Show TERRIBLE explosions AT BUTTE BUT mont jan 16 1 or dr dunford dentist your son aon was killed last laet night in toe the explosion have identified the body I 1 am waiting instructions MRS mias J LANG the foregoing div dispatch patch was received by or dr dunford this morn morning iniz A telegram han ban been sent to butte asking for further particulars and a reply to is expected this afternoon in case the report is verified dr dunford will take this evening fa northbound north bound train for the scene of the accident there seems to be very little doubt as to the correctness of the statement i in a the dispatch alms alma bailey dunford was the he boy P name although he is best known by the nanie name of bailey dunford danford he was the be son of dr alma B Dunfor roof dot this city and susie young gates of provo he was wag a promis lag young man of pre possessing appearance and we was in his twentieth year alter after leaving school he be studied architecture with mr this city for several years tie he went to butte about two months since in search of employment not be ing able to obtain it here it will be decided later what will be done with the body the news was wap to be communicated to the young mans mother this afternoon HELENA mont jan 16 the latest from butte butle received here says pays wat bat over everone one hundred were killed by lost last explosion the fire department was nearly wiped out and the flames exhausted themselves the ou tidings burned include the warehouses of the butte hardware company parchen daschel DAu chel drug co and kenyon connell mercantile co the old electric light works the old boblits brewing building bull dlug flour and leed feed warehouse the cout contents tints were entirely destroyed the low loss is large but to is not estimated yet the great northern freight depot was completely wrecked and six wood ears care burned BUTTE mont jan 16 following are the th names of the dead as far as a known A S cameron chief of fire depart ment john sloan assistant ed sloan george Goorge filer fifer samuel aan ed 11 morland dorland win magee dave Mo rosenall Mose seNall sall firemen charles guttenberg coo con barnia geo galbraith J J mchale prof Rob robbing bine john J ku buright right C E tracy C W english policeman fred bernbeck Kern beok beck james 0 oleary leary albert doddard J F charles pierce poster foster mike meade george walton william smith and J P miller the injured are mike oneill out cut in the bead N B R orr broken law jaw john cole four ribs broken henry earle back hurt james mcelroy Mo Elroy kneecap smashed melbourne tracy injured internally arm broken george devoy back injured wm win singleton right arm broken 0 A 4 st SL clair hip and arm bruised tom will lose his right arm henry rigger mso right log leg broken W L mue miles bead bruised W injured A R wal back injured mike connors leg eg in aured frauk frank hart face bruised nicholas boyles boy lee sprained ankle and wrist william singleton fractured arm george devoy generally bruised but not serious Ber loue andrew swift fractured arm henry Ste steinborn broken leg and arm area oje flatern Ola tern bead mashed will die john Cohn body bruised bru laed HELENA mont jan 16 the her ald aldis aids Is special from butte saya the dead and injured were all gathered up RL at 2 this morning the list hat of dead identified and unidentified has bas reached 43 48 it la is thought that 8 to 15 wore more are killed the list of injured reaches to nearly the fire was undoubtedly incendiary as there were no fires of any kind in tue buildings burned all the giant powder was in the kenyon connell building the company claims there were ware only pounds but the firemen dramen say aay that amount would not have wrought such eboh damage of the paid members of the fire department who attended the fire only two wo escaped alive an inquest took place at two tola this afternoon dangim jan 16 the associated press has received the following from governor of montana regarding the butte disaster I 1 I 1 A fire re broke ou out 9 in a warehouse containing giant powder and dynamite communicating to two other warehouses of the name lame character the result was three terrific wrecking several everal buildings building and killing about sixty people according to reports the entire fire department waa killed except three men med many people were ware torn to frag fragment mento and others were killed by the concussion the A fidan haq cial loss lope is enormous the cause of the fire is in unknown the legislature in session has fe resolutions solutions of condolence stringent regulations will probably be adopted to enforce the be laws against the storing of explosives within the city limits J T bov moo tana ap col jan 16 Als Aspe claI to the rocky mountain news from bure batte say A fire broke out in the montana yards and soon several oars cars loaded with powder caught fire just as the members of the fire department were closing in around the blazing cars canao an explosion occurred killing a of firemen and spectators and maiming many others the rho firemen who bad escaped immediately rallied sod and were beginning another attack when a second explosion more violent than the first took place the people in the vicinity were mown down as with a great soy scythe the and the streets for half ball a block around looked like a great battle field debris was thrown high in the air coming down halt hall a mile away many people on the streets in the center of the city were thus thug injured the few remaining firemen were gi dithering themselves together and attempting to escape to a place of safety when tho the third and last sion ion occurred this too loo killed and injured many people there won were several oars cars of powder and all of them exploded the whole heavens wow lighted up and we the city shook as a it if an earthquake was wan to progress immediately after the first explosion the entire hospital corps and police force were summoned and many of the attaches ot of these then departments are killed and insured io in the subsequent explosions explosion fifteen dead bodies have already been gathered and there doubtless doubt leu are a great many morein more in cartoof parts of the yard that no one dares to approach every evera house bouse for blocks around has baa been turned into an impromptu hospital every member of the fire department has been either killed or wounded A special to the from butte baite says saye themire the fire started in the royal milling company warehouse and spread to u the kenyon cornell warehouse iu in which were stored oarl carl cada tade of giant powder the first explosion was wab the ibe most ter terrific illic and killed every fireman save are two belonging at the central station one of these was wan standing aing behind the bobe curl cart horses and the other was wait at the water hydrant several hundred bundred feet away so far between fifty and sixty mangled bodies have been recovered and more are being picked up on all sides it Is is in impossible to get gel names tonight it to is estimated that about additional persons were inured several of whom died after being taken to the he hospital hoft the scene beg gan can description wagons are still taking dead bodies from the scenio cen of the explosion to various undertaking establishments and the wounded to their hoyes howes and the latter a are re all fu the list of dead will possibly reach 75 and abd the damage to prop erty ersy will be more than 61 sOU I 1 ID u all three carloads car loada of powder exploded one of which was stored in we the butte har hardware ware company warehouse which adjoined the kenyon cornell corneli warehouse large places of iron were thrown miles it was learned that there were other utah men among the victims ot of the butte catastrophe than alma bailey dunford and oon con Si SL Claire CIaire these are john and edep ed sloan cousins of dobso and eivy ed sloan of 01 this into city both men were born and reared in bait lake and they will be remembered by old timers an a the larget large stalwart tons ot of john sloan the well known boiler maker who carried on tipsiness business on en west temple street for so ao many years the family removed from here to butte pits several years ago ard engaged to in their heir old business at that place it is at present being carried on by the alu ge otteman john jobia the oldest eldest son was assistant fire chief and ed was a member of the department and both met death at the post of duty fighting the flames that raged about them dr A left this city for buttes butte on thursday train dr dunford will be accompanied by his bis daughter leah shier to the young MUD man the remains will be removed from butte to bloomington idaho where relatives of the doctor and hit biu family reside anil and burled there the tbt profoundest sympathy is felt for the father and daughter dau guter in their sau sao mission and bereavement and for the afflicted mother in the hur hour of over wu wa elming sorrow it is the hope of all test they may find bud consolation in the th promise of a merciful father wat that he doets all thinas wellyn wll |