The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1878-05-09

600 and was insured for e35.OOO e. A.
Pillsbury g. Co. had 10000 bushels of
wheat in stote and other millers smaller
quantities. The wheat, both in the eleva
tor and ON cars, was probably fully in
surtd.
The Minneapolis Planning Mill.
Smith s. Parker's Sash & Door Factory.
Buffers s. GRINDERS Machine Shop
The Erickson Building, Owne1 by Clin-
ton Morrison and Thomas Lowry and in
sured for sc, 500.
Several small dwellings on Fourteenth
Avenue South,
The heaviest losers, as at present re-
ported, are C. c. Washburn, j A. Chris
tian & 60 Petit, Robinson s. Co., w. P.
Ankeny, Cahill, Ankeny s. Co., Bull,
Newton & Co Minneapolis Mill televator)
Company, Croker, Fish g. Co., e. A.
Pillsbury & Co., Smith & Parker and But
tiers & Grinder.
LIST OF THE DEAD.
Charles Henning, Clark Willahor, Fred
Merrill, Ed. Merrill, brothers J VIM. Les
Patrick Judd, E. w. Burbank, Harry
Hicks, John Boyer and Peter Linn Mis-
sing, perhaps dead: August Smith and
- Widstrum.
THE ESCAPED.
David Ward had gone out of the Dia-
mond mill get pail of water and SO
saved his life. Dean Day. the only man
in the Petit mill, was saved, with some
injuries, by being blown out of window
Fred George, burned and bruised, escaped
by jumping from window Of the Zenith
mill. 1t was reported that one man
dropped into the Canal, the plank cover
ing of which WAS torn up by the explosion
and was shet through an underground
fume into the river, escaping without
hurt. The story was probably founded Oh
Georges leap. At any rate il needs con-
GrmAtiOn
JOHN BoYER's FATE.
The first persons who came near the fire
on the side towards The Milwaukee s. St.
Paul track, saw a man. supposed to be
John Boyer, painfully struggling over the
ruins through blazing fire and choking
smoke. lie reached the side Of the rail
road be d and crawled up till he could al
most reach the rail with the charred
stumps which ended his arms A little
crowd OF men had gathered and saw his
unavailing struggle-powerless TO help
him, because he was separated from 1hem
by deadly wall of flame They saw min
fall back and some time after, when the
fire had been subdutd, lifted what Was
left OF his body from the ruins.
THE OTHER BODIES.
One other body was thought to have
been seen on top of the burning debris of
a roof, but if so il was entirely consumed
for nothing could be seen of it when the
fire was put out. Most of The killed were
doubtless buried under the stone walls of
the mills.
CRAxED WIFE.
Most Of the lost men were married. Dur
ing the height of the fire woman, said to
be the widow of one of them, came rush
ing through the crowd and would have
plunged into the fire had she not been
forclbly restrained /, was said she
imagined she saw her husbands body.
UNDER CONTROL.
BY half past nine the FIRE WIS under CON-
troi. The Holly water works had sup
piled an abundance OF water and The fire.
men had trtvely fought the flames BY
ten O'Clock the thousands who had
thronged the vicinity were half gone and
AT eleven O'Clock scarcely hundred spec
tators remained. But the frcmen were
SthII at WpIh anu OSCF dil tDC IuInS lcfDctl
dancing flames while here and there steady
JETS OF fire p,1rrd from The ends of broken
gas pipes These last yet disputed The
morning light hen large par; of the
mills and @discent property had been
cooled by the uopious supply of water
At this hour the firemen beg IN to talk of
he scar, h for the dead but none suggested
a hope that any tcdies would be recovered
except those which m,v be found under
some of the great piles Of steae into
which parts OF the walls have fallen.
The following is corrected list of the
dead, 50 far ~ known,
EIGHTEEN IN NUMDER,
as follows: Fourteen in the Washburn
mill, to-wit: August Smith, Charles Hen
ming. Clark Wilbur, Fred Merrill, William
Leslie, E. W. Ewing. &. Shay, Walter
savage, Pat Judd, Ed Merrill,
E. W. Burbank, Henry Hicks, Ci,as. b
kImball tof Forest Gil, J, and - Grund
man. or Cheese eleven were married.
diamond niil-John Boyer, married.
Zenith min-John koseinns. Humbol II
Peter Lisn and Peter Hvlberg In the
nAvian, one = German, and The rest
AAAnS AASooo y VI ~.
OF THE DEAD
five bodies have beer recovered, one
which 10 identified as that Of Bower. taken
cut last night as elsewhere de-cribtd
another bv tsss night KEY and knife, ~
that Of Clark Wilbur, and . third Nv his
knife and handkerchief ss Clark Wslbur
TIE TuTAL LIS
On the Wakhurn mill and stock. Mr.
Christian sxsr Will be s37s 100 10 e3N., q Q,
and the aggregate loss on all II Z property
destroyed or damaged will ne a, out
ONE MILLION DnLAks
The elevator Contained 3O.aUU bushels of
wheat; the big mill Is, UU and the other
mills each small quantities, altogether act
more than CIV bushels. There wers rs
Ca n of the Minneapolis s. 81 Louis rp~d
burned, all loaded with whext and -four.
and three 10 I'VE empty freignt car- of the
Mii~aukee & It. Paul railroad were aiSy
bunQed.
OTHER MARROW EsCAPEs.
Joe MoDii, waichman Al the GALAXY mill.
jumped from third story wiedow md
~.e Dot seriously injured. Fred Gemgs
I scsped from the Zenith mill bsuIy
tuned.
THE PRINCIPAL. IOeERs.
e. c. Wnshhurn, mill; J. A Christian d
Co.. mill; Petit, ko'inson 4 c. mill and
lumi<r; Day & rollins. mill. Chill & An
keny, mill; Gs,ris0, Hay ~csn 4 ( o.. mil;