New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-14
4 TERRIBLE DISASTER.
LOSS OF LIFE IN A BURNING MILL

LOSS OF LIFE IN 4 BURNING MILL.
ELEVEN PERSONS KILLED AND TwENTY-ONE 81
VtRELY INJURED-sHUr orr PROM ESCAPE ON
AN UPPER FLOOR-A FATAL LEAP PoR LIFE
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13.-Thc fire at Ian
denberger's mil last night, which so disastrous
TO life and property, originated N the finishing room
the second floor and spread upward through the build
ing with amazing rapdity. About forly-iiye Of the
hands, twelve Of whom girls. at work this
floor but the majority engaged In tie spinning aud
weaving departments on the upper floors.
The wooden stairways at either end Of tho building
were soon ablaZc. The bridge connecting the building
with another mil shut OF from approach by IRE
proof doors and the absence OF any rc escape panic
instantly cnsuel among the men and women confined
within the building. They rushed to the window
franticaly to the crowd below TO save them. 10 WAC
proposed by crowd form squares In the and
catch the and girls they leapcd out. But before
anything couid be done q young woman lcapcd
from the nfth story. 1t seemed that
every bone In her body broken, for she
never breathcd again. After this the imprisoned pco-
pie seemed to become frenzed and although the crowd
sought to them by shouting That help
would speedily be there they began jumping from the
windows like sheep apparently bereft Of reason,
flung himself headong To the street, AID while hs body
was still in the air others followed man, then a
woman hali-grown girl until In few minutes eleven
human beings. and a unconscious with fractured
skulls and broken limbs, beng carried by tender
hands to ncighbOring liquor store, the Moor Of which
body after body was laid a row until vehicles were
prepared to convey them 20 the hospitals BY TINS time
the relatives OF the victims began gather outside the
buldng and the cries Of mothers outside TO their chill
dIen stll in the burning and their lamentations
over those who had jumped and been literally dashed TO
pieces were heartrcnding.
When the fTencn able TO the building they
found the tDIrd floor the bodies OF burned
almost TO a crisp and man badly scorchod and dead ;
but before they could search further the fourth floor
with its heavy machinery, came crashing through and
they barely escaped with their lives The 1rcmen
then compelled to desst from their lahore, because the
floors had gone through to the ground; ana the ma
chnery, clarred wood and what remained Of the I'm.
fortunate operatives ten dozen In number, were
mingled ia an unacceptable mass which secthng
and sending ont columns OF the cold was
poured upon it, The following Is st Of the victims
far as can at present be ascertaincd: Annie Bray
George ". DOughery, Mary Kelly Henry Werman, John
Weeks. unknown girl two unknown girls aged about
thirteen and eight. years, and an unknown German
The injured are the following: Henry Armstrong
jumped from the fourth floor; Mary Brady, Joseph +.
Burns. twenty-five years breast hurt injuries fatal; Mat
tie Conlon, age twenty three, injured the spne Will
lam Cooper age twenty-five, back broken Thomas \.
Edwards, age twenty-five, shoulder-blade broken by
striking stone in falling; Lizzie Franks David Hut
ton, George H. Hutton leg broken; Mary Kelly Mary
KlOss age sixteen fractured leg Frederick Krr Injured
Internally; Samuel Langham, David Lapham. age lh,rfy
eight, fractured skull; George Lapham.
i.arAins, age twenty-five fractured leg; Annie
Miller; Joseph Reynolds, both legs broken; Annie
staub Kate Sohafer Matilda Schu!tzc.
The victims were carried of IN all directions some 70
their homes some close by that their exact
number cannot yet be stated The physicians say that
nearly every one OF the admitted 10 st. Mary's
Hospital VIII result fatally Io total number OF deaths