St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-10


KATE REIDENAUER.
ROSE CLEMMER.
These are all the dead who have been
taken out. Clerk Autenbach stated at
midnight that he believed that fully
eighty bodies were in the ruins under
the three floors. His list of employees
is lost, and owing to the confusion in
taking out the injured he was unable to
furnish list of the killed. But eighty
is a conservative estimate of those who
lost their lives. Among the wounded
are:
GERALDINE GLAZIER.
ANNIE LEEDS.
BERTHA KUSER.
ELLA LAMM.
EMMA RAUENSAHN.
GEORGE NEIMAN.
ELLA KARL.
MINNIE MERKEL.
SALLIE HASSON.
LIZZIE OWENS.
BERTHA HERMAN
MARIE MELLON.
ELLIE SALMON.
ELLIE PFLUM.
KATE HEPLER.
MARY CuNNIVUS.
MARY EVANS.
EFFIE EBRIGHT.
HOWARD and ANNIE BRICKER.
ANNIE FRY.
and many others whose names cannot
be ascertained in the confusion of to-
night. Augustus E. Roscup, residing
at 63S North Tenth street, was the fore
man of the first and second floors of the
silk mill. A reporter interviewed him
and his statement is as follows:
1t was about 20 when went to the Sec
ond story to turn on the electric lights After
had done this / stood looking about the
room for about ten minutes. Sudden
ly / heard loud rushing noise,
which 1 thought was a cyclone. The
building then shook. 1 was standing in
the southern end of the room and before
could look out of the window l felt the
building sink quick as lightning, the peruon
of the room that l was in went down. The
girls rushed about me crying and screaming,
and calling for help. They did not realize
what was taking place. 1t seemed to me
as if the center of the building
was struck first I cannot describe the
scene. 1t was awful. I could not do any
thing and could not think of what should do.
Our end of the building went down frsr and
while the floor was sinking 1t seemed to me
as If the girls in the other part of the room
were Oh top ofla hill. that was the
way it impressed me. While we were
going down, 1 saw the other portions of
the floor fall. In minute all was over.
| The screaming of the girls was heartrend-
ing. 1 was knocked down under heavy tim
bers and held fast by my foot. l could move
every other part of my body excepting my
| leg. l reached down with my knife and cut
the shoe off my foot In this way became
| Ioosened and managed to arise. Amid the
screams of the girls and falling beams and
bricks, succeeded in scaping. I got out of
the ruins On the eastern side of the building,
but how, do not know. l called to the
| girls as loudly as I could. They were all
terribly excited, and I never witnessed
| anything SO awful in all my life.
Many of them heard me and worked
themselves towards me. AT some places it
seemed as if the floor was closed as solid
mass, and the girls would creep on their
hands and knees until they got to the open
ing where was. The machines
saved many from being crushed to
| death, as they left space between the floor
| and debris to crawl out. Ibelieye that fully
| one hundred persons escaped with me. re-
| member seeing them run across the commons
| in different directions to their homes, terri
| fed naturally. Some ran away short dis
! tance and then returned to the ruins The
| entire building was down. The girls
| came back to look for their brothers and
| sisters or friends. We could hear the moans
| and shrieks of those imprisoned IN the ruins.
| The rain was pouring down, and all around
| was dark. 1 was badly bruised and hurt
| about the body, head and limbs, and went
home after 1 saw l could do nothing. Be-
| tween 250 and 800 operatives were in the
| building About O'Clock 1 allowed sixteen
| girls to go home. All the floors were in oper-
| alton. The report that 100 went home at 4
| o'clock is not true.'
George Grimshaw, Jr., one of the pro-
prietors of the mill, was up stairs writ
ing a letter. He went down with the
wreck. He was badly hurt about the
| back and limbs and sustained cash in
| his hand. John Reber, engineer of the
silk mill, is another of the killed. His
head was cut clean Off as if with sword.
AMONG THE KILLED
taken out of the ruins late tonight are
Charles Reitbuler, Harry Crothers,
Harry Jones, Sally Hickel. John Fore
man and Jane Seitheiner. Among
| the injured are Kate Keppler,
Mary Evans, Mary Hartman, Kate
Alspach, Mrtilda Taylor, Sarah Shade,
Kate Sullivan, Annie Krick, Frank
Schaefer, Lizzie Berren, N. Depler,
Miss Lizzie Taylor, Charles Ludwig, Ce-
ella Glecner, William Snyder. Albert
Burkhart, Jane Thompson and Mary
Rottam. Many of these are seriously