The herald., 1898-03-22
TWO HUNDRED ESCAPED
~ SCORE OF OTHERS WERE LESS
FORTUNATE
NBuTTE LODGING HOUSE FIRE
Drives the Inmates Into the Street
With the Mercury at Zero-The
Number Of Dead Unknown
Associated Press Special wire


house, large three-story brick building
on East Broadway, used as lodging
and boarding house by miners in the en-
ploy of the Anaconda company, was en-
tirely destroyed by fire which broke ou,
shortly after o'clock this morning. Sc
far as known, two men are dead from in
juries received in jumping from windows;
another is dying. and twenty are missing
while a search of the ruins may disclose
the fact that many transient dodgers lost
their lives also.
The casualties are as follows:
LIST OF DEAD
MATT DOYLE, aged As, miner at the
Mountain Con-, jumped from the third
story window, turned over in the air and
struck on his head.
FRANK ROHEDY, aged 40, lately from
Portland, Or, jumped from third story
window dying.
HUGH BOYLE, aged 80, miner at Ana
conda mine, started to lower himself from
third story window by means OF fmpro-
vised rope, which parted fifty feet from
the ground.
THE INJURED
PAT GILLIGAN, went down with the
third floor; badly burned.
JOHN T. CARTER, badly burned and
cut by glass;
j. ]. CONROY, burned on hands and
fractured bones of one foot by leaping to
ground.
BARNEY REYNOLDS, fracture of right
leg.
JOHN IRWIN, burned about neck and
face, and cut by glass.
MIKE JUDGE, right arm broken.
Judge had rescued Patrick Boyle, who
was hanging by section of the impro-
yised rope that had broken from the weight
of Hugh Boyle. He and three companions
made another rope. The others got down
safely, but the rope broke with Judge.
TWO HUNDRED ESCAPE
There were two hundred and fifty men
and women in the building when the fire
broke out. OF these 1t is believed that
about two hundred escaped without in
jury. The fire started in the bakery house
In the center of the building, and had
good start before it was discovered
The blaze was first discovered by Billy
White, Jake Yuch and Jack Dooley. They
summoned the watchman 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 companions realized that there was no
time to lose, and they began kicking in
the doors of the rooms. The men thought
fully awakened the women help first. The
alarm had been turned in, and the depart
ment responded promptly. When the fire
men arrived men in their underclothes and
others half dressed were clambering down
the fire escapes in the rear. Others, and
the servant girls with them, were at the
windows in the front of the building fran
tically 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 the female help,
were gotten out by the firemen. On the
side of the building many had made ropes
out 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 We
hicles and carried to the different hos
pitals. Those uninjured, or only slightly
hurt, betook themselves to the houses of
neighbors 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
full list of many who were slightly hurt.
The night was bitterly cold, the thermom-
eter registering degrees below zero. AS
long as there appeared any chance of
people being in the building the firemen
devoted their attention mostly to saving
human life. 1t was only after there was
no further chance to do this that they be-
gan work on the fire in earnest The fire
had gained such headway that two hours
after it began the walls had fallen.
1t is possible some of the missing men
may turn up yet. 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. however,
the list decreased as men reported, until
twenty known dodgers were unaccounted
for. 1t is possible, however, that a number
of transient roomers, who were not well
known, may be dead in the ruins. Only an
examination will settle that point, and
that canot be made until the ruins cool
off.
conda company. 1t was built in 1895 at
cost of $4,000, and. with the furniture and
belongings of the dodgers, the loss will
reach fully 100000.
AT CHICAGO
CHICAGO, March 21.-Fire this afternoon
destroyed the seven-story structure known
as the Schoneman building. Several per-
sons made their way to the street down
the fire escapes. The elevator boy made
trip to the upper floors and is believed
to have perished. 1t is not believed any
other lives were lost. About dozen firms,
Germs, were burned out. Teh loss on the
building was S225,O00.
The remains of A. M. Peterson, shipping
clerk for the w. a. Olmstead Scientific
company, and c. H. Arms, partner in the
Olmstead company, were taken from the
ruins of the burned Emerson building to-
day. They were terribly burned and man.
gled. So far ten bodies have been found
AT JERSEY CITY
NEW YORK, March 21.-The Pennsyl-
vania railroad depot in jersey City was
damaged by fire early today to the extent
of 100000 The mammoth train shed and
the large office building escaped
A FLOUR MILL BURNED
YREKA, Cal, March 21.-The Mount
Shasta Touring mill, the largest in this Sec
tion of the state, was totally destroyed by
fire. The loss is about $40 900 The mill was