The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-03-22


Employed in the Copper Mines,
Destroyed by Fire When Two
Hundred and Fifty People Were
Asleep in the Structure-some of
: the Missing May BE Safe.
BUTTE, Mont. March 21.-The Hale
house, a large three-story brick build
ing on East Broadway, used as lodg-
ing and boarding house by miners in
the employ of the Anaconda company,
was entirely destroyed by fire which
broke out shortly after 8 o'clock this
morning. So far as known two men
are dead from injuries received in
jumping from windows, three are dy-
dng and twenty are missing, while a
search Of the ruins may disclose the
TACT that many transient dodgers lost
their lives also. The casualties follow:
Dead.
MATT DOYLE. aged As. miner, jumped
from third story, turned over in the air
and struck on head.
FRANK ROHDEY, aged 40. lately from
= Portland, Or. jumped from third story
window, turned over and struck on head
and shoulders, fracturing skull.
Dying.
HUGH BOYLE, aged go miner at Anaconda
mine. started to lower himself from third
story by means of improvised rope, which
parted fifty feet from the ground.
Injured.
Pat Gallagan, badly burned. John T Car
ter stranger in city, badly burned and
cut by glass. J. J. Conroy. burned on
hands and fractured bones by leaping to
ground. Barney Reynolds, fractured right
leg. VI. J. Judge, right arm broken. John
Irwin. burned about the neck and face
- and cut by glass.
Many Escaped.
There were $50 men and women In
the building when the fire broke out.
OF these it is believed that about 200
escaped without injury.
The fire started in the bakery house
In the center of the building and had
a good start before discovered. The
blaze was first discovered by Billy
White. Jake Yuch and Jack Dooley
They summoned the Waterman and
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 companions realized
there was no time to lose and began
kicking in the doors of the rooms. The
men thOughtfully awakened the wom-
en- first. The alarm had been turned
in and the department responded
promptly. When the firemen arrived
men in their under clothing and others
half dressed were clamoring down the
fire escape in the rear. Others 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.
The ladders were run up, but not
before many of the frightened people
had jumped. Others. including all the
female help, were gotten out by the
firemen.
On the side of the building many
made ropes Of their bed clothes and
sought to escape in that way. Some of
p them succeeded, but in many 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
and carried to the different hospitals
Those injured slightly or uninjured be-
took themselves TO the houses of neigh
bors and friends in order to secure
some clothing.
Twenty Missing.
The night was bitter cold, the Their
mometer registering 3 below zero.
AS long as there appeared any chance
of people being in the building the
firemen devoted themselves to saving
human life. 1t was only after there
was no further chance to do this thai
they began work on the fire in earnest
The fire had gained such Roadway that
two hours after it began the walls had
fallen in.
1t is possible some Of the missing men
may turn up. 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 mine. Little by little
however, the list decreased as men re.
ported, until only twenty known lodg.
ers were unaccounted for. 1t is pos