The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1877-06-09
THIS MORNINGS NEWS.
The Very Latest Dispatches By
Associated Press.
A HOLOCAUST AT BRIDGEPORT.


Eleven Men Lost in Fire-Crushed by Fall
ing Walls-Immense Destruction Of Prop
erty.
BRIDGEPORT, Conn, June s.
Glover, Sanford G Sons hat shop, East
Bridgeport, was burned last night. A
number of men saving property were
crushed by falling walls. The bodies Of
nine have been recovered and others are
missing.
THE CAUSE OF THE FIRE.
Sons factory is due largely TO the scant
water supply. The steamers, after ex-
haustng the street mains, took water from
swamp holes and ponds, but In the mean
time the fire escaped control. The fire
originated apparently in a corner of the
third story. The main building was so
feet long, so feet wide, and d stories
high. While the volunteers were engaged
in removing goods from the building, en-
trance was effected into the office, one
story building at the northeast corner of
the factory. A dozen or twenty men
rushed in to get the appurtenances, when
suddenly the back and then the front walls
fell out. leaving the two highest walls un-
supported. One adjoining the office leaned
outward, and, as shrek went up from
hundreds of spectators, fell upon the roof
of the office, crushing through to the base
ment, and burying those who had been en-
gagged in the rescue. A man who escaped
with cash on his forehead, when inter-
rogated whether any one remained inside,
replied that there were dozen, which
proves nearly correct. The IL bodies that
were recovered were fearfully crushed and
burned. At the same time the east end
wall fell, carrying fire into the wing 10
feet long and so feet wide. This was also
completely destroyed, with the engine and
boiler rooms. The names of the victims
are: o. j. Acker, limbs burned off to the
knees, leaves wife and two children !;
George Acker, son of o. j., aged 90,
crushed; John Gallagher, leaves wife and
two children; Edward O'Tosle, msngled,
leaves wife and two children; Charles F.
Dart, badly crushed, arm and leg burned
off, leaves a wife and four children; Hugh
Smith, leaves a wife and two children; !;
John Mallory, aged 28; VIM. Mcintyre,
aged %. head completely severed from his
body, identihed Ny cards Ill ,n- pocAvs !,
John Tomln, aged 80, burned beyond re-
cognition, recognized by watch and ring; |;
one other body, supposed to be that Of a
young man named Sweeney, limbs burned
off another body, unacceptable, sup
posed to be q man named Coye. Fifteen
thousand hats, nearly ready for shipment,
were burned. Two hundred and fifty hands
are thrown out of employment. Loss
$250,000.
The two bodies not fully identified this
noon prove to be those of Jas. Coyne, bill
poster, aged "a, unmarried, and John Kill
lingbeck. The latter was only recognized
by hand from which he had previously
lost three fingers. This completes the list
of dead, eleven in all. The coroner's jury
were in session all the afternoon, and after
an exhaustive examination rendered the fol-
lowing unanimous
VERDICT.
The jury find that eleven persons came
to their deaths by the falling of the
east wall of Glover, Sanford & Sons fac.
tory, caused by the burning of the build
inc They further find that the suDply oi
water from the hydrants was wholly inad
equate. Had there been sufficient water
the fire department would have stopped the
conflagration.