The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-12

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mines on the hill and was one of the
Oldest men in the employ of the Ana
conda company. II Is not believed that
he had any relatives in this part OF
the country. He was unmarried.
Jsmas Dwyer
James Dwyer came to Montana four
years ago from Denver. He spent two
years in Elkhorn and Basin and had
been employed in the mines of Butte
for the last two years. His mother and
three sisters and two brothers live At
No. 1851 South Eighth street. Denver.
He was rs years old and was a single
man. His only relative in Butte is An
drew Maclie, who is employed at the
st. Lawrence.
John Mcveigh.
John McVeigh was Al years old and
leaves a wife and four children In Ire
land. He had been in Butte for four
years and worked at the ST. Law
renee mine during all of that time. He
had brother in Butte, James Nc
weigh, who is employed at the Never
Sweat mine and has a sister, Mrs. Pat
McEvoy.
Pat O'Rourke. h cfa
Pat O'Rourke was a single man. 2s
years old. He boarded at the Silver
Lake house. He came to Butte from
the Occur d'Alenes six months ago.
He has no relatives in this country. He
bad sister with him in the Occur
d'Alenes, but she went back to Ireland
at the time that ORourke came to
Butte.
he Coroner's Jury.
Coroner Richards last evening i'm
paneled the following jury to investi-
gate the accident: Il. e. st. Charles.
III. ii. Cullom, f. c. McWilliams, c. l..
Harris. George Brown and William
Knight. The jury will meet at O'Clock
tomorrow evening, and If the bodies
are not all out by that time will prob
ably adjourn until they have all been
recovered.
To Il by Qninisn's Partner
Jack Lacy, who was Quinlan's part
ner, was one of the last men who saw
him alive, except those who met death
with him. II saw Quinlan in the bot
tom of the shaft little after 4 O'clock"
said Lacy. II gave him my pocket
knife to cut the fuse with which 10
make the primes. Quinlan and Lowney
left me together. 1 was still in the
bottom of the shaft when the explosion
occurred. Right afterward l went TO
TO the LOO The smoke was so strong
1 had to get out. / could not have
lived in there two minutes at that time.
i Immediately went on top. 1t was the
custom for each shift to take one box
of so pounds of powder for the shaft.
and half box or 25 pounds for the
slopes. There was, / should think, one
and one-half boxes, or IS pounds OF
powder on the 1,100-foot level at the
time of the explosion"
The explosion was not felt on the
surface at all, but was felt by the men
at work on the S00-foot level.
Quinisn's .:ody Recovered:
The miners who are clearing away
the debris which blocks the drift made
such rapid progress last evening that
the body of Quinlan, Lowney's part
ner, was reached at midnight. 1t was
taken to the surface and will be re-
moved to Sherman's undertaking rooms
this morning. One of the legs was
broken and the body was blackened,
but 1t is not nearly so badly mangled
as 1t was expected ii would be. One
of Lowney's arms was also found. The
workmen thought early last evening
that they could distinguish two bodies
ahead of them, but they subsequently
discovered that there was only one,
that of Quinlan. 1t is now thought
that the six miners were killed where
they were at work, farther on in the
drift, and IL will be three or four days
before their bodies can be reached, as
there is a great deal of ground to be
caught up.
Marcus DAILY, general manager Of the
mines, came over from Anaconda on a
special train yesterday morning on
learning of the accident. He returned
on a special at $3.50 o'clock last even
ing on its becoming a certainty that
none of the men in the mine could, by
any possibility, be still alive.
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