Morning journal and courier., 1881-10-14
FIRE RECORD.

Cut off From Rescue-GirIs Gagged in a Burning Building Heartrending Scenes.
 PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13.-A fire broke out in Landerbergers mill last night, originating in the finishing room on the second floor and spreading upwards through the building with amazing rapidity. About forty-five of the
 hands, twenty of whom were girls, were at
 work on this floor, but the majority were en
 gagged in the spinning and weaving depart
 ments on the upper floors. The wooden
 stairways at either end of the building were
 soon ablaze The bridge connecting the
 building with another mill was shut off from
 approach by fireproof doors, and, in the ab-
 sense of any fire -esca ape, pa nic instantly en-
 sued among the men and women confne d
 within the building. They rushed to the hwindows, crying frantically to the crowd be-
 low to save them. It was proposed by the
 crowd to form squares in the street and
 catch the men and girls as they leaped out ,
 ut before anything could be done young
 woman leaped from the fifth story. She
 was instantly killed After this the impris-
 oned people seemed to become frenzied, and
 though the crowd outside sought to encour-
 age them by shouting that help would sreed- fly be there they began jumping from the windows like sheep. A man flung himself head long to the street Others followed until in few moments eleven persons, all uncon- scious, with fractured skulls and broken limbs, were being carried to the neighboring saloon, on the floor of which body after body was laid until vehicles were procured to 4J., &1,a D. I,io l the relatives of the victims began to gather 1 outside the building, and the cries of moth
 CTS outside to their children still in the burn | ing rooms were heartrending When the firemen were able to enter the building they found, on the third floor, the bodies of two girls burned almost to a crisp, and man badly scorehed and dead; but before they l-eould search further the fourth floor, with it's heavy machinery, came crashing through, and they barely escaped with their lives. The fremen were compelled then to deslst in their labors because the floors had gone through to the ground, and the machinery. charred wood and those who remained of the | unfortunate operatives (about ten in number) were mingled together. The following is ! list of the victims as far ascan be asceEtained now
 Annie Brady, Mary Kelly, Henry Norman. an un-, known girl who died at the hospital, two unknown unknown German, dead at the paorgue. Injured
 Mary Kloss sixteen years old, fractured leg George W: Dougherty, twenty-one years old; Joseph Rey-
 holds. both legs broken George R. Hutton. twenty
 one years old, broken leg William Cooper, twenty five years old. back broken Joseph F. Burns, twen-
 tyhye years, breast hurt, injuries fatal David Lap ham. thirsy-eight years. fractured skull; Mi chael Iarkfns, twenty-five years, fractured leg; Frederick Krehr. injured internally; Mat.
 tie conlan, twentythree years injured in the spine Harry Armstrong jumped from the fourth floor i; Thomas A. Evans, twenty-five years old, shoulder blade broken by striking stone in falling Lizzie | F Matilda Schnltze, Katie ShaEer, George Lapham. David Hutton, Annie Sfsub, Mary Kelly.