Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-03-08
DEATH In THE EFLAMES.
THE OFFICE OF The SPRINGFIELD UNION
BURNED.
SIX Persons Khown 70 Have Persisted. AID SIX More
Seriously Injured Victims Imprisoned in
the Fifth Story Of the Burn
ing Building.

SPRISGFIELD, MASS March 7.-Th
new Office oi the FrwjRg Union, at the cor
ner OF Main and Washington streets, wa
burned ont about o clock this afternoon
and the blaze was attended with the mos
sickening horror ever witnessed in thi
| city, six of the employees meeting tarrii
death most Ct them jumping from tn
lilth story and being crushed into shape
less mass below. Six others wer
badly,iniured. The fire was first di>covere,
in the mailing loom and clouds of smokt
were pouring out of the lower story win
dows before the fifty souls on the uppel
floor were aware OF their danger.
The flames shot up an old elevator in tb,
rear, cutting of escape by the stairway
aud most oI the employees who CscapsG
found their way TO the ground by way q
the roof in tbs Icar. The uniurtunat.
men and women who crowd
ci into the editorial loom,
met a horrible fate. Some were cut off il
the composing room and there is still &
terrible suspense, ~ several Icll bacI. into
the flames. The employees who rushed
into the editorial room were Cut of from
the escape in the rear, and had TO face thf
horrible alternative OF burning to death ol
jump 10 the sidewalk below and fright
FIJI mutilation.
The fire department responded prompt
ly, hut It seemed an age before i: reached
the window on the fifth story 4 ladder wa,
put to the rthstory and The sight ofrescuc
was 50 near seemed 10 madden the suffer.
ing group at the windows, who dropped in
succession 10 the aidewalk below. Six fell
in this way, some Of them forced OF and
sDian madly lcapinr, and the C,0wd groaned
ard turned their heads away as they
@hirlid through the air. The dead are as
follows Henry |. Goulding, foreman al
the iRiOH composing TOlm, hurnri 10
d5ath Miss e. Thompson p,oor reader.
Mrs. Frederick f Farley, editorial depart
mtnt, fell from the window and wa4
killed. Mr. lNm2nn, Of QIchcc, jumped
ana wac lIlled. w. +. lIuvey, Of Boston
fell to the sidewalk. Mt Brown, a com
pasitOr.
The injured are: Thomas Donohue,
crmpnsitor, bnd cut on the head and left
leg broken ut the knee; Timothy Dunn,
comp0sitor, ann aud leg broken; los. w.
Witty, comp0sItOr, hand. neck auL cara
burned, lie clung 10 tho window until
the ire forced him to drop, hut he fell on
a ladder aud was saved. q. f. Ellsworth,
compositor, compound fracture OF the leg;
lhof' D0nohue, compoSitOr, broken thigh.
fatally injured.
Il Is thought the fire started among the
lnmber in a closet on the ground floor 4
large canvass sheet was stretched over the
sidewalk. Three men Jumped Oh this,
bnt broke through and fell Oh the pave
ment. 4 woman also fl through tie
canvass and landed on the sidewalk ins,m-
N.hlr. Geo. &. Ware, Ina Ass,ciatcd
Press operator, had narrow escape.
He was sitting il room on
the Wo.thingtou street side Of the
block when the alarm vac aOund
ed. The r0nma ~ ,runf and
the passage ways were th.vk with smoke
rs he jumped up to run. In the same
room were MIS- Fulcy, Mrs. Howard,
the New England editor; Mr.. Warfcn the
new editor and Mr. ITiIl, lha mIl. inc
editor. No GGc had suspected Tie presence
'i the fire until III WY, "i r-,lpe by the
'.cJt'ar appeared To he sat oil. Mrs
Farley started for the elevator. II
.houted TO her, said Mr.. Ware.
to 90 the other way, aud took hold Other
Tho "m1kr was 10 dem u. ,L, .u4.a,.r
way that 10 GT9 g".,I Hn,e iiyel there
iudtl & minute. Mira Farley rtrnrslcd
% iTe" ncssrif and succeeded. She rushed
'ut to the front Of the hudins I lollowed
Nr Hill and Mr.. Warr,n sud Mrs. Howard
hronvh window TO the raof on "A. ,,,it
adj.