The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-12-04

Men lifted him gently and started with him to
a drugstore, but on the way, after last word
OF loving for his family, he breathed his
last. Other heart-rending scenes were wit
messed, but no fight for life could have been
pluckier than his, and its fatal termination was
matter for universal regret
Seven bodies were found around the building
last night all of which have been identified.
They were:
MILTON PICKETT, assistant city editor
of the Pioneer Press.
JAMES +. IGOE, Associated Press operator.
WALTER L. MILES, night agent and day
operator of the Associated Press.
EDWARD OLSEN. president of the univer-
sity OF South Dakota, at VermilliOn.
w. II. MILLMAN, commercial editor of the
Tribune.
JERRY JENKINSON. operator.
ROBERT MCCUTCHEON, printer.
Other bodies are known TO be in the build
ing, but just how many is uncertain. Two
men who could not be identified shot them
selves rather than be burned to death, and to-
day the body of a man, caught in the
ruins, is in plain sight OF the crowd on
victims will reach twenty, and, perhaps.
twenty-five, but until the debris coOls off posi-
tive information as to the loss cannot be OBJ
tanned. The departmen mt withdrew from the
ruins tonight, and the search for bodies will
begin just as soon as il is considered safe.
The last man of the Tribune editorial staff to
leave the building was Charles ALT Williams,
the managing editor, and although himself
badly burned about the head and hands, he
gave the following statement OF how each
OF those above reported met with his
death, having been an eyewitness
of the deaths of all but one:
Miles and Millman, together with number OF
printers started down the FIRE escape. A blast
OF hot smoke and flames struck Millman as he
was starting. he lost his hold, and in falling
knocked Miles off both falling from the
seventh floor 10 the ground, and at the sixth
floor knocking of Pickett and Prof Olsen,
who had reached the fire escape from that
floor. The four men, in falling, struck against
the lowest platform and bounded away from
the building and were all dead when they
struck the ground. When Williams started
down the ladder the fire was
burning his hair and neck, and
he narrowly escaped the fate of those
who had preceded him, the heat and smoke be
ing overpowering. The printers on the ladder
escaped with slight burns. lgoe and Jenkin-
sought TO escape by the wires, but had been
weakened by the smoke and flames so that both
soon fell o !, striking on the roof OF the Irtbbne
boiler room, Jenkinson being dead when
picked up. McCutcheOn jumped from the
window ledge for the extension ladder, but his
hands slipped and he fell to the pavement A
net had been stretched to catch him. but he
was too heavy for it, and striking the ground,
was so seriously injured he died soon after.
fifkeIt, lGOe, MlitS anu MC0ulC0tOu NtTt
married men, and Jenkinson was to have been
married in short time. Millman lost his wife
by asphyxiation a couple of weeks ago, and had
just resumed work. Frank II. Jones OF the
Globe, who came here from Philadelphia year
ago, and who was reported killed in some
special dispatches last night, was not in the
bu ilding, aud is safe.
AS far as learned, the injured are:
WILLIAM LAWN, printer. burned on the
hands and face.
E. c. ANDREWS, printer, burned on hands and
face.
GEORGE E. WoRDEN, printer, burned on
hands and face
FRANK GERBER, deaf printer. hurt about
head by falling.
CHARLES WILLIAMS, managing editor of the
Tribune badly burned about head and face.
w. III. WILLIAMS, foreman of the composing
rooms, badly burned about the face and hands.
). III. JONES, Pioneer Press reporter, hands
and face slightly burned.
FRANK HOOVER, printer, burned about the
neck.
MISNEAPoIs, Dec. 2.-It has not yet been
definitely aScertained whether or not there are
more bodies in the ruins of the Tribune build
ing, II being impossible, as yet to institute
thorough search. Who the men were who
were seen to shoot themselves rather than
suffer from the flames has not yet been decided.
The women and children who went up into the
building shortly before the fire broke out
have turned up safe. Measures for relief
of the sufferers and the families of the
victims are actively under way. Newspaper
men have frequent occasion 10 report the he
reavement of Others but il is seldom many are
taken from their own ranks at one time.
Besides the Associated Press men-Igoe and
Miles-the list of the dead included Millman of
the Tribune and Pickett of the Pioneer Press,
all good and true men. Tonight the news
paper men of the two cities held meetings for
the purpose OF giving expressions TO their feel
ings in the matter, and during the day the
ministers Of Minneapolis, as well as the board
of trade, adopted resolutions of sympathy.
The still smoking ruins of the burned build
ing we're visited by crowds of the curious to-
day, among whom were a few mourning friends
OF the victims, but il nearly noon before
work was begun on the ruins. The coroner is
collecting evidence in the case, and thorough
investigation of the whole matter is assured, to-
gether with the placing of whatever blame may
attach to those connected with the ownership
and management of the building. In their
sermons last night some of the local ministers
were scathine in their denuncation of what
was called the criminal negligence OF the neces-
sary protection of the inmates of the building
from the dangers of fire. To-day there is still
much indignation expressed by the public gen.
orally on the same particular, and the thorough
sitting OF the matter by the proper officers will
follow. After the Identification of the bodies
and testimony as to the manner of their deaths,
the inquest was adjourned
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