Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-05-22
A HOLOCAUST.
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/ OF access 10 Jufee UOOrb. Inc elevator
shafts to add TO its cOmbugtibility, was
encased with o thin wooden lattice
work. The second floor where the
fire started was the press room, the
third the composing room, the fourth
q storage and waste room, the fifth
was the folding room. AS soon ms
the fire started John Sullivan,
a young man, cousin OF the proprietor,
ran up the stairway to the fifth floor to
give warning TO thegirls. Instantly he
found that
HE WAS TOO LATE
to get them down the stairway. What
he did for the fren7ied girls could only
be told by the glimpse that could be
seen of him at the smoking window,
where four Of the girls had already
leaped to their death. J. II Kinsley's
son and his foreman mad gone to the
roof Of their building adjoining this
on the west and, knowing the girls
were imprisoned on the floor below,
they procured "A rope and lowered ii to
the window, where Sullivan instantly
grasped 1t and, fastening one Of
her out Of the window and
Klnsley and his foreman lowered her
safely. The rope was brought up and
Sullivan again quickly fastened it to
another girl ana sent her down safely.
The rope came third time. AS the
other girls by this time were ell suffo-
Gated or were afraid to venture, Sulli-
van fastened IL to his own body and
was being lowered when, as he WIS
half way down, the flames shot out Of
q window and
HE FELL HEAD FOREMOST
to the sidewalk in the presence of a
Mortified crowd Of people who had
witnessed his heroism. When the
girls were jumping from the windows
large colored man heroically tried to
catch them and to break the force of
the fall. He nearly lost his own life
in the attempt Within ten minutes
after the fire began the patrol wagons
we're called to carry away the wounded
and killed. AS near as can be ascer.
tanned
THERE WERE ABOUT FIFTY oCCU-
PANTS
of the building, of whom twenty or
twenty-five were girls in the fifth
story. The boys were on the second
and third floors, and this accounts for
their escape. All agree that the spread
of the flames was almost instantaneous.
Mr.. Kinsley, who ran to his upper
flo or in the rear where the flames were
in danger Of coming through his win
dows, found the smoke so uense that
he had to crawl ON the floor
to reach his window and close 1t. All
this while there was
AN AVENUE OF ESCAPE
which the panic striken girls did not
think OF. 1t was the opening in the
roof, which they could easily have
reached from bench standing be.
side the wall. aud once on the
roof they could have reached other
buildings with perfect ease. The lack
of ready access to this place lost all
these lives The fire was almost in
significant. The wooden stairway
around the elevator Is not
burned 80 as to be useless
or even unsafe, yet the flames
seemed to have pervaded all the floors
and to have ruined all the paper aud
other light combustible matter,
Sullivan estimates his loss at from
$4,000 to 10000, with ample insurance.
The loss TO the building is slight.
The scenes at Hobes' undertaking
rooms, where the bodies were taken
and where the friends and relatives
| painful character.
In one case policeman of Coving.
ton Identified his sisters, Lizzie and
Dollie Handle, who We're twins.
Mrs. Meyers found the body Of her
daughter and had to be led away from
the terrible sight.
Mrs. Lebanon had the aw full expert
ence of finding her three daughters
| among the dead
The fatal list as now made up Is as
follows:
ANNA BELL, aged forty-eight, wife
OF David Z. Bell
DoLLIE and LIZZIE HANDLE, twin
sisters, twenty years OF age.
FANNY JONES, twenty-five years Of
age.
DELIA,l KIrTIE and MARY LEBANON
sisters, aged twenty-three, fourteen
and sixteen, respectively.
KATIE LowREY, twenty years o
age.
LIZZIE MEYERS, sixteen years o
age.
ANNIE MCINTYRE, twenty years o
: age.
FANNIE NORTON, thirty-four year
OF age.
KATIE and MARY PUTNAM, sist ers
aged twenty-five and nineteen, respect
lively.
JOHN SULLIVAN, aged Twenty-Five
LILLIE VIM, aged twenty.
The Injured are:
WILL BISHOP, printer, crushed an,
: burned, will probably die.
JOSIE HAWKES., broken leg,
EMMA PGNCHBAcK, will probabl,
die.
MAMIE SHEPHERD, head badl,
cut.
Already preparations are in progress
: for the relief of the families OF tn
victims, most of whom We're the suI
. port OF dependent parents.
Statements of EyewItnesses.
Q. Broom, who had charge of a pa
per'cutting machine in the buildin
on the second floor, made the follow
Ing statement; az was working my ms
chine when the fire started. 1t brok
. out at a point below the dry rack
: where freshly painted sheets are dried
q When saw the blsge ran up tn