The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-26
HIS BODY NOT FOUND
A Fruitless Search for the Re-
mains of Kreigoaum.
HE WAS NOT IN HIS ROOM
Conflicting Stories Toid-He May Have
Been su1ocated y the Hall While
Trying to Escape, or Gone to
Some Other Room.

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Some Other Room
If Frank Kreigbaum persisted in the
Hale house fire he was not in his room.
and must either have los his life while
endeavoring to escape or else a o
to another room han his own when he
went to e The men engaged in
excavating In the search for his
remains cleared away all the debris
yesterday for a space of 60 feet square
at the pot which would be underneath
where k~reigbaum's room was situated.
and surrounding 1t. n although they
removed every particle Of the debris
very carefully and scrutinized IL very
closely not a trace Of anything that had
been human was found. This led some
Of h interested parties to believe the
unfortunate miner was overcome in the
nall while trying to escape. while others
thought he had zone to bed intoxicated
and others thought he had gone to some
other room.
There appears good ground for the
latter theory, according to one story
that is told, while another contradicts
1t fatty. 1t is claimed by some of the
miners that Kreigbaum was in %
154 in the early part of the night drink
ing beer with j. J. Conroy. James Wat
son and a stranger h was not nown
to those who claim to have seen the
party. 1t is said he was intoxicated
when he left the room to go to bed, and
one of the miners asserts that he is sure
kreigbaum got into the wrong room.
Another miner. Charles Driscoll, is sure
kreigbaum found his own room. Dris-
coll claims he looked into K~reigbaum's
room, lis, during the night, and saw
kreigbaum in bed. On the table, he
states, was a note to his roommate to
call him early, as he was going ON day
shift at Z o'clock that morning. If
Driscoll is sure of the correctness of his
statements. 1t IL evident Kreigbaum's
remains should have been found unless
he was awakened, and in that case the
theory that he suffocated in the hall
way is doubtless the correct one.
Owing to the heavy fall of snow dur
ing the day he work of excavation was
abandoned when it became obvious
Kreigbaum had not died in his room,
and will not be resumed until Monday
morning. The suspense is hard on the
friends and relatives of the missing
men, but everything is being lone thar
circumstances will permit. The wife
and mother of Kreigbaum were expect
&c to arrive from Utah yesterday.
The workmen found in the debris yes
terday a diamond ring belonging to
Miss Della Wall. one of the servants.
1t was turned over to Mr.. Haggerty
and restored to the owner. Several
other relics of the fire belonging to the
guests, which were of little value, were
found. but aside from these the ruins
yielded up nothing.
Hugh Boyle, the injured man at
Murray e. Freund's hospital, whose life
was at first practically despaired of. is
much improved, and the attending ply
sicians now hope for his complete re-
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reported doing finely and most of them
will be able to leave the hospital in a
few days.
The funeral of Frederick Rohle was
held yesterday afternoon from Sher-
mans undertaking rooms and was
largely attended although he was prac-
tically a stranger in the city. The
funeral was under the auspices of the
Butchers union.
Chief of Police Mulholland received
two letters yesterday from people in
curing after relatives who were sup
posed to v been guests of the Hale
house. One was from Ida Lindstrom of
st. Paul, who inquired after the safety
of a brother. Gus Podenphaudt. The
person inquired about is safe. The
other letter was from Ida Griffith of
Spokane, and inquired concerning II. G..
Mordaunt, also a brother. He roomed
at one time at the Hale house, but left
before the nre.
The arrangements for the ball to be
given at Miners Union hall and the
Auditorium for the benefit of the SER
want girls of the Hale house are pro-
crossing satisfactorily. and Indications
now are that they will net a nice sum
for the unfortunate young women
Chief of Police Mulholland, who is
treasurer of the committee of arrange
ments. las already received $500 from
the sale of tickets. Mrs. p. J. Hafring-
ton. president of the Ladies' Catholic
Benevolent association, tendered the
assistance Of the association to the
committee, and will get up a supper on
the occasion.
The chief interest in the disaster CEN
tered yesterday in the inquest into the
death of Doyle and Rohle. which was
resumed al 2 o'clock in the afternoon
in the city council chamber, where
quite a gathering of spectators listened
to the testimony. The proceedings
turned entirely upon the question of the
water pressure the morning of the fire.
and there was much testimony intro
duced to show it vas all that is re-
quired, n some that it was not so
great. The superintendent of the water
company. Eugene Carroll, was present
and testified. and in representing the
interests of the company. questioned
the witnesses in an effort to prove there
was no lack of water pressure. Propri-
etor Haggerty sat as cross-examiner,
and yOred 70 ShoW tho onnosite