The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-06-15
VERY TRAGIC STORY
Employees Of the Anaconda Tell How
Their Comrades Died.
Coroner's Inquest on the St. Law
victims-The Verdict -
Their Funeral Yesterday-A
Tale of Suffering.
Special Correspondence OF the Standard.

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Sullivan and Page, the miners who lost
their lives in the Anaconda mine. were
held yesterday. At 10 a. m. the bodies
were removed from Shcrman's undertake
ing rooms to st. Patrick's church, where
a mass was said. The bodies remained
In the church until 2:sD o'clock in the af-
ternoon. They were i'm black c~loth-draped
Baskets, all alike. Silver plates on the
Baskets told the names Of the deceased,
their age and the date OF death. Thous-
ands gazed at the bodies.
IL was a general wonder that they had
been 5 o well preserved. The undertake
er's assistants had found IL necessary To
handle the bodies very carefully. as they
were soft. The bodies were partly
d~ecomposed, and on Sullivan the bone of
one of the arms was laid bare. Page was
tue best preserved and the faces aud
hands of all were better preserved than
the main portions of the bodies. The
worst feature was the intense blackness
OF the features.
AT 2:sO o'clock in the afternoon the
funeral service was conducted by Father
Van de Ven The Miners union attended
the service in a body and with the Hiber-
Mica band led the procession To the GENE
terry. The collins were placed in separate
hearses. Bouquets u iioral crosses had
been placed ON the baskets as they were
forever closed.
Three mourning carriages followed
the remains, hut they con-
tniiled chiefly warm friends
since the only relatives of the deceased
miners were Pages two brothers and a
brother-in-law OF Sullivan. At the Gene
terry Dolan was laid i'm "a grave at the
south side. beside his wife. who had died
a few weeks after his imprisonment in the
mine. Sullivan and Page were buried
side by side at the north of the cemetery.
H haI h..t. th. a-,.s,..I ..ts. A. I....
them all together and place n monument
beside them. But subsequently il was
considered better Ia bury Dolan beside
his wife, who had followed her husband
To his long home, but who had first been
laid away in n final resting place.
The inquest as Ia the cause of death of
Dolan, Page and Sullivan was concluded
this morning. The witnesses were Super
intcndent Carroll. Harry Hurley, Thos.
O'Neill. William Malloy and others. The
verdict was as follows:
W. ind that the said Edward Dolan, Jerry
sullivan and Harry Page came a. their deaths
by slIfiOcation from smoke and ga> In the Ana
conda mine on the morning of November -,
lss,, while nobly endeayoring to rescue their
fellow miners, and We further Ind that the ON.
GERS AMI employees 81 the Anaconda company
did everything In their power Ia prevent loss of
lie nT accident and are Ia he highly commended
for their heroic efforts 10 save their fellow work
men. Further, We find thai no blame whatever
can he attached Ia the said Anaconda company
or any of its officers In t,stinouy whereof NJ
The said Jurors, have hercunto set our names
this, the lith day 81 June, 1870.
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The main points developed in the in
quest, we're that the men were not en-
gagged in work al the time of their death
but thar four Of them met their death in
trying 10 save others,
Superintendeut Michael Carroll said
that Malloy told him the taking out of the
men had been taken care of and that then
he attended To ~bulkheading. some time
afterwarl he learned that there were
three men i'm The Anaconda mine. and
later he heard Of three more. Thomas
O'Neill wanted TO 90 down after the men.
but the witness refused, as il was i'm his
opinion sure death
Harry Hurley, foreman Of the Ana.
conda, said that on the breaking out OF
the fire, he had been instructed by Mr..
Carroll la ee that the men were all taken
out. He got ali the men out as he sun.
poscd. and so Informed Mr.. Carroll,
Returninr 10 the Anaconda he was
told by Harry Pare that Dol,n was ON ,he
$40 and should be got out. II doubte,
whether We could o., down on account a,
,he uas and smnL. said Hurley. Inn,
/ concluded tO trN N aUU tDlU tile engineer
10 let ms 40 as fast as possible 10 the sD
We GOT there. m our candles and wen,
into The cross. cut 5O mr. ,D feet and then /
fell. / told Page 1 was unabl. to %,
further. He ,olI mo 10 make Tho sbnf,
and he would On after DoIan' 4 crawIcd
an, and yot on the cage. Truno hni onI,
made two bells heard and n il M. las
RENE mbered. was taken nm without d
signal when th. other car. cam. down
Vas sicL from, The cTec,s nin. w...Ls,
Thomas OrNe;I said ,bat he with other,
went down 10 The sD ,o look for men
They went dnun on the eas, case an,
found H,rIey. NuIdr;yc and Cr;tiIn Ini,
out ON IN. ucs, ca.e Th.y u,.rc t.Le,
nm
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Kel,eber and Nnr,,hy cam. ~ Tho an
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said. Mat ,hcv are AVN, On ,ho an
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