The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1877-09-06
KNOWN TO HAVE DIED

during the fire, but reports differ as to
whether she was injured in attempting to
escape from the binding or from illness az,
gravated by the excitement and fright. 1t
Is believed by many persons in the neigh
borhood that from twenty TO forty vOrkmen
Persisted IN THE PIANO FACTORY,
but thus for this is merely suppOsition.
Three alarms were sent ont in rapid sue
cesSion and large force OF iircmen. engines
and trucks responded to the calls. The
heat produced 10y the fire was intense. and
the tiremen were obliged to keep at 4 con-
siderable distance from the burning build
ings. 1t is probable however that they
could have prevented the fire from spread
ing ii they had had sufficient supply OF
water. The row Of brown stone apart
ment houses ON the south side Of 35th
street, east of the factory burnt rapidly,
and their inmates were able to save but a
small portion OF their property. \ number
of stores on the other side of the street
WE'RE ALSO CONSUMED.
The establishment OF W. b. Brown, No.
514 West 35th street, is Quilted The strong
wind WHICH veered from point to point,
whirled the sparks and fragments of burn
ing material in all directions. The sparks
blown to the other side are believed to have
set on fire several buildings occupied as
store and dwellings, and these structures,
Nos. 4i9 TO i63, inclusive, were burned
Some of the occupants succeeded in remov-
ing 4 part Of their furniture to the street,
but
MOST OF 1T WAS DESTROYED.
The Telegram" says there is no hope that
a vestige of the block, bounded by 35th and
Seth streets and 10th and tn avenues will
be left. The schoolhouse on 35th street is
already entirely demolished and the tene-
ment houses on the four sides Of the block
are in ruins. The sparks from the burning
buildings lighted upon the canvas roof OF
THE GOSPEL TENT
and it was destroyed The conviction is
growing that the loss OF life will be serious,
and several ambulances are in the neigh
borhood. One authority saws there must be
from seventy-fve to one hundred bodies
buried in in the ruins. Another statement
says that from twenty-five to thirty girls
employed in the upper stories Of HaIe's
factory have persisted. Ambulances have
removed some eighteen or twenty wounded
who jumped from the burning factory.
STILL ANOTHER STATEMENT
is that OF the 80 to 200 men in the factory
at the time of the fire, comparatively few
escaped death or fatal wounds. The occu-
pants of the house in Both street, could dis
tinctly see workmen in the piano factory
making futile attempts to escape from the
roof and the upper stories and could hear
their screams for assistance August Var
rath, varnisher in the factory, one of the
"a men at work in the top story, said the
alarm was given to them by a workman
who had put his head out Of the window
and seen the smoke issuing from the window
below. The firemen told them to be cool,
saying there was probably
PLENTY OF TINE
for escape. Narrath said the men scattered
in various directions, but the fire and smoke
drove them back from the s;airways. There
was fire ladder at each end of the build |
ing, and also chain fire escape. Narrath |
got down by one Of the ladders. and |
since his escape he had not seen any of his |
fellow workmen. The surgeons Of Bellevue
hospital, the police surgeons, and the coro-
ners are on duty at the fire.
ABOUT THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY FAM
LIES
are rendered homeless, and most of their
furnitue is destroyed. While the FIRE was
At its height number of people on sheds in
Phelan's yard were thrown to the eroand
ard badly injured. A woman jumped from
, window of . tenement and was instantly
kiIled. Hale's factory was . very extern
i've establishment, turning out about 1000
pi.nos . week. When he factory was