Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-01-17

Elmer Greene.
Ed Sloane.
Alex Caddy.
John Morgan.
s. Delongery.
y. d. Cameron.
John Sloane
Samuel Ash.
Dave Moses.
George Fifer.
Peter Norlng.
William McGee
John Fudge
Ole OleStein.
| Professor Robbins, or Robinson. who Is
| also known as "Two Bear" was a famous
hunter and a friend of Theodore Roose-
| welt, of New York. He had spent all
his life in the mountains and was maxi
| ing preparations to guide party through
! r. practically unknown portion of the
| Yellowstone park.
| Several visitors in the city were among
the dead, among them being j. B. Miller.
an Idaho lawyer.
| The ruins are still smouldering and it is
| believed that more bodies will be found
under the acres of debris.
Inquiries are coming from all parts of
| the United States inquiring about rels
| tives and friends who reside in the city
and who We're supposed to have been here
at the time of the explosion 1t is ad-
| mitted by all that this is by far the
most disastrou surface explosion that has
| occurred anywhere in the country during
| recent years.
Salt Lake City, u. r., Jan. 16.-A special
| to the Tribune from Butte this morning
says: Investigation but adds to the hor-
| rors of last nights terrible accident. The
| brilliant glare of the skies have passed
| away, only to be succeeded by the leaden
| gray of early morning, thus giving to the
| awful scene a more fitting canopy.
Never did u landscape bear more impress
| svely the unmistakable record of the great
| destroying force of powder than the
gloomy, blood-stained wreck which an
| peared in the first faint light of morning
| Nearly all OF the dead bodies of men have
| been recovered from the SCARED and fur.
| rowed ground, but the mammoth heaps of
| debris. the charred remains of buildings
warped and shattered fire engines and
| mangled bodies of dead horses which lie
where the noble animals met their fate,
are most eloquent reminders of the terri
| bic work of the fateful night. In addition
| to the sickening slaughter of human beings
| the destruction of property is great.
Where vast sums of money was repre-
| sented in well nlled warehouses; nothing
| remains but black, CHASTITY piles, and the
| streets of the city sparkle and Glisten with
| broken glass Butte has more the appear
| ance of a besieged city in days of war than
| that business center of commerce in times
| of peace. The hour for practical work has
arrived and a relief meeting has been
| called by Mayor Dugan for IL o'clock this
morning. \ woman who the first eX-
| plosion last night says four or five men
went up in the air when it took place.
| The fire was under control at o'clock
| and several more bodies were sighted and
| taken from the ruins.
| John Sloan, Sr., who was taken to the
| hospital had both legs crushed to pulp
and will die
| Damage to plate glass windows in the
city amounts TO several thousand dollars.
| a number of persons reported killed have
/
Jacks George King. Wesley Warden and
| Mrs George Fifer
| As near as can he estimated at this hour
| 60 a. M more than nifty people were killed.
| Forty-four bodies had already been deliv-
| cred at various undertaking rooms at 8
| o'clock Many were taken to the hospitals
| in dying condition. Some bodies are sup
posed TO have been entirely consumed in
flames.
The fire is supposed to have been Of in
| ccndiary origin, as there was no fire, so
| far as known, about the place, one body
| taken from the ruins this morning, had
the head, arms and legs burned away.
| From a peculiar hook found imbedded
| in the charred flesh, the body was identi-
! fled as that of Chief Cameron, of the fire
| department The coroner has force of
men engaged at the scene searching for
| remnants of lifeess and mangled humanity.
| The leg of one victim was picked up short
| ly after the explosion "A few blocks away.
| \ peculiarity of the accident consists of
| the fact that the majority of the killed
were injured about the head. In many
| cases the entire tops of heads are missing.
| Denver, COL, Jan. lG-A special 10 the
| Republic from Butte says:
| From what can be learned at this hour
| C;lO a. M no one suspected the presence
! of powder in the warehouse. and, is
! customary when fire is raging in Butte,
people we're crowded around the burning
| structure as close as they could get.
The remen had arrived only minute
| or two before, and we're almost in the act
of turning the first stream of water
| when a small explosion took place,
| This seemed To be a sort of warning of
| what was To follow, for no sooner had the
| hrst pun occurred than people began to
| suspect the presence of Il greater quantity
| of the explosive in some other part of the
| structure ana some of them fell back Be-
| fore they had reached place of safety
| however, the first great explosion took place
| and hundreds of people were hurled right
| and left and many of them We're mangled
| beyond recognition.
Bodies We're strewn for hundreds Of
| yards in all directions. Some were thrown
| against houses and mashed 10 a puIp
| while nying debris literally knocked the
| heads from others where they stood
| one body, 1t is reported, was seen flying
| through The air at a height Of 200 or 800
yards. Blood, brains, arms, legs and other
| pieces of bodies were lying around every
where Many of the wounded were a pit
| liable sight.
| After the first explosion many of the
| wounded were compelled by their helpless
| ness TO lie near the lire, and the heat only
| intensified the pain they We're suffering
| They begged 10 be taken away, but there
| was no means of conveying them from the
| scene at that time.
| A hackman, seeing the terrible state of
| affairs, drove up and attempted 10 assist
| in the removal. but while in the act the