The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-12-05
BURNED TO DEATH
AWFUL SCENES AT A FIRE.
SEVEN MEN KILLED AND NINE INJURED III
MINNEAPoLfs.

Seven human lives and 100000 worth OF
property was sacrificed by fire that origin
ated In the rooms of the Union League, on
the third floor of the Minneapolis Tribune
building. The fire was discovered shortly
after 10 o'clock at night by a district mes
senger, and almost before an alarm could be
turned in every door and window of the
immense seven story building was
belching fire and smoke There were
upward Of 30 men, including the
editorial staff and force OF compostors, at
work on the seventh floor, and these were
penned in like sheep by the sheets of flame
that separated them from the elevator and
stairway.
As soon as possible the fire department
got ladder up to the sixth floor, and from
there 80 or 40 men were taken out of the
building Those who were on the roof dared
not descend and several jumped to the roofs
OF adjoining buildings and escaped with
few bruises
DR.. Olson. President Of the University Of
Dakota, seeing all means of escape cut oil,
essaycd TO jump and slipped and fell to the
edge Of the window on the sixth story and
from there to the ground. He was instantly
killed
J. +. lgoe, night operator for the Associat-
ed Press, stuck to his post until it was too
late to escape. He was frightfully burned
about the head, and in his agony, jumped
from the burning building and was killed.
Agent Miles. of the Associated Press,
whose home is in Detroit Mich. attempted
to follow Igoe, but fe back into the crater
Of flames and was burned to crisp
Milton A. Pickett, reporter for the
Pioneer Press, whose office was in the Tri-
dunc building, was caught, with a compan-
ion named Pierce on the stairway and there
they were roasted to death and subsequently
crushed TO pulp by falling timbers.
While the fire was at its height j. Nc
Cutcheon appeared in one of the windows Of
the composing room and jumped into net
held by the liremen below. The weight OF
his body carried the net TO tho stone pave
ment and he died in few moments after
being picked up.
A few minutes after he had jumped an
other of the printers appeared at the win
dow on the opposite side of the rooms. lie
appeared crazed by fright, and, instead of
waiting for a ladder which was being raised,
pulled revolver and, placing the muzzle
to his head, fired. The report was heard in
the street and the man was seen to drop to
the floor. His name could no be learned.
Smith also says that tall young man
with black mustache shot himself on the
seventh floor, near the composing room
door Smith was up on his last trip and
called to the young man to come into the
elevator, but lac SCENE dazed by the heat
and smoke and delib rately drew revolver
and fired at his own head, falling dead. Just
before he fired the shot he exclaimed: "My
Godl Ny wife aud -" then the bullet
did its work.
The following is a complete list Of the
dead and injured SO far as can be ascertained:
Dead-Mlton Pickett, assistant city edi-
tor of the Pioneer Press James L. Igoe,
Associated Press OPERATOR Edward Olsen,
President of the University of South Dako-
ia, at Vermillion; Jerry Jenkinson, a printer;
Robert McCutcheon, printer w. II. Mill.
man, commercial editor of the Tribune.
Walter T.. Miles, operator and agent of the
Associated Press.