The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-22


the girls had already leapei to their death.
j. i. KiDsley's sousa and his foreman had gone
to the roof OF their building, adjoining this
on the west, and kaowing the girls were i'm
prisoned on the floor below, they procured
rope and lowered it to the window where
Sullivan was. Hesinstantly grasped 1t, and
fastening one of tbp girls to it, helped her out
OF the window, end Kinsley and Shrader
lowered her to the sidewalk. The rope was
brought up ands Sullivan again quickly
fastened it TO anotser girl and sent her down
safely The rope game third time, and as
the other girls bs this time were all sutfo-
Gated or were atrssd to venture Sullivan
fastened the rope 70 his own body and was
being lowered when, as he was half way
down, the faIaes shot out of 8
window and he fell head foremost to the
sidewalk in the presence of Mortified crowd
OF people who had witnessed his heroism.
When the girls s.sere jumping from the
to catch them, andho break their fall. He
nearly lost his lifesin the attempt Within
ten minutes after the fire began the patrol
wagons were GALES into use to carry away
the wounded and all d.
AS well as can be- ascertsined there were
about htty occupants of the buildings, OF
whom twenty or twenty-five were girls, in
the fifth story. The boys were on the second
and third foors and this accounts for tdeir
escape All agree. that the spread Of tne
flames was almost Instantaneous Mr.. Kins-
ley, who ran 10 .his upper floors in the
rear. where the flames were in danger of
coming through ais windows, found the
smoke SO dense he Shat he had to crawl on
the floor to reach tys window and close it.
All this while there was an avenue of escape
which the panic str cken girls did not think
OF. 1t was an opening in the roof which
they could have reecbed from beach stand.
ing beside the wall land once on the roof
mi hou Coz ahoA 9th hnfI
with perfect ease ,rhe lack of ready access
to this place lost sil these lives. The fire
was almost Insignificant. That wooden
stairway around tae elevator shaft is not
burned SO as to be useless or even unsafe,
yet the flames seem. TO have pervaded ali the
floors and to have rained all the paper and
other light and coneoustibl material.
Sullivan estimates his lose at $6 900 to
$4,000. with an ample insurance. The loss
20 the building iss slight The scenes at
Hsbie's undertaking. establishment, where
the dead bodies wire taken, and where
friends and relaiives came to identify them,
were of the most peEnful character In one
case policeman ofCoyingiOn identified bis
sisters, Lizzie andsDolly Handel, who wers
twins. Mr.. Mier :tound the body of hsr
daughter, and had to be led away from the
terrible sight. Mrs. Lehsn had the awful ex.
re1ence of finding her three daughters
among the dead. The fatal list as now
made up is:
ANNA BELL. agcti twenty. four, wife of
DAVID Bell, 20 Lock wood street;
DoLLIE and LIZZIE HANDEL, twin sisters,
twenty years, Il Scott street, Covington;
FANNIE JONES' twenty-five years, Liberty
and Freeman;
DELLA, KATIE and MARY SEBAN, sisters,
aged twenty three, fourteen and sixteen re-
spectively, 206 Sixth street;
KATIE LOWRY, twenty years, Newport;
LIzzrE MEIRs sixteen years, $40 Broadwa7;
ANNIE Mc1NTIRR, twenty years. 80 El t
S xth street;
FANNIE NORTON, thirty.four yesrs;
KATIE and MARY PUTNAM sisters twenty
two and nineteen respectively;
JOHN SULLIVAN, twenty-five years, 800
Broadway
LILLE WYNN, twenty years, So East Fifth
street.
The injured are:
WILL BIsHOP. printer, twen'y-three, 203
Fifth street. Covington, cruahed and burned,
Will probably die;
JOSIE Brooks, broken leg;
NANNIE SHEPHERD, head badly cut, Hsrri-
son street.
Already preparations are in progress for
tie relief of the families of the victims,
most of whom were the support OF depend
ent parents.