Butte marks completion of memorial to 1895 warehouse explosion
The Kenyon-Connell Warehouse fire of 1895 took the lives of all but two Butte firefighters, along with dozens of citizens, one police officer, horses, and a loyal dog.
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The Kenyon-Connell Warehouse fire of 1895 took the lives of all but two Butte firefighters, along with dozens of citizens, one police officer, horses, and a loyal dog.
The Kenyon-Connell Warehouse fire of 1895 took the lives of all but two Butte firefighters, along with dozens of citizens, one police officer, horses, and a loyal dog.
Born in Deer Lodge, Higgins moved to Butte with her husband in the 1920s and was disappointed at the lack of vegetation in Uptown Butte due to the mining.