The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-05-26
A Fire in Cincinnati Causes
Death and Injury.
Five Women Jump From q
Fifth Story Window
And are Killed by Falling on
the Pavement.
Ten Bodies Found in the Burn
ing Building.
Heart-Rsnding Scenes at the
Morgue.
One After Another of the
Bodies Identified.
A Mother Finds Her Three
Daughters Dead.

Cincinnati, o., May 2l.-At fire this
afternoon Ia Su livan's printing house,
story wiodeg 10 the sidewalk. Five OF
them are dead.
The fire on Sixth street this afternoon
caused the death of ssvehte-n persons 1t
was st FIRST though tina only five women
who jumped frJm the fifth story window
were killed, but when the fire was subdued
so that The 6remen could eBtr there Was
found len dead bodies lying in heap on
the fifth floor, an one oD the 10 nth.
There we're six who Jumped from the win
dow and Were killed AMI one man after
saving the lives Oh two women by lettiI g
them down a rope from the roof, WAS him
self killed by the burning oil the same rop.
before he reached the opnd. This was
MIR. Sullivan, brother Of The proprietor
of the printing works. The fire originated
by the explC sion of a gasoline stove Oh The
secand floor. The flames entered the elevator
oh Ite, which is next 10 the stairSay aad
all chance Of escape was thus cut off. The
killed are mos ly employees OF the dy e
works which occupied a portion OF the
place. The list now obtain able of the We
Tins is Mary Lowry, aged IL, killed John
3. Sullivan, one of the firm of Sui va d
Co., steam printing works, with Offices in
the building, killed Emma Pincbback,
badly hurt; Josie Hawk ms seriously burned
VIM. Bishop, badly hurt; Mamie shepherd:
fatally injured; Lizzie Meyers, KILLED;
Dollie, aged 2, jumpe from the top story
and was d ashed TO Pic S; The Two Pantar
sisters, both killed Mary BeeutuD, aged
Ia, kill d In leaping from the fifth story
Charles Brown made an effo:t to catch her
bat the force was 100 great and She dashei
On the sidewalk at his feet a shapel, IS
corpse; Fannie jones, killet. In addition
10 the above lit of those who were kill q
by lespipg from the fifth s'cry, eleven more
cOrpsss were fOuad inside the bIild-
ing and inquiries are low be
ing made. The filth sto,y was
completely burned out but the walls st II
stood and other floors are not much dam
aged. The building was occupied BY Sal
liyan's printing works, Orth, Weis el d Cos.
dye house, Ledger Postal News company,
and j. r. Kins,ey's gold, silver and nickel
plating works. 1t was not long until the
fire was under control. The mass Of tele-
graph and telephone wires prevented tie
iremen from putting up ladders promptly
for the relief.
TERRIBLE TALE.
This city has had its share OF shocking
disasters, but never has one happened where
such pitiful loss Of life has occurred as
that of to-day wi b so lutte occasion. In
less than fifteen miuutes after the fatal
blunder begsn sixie, n or seventeen ID rsons
persisted. Look ;ng over the scene alter the |
event it is plain that every life could have
been easily saved.
Short as the time was there was displayed |
heroism that saved two liy but |
one of the hero lost his own life. At al /
post one o'clock This afternoon Mr.. J. A. !
Green. city editor of the Times-Star upon |
going up the stairway TO bis office saw de. Sc
clouds of smoke issuing from the r.ar
windows of the building Nos. 10
and 81 West Sixth stree, and immed ately
to the fire department.
THE ALARM BROUGHT THE ENGINES
almost instantly and the 6remen could
reach the building from the front and
rear. 1t was not fife minutes until tie
ire was 50 much under control that Chief
Engineer WHISKY Was able to reach the
,irls employed there aud TO his horror
he found ten dead bodies lying with hands
o their faces and faces blackened ard /!
haired in death Tee chief said In speak
ng of l., The house not burned ont. I
q fact the fire was chiefly in the fifth story. t
n the smck- / cJunted ten girls living
pom tables, benches aud other, things. L.
ONE upon the AoCr. Their clothing was d
hut IL p
n the backs of all their j
ands was scorched. 1t was a terrible
ght; the worst ever saw in my exper-
'nce. The girls lay where they had fallen
! wild and
HELPLESS DESPAIR. :;
1t now has been fairly ascertained that a
he FIRE started from a can of benzine on "
lie second floor near the elevator A bow i
4 that floor says he heard report and III. Il
antly the fire leaped to the elevator shaft b
I'd darted up it. The shaft reaches to the S,
p OF The building, and from the third b
DRY to the fifth was erec'ed by wooden n
airway, which was the only means of ac- d.
IS to these floors. The elevator shaft, TO rC
Id to its combustibility, was encased OF
til In thin wooden lattice work The
cond floor, where the fire started,
rs the press room, the third the
IMPOSING room, the fourth a storage ~
ID waste room, and the fifth was the fold. b'
g room. As soon as the fire started John
Illivan, young man, cousin of the pro- "a
ietor, ran up the stairway to the fifth II
or TO give ci
WARNING TO THE GIRLS. T,
Instantly, almost, he found he was too of
Le TO gel them down the stairway and fe
at his own retreat was cut of. What be M
d for the frightened girls could only be