Tell her we done the best we could,
but the cards were against us.
-J. D. Moore
Hellraisers Journal, Sunday June 10, 1917
Butte, Montana – Fire Claims Lives at Speculator Mine
From the Salt Lake Telegram of 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.
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