, 1885-05-22
DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.
lVolc uuuG4H Ll4 4lfID0D
The Destructive Element Causes
Great Loss Of Life
And Property in Cincinnati,
Horrible Suffering ofThose
Unfortunates that Could Not
Effect an Escape.
Fearful peaths From Fire.

never has one happened where such a
pitiful loss of hfe has occurred as hat to-
day with so little occasion. In less than
fifteen minutes after the fatal blunder
began sixteen or seventeen persons per
ished. Looking over the scene after the
event. it is plain that every life eould have
been easily saved, short as the time was.
There were displays of thoughtful hero
isms that saved two lives, but one of the
heroes lost his own life.
AT 1870 O'clock this afternoon j.. A.
Green, city editor of the Times Star,
upon going up tho stairway to his office
saw dense clouds of smoke issuing from
the rear windows Of the building Nos. 10
and 81 West Sixteenth street, and imme-
diately teIcphoned to the fire department.
An alarm brought the engines almost in
stantly, and as the firemen could reach
the building from the front and Read
street. il was not fifteen minutes until the
FIRE was so much under control that Chief
Engineer Wisely was able to reach the top
floor. But he was too late 10 rescue the
girls employed there, and to his horror he
found ten dead bodies with their hands to
their faces. and the faces blackened and
distorted in death. The chief said, in
snoaL;na ~ !, 1gTLa Lorsa i 10, BURNED
and, in fact, the fire was chiefly in the
fifth story. | counted ten girls lying upon
bonobos t,hlos .,d o,bor tbincs INA conc
on Tho aoor Tho;r clo,b;nr W. MOI,
burned hut tho lin on tbe bacls az
their hands vas scorcbod II was = tori
blo s;gbt ma ,yors, T ovor sac in INV ev-
ner;.Dce Tbe oirls l,v whore ,bor had
fbneo IL ,bo;T villa and belnIess desno;r !,
bosn ow hoon e,;rlv asoortainod tb,,
tho sro s,or,od Grom a can Of honv;ne an
tLo ssoond aoor noor tbe elevator sbof.
a IN ON ,bat Hoor saw bo be,rd ! reno rt
~ ;ns,ana, e. la.n,d 10 H. olo,a,or
shaa al 49, Tha sb.e ,o.eLos
10 tho tonof The bn;lding anil from Tho
,b;r5 storv a. IL, & itv.s onc;rle1 h,
. wooden s,,;rv.v which vas tbo only
r,o,r. IS ,rros, - ths,.. aoo-. ! eIc
- lie 80 IA - H. oon,h,s,ah;Ttr
was onoosod rr;,b = ,h;n woodon l,,rico
,rorl MT1,a saoo,a A. rboro ,ho e.
sta.,od wal a. ~ roo,n tho ,b;rd
tho comnos;ng room tbe fourth the
s,ar.aa0.na ,vas,o ,oon, aud Tho q >
RI EIa;nr 7-
A. soon &c d. Gro st,rtod Tob, Sill;
van , vourr man , cous;n Of tho rro.
nr;etor a mn ,be stoirwav 70 tbo 6Ab
aoor 70 o;ve wsr,;ng IN Tho Girls AL.
mos, Instantly he fund bc was TOO late tn
30, tbom down tho stairway and that HE.
Own ro,root vos ont oF Wbat he aid
for Tho er;gbtened Girls conld only bo told
b,, ,l;mrsos tb,t copld ho soon of him
tbrongb tbe smoking windows from
which tbe Girls had already leaned IN
dco,b a
JR K;nsl.v's son and his foreman
hod oore 10 tbe;r roof od;o;oing this one
wcst and knovino that the Girls were i'm
n,;sored On tbe aoor below thew nrocured
: .ono al lowo-od;t a. tho w;ndou wbero
sullivan was He Instantly crashed il
and fastening ope NJ tho s;rls m il he
belned ber ont If tho window and Kinslev
and Sbrooder lowered her safely to the
sid.waIl The rone WINS brought again
and Sullivan on;cklv fastened II 70 anotbcr
Oil and sent ber down sofaly The zone
came nm ,bo tb;rI ,;mo and 10 tho other
g;rls ~ this ,;u,e were all sufFocatsd or
wer. afra;d IN van,,re Sullivan fastened
tho rone n b;s ovn bodr and ,vos bo;ng Low.
eycd IN IN was bolf wov down Tho
aa,nes sbo, am Of rho w;ndow and be
en- nod e,r.,,ost ~ tho s;dewaIl in tho
n~rseeree Of : I,orr;ead crowd of neonle
who had witnessed h;s bero;sm when
ths o;rls woro ;nmrirr from The window
a larno oolorod man boro;.ou, ,r;ad 10
catch them and brook The force of
,ho eu ond noorlv los, his NV,
1ea IN tho ottemnt within t.n minutes
after ,bc fire bcoon natrol wagons were
called into use ,o carr away The wounded
and dead Az well as can be nscerta;ned
there were about 6ftv o~ccnnants If the
bu;ld;no of whom ,wentv or TWENTY five
were Girls on The fifth hoor Rows were
an tha second and third Hoors and this
accounts for their eseane. All agree that
Tho snrood ~ ,bo aaros ,yos oimos, in.
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