Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-28
At the HOSPITAL.

Last evening q MINER representative Wis
tied the Sisters Hospital, where tire kind
Sisters have in charge the most seriously
injured OF the victims of the blaze. Those
at the Hospital are Mrs. Lee, Mrs. Brad
ley Frank Huth, Joseph Weston and
William Barton.
IHE TWO LADIES
are in the Same ward. In addition to the
physical suffering created by a fearfully
bur, ed body, head and hands, Mrs. Lee is
mentally Frustrated by the awful death OF
her little boy. About two weeks ago the
unfortunate widow lady, accompanied by
came to Butte from Sheridan, Madison
County, in this Territory. She rentedroom
No. 2 at the Oregon House, and, having a
little capital, began to look around Tor q
chance to invest it in a safe business.
Yesterday morning she was asleep in her
chamber and was awakened by screams
Of sire" and a kicking at her door. Spring
ing from her couch, she :grasped the hands
Of her three little ohes and, securing the
purse containing all her worldly wealth,
started to escape. Meantime the room had
become filed with smoke, ard when the
door was opened a volume rolled into the
apartment that almost suffocated the
fleeing family. When the frantic mother
TcdCIlCA IAC u" IL hdO tuICC ulllc
bands in her own, and feeling certain that
all her little ones were with her, hurried
through the binding smoke to the street.
the horrible revelation burst upon
her that two of the small hands which she
SO firmly we're those OF one of her
boys, that only two OF them had accom-
panied her-that her last born was in the
building. With a scream that
froze the blood of all who
heard it, she dashed into the
hallway, up the seething stairway,
and blindly groped and piteously called for
her boy. She was surrounded by flames.
They burned the clothing off her body,
the hair off her head. and made one
blister of the skin Of her face and
neck-but she felt not their fury. She
screamed for her baby, whose awful
she certainly would have shared had
a brave man dashed into the flames,
at the risk of his life, dragged her from
! shudder IT plying horror among those |
Who received her upon the street and bore |
Ter to a dwelling near by. Inconsistencies
hen overpowered her, and when she again
woke she was at the Hospital. In addition
the loss OF her boy and her entire ward
ODE, her purse. containing 5000 in bills
nd $500 in gold, was l0st in the flames.
Vas ever woman more stricken than
his Her injuries are extremely
but not necessarily fata., and
the care Of the good Sisters she will
DON be entirely relieved OF physical pain
nd find her mental anguish ameliorated
y the Christian comfort which it is their
Mission to administer.
Mrs. Bradley was recently employed as
ook by Joseph Saville, and on Saturday
light slept in the Oregon House for the first
i,ne. She was fearfully burned about the
cad while escaping from the building, and
as treated by DR.. johnson before her re-
,oval to the hospital. She will probably
e disfgured for life.
FRANK HUH.
young German, came to Butte about
mouths ago from New York, as a
nurse to Mr. w. w. Prowess, OF the
naconda mine. He is a single man, with
0 relatives in this country. He was in
red internally by jumping from a second
window, and it is feared that his in
may prove fatal. He is a cheerful
.lfferer, however, and the German resi-
Of the city-they visited him yester-
az in crowds-are providing every COM
'rt he desires. His back is not broken,
ut his spine is badly wrenched. |,
JOSEPH WESTON AND L BARTON,
70 working miners, arrived Saturday
ght from Ouray. Colorado, and rented a
'om at the Oregon House. While escap-
g from the building yesterday morning
9TH men we're badly burned. Weston's
is in a horrible conditioner bad, in
led, that he is unable to speak. Barton's
ce and hands are burned, but he is not
I~ffering much pain and talks with ease. :
9th men are rendered entirely destitute 8
!, the calamity. :