St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-17
MANY SHAPELESS TRUNKS

Recovered Still Quivering
With Life--Horrors Beyond
Recounting.
BUTTE, Mont, Jan. 1G. 1t is now es-
timated that the number of persons
killed by last nights terrible explosion
Of giant powder is sixty. Nearly fifty
are already known to have been killed.
Today the city is in mourning, and all
flags are at haIf-mast. The relief
meeting called by the mayor was
largely attended and committees ap-
pointed for the collection of money for
the relief OF the afflicted families. The
neople are responding literally, and a
sufficient amount to relieve distress is
already guaranteed. A number of the
bodies are mangled beyond all recog-
milton and never will be identified. Th9
following is the
List of Dead IdenIilied:
CHARLES Alison.
GEORGE MCDONALD.
CHARLES GUTTENBURG.
CONSEGUE BARNES.
GEORGE GALBKAITH.
j. j. McHALE.
PROF. ROBINSON.
JOHN j. ENRIGnT.
G. E. TRACEY.
MATT GkOSSER
OFFICER FRED CRANBECK.
JAMES O'LEARY.
ALBERT GODDARD,
WILLIAM PIERCE,
FOSTER.
MIKE MEAD.
GEORGE WALTON.
WILLIAM SMITH (ColoredJ.
j. B. MILLER,
FRED BOWMAN,
MIKE DEAGLE.
GEORGE HALLOWAY.
BAILEY
ALEX NJ WILLIAMS.
w Il. NOLAN.
CHARLES HANSEN.
ELMER GREEN.
ED SLOAN.
ALEX CADY.
JOHN MORGAN.
S. D. DELONGERY.
a. d. CAMERON.
JOHN SLOANE.
SAMEEL ASH.
DAVE MOSES.
GEORGE FIFER
PETER NORLING.
WILLIAM M'GEE.
JOHN FUDGE.
OLE OLSERN.
Prof. Robbins or Robinson, who is
also known as 1.-Two Bear" was fa-
nous hunter and Il friend of Theodore
Roosevelt. of New York. He had spent
all his life in the mountains and was
making preparations to guide a party
through a practically unknown portion
of the Yellowstone park. Several Yis-
itors i'll the city are among the dead,
among them being j. B. Miller, an
Idaho lawyer
The ruins are still smouldering, and
it is believed that
More Bodies VIII BE FOUND
under the acres of debris.
Inquiries are coming from all parts
of the country about friends and reia-
tves who reside i'll the city, and who
were supposed to have been here at the
time of the explosion. 1t is admitted
by all that this is by far the most dis
astrous surface explosion that has oc-
Cured anywhere in the country during
recent years.
The alarm which called nearly the
entire fire department 10 its death was
sent in at 9:55 last night from box 72.
The fire was either in the Kenyon Con-
nell or the Butte hardware company's
warehouse and both contained powder.
There was rumor that there was pow
der in the building but this was denied
and after a moments hesitation the fire
men began fighting the fire.
The hose wagon crew consisted Of
Chief Cameron. Assistant Chief Sloan,
Sam Ash. Ed Sloan. Dave Moses, Dave
Magee and Jack Flannery. Magee was
the driver and remained with the wagon
about forty yards away, while FIanuery
was at the hydrant. 'rhe hook and lad
der was manned by George FL
fer and Pete Nolan, OF the reg
ular paid department, and William
Orr, one of the volunteers. Chief
Cameron directed the attack on the
building, and while some of the fire.
men hauled a line of hose along the
covering of the building so that they
could get at the flames. Just as they
had succeeded in tearing off part OF
the covering and secured an entrances
the first explosion came.
Binding sheet of FlaEle
forced the roof fro III its fastenings and
shot hundreds of feet into the air, fol-
lowed by second oFdeadly silence, and
them came the awful roar. carrying
with it annihilatiOn to those who
closely surrounded the death trap and
destruction Oh every hand. All but
three of the hremen were killed.
There were heroes among the Specta-
tors, however. and as soon as the stun
of the shock passed awaw. while some
ran in terror, others Immediately BEGAN
pulling the mutilated bodies Of the IRE
men and the injured from the proximity
of the flames. From all over the city
people began moving towards the fire
ana the crowd had greatly increased
within five minutes. just about that
length of time after the first explu-
sion, q
Second Explosion,
almost equal in volume 10 the first.
heightened the terror all over the city,
and spread death and desolation at the
disastrous scene. In this explosion
scores OF citizens were killed and M
iured Parts OF bodies were
hurried scores of feet away. a
man near the Northern Pacific
water tank was almost struck by the
leg and thigh of a human being, driven