The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-01-24

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arm injured
Tom Mcdonald. employed at the Vul-
can Boiler Works; will probably lose his
right arm. Mcdonald is well known in
Belt, where he was employed before
coming to Butte.
Henry Tigerman, employed at II. l..
Franks Bottling Works: right lee
broken and breast badly mashed and
his face scared.
w. L. Miles; stomach mangled and
head badly bruised.
John Cohn; body badly SCARED, but
no serious injury
w. G.. Rossen; back injured.
r. A. Veal; back injured lives at
305 Ohio street
Mike connors; confusion of the left
leg.
Frank Heart Of 23 South Main street ;
confusion of the face and body.
Nicholas Rogers Of 121 West Broad
way sprained ankle and wrist
w. NJ. Singleton OF the Montana Cen
trial; fractured arm.
Andrew Swift, fireman; fractured arm.
Henry Steinborn. policeman; frac-
tured leg and arm.
AT ST. JAMES.
At the st. James hospital, the Sisters
Of Mercy and the volunteer assistants
were tired and weary this morning, no
one In the institution having slept up to
noon. Five of the 10 victims brought
there last night died, two Of the deaths
occurring while the patients were being
dressed. The sisters were unable to get
the names of some of those who were
given into their care and the following
is list as far as IT can be secured at
this time:
Tom Burns fatally injured.
Mr.. Bow; unconscious; injuries so seri-
GUS there Is little hope of recovery.
Andrew Michaels; unconscious, but
apparently not seriously injured.
Frasier, boy; broken arm and leg
Dave Coleman; head injured, but not
serious
Tom Coleman; injuries not dangerous.
T. j. Had; broken arm and leg.
7. j. Riley; leg badly bruised
James Burns; broken leg and arm
and possibly he will lose his arm.
William McAndrews. boy; back in
jured.
John Sloan lies at Blackburn & Have
lands hospital with injuries enough to
kill six men. He has fracture of the
neck Of the femur a compound fracture
of the legs and a fracture of the elbow.
SCENE IN THE MORNING.
Investigation but adds horror to the
horrors Of last nights terrible acct
dent. Never did landscape bear more
impressively the unmistakable record
Of the great destroying force of powder
than the gloomy, blood-stained wreck
which appeared i'm the first faint light
Of morning. Nearly all the dead bodies
Of the men have been recovered from
the SCARED and furrowed ground, but
mammoth heaps of debris, charred re-
mains Of buildings and warehouses and
the shattered fire engines and mangled
bodies Of dead horses are most elo-
quent reminders OF the terrible work
of that fatal night
In addition to the slckening slaugh-
ter of human beings, the destruction of
property is great. Where vast sums of
money were represented in well-illed
warehouses. nothing remains but black.
CHASTITY piles, and the streets of the city
sparkle and glisten with broken glass.
The damage to plate glass windows in
the city amounts to several thousand
dollars. Butte has more the appear
ance of a besieged city in days of war
than that of a busy commercial center
in times Of peace.
A woman who saw the first explosion
last night says four or five men went
up in the air when it took place. The
fire was under control by 4 o'clock and
several more bodies were taken out of
the ruins. John Sloan, Sr.. who was
taken to the hospital had both legs
crushed to a pulp and will die.
a number of persons reported killed
have turned up, among them being
julius Jacobs, George King, Wesley
Warren and Mrs. George Fifer. Forty
four bodies have been delivered to the
various undertaking rooms, many more
being taken to the hospitals dying.
Many bodies are supposed to have been
entirely consumed by the flames One
body taken from the ruins this morn
Ing had the head, arms and legs burned
away From a peculiar hook found
imbedded in the charred flesh the body
was identified as that of Chief Cam
eron of the fire department
The coroner has a force of men en-
gagged at the scene searching for the
remnants of mangled humanity. The
leg of one victim was picked up shortly
after the explosion number of blocks
away. A popularity of the accident
consists in the fact that a majority of
the killed and wounded We're injured
about the head. In many cases the en-
tire top of the head is missing