St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-03
IN SETTLING FLAMES.
Three Persons Perish in a Big
Hotel Fire at West
Superior.
Several Others Missing, Some
Of Whom Are Thought to
Be in the Ruins.
An Awful Confiagration
Sweeps Away Many Build
ings in Baltimore,
and Seven Brave Firemen
Surrender Their Lives
Fighting It..
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WEST SUPERIOR, Wis, Sept. 2.-The
American house burned this morning,
and three persons lost their lives. The
hotel is located on the corner of Third
and Tower avenues, and the fire was
discovered at a. m. Officer Samevans
was the first to give the alarm, and very
soon the hook and ladder company and
hose companies were at the scene, and
four streams turned on the fire. This
was not done, however, until the entire
building was envelOped in mass of
flames. and the screams of the frantic
men and women escaping from the
burning building, some in only their
night clothes. lent horror to the
scene. The fire was finally gotten
under control and confined to the
hotel. The conflagration was attrib-
uted to lamp explosion in the second
room from the corner on Third
street, occupied by three men,
Walter Carter. Minch Storm and John
Oleson, who had been out the night
previous until pretty late. They say
the first they knew of the fire was the
discovery of the flames on the floor, and
their escape was
SOMETHING MIRACULOUS.
Storm had his hair badly singed and
escaped without his clothes, S43 and a
watch in his pants under his
pillow. Walter Carter lost his
clothes and weeks wages.
Tom Tagnay, the landlord,
lost $500 worth of household goods on
which there was not a cent of inSur
ance. Jack Jones, who owns the building
and furniture, estimates his loss on the
building at about $1,000, $1,000 on the
furniture, with about S1,SOO insurance
on the former and none on the latter. The
proprietor of the bar lost about $1,000
on stock and fixtures, with no insur-
ance. At one time the entire block
seemed in imminent danger, but by the
brave efforts of the firemen and
many citizens the fire was
under control. One man carried the
PROSTATE form of his bedfellow, whom
he was
UNABLE To AROUSE
out of the burning hotel, and laid him
down. The fellow suddenly realized
tn6 SITUATION, anu WIFI VIII yen
rushed away. The girls who
were employed in the hotel were
so Mortified by the awful death that
seemed to confront them that it was
with difficulty that they were forced
TO leave the doomed hotel. The
charred bodies of three men were
found this morning, one of which is
supposed to be that of Pat Claire, a
Canadian. The others have not
been identified. 1t is thought
that at least three more
persisted in the flames, as a number of
the boarders were known to have been
intoxicated when going to bed, and it is
hardly probable they escaped, as they
were asleep in the third story of the
building. Several men appeared at the
windows in the second story, and
blankets were held by the citi-
zens for them to jump into,
but they fell back again and
ii Is not known whether or not they es-
capped by other means. A large force of
men were at work removing the ruins
and searching for bodies all day, but up
to 10 p. m. no others had been found.