The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-14

the street and catch the men and girls as
they leaped out, but before anything could
be done, young woman leaped from the
fifth story, and it seemed that every bone
in her body was broken, for she never
breathed again. After this, the imprisoned
people seemed to become frenzied,
and although the crowd outside
sought to encourage them by
shouting that help would speedily
be there, they began jumping from the win
dow like sheep. man, apparently bereft
of reason, flung himself headlong into the
street, and while his body was still in the
air, Others followed, now q man, then wo-
man or halfgrown girl, until, in a few mo-
mentS, eleven human beings, one and all
unconscious, with fractured skulls and bro
ken limbs, were carried by tender hands to
neighboring saloon, on the floor of
which body after body was laid
in q row till vehicles were procured to car
ry them to the hospital. BY this time rel
stives ofthe victims began to gather out
side the building, and cries of mothers out
side TO their children still in the burning
room, and their lamentations over those
who had jumped and been literally dashed
to pieces, were hcartrending to hear.
When the firemen were able to enter the
building, they found on the third
floor the bodies of two fam
lilies burned almost to crisp,
and man badly scorched and dead. Be
fore they could search further the fourth
| floor, with its heavy machinery, came
crashing through, and they barely escaped
with their lives, The iiremen were then
compelled 70 desist in their labors, because
the floors had gone through to the ground,
and the machinery, charred wood and what
remained of the unfortunate operatives,
/ tan or n Ipzan p1unUlal tnUat har in
on unrecogniZable mass, which was seeth-
| ing and sending out columns of
steam, as cold water was poured upon it,
Seven are known to be dead and twenty
| three injured, mostly young women. The
victims were carried in all directions, some
TO their homes some to houses close by and
others to various hospitals, so that the exact
number cannot be stated. Physicians say
that nearly every one of the cases admit
ted to ST. Mary's hospital will result
fatally;the total number Ofdeathswill proba-
exceed twenty, there being ten dead bodies
in the ruins. Had the fire been in the day
light fully four hundred people would have
been compelled to fight for life with the
flames. Within an hour the flames were
brought under control leaving the walls
standing but the inside completely gut
ted out. The loss in property will
amount to $4,000, to offset
which there is an insurance of $4,000
Some OF the workmen attribute the origine
of the fire to sparks from the electric light
falling among the waste Others attribute
the sudden spread to the influence of over
heated wires The same mill burned once
before. Two bodies have been recovered
this morning from the ruins.
Up to noonthc number of dead bodies re-
covered, IA reported to the coroner was
eleven, ofwhich five are at the morgue, two
at their homes and four at st. Mary's
hospital. The deputy coroner visited the
scene Of the disaster this morning and
learned that the means of escape from the
building were inadequate. The only theory
of the origin of the fire was that already
advanced of the electric light.