Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-01-05


the roof but the scuttle was firmly hooked
and would not Weld. The ascending
flames drove the people back within their
rooms.
THE Widest CONFUSION
followed. Men and women threw their
children from the windows and jumped
after them through the flames that swept
across the yard and set their clothing
ablaze. WhenIthe firemen obtained mas
terry the dead bodies of nine persons who
had been burned were taken out from
the building Several were injured in
their efforts to escape and were sent to
hospitals The following is
LIST OF THE DEAD:
Ellen Sheridan, age IS.
Kate Sheridan, age II.
Maggie Sheridan, age 3,
Martin Sheridan, age 8.
John Walsh, age Is.
Thomas Cassiday, age &.
Chas Cassiday, age s.
Girl named Egan, age2
Mrs Sheridan, age unknown.
Several persons were injured, among
them Jas Cassiday, Mary Egan and Chas.
Walsh.
THE SCENE OF THE CALAMITY,
the like of which has not occurred in
this city since the tenement house in Can
non street year ago, and the Turner
hall disoster about the same
time, is approached through
through narrow alley hardly wide
enough to allow the passage of portly
man. between two tenements, Nos. 35
and SO Madison street In front of the
house of 35 is Doyie's liquor store. Its
back door opens directly upon narrow
hallway, in the rear of the tenement
where the fire obtained start Plumbers
were at work at the foot of the stairs,
thawinG out water pipes, and for this
purpose used gasoline. The vessel was
by some means upset and becoming ig-
nited there was an explosion, which blew
in the door of the saloon. Instantly black
smoke rolled along the stairway, drawn
onward by the draught caused by an open
window on the top story. There was
momcntary hush as the frightened plum
bers hurried into the yard. n man sitting
bythe bar room stove slammed the hall
door on the advancing fire; Immediately
there was q wild rush overhead and the
sound of breaking glass, and the air was
filled with the
WALLS OF THE IMPRISONED MEN AND
WOMEN,
and frightened children, and cries for
help of The barkceper and plumbers who
ran through the street to ncar-b by police
station. Very soon the clang of the fire
bells filled the street and it became filled
with tiremcn and police struggling to
bring help TO the imprisoned and burn
ing ones They came too late The fire
finding vent through the open doors and
windows of the untenanted ground floor
of the house and through the door, had
seized upon the shutters, window frames
and floors of the balcony outside, licking
them up like so much tissue paper and
reaching upward toward the floors where
the frightened men and women huddlcd
together afraid to venture out on the fire
escape that was itself aame, while flames
within the house were plainly visible
through the i'll fitting doors then being
fast consumed.
EIGHT FAMILIES OCCUPIED THE HOUSE,
two on each floor. On the second
floor the Eagans and Muldoons had at
the first alarm escaped through the Win
dows. Mrs. Mary Egan,a widow and her
four grown children, Margaret Thomas,
Joseph and John, reached the ground in
safety by quick jump. Mrs Muldoon,
who is over so years old. was less fortu-
nate Selling her two grandchildren,
Annie and Kate, she sprung from the
fire and escaped. but in the fall sprained
her ankle and crawled away with difficult
ty. On the third floor Mr.. Eagan, who
lived alone, escaped by Jumping James,
aged Q, Hugh aged 1, and the baby were
thrown through the window by Chas
McKenn, their eldest brother, lad of
j. The mother was sweeping in the
ward when the fire broke out She rushed
10 the stairway but was met by a
SOLID SHEET OF FLAME.
aud. realizing the danger of her children.
reused them by shouting. Before they
knew Of their danger Charles threw them
down The agonized mother cried and
stretched out her arms to receive them as
their little heads looked over the window
sill beside their brother. The mother APP
pealed TO him To throw the children to
her and to jump himself, while the baby,
frightened by the cries of the others, who
were alarmed at the smoke which was
fast filing the room, constantly cried,
with lis little arms outStretched, ''mam-
ma. ,smamma. The boy quickly meas
ured the ground from his third d-story
perch and, taking the baby yup first. tossed
it out and it fell into the arms of its
mother; who caught the other children as
they were sent to her one by one, and
finally broke the fall of Charles as he
jumped, and all escaped unhurt. On the
fourth floor lived Cassidy and family
of Eagans. On the fifth and
topmost story Mrs Ellen Sheridan
was at breakfast with four children The
men of these families, as of all others IN