The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-12-05


-tening it out like a. mass of tin, The ma
ehinery was broken and bent and the wheels
and woodwork were burned entirely away.
1t is a melancholy spectacle. The ladder
truck was charred and splintered into a
thousand fragments, and the water tower
was smashed into ali indistinguisable
wreck Viewed from this point of vantage,
the scene was one of thrilling grandeur. Di-
rectly opposite, the towering AmeS block,
occupied by Taylor Bros, was abiaze from
roof to basement. For time it looked
though it, too, would fall, and firemen,
police and reporters gave it a wide berth.
Floors fell in with stunning noise, leaving
but mere shell. From this building the
building the fire was steadily eating its way
through to Chauncey street, despite the
thousands of gallons of water thrown upon
it. A succession of
SHARP EXPLOSION
indicated the force of the compressed and
heated air in the various rooms and offices,
and from the exceedingly brilliant flames
that continuously darted through the wall
of smoke which overhung the doomed
structure it seemed that broken gas pipes
We're playing their part in the contiagratlon.
The immense stone and iron block OcCu-
pied by Samuel Williams and Brigham &
Co, on the corner of Chauncey street and
Rowe court, market the furthest progress
of the fire in that direction. Although APP
parently fire proof as the Alps, it was COM
pletely Quilted. On the corner of Chauncey
and Bedford streets the large block occupied
by Smith, Hogg & Gardner and others was
in almost as bad plight and the buildings
between these two were utterly destroyed.
The leaping flames succeeded in crossing
Chauncey street to the upper stories
of the huge Allen block, largely
occupied by Farley, Harvey & Co.,
and those adjacent as far rs Essex place. 1t
was hard to direct streams of water effect
| lively, and for O time it seemed as though
Washington street might be reached. The
fremen made grand rally. Many
| lines of hose We're carried through
the stores on Harrison avenue the
! extension of whose rears was opposite the
rears of those already burning, and the foe
! was strongly fought. Other hose was taken
up stairs and used underneath and from
windows across on Bedford street. Still
| other streams were directed upon the
flames, and finally the further progress of
the fire was stayed.
THRILLING RESCUE
from immediate death was made by Officer
Charles Maynes of division :, Officer Benia-
min, of division l6, and Sleepy" the col
ored attache of the city hall, about 9:45
o'clock in the building at 50 Chaunoey street.
Z. +. Whiting, q veteran fireman, helped
with the hose on the building. Is grew
terribly hot the walls threatened to fall,
and the cry was raised to get back,
as the roof was caving in. A
desperate rush was made by all hands
to get out of reach of the tunbling
bricks and all escaped save Whiting. He
was struck, knocked down, and immedi-
ately covered by the heated debris. The
firemen said that he must be killed. Off
GERS Maynes md Benjamin, however,
thought different, and taking desperate
chances, they braved the furnace-like
heat and the risk of falling walls, and tried
to find the buried man. MY God can nc
one help mel" was the cry they heard
This directed them to a pile of truck and
timber, under which they found Whiting
imprisoned Frantically they pulled and
hauled at the hot debris. Every
moment they expected to be killed with
falling stones, or set on fire by the seething
flames which dartcd out in every direction
! Bravely they kept at work, however. They
got hold OF Writings arms and tried tc
pull him out, but the
; BURNED SKIN AND FLESH
came off in their hands. Once more they
? dug away at the debris to free the burned
and injured man. They succeeded in thi
and got Whiting out. 1t was found tina
} his right leg was broken, and that he wa
frightfulIy burned about the head arms anc
? body and otherwise injured. He was driver
J with all speed to the city hospital 1t is be
, iievad that his injuries will prove fatal
} Police Sergeant Kimball Patrolmal
} HAYNES and ex-Councilman David E
: Barry rescued seven people-six womel
} and one man-from the building at tn
corner Of Kingston and Bedford streets
! The smoke had overcome them, and the!
Law PROSTATE on one of the upper floors
} Aware that the employees had not all es
} oaped from the building, they bravely EN-
D tered, CROPPED around in thickening smok
, and as fast as the PROSTATE forms were dss
covered they were carried to a place o
0 safety The fire reached the place just a
n the last of the women was being carries
rom the building. Among the seriousl,
injured are:
Michael Atkinson, policeman, hea
0 crushed by falling granite; John HALEY
o hoseman, Iacerated by plate glass; Thoma
F. QuigIey, inhaled flames, burned; Distrie
0 Engineer Bartlett, dislocated right shou
;. der; Edward Frohan, fireman, hand nearl
q cat off; J. Dacy, fireman, crushed leg; Fire
% man RUSSELL of engine 3, leg broken.
10 The origin of the fire is not deinitel
NJ known, but is generally attributed to 18th
~ electric wires" The most conservative e.
70 innate Of the loss at this hour is $5,O00,O0