The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-11-26
IN The BURNING MINE
Nd lSolan b. Misssng and Do 10 Thought that
He Went Dow u the AnacOnda shaft
snd Did Not ~Ret0rn-TWo
Other AAimsrs Missing.
Npecinl tO the Standard.

Apecial Tn the Standard.
BUTTE. Nov. 25.-Out Of the many vary
ing rumors a. to the number OF pcrsous
who are down i'm the Anaconda mine, IL
may now he positively stated that the
bodies of i've are below. There may no
more; i'm fact. tire number Is v~ariously
1seportcd n: five, six. seven and nine. But
only five are positively known tn he lost.
In addition To the four named i'm Sundays
STANDARD, Is Ned Dolan. The
of Sunday mentioned the fact that he was
missing, and the export Is now
confirmed. None of the miners about
the mine apparently missed him during
Saturday. and no inquiries were made re-
garding him until Saturday evening.
Then Mrs. Dolan, who had all day long
been inquiring about the fire in the mine,
and had all day long been rejoicing that
her husband was not mentioned among
the poor fellows that were lost or injured,
as evening wore on, became anxious
about her usban She began ~inquiring,
and one miner passed. the question to- An
other.
.where is Dolan, anywa
Saturday night, Sunday and to-day
have shown no trace OF him and the con-
clusion il inevitable that Ned Do
Ian 10 somewhere down in h
bucket have been found in the dry
room. His friends now remember that
ON Saturday morning he went to change
his clothes. Then lac returned and saw
several miners, who had been overcome
> with smoke Oh attempting to descend into
the mine, stagger away from the cage. IL
ia said that Dolan, with an exclamation,
rushed to the cage. Nobody remembers
10 have seen him since; Dolan had worked
been married about three years.
Sunday was a sad day in Dublin gulch,
where i've most 81 .ne miners
Telegraph boys were busy all day with
S.. f.a1, ..-~.. -1s,,a Nlx.
safety ya OF one miner or another. Tfc half
dozen men who were merely stified by the
smoke are considered all right now. The
pitiful screams of poor John Lyons could
he heard all of Sunday to- a long distance
from his little cabin i'm the gulch. Al
pull him out. To-day he is u~uieter. mo
. cause he was fainter. But il still requires
two men to hold him in his STRUGGLES. lie
has taken little noirishIncnt, and was
very low this afternoon when u
reporter called.
, MTS: ~ MI ply an" NJ. nIr NINE wb ch ~ f.r 'io ,l1
in the bowels of the earth. are distracted
Pat Murphy's brother, Daniel, win" de.
seconded the mine tn rescue Others aud
passed close to his brother without know.
ing il was his body, has been out of his
head much of the time sine. the ca.as,ro
1t il suspected that there are two i'll ths
mine besides the five IA are known &c
some say they have seen them since Tn.
catastrophe. Others deny that they have
been seen since the terrible acCitlent
Their names are not given for fear al
needlessly alarming their friends.
superintendent Carroll said this after
noon tia tlc bilkhcads are holding / GIN
and no smoke is issuing from the shafts
But how the fire is getting on, he c:tlio'
tell. He has done everything possible
and believes the fire must soon he slnoth
cred. II il likely that very soon steam
will he turned into the st. Lawrence mifs
at the point where the fire started. Ii viii
he kept running in for ~ hours at ful
head, and then, il there is nc sign of ffIs.
: an examination of the mines will ID
made.
Steam has been turned an into thu
st. Lawrence mine at the point where. tin
fire started. Three sets of boilers with ;
capacity of 45O horsepower are engaged
, i'm furnishing the steam. Superintendent
Carroll thinks he will keep up the process
until the latter part of the week. He ha'
no means of NOW whether or not tin
fire is still raging, hut reports that there j
much less gas at the mouth of the min
tonight. Mr.. Carroll thinks that thcr'
are not more than five men i'm the mine. -
the two others reported missing. one q
them, Mclaughlin, was found Tonight ii
South Butte.
DR.. Houxh reports Lyons tonight stil
unconscious hut with slightly more favor
able symptoms. He is able to take u it'll
nourishmcnt. .