The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-05-22
DEATHS HARVEST
Sixteen Girls and One Man
Burned to Death in is
Minutes in Ohio.
The Accused Telephone Wires
and an Elevator Did the
work-Heroic sullivan.
BOstOn's Bean.Eatiug Police
Arresting Street Preachers-
Illinois HeiIish Grimes.
Sends Two Mothers,
Win Infants i'm Their Arms
to The Penifessiasy.



Cincinnati, May 2l.-At fire this
afternoon in the Sullivan printing
house eight girls and women jumped
from the fifth story TO the sidewalk,
and five OF them are dead.
The fire at No. 10, Sixth street. this
afternoon caused the death of SEVEN
teen persons. 1t was at first thought
that only the five women who jumped
from the fifth story, were killed, but
when the fire was subdued SO that the
iiremen could enter the building it
was found that ten dead bodies lay on
the fifth floor and one on the fourth
There were six who jumped from the
window and were killed.
One man, after saving the lives OF
two women by letting down a rope
from the roof, was himself killed by
The burning of the same rope before
he got to the ground. This was Mr..
Sullivan, brother of the proprietor of
the printing works. -.
Tho fire originated from T. @ explo
sion of a gasoline stove on the second
floor. The flames entered &c eleya.
tor which is next to the stairway, aud
all chance of escape was thus cut of.
The Killed are mostly employees of a
dye works which occupied a portion
of the place. Tho list, now ob,aina.
able, of the victims, reads as follows:
Mary Lowrey, aged II, who lived
in Covington, was Killed.
John Sullivan, one of the firm OF
Sullivan Il Co, steam printers, with
offices in the building, was killed.
Lizzie Myers was killed.
Dollie, aged ~, jumped from the
top story aud was dashed to pieces.
Two Puntcr sisters, of Newport,
were both killed.
Mary Beentcn, aged II, OF New
port, was killed in leaping from the
fifth story. Cyrus Braam made an
effort to save her, but the force was
too great and she was dashed on
the pavement at his feet shupcless
corpse. Fannie Jones was also killed
by falling on the pavement.
In addition to the above lis, o. those
who were killed by leaping from the
fifth story, eleven more corpses were
found inside the building. The
search is now being continued.
Mamie Shepherd was fatally in
jured; Emma Pinchback was badly
hurt; Josie Hawkes. was seriously
burned, and William Bishop was
seriously injured,
The fifth story was completely
burned out, but the walls are still
standing, and the other floors are not
much damaged. The building was
occupied by Sullivan ~ CO., printing
works; Ortiz, Weissell Il Co, dye
house, and the Ledger postal news
company; The partisan dye and
securing company aud j. Il. Kinsley,
gold, silver and nickel-plating works
1t was not long until the fire was
under control, but the mass of tel
cgraphic and telephone wires pre-.
vented the fircmen from putting up
ladders for the relief of the inmates
AFTER THE FIRE.
This city has had its share ofshock.
ing disasters but never has one hap.
pened in which so pitiful loss of lif,
has occurred as in that of to-day will
SO little occasion. In less than fif
teen minutes after the fatal fire be
gan, sixteen or seventeen persons hat
persisted and yet looking over tn,
scene after the event, it is plain tina
every life could have been easily
saved. Short as was the time Their,
were displays of thoughtful
heroism that saved two lives, but on,
of the heroes lost his own life.
At half past o'clock this afternoon
as Mr.. j. ID. Dean, city editor of tn,
Times, was going up the stairway Il
his office, he saw dense clouds o
smoke issuing from the rear window
of the building Nos. Is and 81 Yves
Sixteenth street, and immediatel,
telephoned to the fire depart
ment. The alarm brought tn
engines almost instantly to tn
spot, and as the firemel
could reach the building from from
to rear, it was not fifteen minute
until the fire was SO much under con
troll that the chief engineer was abb
. to reach the top or fifth floor, and I,
his horror he founc ten dead bodie
lying with hands to their faces, an,
their faces blackened and distorted il
: death.
The chief said in speaking OF Il
"The house is not burned out. Il
r fact, the fire was chiefly in the fiji
story. In the smoke | counted te
girls lying upon benches, tables an
other things and some on the foo
D Their clothing was not burned, bu
n the skin ON the backs of their hand
: was scorched. 1t was terrible sigh
4 the worst | ever saw in my exper
ence. The girls lay where they ha
fallen in their wild aud helpless d.
spair.
n Arresting Preachers In Boston.