occurred in fifteen minutes. The
. awfulness .of the scene after the explo
sions is beyond description. It pre
eented the appearance of a field of bat
tle. The cries and groans of the injured
and 'dying made the scene altogether
unearthly. Blood and bralnB were spat
tered around, with here and there pieces
of flesh. Between the Northern Pacific
and Great Northern depots, a space of
300 feet, the ground was literally covered
- with parts of human bodies and with
the dead and injured. It was a scene of
?y utter and absolute destruction.
! Houeesin th vicinity were thorough
ly wrecked as if by a cyclone. One res
cuing corps gathered twenty-seven dead
bodies in one pile. The rescuers pulled
ome bodies out still quivering. Bern
nants of human beings were still groan
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ing, while their legs and arms had beeu
torn off. Shapeless trunks quivered
and died in the arms of the living.
Every vehicle in the city was brought
into service to carry away the scores of
dead and the hundreds of injured. Hos
pitals were filled, spare rooms in hotels
taken, and private houses thrown open
where it was necessary.
Chief Cameron directed the attack on
the building, while some firemen hauled
the lines of hose along. Others started
to tear off the iron covering the build
ing so they could get at the flames.
Just as they had succeeded in tearing off
part of the covering and had secured an
entrance, the first explosion came. A
blinding sheet of flame forced the roof
from its fastenings and shot hundreds of
teet into the air, followed by a momen
tary deadly silence. Then came an aw
ful roar, carrying with it annihilation to
those who closely surrounded the death
trap, and destruction on every hand.
Sights in the undertaking establish-1
ments this morning are awful. All are
crowded with heaps of human flesh.
Here half of a head, and a mutilated
trunk below it ; in another place an
armless and legless trunk, with the face
disfigured beyond all recognition.
Scarcely any of the corpses are recogniz
able. There are twelve . dead at the
Butte undertaking rooms; ten at the
Montana, and nineteen at the Sherman.
Forty-three wounded are in the hospi
tals, twenty-eight of them in a critical
condition. It is impossible to obtain I
anything like a complete list of the dead
yet. The loss of life is varioesly esti
mated at from fifty to seventy-five, and
the wounded will probably exceed 150.
Hill Questions the Right of the Senate
to Refuse Consideration.
Washington, Jan. 16. In the senate
the urgent deficiency bill was taken up,
and Hill addressed the senate in regard
to the ruling out of his amendment giv
ing United States courts jurisdiction of
the question of the constitutionality and
validity of the income tax. Hill ques
tioned the right of the senate to refuse
consideration of his amendment. The
point which he made was that the pend
ing bill was not an appropriation bill
within the meaning of the rule. Mor
gan, who made the poiut ot order against
the Hill amendment, offered to with
draw and let the senate vote on the
amendment, but Hill refused to allow
this, saying it would deprive him of his
Bpeecb. Morgan then gave notice he
would withdraw the point at the conclu
sion of Hill's speech.
Brlsson's Large Tote.
Paeis, Jan. 16. M. Floquet, formerly
premier,' declared in the lobby of the
chamber of deputies late this afternoon
that M. Henri Brieaon, president of the
chamber of deputies, could count on 100
votes in the senate and 300 among the
deputies. If this is so, M. Brisson will
be elected president tomorrow. Kepub-
lican senators at the meeting voted tor a
candidate for the presidency. The fol
lowing was the ' result : M. Waldeck-
Rousseau, 63; Brisson, 54; Loubet, 18;
Challemel la Couer, 17 ; Dupuy, 4. Sec
ond ballot : M. Waldeck-Rousseau, 84 ;
Brisson, 66.
Comment on the French Crisis.
London, Jan. 16. The Pall Mall Ga
zette says: "France is now in the
throes of the most menacing crisis since
the downfall of the second empire. The
republic has proved . sterile. France
would prefer an effective autocracy, but
where is the pretender. The Napoleons
are invisible, Count de Paris is dead and
the Due d'Orleans is deplorably in
discreet."
Effects on Stocks in England.
- London, Jan. 16. Stocks opened weak
on the news of the resignation of the
president of France. International
stocks and English consols and French
rentes have declined.
A Dispatch from Easiis.
Washington, Jan. 16. A dispatch
was received by Secretary of State Greeh-
am this morning from Ambassador Eus-
tis, saying no trouble .in France was ap
prehended.
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There's hardly a housekeeper in
the country but has heard of
CottOlene the new vegetable short
ening. It is a strictly natural
product; composed only of clari
fied cotton seed oil, thickened for
convenience in use, witn rennea
beef suet pure and sweet. So
composed,
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Was bound to win, and to drive
out lard from the kitchens of the
world. When housekeepers wish
to get rid of the unpleasant feat
ures and results of lard, they
should get CottOlene, taking care
that they are not given cheap
counterfeits with imitative names,
spuriously compounded to sell in
the place of CottOlene.
It s easy to avoid disappointment
and insure satisfaction. Insist
on having Cottolene.
Sold In 3 and S potrad paUa.
Made only by
The N. K. Falrbank
Company,
sr. loots sni
Chicago, Hew York, Boston.
BevlTes the Franking Privilege.
Washington, Jan. 16. The printing
bill signed by the president revives the
tranking privilege. This provision was
never referred to when the bill was be
fore congress.
Two Lives Saved.
Mrs. Phoebe Th6mas,of Junction City,
111., was told by her doctors she had con
sumption and that there .was no hope
for her, but two bottles Dr. King's New
Discovery completely cured . her and she
says it saved her life. Mr. Thos. Eg
gers, 139 Florida St. San Francisco, suf
fered from a dreadful cold, approaching
Consumption, tried without result every
thing else, then lought one bottle of Dr
King's New Discovery and in two weeks
was cured. He is naturally thankful
It is such results, of which these are
samples, that prove the wonderful effi
cacy of this medicine in coughs and
colds. Free trial bottles at the Snipes-
Kinersly Drug Store. Regular size 50c
and $1.00.
Cor Dredging Kverett Harbor.
Washington, Jan. 16. A resolution
was passed in the house today, on mo
tion of Doolittle of Washington, author
izing the. expenditure of $10,000, appro
priated for the dredging of Everett har
bor, Wash.
A Secret.
If all the ladies knew the simple secret
that a bad complexion is due to a dis
ordered liver, there would be fewer sal
low faces and blotchy skins. This im
portant organ must be kept active and
healthy to insure a clear and rosy color
Dr. J. A. McLean's Liver & Kidney
Balm as a purifier, beats all the creams
and lotions in existence and will pro
duce a more permanent effect. Removes
bad taste in the mouth, offensive breath
yellow tinge in the.ekin, wind on the
stomach and that dull, billions feeling
which- so surely indicates the torpid
liver. Price $1.00 per bottle. Snipes
& Kinnersly, Drug Co.
Copyright Amendment. -
Washington, Jan'. 16. A committee
of newspaper publishers today appeared
before the house committee on patents
to support the bill amending the statute
relating to copyrights.
All X-ree.
Those-who have used Dr. King's New
Discovery know its value, and those who
have not, have now the opportunity to
try it free. Call on the advertised drug
gist and get a trial bottle, free. Send
your name and Address to H. E. Bucklen
& Co., Chicago, and get a sample box of
Dr. King's Sew Life Pills free, as well
as a copy of Guide to Health and House
hold Instructor, free. All of which is
guaranteed to do you good and cost you
nothing. - Sold by Bmpea & Jiinersly
Dr. Hlles' Nkiot PumBBmn RHETTMA.
TltiM. WEAK BACKS. At druggist, only 25c,
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Our Great Cut Sale
Will to continued this -week. The "balance
of our choice stock of
MEN'S SUITS
will be put on the market to close
At Cost.
DON'T MISS THIS.
We have
Men's Woolen Underwear at Cost,
for Infants and fThildren.
Castoria promotes Pigeetion, and
overcomes Flatulency, Constipation, Sour
Stomach, Diarrhoea, and Feverishness.
Thus the child is rendered healthy and its
sleep natural. Caatoria contains no
Morphine or other narcotic property.
Castoria is so well adapted to children that
I recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me." H. A Archer, M. D.,
Ill South Oxford St., Brooklyn, N.Y.
For several years I have recommeriaed your
Castoria,' and shall always continue to do so,
as it has invariably produced beneficial results."
Edwim F. FAROS. M. D.,
125th Street and 7th Ave., New York City.
' ' "The use of 'Castoria. is so universal and
its merits so well known that It seems a work of
supererogation to endorse it. Few are the in
teftieent families who do not keep Castoria
within easy reach.'
CXRIXXi HiRTTlf. T. V.,
New York City.
Thh Cxhtaur Ooxpakt, 77 Hurray Street, N. Y.
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"best materials, made tip "by the best -workmen.
decided to run our entire
For ttiis week.
A. M. WILLIAMS & CO
J. B. BOHBNGK,
J. M. Patterson,
Cashier.
president.
first Rational Bank.
THE DALLES.
- OREGON
A General Banking Business transacted
Deposits received, subject to Sight .
Draft or Check.
Collections made and proceeds promptly
remitted oh day of collection.
Sight and Telegraphic Exchange Bold on
New York, San Francisco and Port
land. DIREOTOKS.
D. P. Thompson. Jno. S. Schbnck.
Ed. M. Williams, Geo. A. Liebe.
H. M. Bball.
Snipes-Kinersly Drug Co.
suuig in
Pqib Drugs Cfiemieais,
FINE LINE OF
IlttPOSTED and D0J5ESTIC CIGRSS
At Our Old Place of Business.
M. HONYWILB,
Boss Casn Store.
It's for Your Benefit.
stock of
DOORS,
WINDOWS,
SHINGLES,
FIRE BRICK,.
FIRE CLAY,
LIME and
CEMENT,
Window-Glass
' ' and
Picture Moulding.
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Xxuporter.