Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-02

people on the eighth floor when the escape
was Gu of. He tooz a coupls of women
up IN the elevator few minutes before the
fire broke out and he says they did not
come down again.
The financial losses by the fire have been
considerably reduced from last nights esti
mates, and it IS thought it will not exceed
$350,0O0.
LATER DEVELOPMENTS
It is row positively known that Dahl.
the BOOK kbinder. was not the man who shot
himself in the hall, he having turDed up
safe and sound. Who the two suicide
were is unknown.
1t is almost positively known there are
no more printers IN The ruins, every ones
card being accounted fer. There is g bare
possibility that some of the printers had
gone TO work without having turned il
their cards, bat this is doubtful
Several employees Of the Swedish paper,
which was published on the eighth floor.
were 10 the habit Of sleeping IN the build
ing, and nothing has been heard of them.
some law students also slept in the
offices in the building and some of them
| may be among the dead To-morrow's
search Is sll that can decide this matter,
| and II will also settle the question whether
the two women taken up in the elevator
before the fire are among the victims
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Charles 4. Williams, the managing edi-
tor of the Tribune, was the lest man to
leave the building, and he furnishes a
graphic account of the holocaust He was
terribly burned about the face and arms
He said:
Il saw all the men killed and can tell
| how it happened. Reporter Jermaue end
l were talking out ide of my room when
Millman, the commercial editor, remarked
he was going home
went 10 my desk sad got bis enyrsape
and banded il 10 him, saying, You might
as well take your moBey with YOU
''Just then some one SAID there was TIRE
in The building. A second later sheet Of
fame flashed up from the stairway ard
shot across into The aute-room directly op-
posite.
Twenty or more printers from tee com
posing room were standing at the heal cf
the stairs when the flames came up and
they rushed into my room. JeTmaine ard
! followed, closing the door to shut out he
fire. l called TO the boys that there was
no great danger while the door Yves kept
shut, but they had better hurry down the
| fire escape which is at my center window
Then there came crash at the door, and
on opening il, Miliman and Miles fell In
w ncL lLt dluIlu SOulutu lB6N az
stopped for netting Both were bsdly
burned about the face when they came Ia.
One of them, Hillman. I thiuk, fell Alter
raising him to his feet I slammed the door
shut, but not in time to shut cut all the
tongues Of fame which followed he men.
with the slamming of door the glass
fell out, and instantly the room was filed
with flames, which swept everything before
it.
'As the last of the printers went down the
escape and disappeared beneath the win
dow, Miles went out and began descending.
MiIlman followed him, but when he
reached the window he seemed overcome
by the fire and smoke, and at once made
jump for the ladder. He caught the rounds
all right but lost his grip and fell striking
Miles and forcing him off
Two men were seen to shoot themselves
rather than be burned to death. Others
fell from the roof of ihP burning building
back into the cTaler of flame