The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-03
CAUGHT IN A FIRE TRAP
fhs Minneapolis Tribune Building Co.,
sidsred Dangerous PeP Yeals.
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MINNEAPOLIS. Dec. 2.-Rour hlackened
walls towering up above . steaming,
ssnouleierinG mass Of machinery. brick
and building debris is all that remains OF
the eight story brick Tribune building I'm
which had been been printed three dailies
and q weekly newspaper and where was
located q number of offices. All day yes
tertiay the constantly and ever increasing
crowd of sightseers thronged the streets
watching the efforts OF the firemen to sub
Under control about 2 o'clock yesterday
morning. The building has been
considered dangerous for some
time, it's loose construction per
shs ma. Sus I" ohs ~, ae
escape and il was at the end of the build
ing where the fire ragged the ficrcest. The
dark and % wound a around the % eisvasar %
Three years ago the inadequate fire pro-
aRitated, the matter being taken up ny
the trades and labor assemblies and car
tempt being made 70 have the building
properly protected or condemned, but
nothing came OF il. For some time the
started, had not been used and the origin
is a mystery. The room is close to the
elevator shaft and the king Of q win
dow i'm the effort to extinguish tine flames
created a draft, which quickly carried the
fire to the elevator and cut of the escape
through the sitting smoke and scorchins
flame, but Others sought escape elsewhere;
being at the south end OF the building,
while the solitary fire escape was at the
Mr.. Williams gives the following state
msnt mel t., OF hoy, how ,;. several a OF those % named
together with number of printers, start
ed down the fire escape. a blast OF hot
lost his hold and fell, knocking Miles off.
Both fell TO the sixth floor, where they
struck and knocked or Pickett and Pro
struck against the lowest platform of the
escape and bounded away from the build
ing and We're dead when they struck the
ladder the fro was burning his hair and
hands, and he narrowly escaped the fate
on the ladders escaped with slight burns.
lgoe and Jenkinson sought to escape by
the wirss: NJ MMcCStehSop jMmpsd frHs! the
but his hands slipped and he fell to the
pavement. net was stretched to catch
nn, but , hs was toe heavy for IT, And in
jured. As far as learned nine Of those i'm
the building were quite seriously burned
thought that the injuries are dangerous.
Seven bodies were found Sunday night,
| all of which have been identified. They
were: Milton Pickett. assistant city editor
of the Pioneer Press; James +. Igoe, asso-
ciated press operator; Walter T.. Miles,
es lessor % Olson. " presis%s of thap South i5o po.
kota university; w. n. Milnan. CONNER
cial editor of the Tribune; Jenny Jenkni-
| son and Robert McCutcheon, compost
| tors. Othes bodies known to be in
/ the building, but how many Is unkno xn.
| Two men, who could not he identified,
were seen to shoot themselves before the
| flames reached them; and Sunday the
body OF a man caught i'm the ruins was in
plain view from Fourth street. II is be.
lieved the number OF victims will reach
the debris cools off, positive information
| Chief Stetson of the fire department,
lays the blame for the loss OF life to the
lack Of fire escapes. He said that the de-
save lives. The elevator man whose
brave attempts TO bring down the occu
pants of the upper floors while the eieya.
| commended, says he thinks there were
still several persons ON the eighth fiooI
couple of women up in an elevator a few
| minutes before the fire broke out and says
they did not come down again. The flnan
c,al losses by the fire have been consider
| ably reduced from last nights estimates
and il is thought will not exceed $3.50,
General Nettleton has ISSUED a card in
| which he denies any connection with the
burned Tribune building for two year,
/
| of il no person or occupants even request
| ed of him better facilities for escape In
case Of fire. He explains the visit OF ths
representatives of the Trades and Labo
assembly, with whom he went over meas
ures for protection, and thought they wer,
| fully satisfied about the matter.
| IL has not yet been definitely ascertaines
whether or not there are more bodies IL
the ruins, II being impossible TO yet insti
were seen to shoot themselves rather thar
suffer from the hanes has not yet beef
decided. The women and children VIII,
went up into the building shortly befor
the fire broke out have turned up safe
Measures for the relief of the sufferer
and families Of the victims are activel
under way. Tonight thelnewspaper meI
| of the two cities held meetings for the pur
| pose of giving expression tn their feeling
i'm the matter and during the day the min
listers Of Minneapolis well as the boar
| of trade adopted resolution of sympathy
Minneapolis Typographical union No
| AZ, met yesterday afternoon and adoptes
resolutions stating that the records of TIN
Tribune and Journal chapels show tina
| committees have been repeatedly appoint
to confer with A. G. Nettieton. who at ON
time had charge of the building. and be-
him to furnish proper means OF escape il