Morning journal and courier., 1889-12-02
N6WS Uy l6l6SIdpH FROM ALL QUARTERS. i 4 LABYRINTH OF FLAME. i The Minneapolis Horror 1 Growing. TWENTY LIVES PROBABLY LOST. A Man Found Dead In West
 Hartford. THE FIFTY-FlRST CONGRESS Assemblies To-Day At The
 National Capital.
THE FIFTY-FIRsT CONGRESS
THE MINNEAPOLIS HOLOCAUST.

Twenty Persons Are Now Thought to
 Have Perishcd In thc Tribune
 Building-A Ltst of the Known vic- Iims-FOur Men Dashed 10 the Pave. ment and Instantly Killed-The To- tal Loss Estimated at $3OO,OoO, In- surance $1 50,OOO.
 MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 1.-Blaokened and crumbling walls and mass of smoking de- bris are all that remain of the eight-story brick bailding in which the Minneapolis Tri- ed. Up to 10 o'clock last night men were at work on the upper floors and some of the offices in the building held their occupants. A few minutes after ten o'clock an alarm was sounded. The building was notoriously unsafe, but there have been several false ed down stairs they joked about the proba- bility of this being one. This
 CARELEgs FEELING OF SECURITY caused the loss of at least dozen livez.
 For some time the Union League club room, where the fire started has not been used, and the fires origin is mystery. This room is close to the elevator shaft and in the attempts to put out the flames window was broken open, bringing in 8 draughr of fresh air. The flames then shot across the hall and up the elevator shaft in moment and cut of the escape of those who had delayed. A few made their escape by breaking through the stifine smoke and seorching flame. The way to the only fire escape as well as the stairs being cut off, many of the printers clunR to the window sills waiting for the help which in several instances came too late. Others fell off their narrow resting places or dropped from the telegraph and te escape, to their death on the frozen ground below.
 Operator Igoe made @ brave attempt to save himself by working along the wires, but his strength finally gave out and he fell to the roos of the boiler house, where he re- ceived fatal injuries.
 THE VICTIMS.
 So far as known the death list is as follows: Edward Olsen, president of the university of South Dakota, at Vermillisn; Milton Pickett, assistant city editor of the Pionser-Press, Minneapolis; W. H. Nillman, commercial editor of the Tribune; Walter Miles, night agent of the Associated Press; James Igoe, night operator of the Associated Press; Robert NcCutohson, William Colwell. George Stevens. William Turnbull, Harry Whitlock, Jerry Jenkinson, compositors, and one un- known.
 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 today the body of a man caught in the ruins is in plain sight of the crowd. It is be- lievsd the number of victims will reach twenty, and perhaps twenty-five. The de partment withdrew from the ruins to-nigh and the search for bodies will begin jus as soon as 1t is considerea safe. The las man of the Tribune editorial staff to leav' the building was Charles Alfred Williams the managing editor. He was badly burned about the head and hands, and witnessed th death of several men.
 FOUR MEN MEET INSTANT DEATH.
 Mr. Williams says Miles and Millman witl . number of printers started down the fir escape. A blast of hot smoke and Ham | struck Millman as he was starting and he los his hold and knocked Miles off, Both fel | from the seventh floor to the ground and a | the sixth floor knocked of Pickett and Prof | Olsen, who had reached the fire escape iron that floor. The four men in falling strucl | against the lowest platform and Sounde' away from the building and were dead whel they struck the ground. Williams starte down the ladder and narrowly escaped tn | fate of those who had preceded him. Tn printers on the ladder escaped with sligh burns. Jenkinson sought to escape by th wires, but had been weakened by the smok and flames 60 that he fell, striking on tn roof of the Tribune boiler room, and wa dead when picked up.
 McCutcheon jumped from the windo, ledge for the extension ladder, but his hand slipped and he fell to the pavement. A ne had been stretched to catch him, but he wa too heavy for it, and striking the ground wa SO seriously injured that he died soon after.
 Pickett, Igoe, Miles and McCutcheon wer married men, and Jenkinson was to hay been married in short time. Millman los his wife by asphyxiation a couple of week ago and had just resumed work. Frank B Jones of the Globe, who came here frol Philadelphia year ago and was reporte
 killed in some special dispatches last nigh
 was not In the building and is safe.
 THE INJURED.
 As far as learned the injured are: Willia,
 Lawn, printer, burned on tine hands and fact
 E. O. Andrews, printer, burned on th
 hands and face; George E. Worden, printe
 hurt about the head by falling; Charles A fred Williams, managing editor of the TT
 bune, badly burned about the head and fac
 W. H. Williams, foreman of the eomposin
 rooms, badly burned about the face an
 hands; s. H. Jones, Pioneer-Press reporte hands and face slightly burned; Frank Ho, yer, printer, burned about the neck.
 A THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR LOS
 The total loss is about $500, ,00O. The IT
 bune's loss is placed at s50.000, with $20
 900 insurance; the Journars loss is $40. .00 and it is half insured, and the Tribune je
 office lost s60 900. on which there was abo