Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-12-18
A BUFFALO BLAZE.
Destruction OF q Wall Paper
FactOry-Hcavy Loss Of Lifo.

BUFFALO, December IA serious
fire, attended by heavy loss OF life, oc.
Cured this evening about 8 o'clock. The
fire was discovered in the third story Of
the immense five-story building owned
by George W. Tiff, on Perry street, and
occupied by Blry 4 Sons, wall paper
manufacturers. The building is 50 feet
front by 800 feet deep, and about $50
men and boys were employed at the
present time, the business demanding
extra help. All OF the number were at
work and in less than twenty minutes
after the alarm was given, the building
was a mass OF flames and the walls crum.
bled and fell. probably burying from
twenty to thirty employees The doors
to the different rooms were hung to
swing in and each had heavy
spring closing them, thereby retarding
the egress Of the occupants. The bnild.
ing Was without fire escapes OF any kind.
The terrified workmen jumped from
windows, and many escaped with
broken bones and bruised bodies Those
in the upper stories unable 10 escape
appeared Tor q moment at the windows
then sank back suffJcated in smoke and
flames. The following is = list Of those
known to be killed: One of the foremen
in the fifth story, badly burned, jumped
to the ground; unrecceninab!e; his head
and body mashed to Jelly;
supposed to be Thos. Fields John
Malone, aged IL, jumped from the fifth
story and was killed. William Berry
was fatally Injured in the head and
spine and inwardly, having jumped
from fourth story. The injured are:
John Griffin, jumped from the fourth
floor, right arm broken and badly in.
jured internally; Moses Maloney, leg
fractured, jumped from fifth story;
Patrick 0'Brien. badly burned about
the head and back and an arm broken;
Ed. Mccormick, jumped from fifth
floor and badly cut on the head; Moses
Malone, who WAS killed, jumped from
the fifth floor, and fractured ley;
Mike O'Brien. right leg broken. The
folio wing are known 10 be mlssin and
are suppose I be- in he runs: Stephen
Hackett, Martin McGee. PtrS. War
DIN, John and James Stout, and Jay
Noltz.
The flames next communicated To the
Union matt house adjoining. aso the
property of Geo. W. Tiff. which was le-
stroy,d The building WAS three stories
high, sixty feet wide and two hundred
feet long. containing $4,000 worth oi
grain, the property OF John b. Man.
ming.
The loss can only be estimated at
present, and is placed at the ioi owing:
Geo. W. Tiff, on building, sl05 0CO; Birge
d Sons, machinery and paper stock,
Sl50000: John B Minning. grain, s2j-
900; city engine house. 5000, by the
falling walls. Insurance estimated at
$lS0,00O.
James Ryan and John Kennedy. EN-.
rloyed on The fourth iDnr oi the Blrg-
building Jun, al 10 the ground. cscIp.
ing with ONLY slIght bruises. A small
boy, name unknown, MAS seen io jump
from the fifth iinrr, catch hold Oi thu
telegraph wire. which broke, and, ii Il
ing down the wire, cs'upcd with only
badly cut hands. The parents and
friends OF tie deal AMI missing ones
surround the ruins The streets are
full of rumors, and probably the lis, oi
known to be killed will be NOR" than
doubled when the smoking bricks aud
ruins can be removed.