Hellraisers Journal: Mine Fire in Butte Claims Many Lives; Rescue Efforts Under Way as Hope Fades for Missing

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Tell her we done the best we could,
but the cards were against us.
-J. D. Moore

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Hellraisers Journal, Sunday June 10, 1917
Butte, Montana – Fire Claims Lives at Speculator Mine

From the Salt Lake Telegram of June 9, 1917:

Speculator Mine Disaster, HDLN, Salt Lake Telegram, June 9, 1917

Speculator Mine Disaster, Men Cut Off, SL Telegram, June 9, 1917

From The Butte Daily Post of June 9, 1917:

Note: the Post reports that 33 are known dead and 162 are missing.

Speculator MnDs, Butte Dly Pst, June 9, 1917

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SOURCES & IMAGES

Salt Lake Telegram
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
-June 9, 1917
https://www.newspapers.com/image/288217616/

The Butte Daily Post
(Butte, Montana)
-June 9, 1917
-Photo from page 2.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85053058/1917-06-09/ed-1/seq-1/
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85053058/1917-06-09/ed-1/seq-2/

See also:

Granite Mountain Copper Mine Fire
-also known as : The Speculator Mine Disaster
-of June 8, 1917
(With list of names of those who perished.)
http://usminedisasters.com/saxsewell/granite_mountain.htm

Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917
-by Michael Punke
Hachette Books, Feb 5, 2013
https://books.google.com/books?id=vZ-ZAAAAQBAJ

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