Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-22
News by Telegraph
 FROM ALL QUARTERS. DEATH IN THE FLAMES. A Terrible Holocaust At
 Cincinnati. FRENCH DESIGNS IN EGYPT. A Candidate For Glad
 stones Seat. THE MARE ISLAND NAVY YARD. A Furious Onslaught On A Corpse.
TERRIBLE SCENES AT A FIRE.

TERRIBLE SCENES AT A FIRE.
 Lofty Building Takes Fire in the
 Fifth Story-Many Girls Caught fin
 the Flames Without Means of
 Escape-Some eff Them Leap From
 the Windows And Are Crushed
 Into a Shapeless Mass-A Number
 Burned to Death.
 CINCINNATI, May 21.-The building in which the fire originated at 19 and 21 West Sixth street to-day, by which a number of lives were lost; was occupied by Wissall & O. as dye house; Sullivan & Co.,; the Pa risian Dyeing company; the Ledger Postal News company; J. k. Kinsley, gold, silver and nickel plating works. Huge volumes of smoke burst from the fifth story windows of the building followed by the half smothered shrieks of frightened women who immedi- ately appeared at the windows. Then as they seemed to realize that escape was cut off one leaped forth into the air and fell to the pavement below Cries of 'tHoId onl' from below detained the others for moment and another 1eaped forth. As soon as the fire had been located in the printing office those in the vicinity familiar with the in terior of the place began to realize the awful tragedy that was imminent The second story contained the presses and machinery, employ ing about ten men and boys. The third story was the composing room, while on the fourth and fifth floors were the folding and binding departments. The fire originated at the hatchway on the second floor. A boy had just carried up can of benzine and set it at this point when it almost immediately exploded. The benzine was thrown over the already greasy woodwork of the elevator and in an instant the fire reached the fifth floor. Here were employed fifteen or twenty young girls and here began the avenue of escape. In the rear and front alike were but barely tive or three narrow windows. There was nc means of leaving the room save by 8 narrow stairway from floor to floor and a clumsy elevator running through the center of the building. Every floor wss packed with paper, which together with the light pine woodwork made rich fuel for the flames. The fifth floor was also occupied as g folding department and here too were seve- ral girls. No escape was possible, and even spread so fast that the victims would still have been obliged to give up their lives al most without a struggle.
 Among the killed is John Sullivan, a nephew of the proprietor, who was on the second floor when the fire started. fifth floor to save the women there, and finding his own escape cut off, set to work to save the women through the win adioining ads building l''i large % rope down and this the hero clutched. Standing on the window sill, surrounded by smoke and flames, he aided two of the themselves down. Then seeing that nc more pressed forward he himself reached out and caught the line. But he was not to live to reap the reward of his bravery. The treacherous flames had scorched the rope and before he had descended two yards il broke above his head and he fell to the side walk to be mashed into 8 shapeless mass He never breathed again. Josie Herks, the last girl who came down the rope, is severely burned and was taken home.
 Chief of the Fire Department Wisbey said ''When was able to get into the fourtf story I had no suspicion of what I should find there. The house is not gutted. In fifth story and the burning in the fourth is not considerable. So did not expect to meet such { | sight as I saw. In the smoke that still filled | the fourth floor I counted ten girls lying upon benches, tables and other things ol
 stretched upon the floor with not hail | singed. It was 8 terrible sight; the worst | ever saw. They lay in sll conceivable posi- | tions as they had fallen while wildly gropins about in despair"
 The following are the killed thu, | far reported: Tillie Vim; Fanni,
 Jones, aged twenty-two; Lizzie Meyer l aged sixteen; Kate Lowry; Della, Kate ant
 Mary Leaban, aged thirteen, fourteen ana
 sixteen years respectively; Kate and Mar.
 Hunton, aged twenty two and nineteen; Liz zie and Dollie Handel, aged twenty; Anni
 Mcintyre, Anna Bell, aged forty eight (mar
 ried); John Sullivan, aged twenty-two. The | injured are: Annie Pinchback, of Coving ton, Ky, seriously burned; Josie Herks
 William P. Bishop, a printer, frightfully
 burned and crushed, will die; Mamie Shep ard, head badly cut.