The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-10-27
4 4 n ATAL LANES.

Propsrty Wo.th e1oao
CHloAeo, Oct Il. Twenty building.
burned To the ground. involving . ln1a
LOT 800, 000, and two human lives crush6d
ont were the appalling results Is 8 1rs1
Of Englswood Tuesday morning. n
damss broke out at $50 o'clock :. q. ii.
Blum y Jaeger's bakery, OFT .9ixty-thirE
street and ragged for nearly three'hours
For . time Il seemed a. Il tho gallant
efforts Of the aremen to confne the
condagration within tho bleak IN
which II started would b. futile,
and tho entire business portion Of the
little city was threatened with de-,
struction. After two houra of hard,
and desperate fighting, bowsvefs the
flremenssucceeded IN mastering tho flre'
fend, and by 9 o'clock the flames were
well under control. =
So far as known but two lives were
lost. They are:
NrA Ada Butler. Hotel Kent, sixty-third and
Honore streets, killed by Jumping from = third
story window. Body bruised and manglod;
taken to escounty morgue
John Howard, baker, Sixty.third and Wright
streets, burned IN Blum \ Jaeger's bakory;
body takea to Hornig's morgue
Nobody seems to know just how the
dre started When the alarm was FIRST
given the frame structure in which the
bakery was situated was . mass OF
flames. and when the engines.
under command Of Marshal Murphy,
reached the spot the people
were pouring ont Of the adioin-
Ing buildings, dazed and halt-clad.
Tho lodgers in the Hotel Kent,
. three.storv, brick structure at the
corner Of Honore and; Sixty-third
streets, however, dido not ut frs,
seem to be worried at the rapid
approach of the fire, but when.
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. .ss;.s. ~
When the patrol wagon reached the
scene the officers saw at once that the
occupants Of tho hotel could be easily
rescued. and shouted to them to remain
where they were. All obeyed and were
saved except Mrs. Ada Butler, who lost
her mead and jumped, being killed by
the fall. She climbed 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
n fhI, a. hoI ohn1 1o Oh
ner 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 few
moments time, but in that time the
fire had gained great Roadway. Start
ing in the rear of Blum & Jaegers, it
had communicated to the frame sheds
in the rear and went along the limo in
both directions, until twenty buildings
had been destroyed, The heat was So
intense that it warped tho iron on the
street car tracks, and set fire to the
hose on the street. =,
1t was fully o'clockwhen the fire.
men began search for those absent,
and who were supposed to be in the
ruins. The fact that nobody about 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 body was found.
The unfortunate man had been literally
roasted to death and could not at first
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
'crwards identified as that of John
Howard, q baker, employed by Blum
e. Jaeger.