The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-16
SEEKING HE1 FATHER.

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jured. leg and arm being broken.
SEEKING HEX FATHER.
ono CT the Most Pathetic Incidents OF
The Awful Calamity.
One Of the many pathetic incidents was
the search of Miss Robbins, daughter
OF Professor E. w. Robbins, for
her father. With streaming eyes and
Guivering lips, she went about asking
every one she met if they had seen her
father At the undertaking rooms she
| pleaded for an opportunity to see the
| bodies, but as they were not yet dressed
shc was deaed admittance.
All night long she continued her search,
| and as morning dawncd the policemen
and reporters knew that tho object of her
quest lay cold in death, cruel cash over
! his right eye, showing how the sudden
summons came, but none had heart to
break the novs.
She was advised TO go home and wait.
Excuses we're made that her father might
DO caring for some friend or even might
be at home, but she refused to go and
finally, as the first editions of the papers
came on the streets, she secured paper
and found her worst fears confirmed.
L. w. Robbins was one of the finest
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about two years has lived in Butte, teach
ing mathematics. He was a man of
about 60 years of age, and before coming
TO Butte was a guide to hunting parties
through the mountains of Montana and
Wyoming. He was versed in all the arts of
woodcraft and mountaineering and was
very often engaged by prominent New
York people to show them the haunts of
bear, deer and elk. He was never guilty
of ruthless slaughter, and never per-
mitted it by members of his party, and
was an ardent advocate of strict game
laws. Mr.. Robbins lived near the scene
of the explosion and left the house at the
time of the fire to see what the fire was.
VERY LITTLE POWDER IN TOWN.
1t may be well to state that in the hard
ware stores up town very little giant
powder is kept.
The coroner is already at work pre-
pairing for the inquests, which must be
held, and the propriety, legality, or GRIM
inality of keeping giant powder stored in
large quantities within the city limits
will be rigidly investigated.
ANACoNDA's SYMPATHY.
special tram over the b., A. & p. from
Anaconda arrived at $3.50 o'clock this
morning. conveying 10 Butte a number of
to assist in the work of rescue in every
way possible.
Sup erintendent Chapman and Auditor
Melin we're among those who came over
on the train. They brought over coaches
to be used on the Great Northern train
this morning in place of the shattered
coaches.
All the bridges and trestles on the
Great Northern, Northern Pacific and B.,
A. & p, near BGtte, have been carefully
examined since the explos ion and 1t is be-
lieved all are safe.
A shoulder bone was found at the ruins
ut oclock this morning.
BRAVE CHIEF CAMERON.
The horribly burned, headless trunk,
with short stumps of arms and legs which
is supposed to be- all that is left of brave
Chief Cameron was discovered in the
ruins between Kenyon Cornell Com
mercial company's warehouse aud that of
the Butte Hardware company's.
The surviving firemen believe il to be
his on account of a small hook which was
attached to his belt and imbedded in the
flesh of his back. The chief was the only
one who wore hook in his belt and the
fireman have no doubt that tho body is
that of their fearless leader.
The body, or rather the part of a body,
was found right in where the fire was the
fiercest, and the flames the thickest,
which accounts for the terrible manner in
which it was burned.
The fire. close to where the chiefs body
was found, was the last extinguished, as
il was not expected that any bodies would
be found at that point.
ASH, NoRLING. MOSES.
The flremen believe that the bodies of
their comra les, Sam Ash, Dave Moses
and ]. p. Norlng are still IN the ruins.
Harry Aleshire stated that he had
talked with Ash and Moses after the
third and last explosion, but the flremen
are satisfied that he was mistaken in the
general excitement. Norling was with
hook and ladder truck, and
was blown high into the air along
with the apparatus, and Ash and Moses
we're close up to the burning building
with a line of hose. Their friends
have given them up for dead. and it is
certain that if they had escaped they
would certainly have shown up before
this.
SORROW THEIR ONLY PORTION.
Sam Ash was married less than three
months ago, while Norling had only been
married for about two months. and their
wives are Frustrated with grief.
Mrs. Moses was completely wrapped
M in her son and as she
is afflicted with heart disease it
is feared that the news of his
death will kill her. She was always OPP
pressed with great fear that her son
would DC killed at fire. and every time
the fire bell rang she knelt down and
prayed for him.
LARS SAD DUTY.
As soon as II became evident that Chief