The age-herald., 1898-03-22
l TWO T KILLED AND
 HUNDRED INJURED Result of a Fearful Fire in Butte,
 Montana, Hotel. TWENTY PEOPLE MISSING Many Unknown Persons Thought to Be Dead n Ruins-Five Hundred and Fifty Peo-
 pie in Building When Flames Were Discovered.
TWENTY PEOPLE MISSING

Butte, Mont, March 2.-The Hale house, a large three-story brick building on East 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 the injuries received from jumping from the windows, another is dying and twenty are missing, while a search of the ruins may disclose the fact that many transient lodgers lost their lives also. The casualties were as follows;
 The Dead-Matt Doyle, aged 45 miner, jumped from third story window; Frank Rondey, aged 40, lately from Portland Ore, jumped from third story window. Dying-Hugh Boyle, aged 30, miner, started to lower himself from third story by means of an improvised rope, which parted n-ly feet from the, ground.
 Injured-Pat Galligan, went down with third floor when 1t collapsed; J. T. Carter, stranger, badly burned and cut Dy glass; J. J. Conroy, burned on hands ana fractured bones by leaping to the ground; Barney Reifolds, fractured right leg Mike Judge, right arm broken. He had rescued Patrick Boyle, who was hanging by a sec ton of improvised rope that had Droken from the weight of Hugh Boyle. lie anu three companions made another rope The others got down safely, but the rope broke with Judge.
 Jobn Irwin, burned about the eck and face and cut by glass. He jumped from the third floor, but was only stunned oy the fall.
 Building Was Crowded
 There were 250 men and women in tne building when the fire broke out. oI course. it is believed, about 200 escaped without injury. The fire started Tn the bakery house in the certer or the puiiolns and had a good start before It was ois, covered. The blaze was first discovered bv Jack Dooley and two companions
 Dooley and his companions realized that there was no time to lose, and began KICK ing in the doors of the rooms. The men thoughtfully awakened the women first When the firemen arrived men In their uh- derclothine and others half dressed were clambering down the fire escapes In the rear. Others and the servant girls with them were at windows in the front of the building frantically calling for help. They were cut off from the rear Of the building by the dense smoke. Ladders were run up but not before many of the frightened peo- pie had jumped. Others, including all the female help, were gotten out by the nre- men, On the side of the building many had made ropes of their bed clothes and sought to escape in that way. Some Of them succeeded, but in other cases the ropes broke and the men dropped many feet to the ground As fast as the inmates were rescued or jumped those injured were placed in vehicles ana cafrleu eo lhe oiA ferent hospitals.
 The night was bitterly cold, the ther- mometer registering five below zero. The fire had gained such headway that Owo hours after it began the walls had fallen. It is possible that some of the missing men may turn tip yet Early in the day the hist of supposed dead ran up as high as fifty. This was because many of the men who had escaped did not report for work at the mines. Little by little, however, the list decreased as men appeared, leaving twenty unaccounted for. It is possible, however, that number of transient roorn- CTS who were not well known may be dead in the ruiins The house belonged to the Anaconda company. It was built in 1S9O at a cost of $79 900, and with the furniture and the belongings of the lodgers the loss will reach fully $100,000