The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-19

gathered and preserved every scrap of
human flesh in the hope, which proved
vain, that some scrap might show OF
Butte's bereaved remarked in accents of
anguish last night:
''If God would but grant me the boon of
an arm of my loved one. think might
consent to live"
UNITED IN DEATH.
Always together in life, always fighting
fire side by side, no matter what the peril,
Cameron, Moses, Ash and Norling are
united in death. They lived together,
they fought fire side by side for years,
they met death together; bravo men,
heroes every one of them, and their heroic
remains were carried to the cemetary in
one casket and placed for all eternity in
one grave.
THE UNKNOWN DEAD.
Not less impressive was the sight of the
nine caskets on the great band wagon.
They were the unclaimed bodies of Tues
day nights disaster. No friends or rela-
tives had come to claim these bodies. In
the thousands of curious spectators who
had gazed vi on heir features in the under=
taking rooms there was none to say
This man was my friend. His funeral is
my privilege" Over some of them no
service was said, except the service Mt the
cemetery.
But among the nine dead whose de-
parture brought no special grief to any
heart there we're some heroes. Some, at
least, of the nine lost their lives, not as
idle spectators of an exciting scene, but
as heroes who leaped toward the hellish
flames when the danger was the thickest
and lost their lives in trying TO drag to
safety the injured and the dead of the
first explosion. Strangers they may be /;
SO far as known, no relatives and close
friends are concerned; but they were
heroes, and all Butte pays to them the
tribute of its respect and the promise of
its ever-endurng remembrance.
AN AFFECTING INCIDENT.
There was another sight peculiarly af-
fecting in the mournful cortege. Chief
Cameron's horse marched IN the process
sion drawing the cart in which for years.
in winter and summer, by day and by
night, he had rushed his master to fires
There was no driver in the cart to-day. 4
fireman led the restless horse who, with
uneasy action, waited for the familiar
touch to the rein, listened for the familiar
voice of his master, the voice to which he
had always been responsive, the voice he
would never hear again.
TRIBUTE OF ALL MONTANA.
Not alone had the entire city turned out
to pay a tear-bedimmed tribute of respect
but the entire state of Montana was rem
resented. Large delegations of firemen
from Anaconda, Helena, Great Falls. Mis-
soula, Deer Lodge, Bozeman and Billings
were present and ofliciated as pallbear-
ers. The floral tributes we're of unusual
beauty, and their numbers testified to the
widespread and sincere sympathy created
by the awful disaster. The city of Helena
contributed n beautiful floral column sur.
mounted by a dove; pillow and wreath
were sent from the fire and police depart-
ments of the capital city. There were
numerous elegant floral offerings from
the other cities represented and from the
citizens of Butte and comrades of the de-
ceased. Every coffin was buried under
tributes of loving friends.
THE NoURSFUL PROCESSION.
The funeral procession included 5000
men of all classes and conditions, up to
the chief executive of the state, Governor
Richards, who marched all the way to the
cemetery.
On the hose wagon rode Dave Macee
who drove the other hose wagon 10 the
fire and was one of the two survivors
among the ilremen. lie was the personi-
flcation of deep grief. lie was still too
weak TO drive the horses which were led
by a fireman az either head.
The procession was far larger and more
widely representative than any tha. had
ever been seen in Butte. When the head
Of il reached tho cemetery, the rear
had not yet turned into Montana