Show I HUNDRED MEN r TRAPPED IN MINES BLAZE GLAZE IN BUTTE PROPERTY CAUSES GREATEST DIS DISASTER JN IN N HISTORY OF CAMP Started Fire In foot 2400 Level and Shaft was Soon a Roaring ChImney Chimney Chim ChIm- ney ncy Men Having No Chance of Escape from Flames Butte Mont At At least miners met death In the Speculator un and 1 GranIte Granite Gran Gran- ite Ito Mountain mines of the North Butte Mining company compan on Juno June 9 as the result of a fire in the mines When the fire file was discovered 41 I men were in the mines Of this number num num- her ber were rescued from one prop erty arty n and d 60 GO from the thc other Hope nope of I finding any of the missing men alive alho has been abandoned The fire started on the tue 2400 level when a carbide lamp came in contact with insulation on an electric cable calIe The Granite Mountain 1 shaft caved in for a considerable distance The elt city has hns gone into mourning Fla Hags Flags s are at mast half and all nil public amusements have been suspended because be lie- cause of the disaster tel Twenty seven seve men rescued alive ali from the foot 2400 foot level of r the tue speculator lator mine owe ove their lives to the heroism and resourcefulness of or Manus Ianus Duggan 20 old ear tool a old year nipper or bo boy Young Duggan displaying rare presence of mind showed his older I fellow workers how to bulkhead head themselves themselves them them- selves from the dnn dangerous crous gas and preserve their lives until their theil rescue The Granite Mountain shaft feet deep was soon a roaring chimney and with the destruction of Its supporting supporting supporting sup sup- porting timbers timber's the ground was caving cay cay- ing compelling all work to be directed from the levels connected wi with th adJoining ad ad- adjoining Joining mines The Speculator another shaft about feet distant connects with the Granite Mountain on the different levels That shaft also was In danger as wa water tel from the levels was running Into it and had caved a portion There was no fire lire In this shaft however Tons of water was poured into the Granite Mountain shaft and from points on connecting levels with adJoining adjoining adjoining ad- ad Joining mines as near as it Is possible to get to the scene of the accident It Is believed that the mine damage will exceed While the morgues were being filled fille 1 with bodies a dozen or more men overcome overcome overcome over over- come by gas and rescued from the workings were revived at the mine Itself it itself It- It I self by first aid methods and a dozen more were remove removed 1 to hospitals for treatment The fire which started 1 on the 2400 foot toot level communicated quickly to smoke which poured from the shaft In n great clouds retarded rescue work Miners from adjoining properties ordered ordered ordered or or- dered up from un underground as fiS a precaution pre pre- caution went to work work as rescuing gangs aiding national guardsmen who had lad been een called to the tile scene |