Butte, a silver-mining town of Montana, U.S., 72 miles S. by W. of Helena, where there was, in 1895, a frightful explosion of three railway cars laden with giant-powder. Pop. (1880) 3363; (1890) 10,723.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 584
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