Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-04-28
PREY OF THE FLAMES
Loss Of Life During the Philadelphia
Fire.
AROUND The RUINED IHEAIER
Annual Meeting Of the
Scotch-Irish Society.
SIX LOST THEIR LIVES.
Result OF the FI-- len Phn.d~lphIa Last
Night.

Result of the fir- in PhIlsd~lphIa Last
Night.
PEuaDrLFHI,, April 2s The destruction OF
the Grand Central Thea;er by IRE last night
proves to have been far more terrible
In It's results than was anticipated six
members OF the Devils Auction Com
pany lie dead beneath the fallen walls Of
the building and nearly three score Of people
are IN the hospital Suffering from burns. OF
te faen and bows IA the hospita! seven are in
such = serious condition that their recovery q
doubtfuL All were members of the audience.
Besides those who were seriously enough hurt
10 remain IA the hospitals fully nfty others
were treRted for minor injuries
The unfortunate members of the company
who lost their lives are: Thomas IorellA,
dancer and grotesque artist: Flora Lorells,
hts wife. coryphee; NIncentcina Chittern. pre-
mler dansuese, one of the Chitiern sisters.
ltAlihn dancers; Fanchon Conyers. juvenile
character. resident Of lineage; Sarah Gold
man coffphee, resident OF Chicago: VIM. l..
BROOKS. leading man. resident Of PhIlsdelwhia-
Ihe lnlared IN the hospitals who are likely
TO die are all suffering from burns about the
race ana head, and from having Inhaled the
flames. Their names are: Harry McCloskey
sixteen years OLD: James Pigeon. fourteen
years old; Amer Hinchliffe. sixteen years old;
band Patterson, sixteen years old; Albert
orumbaek, sixteen wears old. Thomas Atchi-
son thirty-seven years Old and Ralph Frazer,
sixteen years old
In addition 20 the serious condition OF the
above u Is feared many wall lose their eyesight
as their burns are all mostly about the face
By the light of day the destruction wrought by
the nre was made more apparent and
the desola;ion of the scene seemed more
terrible as II was without the accompanying
grandeur given by columns OF flames shooting
skyward above the tSllest buildings. The ruin
OF The Central Theater is complete. only the
front wall remaining standing. The other
walls have fallen IN and MI the space they
formerly enclosed
RUINS or THE TINES BUuDrSa.
Directly back Of the ;heater but a shell re-
mains OF the oight-story building occupied by
the Times. The Of stores 70 the east Of
the two burned stores and facing on sth street
and extending from Walnut to SAMSON street
are almost completely Quilted by fire and water.
lhe pohce have had great difficulty an keeping
the crowds OF curious sight seers moving so as
TO give the fremen the necessary space 10
work in.
CROWDS AROUND THE PLACE
IL was soon noised around that a number Of
people were buried under the walls OF the
theatcr and the crowd surged forward against
the police lines in effort 10 get more closely
to the scene. Although il was reported Lass
night that several members of the company
had been killed it was hoped that they would
eventually turn up alive and well. When.
however. six OF the company had not made
their appearance this morning the fear that
they had met their death in the flames and
smoke began TO grow into a certainty.
Manager Yale of the Devils Auction Com
pany up TO 10 O'Clock persistently refused to
entertain the idea that they were dead, but per-
sisted in the belief that they would be found
IN some of the neighboring houses But when
at that hour no tldlngs OF any Of the missing
actors had been learned, MIR. Yale reluctantly
admitted that they must have perished
HOW THE COMPANY ESCAPED.
Mr.. Yale said that at the time the re broke
out there was about seventy people in all be-
hind the curtain. The dressing rooms we're
beneath the stage in the rear of the theater.
Two stsirwsys one upon the right and the
other upon the left Of the basement led di-
rectly TO doors that admitted to alleyways In
the rear OF the theater.
All the members OF the company we're IN
their dressing rooms when the alarm Of IRE
sounded throughout the house.
All those who sought safety by the left stair
way reached the street unhurt At tins time
the left side Of the stage was still untouched
by the tre, but the right already a mass Of
flames. The CANVAS. grease and paint Of the
! scenery was like 30 much oil before the advance
OF the flames. and great volumes Of beavy, sitting
smoke were rolling over and underneath the
stage. IL IL Mr.. Yale's belief that the unfortu-
nate men and women, who are supposed TO be
underneath the ruins. ran toward the stairway
that led up into this fire. Finding their
I
confused and blinded. aud, choked by
smoke. fell gaspIng on the stairs and
in the passage way beaeath the stage. Their
fate then can be on,s too well surmised- ss &c
was bui few minutes after that the whole
stage was sblaze. The work Of searching for
the bodies has not commenced yet the ruins
still hot and six feet OF water fills the cellar
VIM. y. Gilmore, proprietor Of the thester,
was much overcome today by the tragedy
which has taken place at his house. He has
he m nf fGl fraf .frta
managers all over the country offering him
sympathy. The board of directors Of the
Academy of Music this morning rendered
Mr. Gilmore the use OF the theater for bene-
nt for himself aud tie company. While de-
clining the offer on his own behalf Mr.. Gilmore
accepted gratefully for the company. The
theater viii be rebuilt at once. Several people
who we're in the audience and who we're re-
ported missing returned to their homes this
morning
TWO VICTIMS or THE FLAMES.
NEW YoRK, April Is. A fire. for which three
alarms were sent out. occurred this morning
in the fve-story fiat building called the Gay
uga," at l09 and III West SD street IL
started on the first floor and was
caused by the explosion of some nsphtha
which DIR. Patrick Briggs Was using to clean .
lounge in his office. The doctor WAS badly
burned about the face and hands, and MIRA
Catherine Moore, aged seventy, who occupies
apartments on the third floor. was also badly
burned. They were taken TO the New York
hospital
Firemen in searching the building after the
fire extinguished. found two bodies In the
upper apartments. One, that of a woman,
was discovered on the third floor aud the other.
burned so badly as to be unrecognizable, on the
fourth aoor.
HE BUSINESS PART or HUDSON OHIO. BrnSrn.
CLEvELASD. ONO. April 2s-Fire broke out
in Hudson. Ohio, town on the Cleveland and
Pittsburg railroad about thirty miles from this
city, at O'Clock this morning and destroyed
the entire business portion. Fifteen store
buildings, including one brick block. were
destroyed The lose will reach 100000 The
details OF the fire have not yet been received
here.