Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-01-16
SANTA FE N. M, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 16. Is

| feet into the air followed by a second of
| deadly siience. Then came an awful roar,
carrying with it annihilation tothose who
| closely surrounded
THE DEATH TRAPS
and destruction on every hand. The loss
of life is variously estimated at from fifty
to seventy-fve, and the nnmbor of
wounded will probably exceed 15o
AWFUL SIGHTS IN THE UNDERTAKING ROOMS.
The sights gin the undertaking estab-
| lishmenta this morning are awful. All Of
them are crowded with scores of mutiiat
ed human. bodies. Scarcely any of the
| corpses are recognizable and the COM
] plete roll of,ths dead will probably never
be knoEn. fHhere are twelve dead at the
Butte faas2aking rooms, ten at the
Montanssapd nineteen at the Sherman
rooms. tbrty three wounded are in the
hospitals, tw.HpGy eight of whom are in a
critical condition.
No attempt will be made to make a
complete Identification of the dead until
the injured are cared for.
DEAD IDENTIFIED.
The dead identified up to o'clock this
afternoon are: ]. B. Miller, attorney,
Salmon City, Idaho;J. D. Cameron, fire
marshal; George Fifer, fireman; Jack
Sloane, fireman; VIM. MCGEE, fireman.; q.
E. Tracey, Fred Kremback, j. j. Enright,
j. J. McHale, Robbins, Cozaque, Mike
Mead, Will Smith, George Welton, Jack
Charles, Charles Gutenberg, employe of
Butte Hardware company; George Gal
braith, Ed Sloane, fireman; Dave Moss,
fireman; John Judge, fireman; Alexander
! W. Milan, volunteer fireman. Chas. Bow
man, volunteer fireman; Samuel Ash,
Peter Norling, James O'Leary, Miles Nc
| Donald, William Pierce, Albert Goddard,
George Holloway, Dan Hickey, G. W..
English, Charles Ashton, W. H. Nolan,
Paul Hanson, Elmer Greene, George Will
ton, Steve Loughory.
DETAILS OF THE HORROR.
Salt Lake, Utah, Jan. 16.-The Tri-
bune's special from Butte this morning
says: "Investigation but adds to the hor-
rors of last nights terrible accident.
Never did landscape bear more impress
sively the unmistakable record of the
great destroying force of powder than did
the gloomy blood-stained wreck which ap-
peared at Butte in the first faint light of
this morning. Nearly all the dead bodies
of the men have been recovered from the
SCARED and furrowed ground, but NAM
moth heaps of debris, charred remains OF
buildings, warped and shattered fire en-
gines and mangled bodies of uead horses
are most eloquent reminders of the ter
rible work of the fateful night.
| In addition to the sickening slaughter
of human beings the destruction of prop
erty is great. Where
VAST SUMS OF MONEY WERE REPRESENTED
in we'll filled warehouses nothing remains
but black and ghastly piles of ruirs and
the streets of the city sparkle and glisten
with broken glass.
Butte has more the appearance of be-
sieged city in the days of war than that
of busy center of commerce in times of
peace.
A relief meeting has been called by
Mayor Dugan for II O'Clock this morning.
A woman who saw the first explosion
last night says that four Or five men went
up in the air when it took place. The
fire was then under control.
At 4 o'clock this afternoon several more
bodies were sighted and taken ont of the
ruins.
John Sloan, who was taken to the hos
pital, had both legs crushed to pulp and
will die.
THE DAMAGE TO PLATE GLASS
windows in the city amounts to several
| thousand dollars
A number of the persons reported
killed have turned up, among them being
Julius Jacobs, George King, Wesley War
rem, and Mrs. Geo. Fifer.
As near as can be estimated at this
hour more than fifty people were killed.
Forty-four bodies had been delivered at
the undertaking rooms at o'clock p. m.
| Many more are being taken to the hos
pitfalls in a dying condition. Many
bodies it is supposed have been entirely
consumed by the flames.
The fire is supposed to have been the
work of an incendiary, 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 peculiar hook found imbedded
in the charred flesh one body was identi-
fed as that of Chief Cameron, of the fire
department. The coroner has force of
men engaged at the scene searching for
remnants of lifeless and mangled human
iSy. A leg of one victim was picked up
shortly after the explosion number of
blocks away.
A popularity of the accident consists
| r,o ~ loAo 1Dr r,f al 1oH
were injured about the head. In many
cases entire tops of heads are missing.
At 9:35 a. m. it is estimated that from
IS to 100 are already dead, but it is i'm
possible to get lames on account of the
mangled condition of the remains. 1t is
likely that many will never be identified.
VERY LATEST.
Helena Mont, Jan. 16.-The latest re.
port from Butte is that oyer 100 men
were killed by last nights explosions. The
fire department is nearly wiped out and
the flames have exhausted themselves.
Only three members of the fire department.
are reported alive.
Crisis in France.
Paris, Jan. 16.-The attention of the
whole of Europe is centered upon this
city. There is no doubt that the political
crisis resulting from the resignation OF
the Dupoy ministery, and the subseq uent
resignation of President Casimira Perier
is the most serious in the history of
France. However, the act has not had
any great effect upon the Bourse, which
. convened this morning.