The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-03-22
TWENTY STILL MISSING.
Big Lodging House at Butte, Mont,
Burned Down.
KILLED IN JUMPING FROM WINDOWS
Two Hundred Guests Escape in
Their Night Clothes-Thermom-
eter TX Five Below Zero.

| Butte. Mont. March ol.-The Hale House,
a large three-story brick building on Eaat
| Broadway. used as a lodging and boarding
| house by miners in the employ OF the Ana
| conda company, was destroyed by FIRE early
| this morning. So far as known two men are
| dead from injuries received in jumping from
| windows, and another is dying and twenty
| are missing. while search OF the ruins may
disclose the fact that many transient dodgers
lost their lives also. The casualties were as
follows:
Dead
Matt Doyle. aged As. miner at the Mountain
Consolidated, jumped from third story win
dow. struck on his head.
Frank Rohdy aged 40, lately from Port
land, Ore, jumped from third story window.
fracturing his skull
Dying
Hugh Boyle. aged 30. minor at Anaconda
mine; started to lower himself from third
story by means of an improysed rope, which
parted fifty feet from the ground lie was
just recovering from the effects of broken
leg.
Injured
Pat Galigan went down with the third floor
when it collapsed and was rescued by Are
men, badly burned
J. T. Carter. stranger, got out by means OF
fire escape badly burned and cut by glass
j. j. Conroy burned on hands and frac-
tured bones By leaplng to ground
Barney Refols fractured rirht leg: he
found escape cut OFF aud made a rope of his
blankets. 1t broke when he was twenty feet
from the ground.
Mike Judge, right arm broken. He had res
oued Patrick Boyle. who was hanging by
section of lnproylsed rope that had broken
from the rope OF Hugh Boyle.
John Irwin, burned about the neck and fare
and cut by glass. lie jumped from the third
floor. but was only stunned by the fall.
There We're go men and women in the
building when the fire broke out OF these it
is believed about 200 escaped without in
jury.
The fire started In the bakery house in the
center of the building and got a good start
before being discovered The blaze was first
secn by Billy West. Jake Yuoh and Jack
Dooley. They summoned the Waterman ard
rushed to the upper portion OF the building
shouting that the house was on fire. by that
time Are had broken through the nrst floor |
and smoke filled the halls Dooley and his
companions realized there was no time ~
lose and began kicking IN the doors OF the
IODHiS. Inc men tlOuBntIHily awakened tue |
women first. The alarm had been turned IN |
and the department responded promptly. |
When the hrcmen arrived men IN their I'M
derclothlng and others half dressed were |
ciambefng down the FIRE escapes In the rear. |
Some were at windows In the front OF tho |
fIanticaly calling for help. They |
were cut on from the rear OF the building by
the dense smoke. Ladders were run IN, hut 4
not before many OF the frightened people had |
jumped. Others. including all the female |
help, were gotten. out by the hrcmen oa
The side OF the building many had made ropes |
OF the led clothes and sought to escape In |
that way. Some OF them succeeded but /
others broke their ropes and then dropped 10 |
the ground, AS fast as the inmates wore
In vehicles and carried to the different hos
pitfalls, Those injured slightly or uninJured |
betcok themselves to the houses OF neigbbors |
or friends In order TO secure clothing. No
one saved anything but what he she had |
on at the time Of the fire.
The night wac bitter cold. the thermometer
registering degrees below zero. As long as
there appeared any chance OF people being In
the building he iiremen devoted themselves
TO saving human life. 1t WAS only after there
was no further ehacce to do this that they
had gained such headway that two hours AZ
ter II began the walls had fallen. 1. IL sup
posed some OF the missing men may yet
urn III.
Early IN the day the list of tho supposed
lead ran as high as fifty. This was because
many Of the men escaped who did not report
yer. the list decreased as men reported
intl twenty known dodgers wcrc unacconnted
or. II is possible. however, that a number
II the transient roomers who are not well
snown may be in the dead in the ruins Only
IN examination will setilc tibet point and
hat can not be made until the ruins cool on.
rhe Hale House belonged TO the Anaconda
ompany. II was built In 1895 AT a cost OF
70 600, aud with the furniture and belongings
4 the dodgers, the loss will reach fully $780,
90.