Butte Dynamite Blast Kills Six Youths in 1932 Tragedy
A massive dynamite explosion near Meaderville and the Pittsmount area kills six youths and injures others in Butte Montana on Independence Day weekend. Police describe a theft-gone-wrong as the blast’s likely cause while investigators search the debris and missing blasting caps.
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Butte
William Crnich
Joseph Crnich
Stanley Strizic
Joseph Munich
Rudolph Kavran
Stanley Str
Ich
McQueen Addition
Meaderville
Leonard
Mine Rescue Faces Setback As Mon Day Target Looms
In Hazleton Pennsylvania two miners trapped 12 days in a damp chamber 308 feet underground faced a serious setback from technical problems delaying a Monday rescue target. A third miner in a separate cubicle 18 feet away remains unheard since Tuesday.
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Hazleton
UPI
State
H. Beecher Charmbury
David Fellin
Henry Throne
Louis Bova
Bova
Charmbury
Fellin
Throne
Weather summary for Butte area and Divide region
Partly cloudy with afternoon and evening showers or thundershowers today and Monday. Highs near 78, lows around 40. East of Divide variable clouds Sunday into Monday with scattered showers and thundershowers, mostly central and east. West of Divide cooler Sunday and Monday with highs 72 to 85 and lows 40 to 55. Maximums refer to 13 hours and minimums to 18 hours. precipitation 24 hours ending 5 p.m. Saturday.
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Butte
Divide
Girl Playing On Overpass Killed by Car
Roosevelt County Coroner Ly man Clayton said Diane Moran, 11, was killed and her sister Janice Moran, 8, was injured when a car driven by Dr. Clifford M. Mason of Edmonton struck the girls on a railway overpass southeast of Culbertson Montana. An inquest is not planned.
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Culbertson
Roosevelt County
Lyman Clayton
Diane Moran
Janice
Clifford M. Mason
Edmonton
Alta
Montana
Clayton
Bernard Moran
Janice Moran
Glass fragments injure Butte boy after Saturday blast
A flying pane injured 3 year old Joe Kougioulis near the blast site. He received two stitches for a head laceration and was treated at Silver Bow General Hospital after glass from a shattered window fell on him while in bed at home.
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Joe Kougioulis
James Kougioulis
Silver Bow General Hospital
Blast Breaks Shatter 105 Windows at JHS
Charles Davis city superintendent of schools said the Junior High School Building suffered heavy damage with at least 105 broken windows mainly large plate glass. A glass door at the northeast entrance was shattered and most damage occurred on Garfield Street east side with extensive breaks on Grand Avenue north side and west side. The estimated monetary loss runs into thousands of dollars.
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Garfield Street
Grand Avenue
Charles Davis
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Sam Melhorn
Standard-Post
Burns Detective Agency
Bob Warren
By Dan Brown
Standard Post
Pittsmount
Asst
Vern Maddock
Ken Cunningham
Sheriff's Office
State Highway Patrol
Cunningham
Maddock
Rock
Frank Harper
Harper
Walkerville
United Mineworkers of America
UMW
W. A
Tony) Boyle
Billings
Belgrade
Broadus
Bank
Dillon
Glasgow
Great Falls
Havre
Helena Kalispell
Lewistown
Livingston
Miles City
Missoula
West Yellowstone
JHS
Mercury
Berkeley
Helena
Ping ST
NK Wuegen
Columbia
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