Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1882-11-22

on the building. Just across an alley.
| way. about Is feet wide, at the end of
| the Calendar building. was . two
story wooden structure. The help
| rushed for the end of the building
fronting on this alley. A panic ensued.
The roof of the wooden building was
twenty feet below the window-sills.
where the girls congregated. Persons
| in the rear crowded and pushed those
| in the act of jumping. and many fell
short. Others were injured by heing
| jumped upon after they reached the
roof. The dead are Emma Gassett. aged
%, and Bessie Cobb. Both struck the
ground between the two buildings
and died in a few minutes. Mary
McSorley jumped from window and
fell on picket fence. She is terribly
injured and cannot survive. Mary
Harry. Emma Mathewson, Mrs. John
son and Mrs. Cuddy-all Young women
are probably fatally injured. Some
were carried to their homes and Others
taker to the hospital in an ambulance.
Thomas Mann fell short of the two
story building He bounded againstit
and fell to the ground. His injuries
are one arm and one leg broken. A
man named Smith fell to the ground
and was hurt badly. Mary Davis
jumped from the roof and had
a leg broken. George Grant. of Joseph
Grant & Co., jewelers., jumped from the
fourth floor window to the roof Of the
wooden building, and had leg broken.
George Clarke, employed by Joseph
GRAFT s. Co. saw the fire and tried
in vain to extingulsh the
flames, and failing in the attempt
had to run for his life. He hung from
telephone wire until the fire depart
ment arrived. The ladder raised to
him proved five feet too short. A fire.
man mounted to the top and caught the
workman in his arms. The loss on the
bui,ding and stock reaches 800, 900.
The Iron Trouble in Chicago.
CHICAGO, Nov. 90. The proprietors
Of the rolling mills of this city and
Joliet have been interviewed in regard
to the statement that they intended to
shut down within a short time. The
general tenor of the interviews is the
same. They did not assert a positive
intention to close at q fixed date, or at
my future date. hut said that as things
ooked now they did not see how they
could continue to run without losing |
money, and intimated that unless a
change il the situation occurred they
Tould probably be compelled to close
n January or February next, the time
,eing dependent On existing contracts.
"a soma mills they will run to January;
Il Others to February. They say with
teel rails at Sf5 per ton, a reduction in
he price. both of ore and labor, will be
lecessary to protect the mills from loss.
n view of the present cost of living,
nd the general feeling among the iron
workers, they cannot expect to secure a
eduction in the price Of labor. They
gili therefore, for the time being, only |,
IN to work up the stock on hand and
ulill existing contracts, with view to
icing able to shut dcwn when the
roper time comes. Fer IL expressed
lso by some Of the pcnpriesars that
he next Congress will reduce the tariff
n steel to such an extent as to open the
BUSINESS to foreign competition. A be-
ef is expressed iu some quarters that
his is a concerted movement on the
art Of steel mill proprietors of the
Vest to influence pubic opinion. and
revens a reduction of the tariff by
'>ngress. Between 5000 aud 6.000
Ten are employed here and at joliet.
tho Custom Service.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 2l.-The Super.
ising Special Agent of the Treasury