The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-22
TWO DEAD, TWELVE HURT
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and IL any failed to get out I think il
was right in that corner"
Out I'm the Cold.
But for the fire escaped at the rear
of the hotel the fatality would prob
ably have been appalling. Scores de-
cended by these iron ladders. Many.
however, were unable to find them on
account of the thick. dense smoke
which filled the halls. Trunks were
throwns from windows, and n of
these trunks struck Matt Doyle on the
head. infiicting IN injury from which
he died at the hospital a few hours aft
erward. Outside of the few who threw
their trunks and grips out of the win
dows, the miners lost their effects al
most in toto. Some appeared on the
street in their night clothing. Others
had only pants and shoes with a shirt.
Some had overcoats. but most of them
did not. At an early hour in the MORN
ing a long line of men stood on Main
street waiting for the doors OF Hen
nessy's store to be opened. so that they
could buy a new lot of clothing. The
fire happened on the coolest night of
the year. and many in consequence suf-
fered severely. Boarding houses in all
parts of the city were quickly filled up
by men who had been burned out in the
fire. There were numerous narrow es-
capes.
Tom Redmond vas rooming on the
third floor at the east side of the build
ing. and was asleep when the fire
broke out. He was awakened by
cries of fire and ran out of his room
into he hallway, but the smoke was
so thick that ne could not n his
way about n could not locate the
stairway. He saw a number of other
men running through the hall crying
for help and unable to find the stair
! way. Redmond ran back into his room
and broke out the window and climbed
down on an electric light wire to the
second story, where he broke in a win
dow and entered a room. He again
made an attempt to find the stairway
from that floor. but the smoke was so
dense he was forced back to the win
dow. He saw a number of men on
tina floor unable to find their way out.
Redmond remained at the window un-
til the firemen raised a ladder to him.
and he cached the ground in safety.
He believes that some of the men he
left on the third floor n some of those
he saw on the second fioor must have
persisted.
Work of the Firemen.
Those who were injured by jumping
from the windows, or by burns in
making their escape, were taken to the
hospitals as soon as possible. Captain
Dawson and a force of policemen
helped the firemen i'm the work of res
cue. 1t is claimed by the firemen,
however, that they received very little
assistance from citizens generally.
| There was much delay in getting the
ladders raised to the windows. and un-
til 1t was believed everybody was out
of the building nothing was done to-
ward extinguishing the fire. 1t was
fully 20 minutes after the arrival of the
department. before the water was
turned on, and by that time it was, OF
course. impossible to ave the struc-
ture. Two hose carts were sent down
from the Anaconda mine abou 4
o'clock. and were used in saving ad-
Joining buildings. The east wall of the
Hale house fell first. but fell IN, or IL
would surely have crushed the frame
house next east. which IL occupied by
James Naughten.
Officer James Leyden took Mrs.
Naughten and the five children i'm a
hack to the residence of w. j. Naugh-
ten. A few minutes after they left the
house the wall fell. The windows were
roken and some scattering bricks did
a little damage to the Naughten house,
but not much. The residence of Mrs.
Ryan. west of the Hale house, also had
a narrow escape, but was scarcely III
jured.
During the Day.
The firemen were busy all yesterday.
Two streams were poured OF the fire
all the forenoon. and n all the after
noon. Toward evening the corners OF
the walls, which had a stand
ing, were pulled down. During the day
la, x.-na co mn Gtnnfa md GnnnE.
over che ruins that il was impossible
to examine them, but the fact that
there was no odor of burning flesh dis
cernible, gave foundation to the hope
that no one was buried underneath.
All sorts of rumors were around dur
ing the day, n at n time IL was re-
ported that 60 men We're buried in tbs
ruins. II any are buried the number
will not exceed two or three, as all tht
rest have been accounted for. The
fact hat the Hale house boarders
scattered pretty well over the city
makes ii difficult to ascertain whether
any are lost in the ruins or not. 1t II
believed by j. J. Haggerty, proprietor
of the Hale house. that all will be ac'
counted for.
There was much criticism of the fir,
department yesterday, particular,
from miners. A number of citizens sale
that the department seemed very SLOW
in reaching the fire. and was also SLOW
in getting really to work. Some of TIN
miners particularly We're In
their criticisms, and said that the de
partment seemed an age in getting e
the fire.
Chief Fiannery's Statement.
Chief Flannery said yesterday in re
gard to the fire: I'VE were out on tn
first round of the alarm. We neve
made a quicker run. Three ALARM
were sent in. but that was through
no fault of the fire alarm system, blu
only on account of the fact that alarm
were turned in from three boxes.
sent three taps as a signal to the puml
station for more pressure. There wa
pjenty of water. We devoted ourselve
Of first 10 getting the men out. Ha,