The Anaconda standard., 1898-01-07
BORNE TO THEIR GRAVES
Funeral PROFESSIONS So Great
That Traffic Is Suspended.
LONG, DENSE PARADES
All Four Were the Funerals of Miners
Who Had Been Killed While at
Work Remarkable Scenes
on the Streets.

1t was day of funerals in Butte yes
terday. Not for several months have
so many mine employees been laid at
rest in one day. There were four in all,
three who lost their lives underground
and one while working in a mill. They
were Charles d. Lemon. who was killed
in the Leonard mine last Monday even
ing, John +. Sullivan and Michael c.
Flaherty, who We're asphyxiated in the
Never Sweat Tuesday. and Michael
Shuttle, who died Tuesday morning in
the Alice hospital. at Walkerville, from
the effects of frightful burns received
in the Alice mill the Sunday previous.
Three of the bodies were buried here
and one tlat of NJ c. Flaherty, was
shipped East to his family.
With all the many funerals that take
place in Butte. it has been long time
since the streets have been so congested
by the passing of funeral professions
and there have rarely, if ever, been so
many carriages in line. as accompanied
the remains of Sullivan on his last
journey For full hour in the early
part of the afternoon traffic was almost
entirely suspended in the principal
busiI-ess streets to give the funeral
pageants the right of way. First came
the cortege accompanying the remains
of Lemon. 1t headed east from the
Public Library building, on Broadway,
to Main, down Main To Park. west on
Park to Montana, and thence to the
cemetery. The line was headed by the
Boston and Montana band. in the ca
pacity of the State Military band. play
ing solemn dirge The band was fol-
lowed by Company c., n. q. NJ, in com
mand Of Capt. L. w. Wynne. Then
came a long file of members of the
a. Q. L. w. next the hearse. attended
by three pail bearers from the military
company and three from the secret or
der. Behind the hearse came a long
file of teams, the mourners being first
in order.
As the center of the line reached Main
and turned south. the head of the pro-
cession, escorting the remains of Sulli-
van, approached Broadway on North
Main and hating till the procession go
ing before was out of the way. fell in
behind. Both professions took the
route west on Park and in the two there
We're so many teams that it was an
hour before the last one turned the cor
ner of Main and Park streets. The
Sullivan procession, which was one of
the longest ever seen in a city famous
for the great number of people who
participate in funeral ceremonies, was
made up almost entirely Of friends the
only society represented being the
Miners union.
The funeral of Shuttle was also very
large one. and was conducted after the
SlaVonian customs. The funeral oc-
Cured at O'Clock from Richards un-
dertaking rooms. The procession form
ing there, marched to the Catholic
church. where services We're conducted
by Father De Siere. On the way to the
church the procession was led by a
young lady dressed entirely in white.
accompanied by a young man in black
the two carrying a wreath between
them the ceremony being the SlaVonian
custom in the burial of a single man
The remains We're inferred in the Cat ho-
lie cemetery
The funeral of Lemon was held at the
Armory and was conducted by the A.
O. L. w. and Company G of the Ma
tional Guard, in both of which organ
1zatfons he was a popular member
The burial occurred at Mount Moriah
cemetery.
The funeral of Sullivan was held from
the family residence in Dublin gulch
services being held at the Catholic
church and interment being had in the
Catholic cemetery.
Funeral services We're not held over
the remains of Flaherty. the corpse be-
ing simply attended by friends and
members of the Miners union, to the
Montana Union depot at 4.20 O'clock
when the body was shipped 10 the fam
lily of the deceased in Pennsylvania