St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-22
2OS Fifth street, Covington; crushed and
burned; win probably die.

2O3 Fifth street, Covington; crushed and
burned; win probably die.
JOSEPH HAWKES., broken leg.
EMMA PUCK, back broken lived at Gov
ington; is unconscious, and win probably die.
MAMIE SHEPHERD, head badly cut;
lived on Harrison street.
Already preparations are made for the re-
lief of families of the victims, most of
whom were the support of dependent pa
rents. c. Broom, who had charge of the
paper cutting machine in the building. To-
Gated on the second floor, made the follow
ing statement: 81 was working at my ma
chine when the fire started. 1t broke out
at the elevator, right below the dry-raek,
where the freshly printed sheets are hung
to dry, on the second floor. When ! saw
the blaze ran up the stairs as high as the
fourth floor, when the flames were 50 hot
that they drove me back but not before L
yelled to the girls not to jump out OF the
windows. When l got down to the pave
ment, however, l saw the flames and
smoke rushing out of the windows and the
girls trying to make their escape. Mrs.
Bell, Dolly and Mary Handle jumped, and
caught them as well as could, injuring
myself by so doing" The two girls were
killed outright and Mrs. Bell was dread
fully injured and died at the hospital. Josie
Hawkes., who was the one who was saved
by the rope, was badly burned on her
hands and arms, and by fall just before
she reached the sidewalk
BROKE HER LEG.
She spoke nationally to the doctors and
said she did not want to be taken home in a
patrol wagon. Her wish was gratified. In
answer to questions she said: 'sThe first
thing knew found myself surrounded by
smoke. The fire seemed to come up
through the floor, as it burned my arms and
feet. / dropped on my hands and knees
and crawled to the window. After while
somebody threw me a rope. started
down and would have fallen, only some one
caught me-"
Miss Richard jumped, apparently in
safety, to a tarpaulin held to catch her, but
she was afterward found injured. Theo-
dore Harden, another employe, said: Il
was on the second floor when saw Tom
Gleason run past with his clothes on fire.
| rushed up, but could not reach the girls.
I cried fire! firer loudly. l saw at once
that the girls would be cut off. Their cries
were terrible;;" and the boys feeling over
came him so that he could not proceed.
Mrs. Leaben,
WHO LOST THREE DAUGHTERS,
appeared at the morgue to identify them.
Her features were stained with grief, but
with some gleam of hope she passed body
after body, until sharp cry and the words
My God! here is Mary" showed that hope
had fed. In moment her bewildered eyes
found Katie, then Della. The poor woman's
grief was so touching that spectator kindly
led her to the Office, where her disconsOlate
mournings could be heard far into the
street. The brother of Fannie Jones recog-
nized his sister by two finger rings. ut
will kill mother, too" he cried, as tears ran
down his cheeks, and he, too. was led away
from the CHASTITY sight. Mr.. Cald-
well, the fire escape inspector,
says that when he inpected the
building more than year ago, it was not
occupied as a factory above the second floor,
hence he could not require fire escape at
tached to the building. He had never been
notified of the change in manner. of the oc-
cupancy of the building and hence there
had been no fire escape ordered. The Sui
livans were quite young printers, beginning
short time ago with almost no capital.
They had used economy, and being well
trained in the art had increased their busi-
ness until they occupied nearly the entire
building.