THE MINE ON FIRE. / Flames Break Out in the 800-Foot Level of the St. Lawrence. / FOUR MINERS MISSING. / Brave Men Lose Their Lives While Trying to Rescue Their Comrades. / SCENES AT THE ANACONDA. / Smoke From the Fire in the St. Lawrence Finds Its Way Into the Adjoining Mine With Terrible Results — The Flames Under Control.

# Transcription — The Anaconda Standard, 1889-11-24, p.4 **Source**: The Anaconda Standard (Anaconda, Montana), Sunday 24 November 1889, p.4. **Status**: Partial — headlines, sub-heads, and layout captured; body of the column requires higher-resolution transcription. **Method**: Read against [fullpage.jpg](fullpage.jpg) at the resolution available; headlines and sub-heads visible, but the long narrow body column (the rescue-effort narrative with names of dead and rescuers) remains too small in the available rendering for verbatim. The clean-text OCR layer of the focused-clip PDF yielded the names list (preserved below as recovered tokens, not as continuous prose). Verify any direct-quote material against the JPG at higher zoom before publication. --- ## Page layout (Nov 24 1889 p. 4) The focused mine-fire article occupies columns 1-2 (left-of-page) under a stacked headline block. Right-of-page is dominated by a large D. J. Hennessy Mercantile Co. blanket-wraps display ad (already catalogued in `page_metadata.yaml` peripheral_items). Top-left corner has a "TRAVELERS GUIDE" boxed train-schedule. ## Headlines (verbatim from JPG) # THE MINE ON FIRE *Flames Break Out in the 800-Foot Level of the St. Lawrence.* ## FOUR MINERS [WOUNDED / MISSING] *— word at this position is ambiguous between "WOUNDED" and "MISSING" at the available JPG resolution; the OCR text layer reads "MISSING" but the JPG rendering looks more consistent with "WOUNDED". Verify on higher-res pass before quoting.* *Brave Men Lose Their Lives While Trying to Rescue Their Comrades.* ## SCENES AT THE ANACONDA. *Smoke From the Fire in the St. Lawrence Finds Its Way Into the Adjoining Mine With Terrible Results — The Flames Under Control.* --- ## Body (partial — opens with the dateline; full narrative not verbatim) **BUTTE, Nov. 23.** — The ominous blowing of the whistle of the Anaconda mine [at] a little after 6 o'clock this morning alarmed the people of this city by announcing to them that some catastrophe must have happened at the great mine east of the city. The whistle blowing at such a time in the morning was the indication of one of those gatherings in stunned groups about the streets, wondering what calamity could have happened. [...] [The body of the article runs the rescue-effort narrative. Sub-section breaks visible in the column include "ABOUT THE FIRE" and a passage on the rescue coordination. Names recoverable from the OCR text layer (NOT yet verified verbatim against the JPG): Superintendent Carroll (of the St. Lawrence), John Lyons, Harry Page, Tim Kelleher, Jerry Sullivan, Mike Cody, Patrick Cody, James McCarthy, Harry Mannix, James McCoy, Daniel Murphy, Patrick Murphy. Bell Cuba is named as the miner who discovered the fire on the 500-foot level about 4:30 o'clock; the fire was in a chuteway.] [**Key family-relevant passage (recovered from OCR text layer, requires verification):** "Of the four men in the mine, only Patrick Murphy is married. He has a wife and nine children [...] was considered the champion handcar-runner of Montana. Lyons, who was rescued, is the man who hauled [...] children to safety [...]" Also: "He worked alongside his brother Daniel Murphy [...] Daniel Murphy is not married [...]"] [Article continues with further detail on the dead, the families left behind, the cause of the fire, and rescue coordination. End of clip is the end of the column on page 4.] --- ## What still needs work The body of this article contains material directly relevant to `person_patrick_murphy_anaconda_1889` (Patrick C. Murphy, b. unknown, died St. Lawrence mine fire Nov 23 1889) and his brother `person_daniel_murphy_anaconda_1889`. Specifically: - Patrick Murphy's marital status, number of children, and "champion handcar-runner of Montana" descriptor — all currently held as OCR-recovered text and need verification against the fullpage.jpg at higher resolution before quotation in the book. - The names list (Carroll, Lyons, Page, Kelleher, Sullivan, the Cody brothers, McCarthy, Mannix, McCoy, the Murphy brothers) and which were the rescuers vs which were the dead/missing. - The full account of Bell Cuba's fire discovery and the chuteway origin. Per the vigilance discipline (see [[avoid-overstating-source-claims]] memory), do NOT directly quote any body-text passage of this article in the book until verified at higher zoom or against an external source.