The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-08-20
A 4HNINHNY HORROR.
Nine People Lose Their Lives
in a Burning Building,
THE NAMES OF THE VICTIMS
or the Awful Flames-GFave sus'
picion that the Place was Set
Amrs-A Fearful sIght-sIKty
People Narrowly Escape,

A.. I..t.. T.. Al.
morning nEe pIoks OUT IN tue klICnen
Of restaurant on the store floor OF the
biv fye.story tenement at Seventh ave-
no Nina or,ba s,xtv oCcrnsn,o ~ tho
nus way Wv s'Ns' evNspaAso :. " Wv
house lost tue'r uYes' ana II ls agreaE
wonder that many more did not perish.
The dead are;
,U;,,,om llo,ron .,od m ,o.,s l,..
""'Nu, N'N' "ssN Wy 's"'e' pu'"
Gu 10 ueaIh'
Nellie MCGeoghan, 20 years, ,smothered.
MARY Wells. 8f'veaya. amotbered :, -
T"~S vii, go ,.'o.hosaJ
,,,l Saue !" "S,T, - 'Sa,s' apuVtsu'
Thomas Wells, years, smothered'
Bertha Lustig,40 years, burned TO death.
William Mckee. 47Iveara bnrned IN
III
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Jane jeffrey, 20 years, smothered.
Unknown woman, 45 years, smothered.
The list OF injured 10: William Glen
non, aged thirteen, badly burned; John
Cilennon, badly burned and injured.
The building was occupied by thirteen
families, who have been made tempore
riIy homeless by the Gre. The flames
dlu not 90 very much damage IN tue
Ii various SpstsmitnS Ply 0uFnea Th out
enniaTy ami loss wiIl amount to more Ell tbTsp TU
$4,000, The Gre originated 10 the rear
Of John snyder's restaurant at an hour
i Eneh W. ,o,.s sne pgop'eln the house were
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AN AWFUL SIGHT
Less than half a block away, on the
corner of Twenty.eiphth street and the
- ...s1 pai,ss.,a. w.. aaa
ANenue' ss'o. Sa sD., m"ei anu
McOullagh, oil the Ihlrueth street sla'
ton. They receiyeda a warning from
cry OF pain which came from the build
ing, and looking In the direction whence
1t Cane saw o wall Of FIRE beating against
the front windows OF the restaurant, By
the time a realizing sense Of what the
trouble was broke over them, iorked
tongue OF flames shot out from the roof
and lighted up the neiRliborhood. With
their clubs the officers beat In the front
doors, but q spiteiul blaze shot out and
warned them back. They tried the next
door and In that way found an entrance.
There was no sign OF life In the build.
ing and the officers hurried from one
door to another to arouse the inmates.
Murmurlngs at first were heard, then a
buzz Of many voices, which finally
changed into o wall oil terror and agony
from men, women and children strug.
Cling for their lives in the death traps
Fire escapes leading from the burning
building to tho as yet,untouched tene.
ment next, were soon filed up with half
naked people, frantic toreach the street.
In the meantime the Ere department
had arrived and had begun work on the
flames, aud were assisting In rescuing
the frightened inmates.
The flames were extinguished easily
enough by the fremen, and the people
on the fire escapes were all landed safe
ly. Not one person escaped down tue
stairway, and tie names Of the few who
tried II are found in the litt Of the dead
printed above, The search for the dead
was begun as soon as possible. The first
body found was that OF old William
Glennon. The remains were discovered
by the side OF the bed in his room on
the second floor, He had risen 10 fly
with his sons, but his old legs were not
nimble enough, aud he perished. The
boys we're taken to the hospital. They
we're badly burned on the feet, caused
by walking on the hot iron bars Of the
fiie escape.
In the rooms OF the Wells family was O
sight which cannot easily be forgotten.
In the middle OF the floor knelt the