New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-11-22
CAUGHT IN A DEATH TRAP.
FIRE AND LOSS OF LEE ArPROYIDENOE.

FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE ArPROVIDENOE.
PANIC STRICKEN MEN AND WOMEN JUMP FROM rHE
WINDOWS OF FOURTH FLoOR-No FIRE Es-
CAPEs PROvIDED-Two WOMEN KILLED OUT
RIGHT-sEvERAL OTHER PERSONS LIKELY To
DIE FROM THEIR INJURIES.
PROVIDENCE, r. i. November 21.-Fire broke out
at 1890 O'clock this morning in the Calender
BuldinG.a brick structure between Sabin and Coal
sts.. which resulted in serious loss of life. The
building. which was of four stOries was mostly oc
cupied by jewelry shops. The fire orgi-
mated IN the workshop of Charles 7. Melvin.
dyer. in the middle Of the building on the third
floor. and was caused by the ignition of ten gal
Ion can OF naDh'ha. The room was filed with hght
inflammable oths and the woodwork was as dry
rs tinder. The room was next the stairway, ana
before a word of warning could he given escape by
the stairway was barred by the flames.
On the fourth floor was the workshop of William
II. Robinson 81 Co., gold-chanmakers. The firm
employed forty peratiyes. equally divided as 10
sex. When the flames swept up through the floor
the operatives made a rush for the windows. There
was no lire escape on the building. A panic
ensued. JUST across an aueyway, some
fifteen feet wide, at the end of the
Calender Building, was twO-story
wooden structure. The employees rushed for the end
Of the building from ing on this alley The roof Of
ths window sill whore he excited girls were con-
iT gated. Those IN the rear crowded and pushed
chose ia the OF jumping and many fell short.
Others were injured by being jumped upon after
they had reached the roof.
Emma Gassett ace %, OF Blackstone-st., and
Bessie Coob, Of Pond-at, struck the ground oe-
tween the two buildings aud died in a few minutes.
Mary Mcsarey, Of 40. ia Dean-st., jumped from
a iudow and fell on n picket fence. She was ter
nbly injured, and cannot live. Mary Hartry Della
Glssett, Emma Matthewson, Mrs. Cuduy and
1r,. Johnson all young women, are al probably
fatally injured. Some We're carried 10 their homes
ami others taken TO the Rhode Is AM Hospital
III the police ambulance.
Ihom as Mann, VINO lives in We.ls-ave, fell short
of the twO-5tOrf building and Su ,Iug against lt
fell 10 the ground. He ual one arm and one leg
ground a aId was serious V injured. Mary Davis
Jumped nom he root and broke her leg George
Grant Of lie lrm OF Joseph Grant & Co, jewellers
on tne fourth door M the rear Ok koOnsons sAOp
aud Hnmo Iatelv over the dye house where the tire
originated. jumped from toIr history window 20
the rot IF tne wooden bnuIng and broke his leg
Gaorga CLARK. employed by joseph Grant IL Co.,
saw flames ana tried IN vain TO luguIsh them
bat nnallY mad Co ruu Tor hls Ite.
o. e uan, name unknown, au emVlOye OF Grant *
Co., hunE from the telephone wire until tne Fire
Depa. tueut arrived. ue adder raised under him
proveI to 10 uve feet too suOrt, and hrelnan
DOun ed TO the top aud caught the workman IL MS
arms.
At the Rhode Island Hospital 1t was found that
Thomas Mann, foreman Of Graurs jewelry shop.
hau DO IN ankles brUkrn was burned on the hcad
and bands, ana hurt internally. ne
Will die. Mary COddlng, twenty years old
has bal scalp wound ana u fracture Ot the skull;
ne is idtaiiy hurt. she lived with widowed
mother. George Grant has compound fracture or
the lett le- am several bruises, and Florence Red
ding Is burned in tue tace. These two are nor Sc
riou-ly injured Three 0.Let women at tho hospital
are ,tuI uucOu>cl.us. but are nor ta,al y hUr..
Inc burned building was about iOrty-nye by
eIguty ie-J on the ground. Inc part IL whlch the
ire originated was buIlU in 1866, and the larger
part IN 1874. IL belonged TO Amos q. BarstOw. Inc
iOss the bu lIiug Is estimated, Will not exceed
% 900 insured Tor $4,000. VIII am II. Robin
sous losses are 5000. livery hing Ia his Shop
was des .ruyed; insured for 5000 Joseph W.
Grant & COS losa Is total, amounting to 10000.
Inc Providence Button Company losc 300 unin-
sured. he Providence Cigar Works lose GoOOU,
and the Providence saw Works, aud 0 her Occu-
pants of the lower floors, unknown amounts by
uainaEe from water. Inc nre Uld not extend below
the turl floor.
5IDNIGHT.-Up p to this hour only three victims OF
the disaster at the taueudcf building have died
the two girls who were Ailled outright ANA Thomas
Mann, foreman of Robinson ~ Co.'S JeWeIry shop
There Is no nope for Mary MCSOrey Mrs. Cuddy or
Della bas5etJ. sixteen other persons we're IN
jured, three OF them seriously. The others are IN
nOpeiul condition.
The loss ~ me- the several tenants Is t2e,QOO;
to the building, $4,000. The total amount OF IN
sur;tucc Is P3J,JOO.