The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, January 24, 1895, Page 2

ae ~ easement SIXTY WERE KILLED. Stories of the Explosion at Butte Not Exaggerated. SONS WOUNDED OVER 100 PE Majority of the Dead ’Mangled in a Horrible Manner.— Heads, Arms, Parts of Human Bodies Pick- ed Up About the Scene. Awful Scenes Wit- nessed, Butte, Mont., Jan. 16.—It is now estimated that the number of per sous killed by last night's terrible exploeion of giant powder is sixty | Nearly fifty have already known to have been killed. Today the city is in mourning and all flags are at half mast. The relief meeting called by the Mayor was targely attended aud committees ap poiuted for the collection of money for the relief of the distracted fami lies The people responding liberally and c sufficient amount to are relieve distress is already guaran teed A number of the bodies are mangled beyond al! recognition and never will be identified. Prof. Robbins or Robinson, who is among the killed, also known as “the Bear.” was a famous hunter aud a friend of ‘Theodore Roosevelt of New York. He had spent ull his life in the mountains and was mak iug preparations to guide a party through a practically unknown por tion of the Yellowstone park. Sev eral visitors in the city were among the dead, among them being J. B Miller, an Idaho lawyer. The ruins are still smouldering and it is be lieved that more bodies will be found under the acres of debris. Iuquiries are coming from all parts of the United States inquiring about relatives and friends who revide in the city and who were supposed to have been here at the time of the explosion. It is admitted by all that this is by far the most disastrous surface explosion that has occurred auywhere in the country during re cent years. The remains of fifty persons are at the morgue and a number more are missing, over 100 are injured, many of them fetally Every hos pital inthe city is crowded. The city appears to be stunned and no one seems able to fully realize the extent of the calamity. A major- ity of the dead are so frightfully mangled that identification is impos sible. : Heads, arme, legs and other parts of bodies were this morning picked up all about the scene of the explo sion for a radius of five blocks.) The houses in the vicinity were as thor oughly wrecked as if a cyclone had passed through them Many of the killed contained no marks or bruises, having been killed by the concussion. Many were seriously injured by fly- ing bricks, stones and other debris, at a distance of several blocks from the explosion. The concussion was felt for miles, aud many of the larg est building rocked like cradles. It was reported by some of the rescu ing corps that several human ghouls, while pretending to assist in the work, went through the clothing of the dead and injured and robbed them. Only three firemen present at the scene of the fire escaped be- ing killed. Chief Cameron was blown to atoms, and the only thing left of him was a belt attached to a charred portion of his body. Fireman Dave McGee gives the following version of the appalling explosion: “After reaching the fire, we laid 1,200 feet of hose, and Flannery ataid at the hydrant, I drove up to the building with those, and then drove back from it about 200 feet and stopped. A moment later the first explosion occurred in the build- ing, and the flames burst through the roof, but no one was hurt by this explosion. The boys then went back to the building again, thinking the danger was all over. Jack Sloan | horse, the second explosion came. I |did cot see anything, and only re- | member hearing the awful roar and beiug knocked down. When I re- |covered a moment later I found the ‘tongue across my breast and the off horse was lying right on top of me. The blankets had caugbt fire. Pieces of wood wer: burning all around we and [ was momentarily choked aud bewildered I struggled |loose, but I was unable to free my- | self all to ge People were ‘around me and erying for help, and could hardly make my voice screaming After a while a man came along and | I begged him for Go's sake to belp | With his assistance I man the me out aged to get out from under | |and struggled to my feet. weight that was pinning me down I limped along, but was getting along slowly jand carried me iuto the Durrison house, aud from there I was brought The last I saw of Juck Sloau home | |taking the kinks out of the hose be- tween the wagon and the burning building. All of the other boys were close behind Sloan, and they were certainly all killed.”’ The scene after the explosion pre- sented more the appearance of a field of battle than anything else. The dead were strewy everywhere and cries and groans of the iwjured and dying were heard from all sides. | Between the Northern Pacific avd | Great Northern depots, a space of 300 feet, the ground was literally covered with parts of human bodies and with the dead and injured. The houses in the vicinity were as thor- oughly wrecked as if a cyclone had passed through them. One of the rescuing corps gathered up twenty- seven dead bodies in one pile. Eight were in auother. Two and three in other piles. The rescuers pulled some of the dead bodies out, still | quivering, while rewnants of the hu- taan beings still groaning were found | with legs and arms torn off. The scenes the undertaking establishments this morning were something awful. All were crowded with heaps of human flesh. Here was a halfa head anda mutilated trunk below it; in another place an armless and legless trunk, with the face disfigured beyond all possibility of recognition. Scarcely any of the corpse are recognizable and the compete roll of dead will probably never be known. The destruction of property is great. Where vast sums of money were represented in well-filled ware- houses, nothing remains but black- ened ruins, and the streets of the city are covered with broken glass. Butte has more the appearance of a besieged city in days of war thav that of a business center of com merce in time of peace. The damage to plate glass windows in the city amounts to several thousand dollars, and the total loss is placed $1,000,- 000 The fire is supposed to have been of incendiary origin, as there the place. Governor E. J. Rickards of Mon- tana sends the following dispatch regarding the disaster to the Press: Fire broke out in a warehouse containing giant powder and dyna- mite, communicating to two other warehouses of the same character. The result was three terrific explo- sions, wrecking several buildings and killing about sixty people, ac cording to reports. The entire tire department was killed except three men. Many people were torn to fragments, while others were killed by the concussion! The financial loss is enormous. The cause of the fire is unknown. The Legislature, in session, passed resolutions of condolence. Stringent regulations will probably be adopted to enforce the laws against storing explosives within the city limits. J. E. Rickarps, Governor of Montana. The buildings burned included came over to the wagon and got an the warehouses of the Butte Hard ax, and started in to cut an opening into the building. My brother William got in'the-back of the. wag- on and advised me to drive further light worke, away for fear of another explosion. 4 told him there was no danger and got down to blanket the horses. “Just as I pulled the blankets company, Parchen-Dachoul drug store and the Kenyon Connell Mercantile company, the electric old Schlitz brewing building and a flour and feed ware. house. 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Stone message, states that school funds of Missouri are the largest of In popu- lation according to the census, it is In the value of farm products, according to the of her mineral product in bis annual the, ‘available permavent any State in the Union.” the fifth in the Union. 2 Rae = edy free from any harmful i ts. same authority, it is seventh, and in an I purely vegetable. Such i i a3 i It removes all impuritie various elements of wealth it is in frou: the blood and thorough- ly cleanses the system. ‘Thousands of the first rank. This is the basis on which the State of Missouri asks for considera- tion at the hands of the people of the country and of the world. There are greater opportunities here than in any other place on the American continent. With an admirable cli- mate and a fertile soil. With vast acres unoccupied. With inexhausti ble mines of coal, iron, lead zine, copper and stone. With railroad facilities second to none in any part of the country, there are within the State of Missouri opportunities to create wealth and achieve success that can't be found in any other State. The States of larger popu- lation are New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois. But those States offer no such advantages for set- tlers, because, with one exception, they are already filled up. In the matter of manufactures! Missouri is still in its infancy. With all the mineral wealth, with extraor- dinary transportation facilities, with & population to consume of vast pro- portions, ang with a tributery terri tory embracing an empire, the devel- | opment of manufactures is atill com- peratively meager, and the opportun- ities colossal. All these facts should be presented to the world in a way that would challenge attention, and that ‘done, the State of Missouri would soon assume the position which she is destined to occupy as first in the grand galary of common- wealths in the Amgriean Union. You will never know posit what a won- unt S eure; stemach. “ela HL Tueker Damascus | trust and acting as es | Don't stick up your nose at the jonion. If the following from an flexchange is trae, th» onion should ‘be in gos oA | physician was seen buying a barrel lof onions and ben I a! dinner od odur with the publi: 1g ways have borled guyed about his purcha-e, said onl: for the benetit of my @laidren. IT hke onions too, they are the best: medicine I know of for preveutiug colds. 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