St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-18
RUSHED FOR THE DOOR.
School Children Stampeded by
Fire and a Score Injured.

CHICAGO, Oct. IA small fire at st.
Stanilaus Polish Catholic church on
Noble and Graham streets this morning
caused panic and score of children
were badly hurt. Some of them will
die. About O'Clock this morning Rev.
Father Vincent Barzynski was reading
the usual mass for the children when
an altar curtain was set on fire by one
of the candles. In less than minute
all the flowers and curtains and every
thing inf1ammable was a sea of flame.
Nearly 1,5C0 children, from five to fif
teen years of age, were assembled at the
church. When they saw the flre they
were panic-stricken and made for the
exits. All the efforts of the sisters of
N0tre Dame, who have charge of
the children, To check the ter
ritied scholars proved of no avail.
] he children rushed toward the door
lowed by the crying and screaming
women that were also in the church.
The children that came out first were
the ones that were tue most injured.
They were trampled upon by the chill
dren and women following Them, who
seemed utterly without reason or pres
ence of mind. An alarm of fire was sent
in, and the noise of the approaching en-
gines, with the ring of bells, made the
panic still worse. In less than five
minutes after the alarm was sent in
over 10000 people had assembled around
the church, while the panic was iniits
height. Joseph ZuiZik, a boy of twelve
years, was the most dangerously in
cash of six inches ON the right side of
his head, the scalp is cut through,
and his skull is fractured. AT
Korsakowski's drug store, $50 Noble
street, several physicians were kept busy
attending the injured children. Among
the injured there was boy named
Stanilus Kaminska, of ia Holt avenue,
who was in jured internally by fall
from the stone steps. The fire was
quickly eXtinguished, only small DAM
age being done. 1t will not exceed
$1O0. A patrol wagon from the RawSon
police station arrived and the police,
with the help OF the fire department,
began to restore order. At first they
met with very little. success. 1t seemed
as il everybody within a mile around
was at the place and the crowds were
so dense that a passage could only be
made with the greatest of efforts. After
half all hours work the police succeeded
in taking the worst injured children to
the adjoining drug stores. The injured
children were all Poles. The list is as
follows:
FRANK DZEWIzSKI. eleven years old,
50 Noble street will die.
FRANK DIAMTkOW, seven years old, Ill
Clever street., will die.
JOSEF ZElzIK. 20 Wade street, skull frac-
tured will die.
UNKNOWN BOY. will die.
UNKNOWN GIRL, who was taken home
bV her DarentS. will die.
flank ZALE, 48 Bradley street, taken
to Alexander Brothers hospital, seriously
hurt.
FRANK DICK ten years old, left leg and
ankle oroken; badly hurt.
LEW LRWAKICWITZ, ten years old, left
side of head crushed; badly hurt.
MARTIN CASZATWITZ. badly hurt.
STANISHLAVIC KAURIKI, Slightly hurt.
MICHAEL POPE, 100 samuel street, seri-
ously injured.
PAUL KAUZAkSKI, 1856 Blackhawk
street, slightly injured.
The Rev. Father BarZynski and his
assistants did all in their power to make
the children understand that there was
no danger, but their efforts were rem
dered fruitless by an old woman in the
rear of the church, who screamed
Fire! Children, you'll all be burnt!"
Then the exodus stared. A fight of
seven or eight stone steps leads down
from the church. and the children and
women fell down the stairway. Others
came up from the basement below, and
the jam was made all the worse. Frauk
DZewiZSki, the eleven-year old boy
who cannot survive lay on the side
walk and $50 children walked on him.
He received internal injuries, and the
doctors express no hope of his recovery.