Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-11-21
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FIRE AND FATAL PANIC,
LOSS OF LIFE IN PROVIDENCE TO-DAY,
GOOD WORK OF THE SIOUX COMMISSION.
RUSSIA'S RELATIONS WITH GER
MANY AND AUSTRIA.
A GIRL MURDERED: HER SLAYER KILLS
HIMSELF
Fire and Panic i'm Providence.

SHOP GIRLS REPoRTED KILLED
PROVIDENCE, r. l., Nov. H.-A fire broke out at
SABINE street: 1t was occupied in part by jewel
erS shops. The ladders were slow I'm arriving
and panic occurred among the girls In the shops
Several jumped from the windows and IL is re-
ported with fatal result
TWO KILLED AND SEVERAL INJURED
on the fourth floor or the building was the es-
tablishment of William H. Robinson a Co cold
chain makers. The firm employed 40 operatives.
ana among them about 20 young girls. When the
rush Was made Tor the windows. There was no
flre escape, and a terrible panic ensued MANY OF
right Six or seven are fatally Injured. The fir,
occurred at ten-thIrty this morning In the Callen-
der building, brick structure, and originated In
the workshop OF Charles T. Melvin. dyer In the
middle or the building On the third ioor and was
caused by the ignition OF ten-gallon can of nan
tina. The room was filled with light inf amn q bic
cloths, and the woodwork was dry as tInder. The
room was next tc the stairway, and before word
vi @ mi.lnns coua De given, escape by the stairway
was barred by the flames.
FEARFUL PANIC
me panic among the operatives in Robinson &
co. S WORKSHOP was fearful just across an alley
way, some Is feet wide, at the end OF the Calen-
dar building was a two-story wooden structure
The operatives rushed for the end OF the building
fronting on this alley. The roof OF the woode6
building was about 90 feet below the window sIlIs
on which the excited girls were congregated The
pressure OF persons in the rear crowded and pushed
those In the act or jumping, and many fell short
Others were injured by being jumped upon after
they had reached the roof. The dead are Emma
girls struck the ground between the two buildings
ana died In few minutes. The injured are
Ma Mary McsorIey, who Jumped from window and
and cannot live. Mary Harry, Della Gassett,
Emma Matthewson, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs Cuddy
Al these We're young women and all are probably
fatally injured. Some were carried TO their
homes and Others were taken TO the Rhode Island
hoSpltal In the police ambulance. Thomas Mann,
VINO iiVeS on Wells avenue, fell short OF the two
story building, and striking against it fell to the
ground. ~ ~
He had one arm and one leg broken. man
named smith leIl TO- the ground and was seriously
broke her leg. George Grant, OF the nrn OF Joseph
Grant q Co. jewellers, on the fourth fioor in the
se DYE S op b nd
from fourth story window TO the roof OF the
wooden building and broke his leg. George
endsavOred to extlngHish lIsh Taan' the names Se,
ana made narrow escape with
his life: one man, name unknown, an employe OF
the nre department arrived. The ladder raised
under him proved to be rive feet too short and a
mrean ~ M mounted to the top and caught the work
to Amos c. Barstow. VIM. Fl. Robinson's losses
are sl5 COO everything IN his shop was destroyed;
total, amounting to $4,000 Melvln's loss is also
total. Tie Providence Button Co. loses $500: un-
Insured The Providence cigar works lose 5000
pants OF the lower floors unknown amounts by
water damage. The fire did not extend below the
third floor.
At the Rhode Island Hospital, Thomas Mann,
foreman OF Grants Jewelry shop, has both ankles
broken, Is burned on the head ana hands, and Is
hurt internally. He will die. Mary CoddiDg,
twenty years old, has a bad scalp wound and q
fracture of the skull. She Is fatally hurt. She
lived with widowed mother. George Grant has
a compound fracture OF the left leg and several
bruises, and Florence Redding is burned in the
lace. These two are not seriously injured. Three
other women at the hospital are still unconscious
but are not fatally hurt