Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-12-09
A LOSS OF TEN LIVES.
Louisville, Ky., the Scene of Three
Fires.
FRANCE MAKES A DEMAND OF CHILE.
Result of Municipal Elections in
Massachusetts,.
LATE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
LoUIsvILLE's FATAL FIRES.
Lsss of Lifo at the Destruction of . Louis
willie Candy Factory.

Losa of Lifo at the Destruction of . Louis
Vile Candy Factory.
LOUISVILLE n.y., Dee. 9.-Six lives were lost
in Q fire Mt The candy factory of Menne Co.,
No. SIT West Main street, a: o'clock this
morning. The tomb OF fire. Ill which five young
girls and one man were burned to death, Ii a
four-story building the north side OF the
street The firm was getting ready for the
Christmas trade and employed an extra num-
Der Of girls 70 wrap and lack CONNECTIONS 1hey
were all at wark on the fourth floor.
THE DEAD AND INJURED.
The names OF the victims are: Charles Kim
mel, foreman: he was thirty years OF age and
unmarried: Barbara Bell, Clara Eausch, Ida
Parks, Anna LoeAhart, Anna Dickey.
Those injured were: Lille Greenieaf, cut on
side of head and bruises about the body; Trecy
Hohihans, face and hands burned and bruised;
Kate McGarvey. severely and perhaps fatally
injured internally; George King, bruised and
burned about face and hands
a TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION
Tho origin of the fire is unknown. At
O'Clock there was tremendous explosion from
the second floor. There was crash of glass
and thousands of Are crackers roared and
c1scksd while almost countless skyroekets and
roman candles hew Missing hither and thither
across the street and into the air. moment
later and q sheet of flame burst from
the windows- Before the employees know oi
their danger the skylishts burst and the panic
stricken employees ran to the stairway. Three
OF them-LIlie Greenwel, Trecy Holhouse and
Katie McGaryey-reached the third floor just
the stairs leading to the fourth floor caught
ire Behind them came the hye other girls,
but before they could reach the bottom a wal
Of fire cut off their progress and they
He'd back to the TOD. where they were
burned to death. Fifteen or twenty
brave men rushed into the building ut one
time intending to try to rescue them. but the
fierce heat drove them back. The cries vi the
imprisoned girls finally ceased and the floors
fell one after another, until finally nothing
was left of the building but the tottering walls.
In the rear were assembled the mothers and
fathers OF some OF the girls who were burned
10 death inside, and their manifestations of
grief we're pitIaDle IN the extreme They i'm
plored the nremen to save their children and
the firemen had great trouble in keeping some
of the more frenzled ones from rushing into
the flames
TWO OTHER fires.
Two disastrous fires visited the city last
night. desire, ing the block OF buildings on the
north side OF Main street between 9Th and It'll.
In the early evening the store anu the stock of
the Boone Paper company were destroyed, en-
failing loss OF .5j.UOU.
ANOTHER EXPLOSION.
While the iremen we're raking away the
ruins of ;hc Boone Paper Company at $50 this
NOR ming there came the sound Of q terrific ex-
p!osioA IN the building on the east
OF them That was the Hamburger
Strong 60. building, four stories high
On the instant flames Lroke from every floor
and shot out through the roof. Fire must
have been srIouldering for several hours in the
cellars. and when each of the four stories had
become nlled with heated air and smoke an ex-
Piosior followed and the building was one mass
OF flames.
Before the fire could DO extinguished the
wholesale boot and shoe house of Hamberger
Strons J. Co.: Bliss. Wilson i Co. gents fur
nishings and notions; Weller. Voolfolk &
Payne. boots ard shoes, and Johanboke, hats
had been consumed
IL was with great difficulty that the firemen
prevented the names from spreading further
A number of people were sleeping i'll the upper
looms OF the buildings, but all escaped. One
fireman Is missing and he may have been
crushed by falling wall. The loss is about
goo OOO
FOUR FiEEMEN KILLED By FALLING WALLS.
Later information, however. showed that n
number of fremen were caught under the fall
ing wall Of Hamburger, Strong i Coz build
ing Fire Chief Hughes and Capt Weather
ford were injured Four dead tremen lay
under the walls and four others are badly hurt.
The dead fremen are William Moore. William
Davis. Samuel Baker and Tony Schlicht-