The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-10-15
THE PHILADELPHIA FIRE.
A Terrible Disnster-0 theF
FIRES.

Philadelphis, l3.-The fire at Landen-
berger's mill, Last night. which was SO
disastrous to life and property originated
IN the finishing room. second floor, and
spread through tie building with amaz-
ing rapidity. About ferty-fve hands.
twelve of whom were girls, were at work
on this floor, but the majority were en-
gagged IN the spinnin and weaving de-
partmeRts on the upper floors. The
wooden stairways at either end of the
building were soon ablsze. The bridge
connecting the building with another
mill was shut off from approach by fire.
proof doors, and in the absence OF any
fire escape, panic instantly ensued
among the men and women confined
within the building. They rushed TO
the windows crying frantically to the
crowd below to save them. 1t was pro-
posed by the crowd to form squares in
he street and catch the men and girls as
they leaped out, but before anything
could be doGe young woman lesped
from the fifth story. It seemed that
every bone in her body was broken for
she never breathed after striking the
pavement. after this the imprisoned
people seemed to become frenzied and
though the crowd outside sought
to encourage them By shouting
that help would shortly be there, they
began jumping from the windows like
sheep. When the fremen were able to
enter the building they found on the
third floor the bodies Of two females
burned almost 10 q crisp, and a man
badly scorched 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 fremen were compelled
to desist from their labors because the
floors had gone through to the ground,
and the machinery, charred wood and
what remained Of the unfortunate opera
tives, ten or twelve, were mingled to-
gether in an unacceptable mass, which
was seething and sending out columns of
steam as cold water was poured upon iC.
Following is list Of the victims as far
as can be ascertained now: Deaa-Aunie
Brady, Mary Kelly, Henry Morgan, an
unknown girl, who died at the hospital,
two unknown girls, aged about Is and Is
respectively, and an unknown German,
dead at the morgue.
IDjured-Mary Gloss, fractured leg;
Geo. W. Doug Cutlery, Jas. Reynolds,
both legs broken; Geo. R. Hutton,
broken leg; VIM. Lopez, back broken:
Joseph E. Burns, breast hurt, injuries
fatal; David Lspham. fractured skull;
Michael Larkins, fractured leg; Fred.
Kreher, injured internally; Mollie Con-
Ian, spine injured; Harry Armstrong,
leg broken and internally hurt. jumped
from the fourth floor; Thos. A. Edwards,
shoulder blade brokek; Lizzie Franks,
Mary Brady, Samuel Laugham, Annie
Muller, Matilda Schulz, Kate Schaffer,
Geo. Lapbam, David Hilton, Anna
Stauf, Mary Kelly. The victims were
carried off in all directions, some to
their homes, some to houses close by,
and others TO various hospitals. The
exact number cannot be stated. Ply
sicians say they found nearly every one
admitted to st. Mary's hospital, will re-
suit fatally. The total number will prob |
ably exceed twenty, there being ten
bodies in the ruins. Had the fire occur |
red in daylight, fully 400 people would |
have been compelled to fight for life. |
Within an hour the flames were brought |
lnder control, leaving the walls stand
ng, but the inside Quilted. Some work
men attribute the fire TO sparks from the |
electric lights falling among the waste; |
,tbers ascribe the sudden spread Of the |
lanes to the influence of the overheated |
wires. Two bodies were recovered this |
from the ruins, one, Lizzie |
Marks, Of Philadelphia, the other sup
,osed to be John Weeks, of Ulster
county, New York.