Swept By Death Details Of The Terrible Disaster At Butte City Death Roll Now Numbers Sixty Many Of The Bodies Being So Terribly Mangled That Recognition Is Out Of The Question A List Of Identified Victims Which Numbers Thirty-five--awful Effect Of The Exp

BUTTE, Mont., Jan. 17. - It is now estiniatad that the number of persons kiüed by tho terrible explosión of giant powder issixty. Nearly üfty are already known to havo been killed. Tho city is in mourntag and all the flags are at half-mast. A ïelicf meeting called by the mayor was largely attendod, and couimittees were aj pintêd for tho eollection of money for the relief of the alllicted families. The people are responding liberaliy and a suffieient araouut to rtlieve distress is already guaraBteed. A number of the bodies are inangled beyond all recognitiou, and never will be ldentlfled. A IJst of the Identittad I). ;ul. The following is t,h list of the dead identiiied: Charles Alson, George Mci)onald,' Charles Gutteuburg, Conseaguo Barns, George Galbraith, J. J. McHale, Professor Kobiuson, John J. Enright, C. K. Tracey, Matt Grosser, Officer Frod Oranbei'.k, James ü'Leary, Albert Godlard, William Pirce, Poster, Mike Mead, George Wilton, William .Smith (oolored), J. B. Miller, Fred Bowman, Mike Deagle, Uoorjje Holloway, Bailey, Alexander Williams, W. H. Nolan, Charles Hausen, Elmer Green, Ed Sloan, Alezander Cady, John .Morgan, S. D. Delongery, A. I). Cameron, John Sloana, Baiuuel Ash, Dave Moses, (ïeorge Fifer, Poter Norlin, William McGee, John Kndge, Ole Olsern. Auxiou Fríeiidí ati I KHlatives. Professor Robbins. of Robinson, who is also known as "Two Bear," a famous hontei-, and a friend of Thodore Roosevelt, of New York, he had spent all his life in the mountains, and was making peparations to guide a party through a practically unknowu portion of the Yollowstone Park. Several visitors in tbe city are amoug the dead, amoug them being J. B. Miller, an Idalio lawyer. The ruins are stiü smouldering and it is believed that more bodies will be found among the acres of debris. Requiries are coming from all parts of the country about friends and relativos who reside in tbe city and who wen; supposed to have been here at the time of tho explosión. Was a Most l'rigliifiil Disaster. The causo of the death of these men has been brieuy but fully told in these disBpatches and üttie oould be added to the fcvct that several oarloads of dynamite etored in two warehouses exploded auceessivoly wliile the flremen were flghting the fire. But columns could be written of the ghastly effects o: thoso explosions. Kcores were killod in the second explosión for many oitizeus had rushed to the Ure to ascertain w hat was the cause of the shock théy had Í3Ít. Parts of bedies were hurled scores of feet away. A man near tho JSorthern Pacific water tank was almost struck by the leg and thigh o' a human being driven by the fsrce of dynamito from the ioarful scène. "Riere were still héroes left to help pull the shrieking wounded and the grouning Jying to a distanco. A Horriblti Fitteen Minutes. It had all occurrod in ílfteeu minutes, the most horrible quarter of an hour in Butte's history. The fearful horror of the seeue after the explosión was beyond deseriptlon. Words could give no idea of it. Between the Northern Pacific and 6reat Northern stations, a space of 300 feet, the ground was literally covered with parts of human beings and with the dead and Djured. Shapelcss trunks quivered nd died in the armü of tho living. The work of rescue was prosecuted in oarnest. Every vehiclo in the city was brought rnto service to earry away the scores of dead and tho hundrds of injured. The hospitals were fllled. The spare rooms in the hotels were taken and private houses were thrown open where it was nesessary.