Blew Up The Bank Vault

Butte, Mont, Oct. 22.- A desperate but unsuccessful attempt was made to rob Hoge, Daly & Co.'s bank at Anaconda shortly after 4 o'cloek yesterday morning by blowing it up. Two watchmen, Thomas Hammerle and E. L. Kunkle, were asleep in the bank at the time and were awaktened by noise coming as they thought from within the vault. They left the building to Investigate and just as they got on the outside a terrific explosión oceurred, shattering the plat.e-glass front and ripping out the whole iron front of the vault and scattering bank books and papers all over the street. The cash apartment of the vault remained intact. One of the robbers was caught and identified as A. L. Firpo, a young mechanic who has lived in Anaconda for several yeara and was well known. There were sev-ral hundred thousand dollars in the bank at the time of the attempted robbery. The damage to the building amounts to about ?2,000.