St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-04

hospitals will make this number greater.
While the firemen were searching the
ruins the cry came that the roof was
falling in, and the cracking of timbers
was heard. The fremen did not de-
sert the building, but ran to the
windows, where they waited orders.
They shouted to Chief McGill, who was
on the roof of lower house. "Wait till
| see," he shouted back. He climbed a
ladder and saw the roof sagging in, but
he shouted back orders to prop it up,.
and this was successfully done. Ali
the bodies had not been taken down.
and until this was done the firemep'
would
NOT DESERT THE RUIN.
Several of the bodies were burned so
badly that they fell apart when moved,
and the firemen were obliged to lower
them III nets.
The fire started on the first floor, in
the apartments of Emma Stevenson, the
Janltress OF the building, and was
caused by the explosion of a kerosene
oil stove. The building burned belongs
to Lawyer Abraham Stern, who bought
1t SIX months ago. The damage to the
building is about $4,000, covered by in
surance. The loss on the stock of
clothing in the various apart
ments is estimated at s15,O 900. at is be-
neyed it was not insured. The house
IN rear OF the death trap was badly
burned, and the Peoples theater was
slightly damaged by fire and water.
Whlle the firemen were searching on
tne top floor of the fatal building, they
encountered spectacle that, used as
tney are to trying scenes, brought tears
TO thei1 eyes. Beside a sewing maritime
That was blackened and warped, a
woman lay dead. She was burned
NEARLY TO A CRISP.
Her ralment was consumed. Tn the
murky air the firemen lifted the stiff
ened form and bore lit oward the outer
ar. But when they neared the charred
WlndoW easement, the begrimed and
nelmeted firemen discovered that two
Lves nag gone out when the
woman fell dead. The mother was Mrs;
Gruft, and Ill the horror of her situaJ
ton, had partially given birth to a lit!
!le one. Both were scorched crisp, andi
IN the same room whence she had re-
FUSED to go as detailed, without her
children, aged seven and four, they.
too, lay dead.
Tonight the police have set guard
upon the unhappy father for fear he
might commit suicide. His grief is
pltiaDle. as he tears his hair and
walls aloud. The list of dead, corrected
W iiiuiiiSit, 10 given herewith:
THE LIST OF DEAD.
Mrs. ADELE GRUFT, aged twentv-eight-
WIZ ner newborn babe, burned to death.
JOSEPH GRUFT. seven years, burned to
aE CELIN GRUFT, four years, burned to
PHILIP TALoPH, twentv-four wears.
Killed by jumping from sixth story,
HENRY SCHWARTZ, tailor, snffocated on
WOMAN unknown of nooro1,a hrrrad ho-
yond recognition
ABRAHAM SCHNEIDER, thirty.eighs
years, burned to death.
SOLOMON FINBERG, burned almost he.
yond recognition
Ten men at morgue, burned beyond recog-
milton.
THE INJURED.
MICHAEL RUEBENHoFF and HARRIS RUE
BENHoFF, father and son. The former viii
recovor and the latter will die.
AsIARs SPENNETT, Russian tailor TWENTY
seven years old, seriously injured; likely to
BERNARD RoTHMAN, Russian tailor. thirty.
TWO years old, married; seriously burned.
TAYLOR, PHILLIP, English tailor twenty
TWO years old, single, seriously burned.
hUBENoFF, NICHOLAS, Pole, tailor twenty
body.
,5,SARAH, tailoress, single, nineteen years
old, serious burns, likely to die.
IDA FRANK, Russian tailoress. single. frac-
tured skull from fall; likely to die
injured by fall
EDwARp NArosTro, Russian tailor, injured
ABOUT limbs by jumping from third story.
MORRIS BRIscHIER, Pole, tailo r, broke leg
by jumping from third story
NATHAN LEANNIE, Russian, tailor, sixty
years, burned about the BODY
missing (as far as could be learned):
years old.
Benjamin Bernstein, Pole, tailor, twenty
seven years.
The missing are believed to be among.
the number of those burned beyond
recognition. The death of Asiars Spen-
nett at the hospital, at late hour this
evening, makes the seventeenth death
to midnight.