River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-10-27
FATAL ElAM ES.
They Cause the Death of Two Persons p
Englewood, III. BESIDES Destroyinf
Property Worth 100000.

EngIewood, H.. Besides Destroyirl
| Property Worth 100000.
CHICAGO. Oct I9.-Twenty buildings
I burned to the ground. involving a loss
( of 500, 900, and two human lives crushed
out were the appalling results of a fire
of Englewood Tuesday morning. TIL
flames broke out AT 1870 o'clock IA. m. III
Blum & Jaeger's bakery, or Sixty-thir
street. and ragged for nearly three hours
For time it seemed as If the gallant
efforts of the fremen TO confine the
confiagration within the block i'm
which il started would be futile,
and the entire business portion of the
little city was threatened with de-
struction. After two hours of hard
and desperate fighting, however, the
fremen succeeded in mastering the fire
fend. and by 8 o'clock the flames were
well under control.
So far as known but two lives were
lost. They are:
Mrs Ada Butler. Hotel Kent, Sixty-third and
Honore streets killed by Jumping from "A third
story window Body bruised and mangled
taken 10 the county morgue
John Howard, baker, Sixty-ihird and Wright
streets, burned IN Blum q Jacgcr's bakery.
Nobody seems to know just how the
fire started When the alarm was first
given the frame structure in which the
bakery was situated was a mass of
flames, and when the engines,
under command of Marshal Murphy,
reached the spot the people
were pouring out of the adioin-
ing buildings, dazed and half-clad.
The dodgers in the Hotel Kent,
a three-story brick structure at the
corner of Honore and SiXty-thirti
streets, however, did not at first
seem to be worried at the rapid
they did awaken to the full realization
of their danger they lost all reason.
With plenty of opportunity to escape
they rushed TO the Honore street side
of the hotel and, breaking the win
dows, stood panic-stricken, shrieking
for assistance.
When the patrol wagon reached the
scene the officers saw at once that the
occupants of the hotel could be easily
rescued. and shouted TO them to remain
where they were. All obeyed and We're
saved except Mrs. Ada Butler who lost
her mead and jumped, being killed by
the fall She climbe over the railing
of the porch at the third story and
prepared to leap. Mattresses had been
spread on the sidewalk TO break the
fall of any who might jump, but they
proved useless in this case Mrs. Butler
turned her back to the crowd, and just
as the fire had reached the porch above
her head she released her hold
and shot below. As she went down
her feet struck the railing of the porch
of the second story. The jar threw
her far out. Her body turned slowly
and she fell on her head. When an
officer reached her side she was dead.
The whole affair occupied but a few
moments time, but in that time the
fire had gained great Roadway Start
ing in the rear of Blum Il Jaegers. it
had communicated to the frame sheds
! in the rear and went along the line in
both directions, until twenty buildings
had been destroyed The heat was 50
( intense that it warped the iron on the
street ear tracks, and set fire to the
hose on the street.
/ 1t was fully o'clock when the fire
men began search for those absent,
and who were supposed to be in the
ruins The fact that nobody aShut the
| burning block or in the baker shop of
Blum & Jaeger had given any alarm
caused the firemen To turn their
attention to that place. Huge streams
of water were turned into the place
and some time later a body was found.
The unfortunate man had been literally
roasted TO death and could not at 6rst
be recognized. That he was an en-
ploye in the baker shop was certain.
The body was placed in the wagon and
taken to the morgue, where it was aft
erwards identified as that of John
Howard, baker, employed by Blum
e. Jaeger.