The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-22
SCORE (f. MINERS PERISH.
CAUGHT NJ FIRE IN. 4 HOTEL AT
EARLY MORNING.
MANY Injured by jumping From
Windows. or by the Breaking Oh
Improvfsed Ropes. Down Which
They Were to Descend-The Dead.


boarding house by miners In the employ OF
the Anaconda Company, was entirely os-
etroyed by fire which broke oit enoruy
after o'clock this snorning. So Tar as
known two men are dead from Injuries re-
ceived by jumping from windows. another
IL dying ard twenty are missing, white
search OF the ruins may disclose the fact
that many transient dodgers lost their
lives also. The casualties We're as follows:
Dead-Matt Doyle. aged -, miner at tae
Mountain Consolidated. jumped from third
story window. turned over in the air and
struck on his head; Frank Rohdey, aged 40.
lately from Portland Or. jumped from
taird-story window. turned over. ana
struck on his head and shoulders. fractur-
ing his skull.
Dying-Hugh Boyle aged 30. miner at
the Anaconda mine. He started to lower
himself from the third story by means OF
an improy issed rope which parted fifty feet
from the ground. He was Just recovering
from the effects of a broken leg. through
an accident month ago.
The injured are: Pat Gilligan. went down
with the third floor when it collapsed and
was rescued by the iireaien badly burned.
John r. Carter. a. stranger in the city. got
out by means OF fire escape. badly burned
and cGt by glass; J. J. Conroy. burned on
the hands and fractured the bones OF one
foot by leaping to the ground. Barney Rey-
noids. fracture Of the right leg. de found
escape cut off and made a rope OF his
blanket. Ii broke when he was twenty feet
from the ground. Mike Judge. right arm
broken He had rescued Patrick Boyle,
" ilo vas hanging by d section of the i'm
proyised rope that had broken from the
weight OF Hugh Boyle. He and three com
paniors made another rope. The others
got down safely. but the rope broke with
Judge. John Irwin, burned about the neck
mud an saaff gBa He nr1
from the third floor. but was only stunned
by the fall.
There were 80 men and women in the
building when the fire broke out. Out of
these it Is believed about 200 escaped with
out injury. The fire started In the bak-
cry, south of the building, and had Il good
start before discovered, The blaze was
first discovered By Billy White Jake Yuch
and Jack Dooley. who We're awake at the
time and smelling smoke. went down
stairs TO make an investigation. Two OF
the men Immediately attached small hose
TO 81 hydrant and began 10 throw water
upon the fire. After few moments WORK.
however. the men realized that the task
was a hopeless one and they retreatsd to
give the alarm. They summoned the
Waterman and rushed to the upper portion
Of the building. shouting that the house
was ON fire. BY this time the fire had
broken through the first floor. and smoke
filled the Railways. Dooley and his COM
panions realized that there was no time 10
lose, and they began kicking in the doors
of the rooms The men thoughtluaiy
awakened the women first.
BY this time the alarm had been turned
in and the department responded prompt
w. When the firemen arrived men IN
their underclothes and others half dressed
were clambering down the Are escapes in
the rear. Others. and the servant girls
with them, We're. at the windows In the
front of the building fraItically calling
for help. They were cut off from the
rear of the building by the dense smoke.
The ladders were run up but not before
many of the frightened people had
Jumped Others, including all OF the
female help We're gotten out by the fire.
men, On the side CT the building. many
had made ropes out OF their bedciothes
and sought to escape in that way Some
of them succeeded but In other eases the
ropes broke and the men dropped many
feet to the ground
As fast as the inmates We're rescued or
jumped. those injured We're placed in
vehicles and carried TO the different hospi-
tails Those unnjured or only slightly
hurt took themselves to houses or neigh
bors. No one saved anything but what
he or che had on AT the time of the fire.
This made II impossible TO tell of the many
who were slightly hurt. The night was
bitterly cold, the thermometer registering
Eve degrees below zero. As long there
appeared any chance of people being in
tbs. building the fire department devoted
their attention to saving human life. 1t
was only after there was no further
chance to do this that they did any work
upon the fire in earnest. The fire had
gained such Roadway that two hours after
it began the walls had fallen.
II is possible some Of the missing men
may turn up vet. Early in the day the
list of the supposed dead ran up as high
as fifty. This was because many of the
men who escaped did not report for work
at the mines. Little by little the list
decreased as men reported. until twenty
known dodgers were unaccounted for II
was possible. however. that lots or tran
silent roomers may he dead in the ruins
Only an examination will settle that point.
and that cannot be done until the ruins
cool OFF
The Hale house belonged 20 the Ana
conda company. TX was huilt in 1875 at a
cost OF Sc 0o0. and. with the furniture and
belongings OF the dodgers. the loss will
reach fully $1eo. CSo.
WILL CALL No EXTRA SESSION.