Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-12-02
ANOTHER FIRE TRAP
Seven Persons Known to Have
 Perished at Minneapolis.
A LARGE NUMBER INJURED.
One Man Commits Suicide by Shooting
 While Crazsd by Fright.

ing Inadequately Supplied With Fire Unknown Persons are in tho Ruins. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 2.-Seven human lives and $500. coo worth of prop erty was sacrificed Saturday night by a fire which originated in the rooms Of tho Union League, on the third floor of tho Minneapolis "Tribune" building. The fire was discovered shortly after
 10 o'clock by District messenger, and alm oSt before an alarm could be turned in every door and window of tho inn mense seven-story building was belch- ing fire and smoke.
 Penned in Like Sheep. There were upwards of eighty men, including the editorial staff and force of compoSitorS, at work on tho seventh flCor, and these were penned in like sheep by the sheets of flame that sepa- l rated them from the elevator and stair way. Then began frenzied stampede for the windows and roof. Meanwhile the fire department had got ladder up to the sixth floor and from there thirty or forty men were taken out of the building and landed on terra firma. Tho c who were on the roof dared not descend and several jumped to the ad | joining roofs and escaped with few bruises.
 Fell from the Sixth Story. Dr. Olsen, President of the University of Dakota at Nermillion, was among those on the roof, and seeing all means of escape cut of, he essayed to jump to an ad Joining building. H slipped and fell to the ledge of the window on the sixth story, and from there to the ground. He fell head foremost. and was instantly killed, every bone in his l body being broken.
 J. F. Igoe, night operator for the As sociated Press, stuck to his post until it was too late to escape. He was frigh fully burned on the head, and. in burning building and was killed. Agent Miles, of the Associated Press, wEo; c home is in Detroit, Mich, at tempted to follow Igoe, but fell back into the crater of flame and was burned l to crisp.
 Milton A. Pickett, a reporter for the ''Pioneer Press" whose office was in the
 'Tribune" building, was caught, with a companion named Pierce, on the stairway, and there they were roasted 10 death and subsequently, crushed to a pulp by falling timbcrs.
 While the fire was at it's height, Rob- ert McCutcheon appeared in one of the l windows of the composing room and l jumped into a net held by the frcmen l below. The weight of his body carried l the net to the stone pavement, and he died in d few moments after being picked up.
 | Crazed by Fright He Shot Himself A few minutes after he had jumped, | another of the printers appeared at a l window on the opposite side of the room. l He was told to wait a moment and a l la ,dcr would be sent up to him. He ap- l pcared craZed by fright, however. and l instead of waiting, pulled revolver, l and placing the muZZle to his head, ! fired Tho report was heard in the 1 street and tho man was seen to drop to ! tAe floor. His name could not be l learned. It was rumCred that another ! man had shot himself, but this report l could not be verified. There are doubt | less scs eral people in the ruins, but just | how many will not be known until the | de bris is removed.
 l Mir. Blethen, proprietor of the l 'Tribune," said that his loss would be l about $250, ,000; insurance, S125, coo. The l paper was issued as usual yesterday | the St. Paul ''Globc' giving the use of | it's presses.
 The adjoining buildings were saved l by the cxertions of tho tiremen, but the ''Tribuno' building is smold- l ering mass of ruins.
 List of Dead and Injured. | The following is complete list of
 the dead and injured, so far as can be l learned:
 l Bead-Milton Pickett, assistant city 1 editor of the "Pioneer Press:' James F. l Igoe, Associated Press operator: Ed ward Olsen, President of the University
 of South Dakota, at Nermillion; Jerry Jenkinson and K. McCutcheon, printers; l w. II. Wlllman, commercial editor of l the '"Tribune:7 Walter E. Miles, oper- ! ator and agent of the Associated Press. l Injured - William Lawn. printer, burned on hands and face; E. c. An 1 drews, printer, burned on hands and
 face: George E. Worden, printer. | burned on hands; Frank Gerber, a deaf
 l mute printer, hands and face burned; 1 Adam Weishemire, hurt about hips; l harles A. Williams, managing editor
 of the Tribune" badly burned about
 1 the head and face; w. H. Williams,
 foreman of the composing room, badly
 burned about the face and hands; $. H.
 Jones, Pioneer Press" reporter, hands
 and face burned; Frank Hoover, print
 CT, burned about the neck.
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