Great Falls weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1894-1???, 1895-08-23
Midnight Explosion in II Large Hotel
Followed by Many
Fatalities.
PARTIAL LIST or THE VICTIMS
A Drunken Engineer Supposed tn
Have Been the Cause OF the
Disaster,

midnight. Buried in the ruins are many
guests and employees whose bodies mus'
have been wholly or partially crematec'
1T Is impossible to give d list or The dead
or even an approximate umDer Out
OF 40 or moro people 10 the motel whcn
tho explosion occurred a score were got
out safely, Three were rescued with
more or -ess serious injuries and
the others are unGuceti"nabIy lying
''"aH beneath tn" mass OF bricks ana
shattered beams ana twisted iron al ,i''
rear Of the ruined buIj'i|n@. IN" dca'Il
list WIN inc.uJr the owner Oh ,hr i"lrI,
Peter funrE, the manager, Robert e.
f'rHiner, ana "llr, VINO 'ictod as day
''ork' b"tpr" fiI' "hd"d 70 me horrors
hi M" explosion, lht I'rcihch were hI"
rraIch /" pIlrpn5Iy ny men, women ana
babes, who's" hY"8 "cr" h'lhS crushed
out IL IN" runs lh'h the ire broke
out ana mat fhdch H. roe MuhcI "i
'diF'' 'II'' "a7 ''Tc"'' III 80" ''''h
aiteF an h"ur Is WORK, hl'' IL ih cHFlaih
i|. IRWIN, the nlght clerk, VINO, WIN
the ~harkrep"r, William 1N'bbc, thd Il
miraculous escape, went over the regis
Ter for the last fr" days TINS morning
and "nd"avor"d to call t" mind tn" "cr''
pants 81 the hi11rrc1t rooms. nc says
there were hct"reh - ana :" people
registered ana sixteen were occupying
hack rooms, where ~ was more dllllc'Ilt
to escape. Some OF them were; NJ, +,
iAetz, +. French, u, +. Lard" pf Central
''ty, 'oip', w. j. carson, OF Pueblo,
~ CaiKihH, .Hr. anu 'Hrb' burpeb ahd Two
others, Edwards Of Boulder, Colo; Her
man Lueders' Mrs. Won and daughter,
A. ", Roberts and Wlfe, OF Colorado
>pringe; H. 4. MhClosKey, cannon CITY,
'o'o'; thfee chah'ber maloH ana one bei!
hoy n Whole rear hAlf OF the holel
was hlo"n TO atoms, ana the front por-
1iohs are mercy ehattereo' ana burned
fragments OF "A house Inc forcc or the
explosion WAS 40 great, that tor TWO
blochS on Lawrence etreet, ana 'or bo'he
"isthhcb gu i|ar''hore street. EVERY VIII
40" IN huhihesa b!"cks ile shattered III
p'eceS upon 'he Ph''heh'H' mo uust
ia" cleafed away ho''e"hht "heh we
hren'eh feaEhoh Inc pace ihofo wac
"o az ~ !" e''h '"'h' ih' c"P''s'oh
a"oho 'he Rn'S's III Inv '''h' part u 'he
ho"7"' al" ny VI" nm" III" "'eh'en
T"achea inc scene shey were READY L" Dc
aa"bh ''"" "'h'''"H' 'h'heh WIN
'"'C" "n'' 'a"'''h7 '"'"'o" ~" al pa'lS
o' the h"te'' 'ehefa' tha''ea ADAMS
"iMah't"u, 'o1orh"o' ocHup'fa room
over the hoi'erh' the hect'on on
"h'ch the ha'oc u thc explosion
vas 'Ho hafneb'' II ne was IN Dis room
ne 10 undoubtedly oead' ~ blhKe, OF
over the h"'!er' an" reports places nm
also among 'ho "'a'' hyroh - ''A"iey,
HIef" IN me lfe'Ght department o. the
Ini"h iac''c fa''f'Ho ONCE ''o'heo III
dhe rear emo i'h haH gone 10 bea carry,
ana ~ counted among inc ihht' james
murphy u cohtractoF' was ii regular
ooaf"cf' ana also f'olned III 'he Hes-
ffoy'l p'Fs''n' ~ - ea'' ho WAS III h'H
r""o'' ana also must be among 'ie oeal'
more - no Houbt 'hht''ie h'Sahter was
cauF"h ny d bp''er e&p'o5'oh' Ffhhh
t"nfaEfIer' inc che'hHer, IL II hh'n, "aa ~
""'ca'oh' an" h't'F turning II 'arR"
quantity 81 c"ih water 'nto the not
opiihf9' i'It the hn''dlhs zen "ihutoe be
'pfe we e%p''e'oH "cc'rfea' lhc ponce
ara i"oh'hg f"I MN H. - lr"'h' hleht
ciorE' @AyA I"oo"chef' VINO was h1Y u
W .re Old, was drunk when he rent OF
dgty. and WAS in the habit Of repIcctine
~. t,,,. q,ho G,,ury va. . fn. .,,rn
.'' ''Y' ,'1""J =" '''''
ny.lH'nE' valued Al f'''V'' ana fad been
u-@d ae q hotel since 1914, whom it was
rn,uijt after Il fire in which one life was
,,s, G.o Ct,r,ea Adama yh,ac ho,v
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