The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-03-22
FIRE N BUTTE CITY
Two Dead, One Dying and
Twenty Missing.
LARGE LODGING HOUSE
POurS Forth Its Inmates Into
an Arctic Night.


on East Broadway, used as a lodging and
boarding house by miners in the employ
OF the Anaconda company. was entirely
destroyed by fire which broke out short
" after o'clock this morning. So far
as known two men are dead from injuries
received in jumping from windows; an
other 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 IS, miner; jumped
from third-story window; turned over in
air and struck on head.
FRANK ROHDEY, aged 20, lately from
Portland, Ore; jumped from third-story
window; turned over and struck on head
and shoulders, fracturing skull
DYING.
Hugh Boyle. aged 90 miner at Ana
conda mine; started to lower himself from
third-story by means OF improvised rope.
which - ted fifty feet from the ground.
He was just recovering from the effects
OF broken leg through an accident a
month ago.
INJURED.
Pat Galligan, went down with third
floor when 1t collapsed and was rescued
by fireman; badly burned.
John /. Carter, stranger in the city,
got out by means Of fire escape; badly
burned and cut by glass.
J. J. Conroy; burned on hands and frac-
tured bones of one foot by leaping TO
ground
Baraney Reynolds; fractured right leg
He found escape cut of and made a rope
of his blankets. 1t broke when he was
twenty feet from the ground.
Mike Judge; right arm broken. He had
rescued Patrick Boyle, who was hanging
by a section OF improvised rope that had
broken from the weight OF Hugh Boyle.
He and three companions made another
rope. The offers got down safely but
the rope broke with Judge.
John Irwin; burned about the neck and
face and cut by glass. He jumped from
the third floor but was only stunned by
the fall.
RESCUING THE LODGERS
There were go men and women in the
building when the fire broke out. OF
these it is believed about 200 escaped with
out injury. The fire started in the bakery
house of the center in 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 firemen 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 filed the Railways.
Dooley and his companions realized that
there was no time to lose and they be-
gan kicking in the doors Of the rooms.
The men thoughtfuly awakened the wo-
men first. The alarm had been turned in
and the department responded promptly.
When the firemen arrived, men in their
undertaking 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 franticalIy calling for help.
They were cut off from the rear Of the
building by the dense smoke. The lad
ders were run up but not before many OF
the frightened people had jumped. 9th
ers, including all the female help, were
got out by the firemen. On the side Of the
building many had made ropes Of their
bedclothes and sought % 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 and carried 70 the different hos
pitals Those burned only slightly or in
4,1rad baro0l, themselves TO the houses OF
neishbors and friends in order to secure
some clothing. No one saved anything
but what he or she had on at the time
of the fire. This made it impossible to
obtain a full list Of many who were
slightly hurt. The night was bitterly cold.
the thermometer registering below zero.
As long as there appeared any chance Of
people being in the building the hremen
devoted their attention mostly 10 saving
human life. It was only after there was
no further chance to do this that they
begun work on the fire in earnest.
The fire had gained such Roadway that
two hours after It began the walls had
fallen
THE UNACCOCNTED FOR.
L IS possible some OF the missing men
nav turn I'D vet Early in the day the
list 81 the supposed dead ran Up as higa
as fifty. This was because many q the
men who escaped dl9 not report for work
AZ the mines. Little - H-tlo. however
the list decreased as men reported. Until
twenty known dodgers were uaacoouuted
for. L IS possible. however. that a num-
Der of transient r3ouers VINO are not
well known may BE- dead il the ruins.