The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-08-04
BURNED TO DEATH.
Fearful Fire in a Tenement
Factory.
FOURTEEN OCCUPANTS KILLED
a Polish Taller Shor In New yerk
Destroy ed-A Leap to Destruction
--Chsrrea cerp<e< that Fall Apart
When Handled rrsxhsfal Agony
~ saserers Net Dead

SE3 9SEx. sug- S--1Ares people wire
trrsse<s 10 death IN six .Ss<gy brick bald
sag in tho ssxr II ss7 Rsaery this after
nsan. SIX mseec were hssaed "a esasiy
that shes wig nfshaf1s dse. and were re.
moved 80 xafieas hospitals
The hanSe was ramshncsle seatg. hid
dea ia the Iahssise 81 the block. Tie enlS
ensfaaee was 4 narrow alsey frosa The
fsasze-y Ia the cagea aaildias lived
about isa people, Zach Of sse SIX slnors
was occupied By = single fasaiiy, the head
tsf W ish m@s saiios, y 10 na1e ei1salaS
icg shear wholesale chsthiQw fsase and
EN- layca from Is 70 70 saeE women. and
chiliren. Ia addition 10 his own family in
making ap eIafhang They wcrv al Polish
yexs. employers aud eGzpisyes woskcd,
sic sad slept In the crowded rooms of the
siiagy tenement
AfNsat as clock this afternoon. while
al ihs oscar ants of the building were eus-
iy a; WaTk ia ths clasiag hoGrs rfscs,iiug
firrlr sabbath exc, hzsaes bsstkc ont o.i tue
lower fioor. The are had. when discovered.
airvassf gained suea headwss that u Was
In fall possession II she stairway, aasl IS.
care hy il seemed Impossible Many af
the frsshieuesi inmates rushed down
throaSb the flames aud inio The narrow
court yard, with clothes sAiaAe aud HANDS
and hSpdsea harned There were Gre
escapes on the front and rear 81 The hoase,
perpendicular iron ladders running Down
the rear az the huiss.fug. but aeie-e any 81
the inmate. hsd tried 10 escape by shem
the flames had aSccnslea through the house
and we're reaching the fFout windows. SO
that descent b the Ere css'aPes was ita-
possible.
uhelInan. already half biifned 70 death.
ieapeti from lifth-Stors window and fell,
: maasiei mass of fiesa, IN the little court
ward Others tumPess frem ihs second
Storx and escaped with hfaises- The
enormous crowds taas gathered sacok with
dread aud sympathy as SOME 81 the
wounded shfsekee! AMI others Freanezi with
pain. Rad Others fset3y snaaned ostt IN an
zuish one rsaeg woman lay on her batk
ia little store in tue Bowtry, with not
only her clothing. but the hair ul her head
burned Oft Ii seemed that she must be
dead, bat a siIzlt upheaval OF The bosom
told that life still remained. she was nB-
corrections, and the surgeons said she would
not live 10 reach the hospital
Another Young girl died with pain. she
Was act 81 badly burned as tue Others, but
in a mad jump frasa enc OF the windows
She had Fecelsea Internal iiiinitcs aad also
cut . terrible cash III the side af her head
from which hl0od gushei forth. giving her
"a ghastiy appearance She raved aud
screamed. and had TO he heid by two at
scadsais while her wounds wc-c i-sing
dressed
A. H. sheldon, manager ef the Peoples
theaser on first discovering the IRE, sent
out au alarm aad ihe ffpBen responded.
hut when they arrived tbs flames already
had complete possession of the house and
nothing could be done 10 save it, and little
io save It's inmates.
Charles ". Norman. property man OF the
Peoples theaser, with several Of his com
rados ran 20 tic rear OF ihe ihealef. carry
ing small ladder. which WAS stretched
over 10 the window Of the burning build
ing. 4 wonsn with her hair AMI clothing
already ahiAxe appeared AZ the window,
aud Norman called 70 her u erass over on
the ladder. she cried back that she could
not leave her two children. Norman tried
10 cross over on the ladder. but thr flames
drove him back aud he could not save
her. Afterwards the ebsrEcd body OF the
mother aud her two ehildren were ioand
( in the bnisainE. Tafcc men. homcs ef.
awaited themselves of the ladder and CO.
cared TO the roof OF the theater,
When the fremen had AT last drowned
the flames 30 that they could cater the
house, they searched tloor by doof as they
ascendeti. and on the third lieof they
found the dead bodies of a man. woman
and boy.
on the fourth iloor they fonnd aYe
bodies 80 badly burned tha; they could
not tell whether they were those OF men or
women.
{ tH rae Ntif moor 10 SA'slfH Atft fNufiis.
bat Oh the sixth aeos ave more were
found, aud they also we're 10 burned shst
/ it could not be told whether they were
/ men or women. THIS made thirteen bodies
/ found Ia the house.
That OF the man who ieaped from the
/ fitA story window Increased the death list
I to ~. " bile il Is fgsrei The death ot some,
+ II noi al, those IN the hospital. MI MAKE
Z the number grraieT.
( several oi The bodies were 6nen61 A.
Z badly that they fell apart si,eGM( 1U1
+ the ircmrn were Obliged - I0
/ from the windows ia nets, z- s..
The names 81 the dead
are: Philip Klorple, q
Jumped from the fifth -
Graft aud her two cbildrrn; -
Celia. years old. The notfNvS
I woman who refbsed to escape becaN41
would not desert her children Her n01i
band escaped with an infant in his arms,
aad vas almost crazy with grief nj the los
~ his wife and Two ether children The
other bodies are Al the mergsle waiting
Identification.
The IRE started on the first floor ia The
arastnscnf % Eiapn stevenson. isniiress oi
( the building, and was ea1sed by tAe explo'