The San Francisco call., 1898-03-22
HALE HOUSE
 LAID IN ASHES Miners Hotel at Butte De- stroyed at an Early
 Hour.
Two of the Inmates Killed While Escaping and Several.
 Others Badly Injured.
Irraprovised Ropes Give Way and Frightened Boarders Precipitated
 to the Ground.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

BUTTE, Mont, March 21.-The Hale House, a large three-story brick build ing on East Broadway used as a lodg- ing and boarding house by miners in the employ of the Anaconda Mining Company, was entirely destroyed by a fire which broke out shortly after 3 o'clock this morning. So far as known two men are dead from injuries re- ceived in jumping from windows, an- other is dying and twenty are missing, while search of the ruins may dis close the fact that many transient lodg- CTS lost their lives also. The casualties were as follows: Dead-Matt Doyle. aged 45. miner at the Mountain Con- solidated, jumqed from a third-story widow, turned over in the air and struck on his head; Frank Rohedy, aged 40, lately from Portland, Or, jumped from a third-story window, turned over and struck on his head and shoulders, fracturing his skull.
 Dying-Hugh Boyle, aged 30, miner at the Anaconda mine, started to lower himself from the third story by means of an improviSed rope, which parted fifty feet from the ground. He was just recovering from the effects of a broken leg through an accident a month ago.
 
 with the third floor when it collapsed and was rescued by firemen, badly burned; John T. Carter. a 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 the ground; Barney Reynolds, fracture of right leg, he found escape cut off and made a rope of his blankets, which 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 inn provised 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. John Irwin, burned about neck and face and cut by glass; he jumped from the third story, but was only stunned by the fall.
 There were 250 men and women in the building when the fire broke out. Of these it is believed about 200 escaped without injury. The fire started in the bakery house in the center of the build ing and had a good start before dis covered.
 As fast as the inmates were rescued or jumped those injured were placed in vehicles and carried to the different hospitals. Those injured or only slight ly hurt betook themselves to the houses of neighbors and friends in order to se- cure some clothing. No one saved any thing but what he or she had on at the time of the fire. The night was bitterly cold, the thermometer registering de- grees below zero. As long as there ap- peared any chance of people being in the building the firemen devoted their attention mostly to saving human life. It was only after there was no further chance to do this that they began work on the fire in earnest. The fire had gained such headway that two hours after it began the walls had fallen
 The Hale House belonged to the Ana conda Company. It was built in 1895 at a cost of S70, 900, and with the furniture and belongings of the lodgers the loss will reach fully S100.00