Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-05-22
A HOLOCAUST.
An Appalling Loss OF Human Life In
an Insignificant Blaze In
Cincinnati fire-Trap.
Ten Women and Girls Literally Roasted
Alive while Means OF Escape
We're Within Their Reach.
Seven victims are Dashed 20 Death
From Fiith.Story window
Many Others IpJured
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WHAT Is--wHAr MIGHT HAVE BEEN.
CINCINNATI, OHIO, May 2i,--At a
fire this afternoon In the Sullivan
printing house eight girls and women
jumped from the fifth story to the aide
walk. Five OF them are dead.
| Tho Particulars.
The fire on Sixth street this after
noon ut No. 10 caused the death OF
seventeen persona. IL was at first
thought that only five women, who
jumped from hith.story window,
were killed, but when the fire was sub
dued 30 that the firemen could
enter the building II was found that
ten dead bodies lay ON the fifth floor
and one on the fourth. There were
ak whojumped from the window and
were killed, and ore man, after saving
the lives of two women by letting
down u rope from the roof, was him
self killed by the burning OF the same
rome before he got 10 the ground. This
was Mr., sullivan, u brother OF the pro-
prietor OF the printing works, The fire
originated by
THE EXPLOSION or A GASOLINE STOVE
on the second floor. The flames en-
tered tho elevator, which is next TO
the stairway, and all chance
OF escape was thus cut OIL,
The killed are mostly employees
Of dye works which occupied n por-
ton OF the place. The list now OBJ
tainable of the victims reade IA fol-
lows:
MARY LowREy, aged eighteen,
lives In Covington, killed.
JOHN SULLIVAN, one OF the firm OF
the Sullivan 4 Co. Steam Printing
works, with their office In the build.
ing, killed.
EMMA PfNCHBAcK, badly hurt.
JOSIE HAWKES., severely burned
WILLIAM BISHOP badly hurt
MAMIE SHEPHERD, fatally injured.
LIZZIE MEYERS, killed.
DoLLIE aged twenty-five,
jumped from the top story and was
dashed 10 pieces.
Two PUTNAM sisters of Newport,
both killed.
MARY BEENTEEN, aged seventeen,
Of Newport, killed In leaplng from 5he
fifth story. Cyrus Broom made aii
effort TO save her but the force WAS
too great and che dashed onto the
pavement at his feet AehRpelegs oOrpeO.
FANNIE JONES, Killed.
In addition to the above list Of those
who were killed 10y leaping from the
fifth story more oorpses were found
inside the building aud the search liz
now MAXI 4 The nth story was
completely bHTned out but the walls
were still standlng. The other floors
: are not much damaged. The binding
WAS occupied by Sullivan Il Co.'S
Printing works, Orth. Weiseell n Goa
, dye house, The Ledger, Postal
News.company, Pauslan's Dyeing ard
Securing company and J. n Kins-
ley'a gold, silver and nickel.plAting
works. IL was not long until the fire
was under control. The mass OF tele-
graph and telephone wires prevented
the firemen from putting ladders up
promptly for the relief OF the inmates,
A Pitoous Tale.
CINCINNATI, ONO, May 2l,,-This
city has had Its share OF shocking dis
asters, but never has one happened In
which pitiful loss OF life has occurred
as that Of to day with 20 little occasion.
In less than fifteen minutes after the
fatal event began sixteen or seventeen
persons persisted. Looking over the
scene after the event IL is plain
, easily saved, short AZ the time was.
There was a display Of thoughtful
heroism that saved two lives, but one
OF the heroes
LOST his OWN LIFE
At $50 o'clock this afternoon Mr.. j..
g. Dean, city editor Of the Times, la
going up the stairway 10 his office
saw dense clouds OF smoke
Issuing from the rear windows OF the
building ut numbers rs and 20 West
Sixteenth street. and Immediately
telephoned TO tho fire department. An
alarm brought the engines almost In
stantly, and as the flremen could reach
the building from the front and rear
II was not fifteen minutes until the
fire Was
so MUCH UNDER CONTROL
that the chief engineer was able 10
reach the fifth or top floor, but he
| was unable 10 reach the girls employed,
4 and 20 his horror he found ten dead
: bodies lying with their hAnde 10 their
: faces and their faces blackensd aud
distorted In death. The chief eAid In
speaking Of II: "rne house Is not
burned out. In fact the fire was
chiefly In the ffh story In tbs
smoke ! counted ten girls lying
upon the benches, tables and other
things and some on the floor. Their
clothing was not burned, but the skin
on the backs Of their hands was
tcorched. IL was terrible eight, the
worst l ever saw In my experience.
The girls lay where they Rad fallen In
their wild and helpless deepair."
How II started.
II has now been fairly ascertained
that the fire started from can Of BEN
zine on the second floor, near the ele-
yator shaft. A boy on Chat q DOT says
be heard report and instantly the
fire leaped TO the elevator shaft and
darled up II. The shaft reached 10 the
top Of The building. and from tbs third
story 10 the hfth II WAS en-
clrcled by wooden stairway,