The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-05-22
CALAMITY AT ClNClNNA II.
A Fire Horror of the Host Shocking
and Fatal Character.
A Printing House Slightly Damaged,
but Seventeen Girls COrpses.
Six Leap from the Fifth Story and are
Dashed to Death.
Fatal Heroism of q Youth Attempting
10 Rescue Victims.
Lists of the Dead and Wounded AgonIz-
ing Scenes at the Undertakers-A
Calamity That Might Easily
Have Been Averted.
OTHER mlsHAPs OF THE DAY.
AnAwful FIre Tr ,rohr.

An Awful Fire Tr sgody.
CINCINNATI, May 2l.--At fire thi,
afternoon in Sullivan printing house
eight girls and women jumped from the
fifth story to the sidewalk. Five OF
them are dead.
SEVENTEEN VICTIMS.
The tire on Sixth street, AZ No. 10, this
afternoon, caused the death of II per.
sons. 1t was first thought That only live
women who jumped from tho hfth story
window were killed, but when the dire
was suhdued 80 that the fire.
men could enter tho building it
vas found that 10 dead bodies lny on the
fifth floor and one on the fourth. There
was @ who jumped from the window and
were killed, and one man after saving
tho 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. The fire was orlgi.
mated by the explosion Of gasoline
stove on the second floor, The flames
entered the elevator, which is next 10
the stairway, and ali c!ace
escape WAS thus cut off. Tho killed are
mostly employees of the dye works,
which occupied portion of the place.
THE LIST OF VICTIMS,
now .obtainable, reads az follows:
Mary Lowrey, aged II, lived in Gov
ington, killed.
John sullivan, one of the dfm of Sui
liyaA & Co., steam printing works, with
offices in the building, killed.
Emma Pinchback, badly Drt.
Josie Hawkes., severely burned.
William Bishop, badly hurt.
Mamie Shepperd, fatally il iured.
Lizzie Meyers, killed.
Dollle -, aged % yeaf Jumped
nom the top story and was dashed 10
pieces.
Two female printers, sisters, Os New
port, Kentucky, were both killed.
Mary Benton, aged IL yeeti, OF New
port, killed In leaping from the fifth
story. Cyrus Braaln made an effort TO
save her, but the force WAS too great and
she was dashed on to the pavement at
his feet, shape.ess corpse.
Fannie Jones, killed.
In addition to the above list Of those
who were killed by leaping from the
NTH story, IL more oorpses we're found
inside the building and the search is
now being made.
THE OCCUPANTS.
The NTH story was completely burned
out, but the walls are still standing.
The other floors are not much damaged.
The building was occupied by Sulli-
van d Co.'s printing works, Orth, Weis-
sci u Co.'s dye house, the Ledger Pos
tai News company, the Parisian DyeinR
and Securing company, and j. II. Kins-
ley, gold, silver and niokelplating
works.
1t was not long until the fire was un-
der control. The mass of talegraphic
and telephone wires prevented the fire.
men putting up ladders promptly for
the inmates.
.AP1TIfUL STORY.
Inc city has had its share OF shocking
ulsasters, but neve has one happened In
whish such pitiiul loss OF life has oc.
rurred MS that OF to-day, with so little
occasion. In loss than 10 minutes after
Jhe event begun 10 or IL persons had
perlshed' Looking on the scene after
the event, IL is plain that every lifo
ooulu nave been easily saved. Short as
The lime was there were
displays of thoughtful heroism
Lhat saved two lives, out one of
the heros lost his own lilo. At / 40
o'clock this afternoon Mr.. J. g. Dean,
city editor of the rimas, was going up
ihs stairway TO his office. 10 saw 0ense
clouds OF smoke issuing from the win
loWa OF the building, Nos. Is and 2l,
west SlNtoonth street, and he i'm.
telephhonod TO the Ire depart
ment. An alarm brought The engines
almost instantly, and as the
bremen could reach the build.
ing from front AID rear
u was not 10 minutes until the fire was
80 much under control thsi the chief
engineer was able 20 reach sbe fifth or
-op iloor, but he was unable preach the
girls employed, and, TO hln horror, he
Iound 10 dead bodies lying With their
nands TO their faces, aud feoes black
ened and disoolored In death. The
'hiei, on speaking of Il, said
"Ihe house y not burned cut; I'm fact,
me liro was chleily in the iiith story. In
me smoke counted 10 girls
.Ylng ON benches, tables and other
.hlnks on the samo floor. Tieir cloth
nB was not burned, but the skin on tae
JACKS OF thelr hands was soorched. IL
was terrible sight; the worst | ever
where they had fallen In their Wild and
helpless despair"
ORIGIN OF THE FIRE.
IL has now been further tsoertainsd
hat the tiro started from a can of hen.
zine, ON the second floor, nSar the Ella.
,ator shaft. A boy ON that
loor says he heard A report
ma instantly tho fire leaped
o the elevator shaft and dsrted up IL.
The shaft reaches 10 the top of the build
ng, aud from tho third story to the fifth
Z was enciroled by q wooden stairway.
Fhlch was the only means OF access Ia
hese hoors. The elevator shaft, To add
o lts oomhustibtlity, was encased with
tnin wooden lattice work. The sec
md floor, where the fire slarted, was
ne press room, the third the Composing
oom, tho fourth a storage and waste
Dom, and the fifth was the foidinp room.
As soen as the fire started Tohn Sulli-
AN, young man, cousin OF tho proprie.
or, ran up the stairway TO the fifth floor
o give warning 10 the girls. Instantly
10 found he was too late to get than
Iown the stairway. What ha dIil for tba
frightened girls could only he told hv
he glimpse that could be- seen of him
y the smoking window whenoe fonr
u the girls had already leapad to
heir death. j. X. RInsely's son
md his foreman had gone 10 the
oof oftheir building, adjoining this.on
no west, and knowing that the girls
we're imprisoned ON the floor below
hey procured rope and lowered n to
he window where Sullivan was. Ue
instantly grasped II, aud fap,eninr one
u the girls to 1t, helped hor ont of the
and Kinstey and the foreman
owered her safely. Tho rome was
,ronght up and Sullivan agnin quickly