Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-13

headed boy, who was so top-heavy that
he could not navigate alone, seized the
boy, and while leading him out, found
the albino girl almost blind and cropping
about in the smoke. With the big.
headed boy under his arm, he seized the
albino, dragged her to the stairway and
soon reached the street.
IN THE HAYMARKET THEATER.
The fire in the Haymarket theater
was discovered just twenty minutes be-
fore the close of the last act. The smoke
was barely perceptible when the man
ager stepped out on the stage and en-
deavored to persuade the audience to
file out in order. At this moment some
one shouted Fire." and a panic emed
imminent. The excitement was par
TALLY subdued by prompt work on the
part of the ushers, and the theater soon
cleared without casualties.
CASUALTIES AMONG THE SPECTATORS.
Just before the west wall of the
Smyth building fell, venturesome boy
climbed up to the third floor of the
building adjoining, and stood watching
the flames. When the wall toppled
over. and the smoke had cleared away,
he could not be seen, and it is feared he
went down in mass of debris.
While the fire was at it's height the
sidewalk at Union and Meridian streets
collapsed, precipitating forty people into
an excavation beneath. Mrs. Bessie
Higgins was fatally and several others
seriously hurt.
Francis Gamble, who was struck by
flying debris during the fire, died to-
night at the county hospital.
BABY BORN MID THE FLAMES.
When the fire broke out DR.. j. q.
Bergeron was attending Mrs. Sarah
Macks in fiat in one of the buildings
subsequently burned. When the fire
got too close, Bergeron seized the suffer
ing woman, and wrapping her in some
stairs with his burden and carried her
minutes q fine girl baby was born amid
firemen. Both the mother and child
are doing we'll. DR.. Bergeron lost
valuable set of instruments and his
overcoat and hat, but tonight was happy
in having saved his patient.
The Episcopal cathedral on Washing
ton boulevard caught fire from flying
sparks, but the flames were extin-
guished before any damage was done.
PANIc-sTRIcKEN HOTEL GUESTS.
An exciting incident was the panic
which seized the boarders at the Hay
market hotel. When the flames leaped
across the street about forty occupants
of the hotel, including servants, made
wild rush for the back stairway. The
latter is narrow, winding affair, and
became blocked, resulting in the mob
being badly bruised and frightened be-
fore getting out. Charles Menger was
asleep in his room and was suffocating,
with one side of Lis face badly burned,
when he was found and carried out
THE GALLANT FIRE FIGHTERS.
1t took forty fire engines and 800 fire.
men to bring the fire under subsection.
Several times it seemed as if the men
would be compelled to abandon the en-
gines, so intense was the heat, but
spurred on by their indefatigable SUI
periors, they managed to withstand it by
turning the hose upon themselves. The
nerve displayed by the fremen was
heightened by the fact that all the time
they knew that at least one hundred.
barrels of oil, varnish, etc., were stored
in the basement OF the Smyth establish
ment and likely at any time to cause
terrific explosion. They flooded the
basement, keeping the oil barrels COM
pletely covered up.
sTUPENDOUS LOSSES.
John M. Smyth's loss on stock and
building is fully $500 900; Kohl & Mid
dleton, museum, $S5, 900; Neely Bros,
boots and shoes, 10000; A. Kaemp-
fer, jewelry, $45, 600; Alfred Peats, wall
paper, 100000; M. Irrmann, tobaccon-
ist, $25,000; Hanna & Hogg, liquors,
$4,000. The miscellaneous losses OF
other firms and the Haymarket theater
will bring the total up to- $1,000, 900.
The insurance is light. Smyth carried
but $l25, 900. Kohl & Middleton had al
lowed theirs to lapse, as they expected
to move in a couple of weeks. The in
surance of the other sufferers is light.