The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-19
TO CLOSE UP AFFAIRS
The Explosion Relief Committee viii
NIX, Final Distribution.
BILLS THAT ARE RECEIVED
Crazy Enough In Their Makeup TO
Stun the Average Man-How
the Injured are Get
ting Along. -

BUTTE, April 15.-Tho explosion relief
committee held a meeting tonight. at
which steps were taken looking to final
distribution of the relief fund al an early
date. The condition of the injured Is such
that the physicians are able { o state with
reasonable certainty when the patients
can be discharged from the hospitals and
what their condition will be as to their
ability to earn livelihood, and 1T was
thought best to arrange for a, final distrt-
button of the funds as soon as possible.
Accordingly to q sub-committe, con-
sisting OF Messrs. Groeneveid, Evans
and Jones, will hold a meeting on
Monday forenoon for the purpose OF
drawing up a schedule of the cases emf
titled to share of the fund, with full
history of each case and the number OF
persons relieved either wholly or part
TALLY dependent upon the one who was
killed. The cases will then be tabulated
and an approximate amount set opposite
the entry which will enable the commits
tee to close up the accounts of the ma
jority OF the victims.
Up TO the present time the COMMITTEES
has simply provided for the immediate
wants of the widows and orphans who
were created by the terrible catastrophe
Of three months ago and for the care OF
those who are in the hospitals or have re-
Gently been discharged therefrom. Inc
greatest care has been taken to see that
no money was distributed except in merii
torious cases, and not dollar OF IL mas
gone astray. -
There have been q few instances in
which people with no possible claim on
| the relief fund have:tried to get their hands
| into il. but to the credit of Butte IL may
| be said their number has been very small
and they have been dealt with IN q
prompt aud effectual manner. ..
Al the meeting tonight q woman sent
| in a bill for $45 for keeping for AZ days
| her own mother, who lost her husband In
| the explosion. The bill was disallowed
| without discussion. Another bill for more
than 500 for a board bill of one OF the
victims of the disaster was also received
Tonight and disallowed as quickly as t 5s
1894, to Jan. 4. 1895, nearly two weeks be-
| fore the explosion occurred. 4.
Ten of the injured are still at the hospi
tails, but they are all progressing rapid,
and, with one or two exceptions, will soon
be able TO be out. 7. j. Riley, James
Burns and T. j. Haid are at the Sisters
hospital. Haid has q badly broken Leg
which is mending slowly, but the Others
are improving rapidly. Burns had
broken leg and arm and Riley had one o.
i his feet amputated. Willie McAndrews
who had his back badly hurt, was ais
charged from the hospital q few days ago
Sam Smith and Joseph Voelker, tys
young men with broken arms, are still
having their injuries attended to at DIR
Wells hospital, although they are bott
able to be out. Ii.
Among the victims at Murray
Freund's hospital the condition of Henri
Tiggerman Is the most serious, .St he Z
gradually improving. James McElroy
who had q fractured knee cap, Thoma
Mcdonald, right arm amputated, ant
William Singleton, whose right arm wa
broken, are able to he about and will sool
be discharged. Louis Doerr, who lost hi
left leg, is getting along nicely Con 81
Clair, who sustained terrible injuries tina
IL was thought would prove fatal, ha
gone to his home. but is still npuer IN
care of the physicians of the hospital. III
|. is in bad shape and viii be unable to d
any work for a long time