Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-23

head and shoulder hurt and internally in
Jured by falling from window; William 81.
Albach, Dunklrk, n. Y, slightly burned:
jured by jumping out the third story win
dow; Will Mansfield, Otsego, n. Y, foot hurt
by jumping from the roof to the ground;
ankle; Nellie Mason, Wisconsin, jumped
from third story window and will die; Mrs.
| v. j. simpson and little daughter, home not
given, badly burned; they were carried out
| py the nremen; r. Connor, home unknown,
teli from the second to first floor through
mole with child in his arms: he is probably
fatally hurt internally: Roy Harris, New or
| leans, Slightly hurt: Minnie Fargarus, Chi
| cago, leg broken: Mrs. 81. H. 1dena and son,
nome not known, severely injured.
A Hospital Well Filled.
The injured were taken to St. Vincent's
Hospital, where, with the exception OF
those fatally injured, they were resting
fairly well. They were not allowed to talk
The newspapers and particulars of the flre
were kept from them.
Five bodies were taken out this morning.
They were roasted alive, the skin having
peeled off from the bodies. In few in
stances their faces were burned off.
AT Powers & BlackwelPs were four un-
| known bodies They were taken out of the
building in their night clothes and there
was absolutely nothing by which they could
black hair and dark complexion. She can
easily be identified by friends, as she was
suffocated and not burned. Another woman,
whose body was cooked beyond recognition,
was also at the morgue. Her feet were
deformed and are shriveled up from the
fire. A man with a deformed limb, also
there, can be identified
At Flanner & Buchanan's morgue was a
man supposed to have been an attendant.
He was burned about the face. He was
| about % years old, light hair and mustache
and blue eyes.
| Where the Unknown Were Found.
Three of the bodies were found at the
northeast corner of the rear building on the
third floor. They bad huddled about the
windows and were trying to escape when
the flames caught them.
Just as the department arrived on the
scene woman appeared st third story
window. She wrung her hands and screamed
for help, while the smoke rolled up about
her. Chief Webster shouted, ''HolG on,
hold on, don't jump; for Gods sake, dom.
jump. Well get YOU in moment"
A savage roar of the flames and creak-
ing, crashing sound was the only reply that
came back TO him, and scarcely had the
words of appeal left his lips when the
woman, with shrek of agony, leaped into
space. The body struck the stone tagging
but few feet from where the fire chief
stood, and was picked up in the pangs Of
death and removed across the way.
At window on the upper floor panic
stricken mother was seen struggling to
throw open the window. In one arm she
clasped her child, o mere infant. She
clutched at the window casing and finally
succeeded, after frantic efforts, in reaching
the air.
Choosing Between Two Deaths.
Her screams fell upon the ears of thou
sands of spectators. No ladders were at
hand, and her pitiful appeals went 'un-
needed. Her face was deathly pale. The
flames were closing in around her and she
looked back into the furnace of death, then
down TO the pavement below, as if choosing
between two modes of certain death. Re
alizing that death was at hand she clssped
the babe to her breast, tossed the precious
load out of the window and gave her life to
the flames within.
1t would have been pleasing thought to
her to know before expiring the fortune
that befell her offspring. PipeInan O'Brien
had watched the scene from below, and as
the child left the arms of its mother he
planted himself firmly with outstretched
arms underneath the window. The baby,
wrapped in its night clothes, whirled about
in the air and tunbIed into O'Brien's arms
unhurt-a life saved.
The heroiSm of Fireman John Loucks of |
the Chemical Company, will long be re-
membered. While the flames were shoot
ing from the windows facing on Illinois |
street he assembled the extension ladder to |
the upper floor.
Hanging to Ladder by His Feet.
As he reached the window sill he was met |
BY Fireman Webber Robinson, who pushed |
his way through the smothering smoke with
a child in his arms.
''Take this baby, for Gods sake, Loucks,
and let me breathe, "said Robinson, as he
pushed his head into the open air.
Loucks grssped the living load and started
downward. He had descended but few
feet when the brave fellow missed his foot
ing and fell head foremost, his leg catching
in the rungs of the ladder and doubtless saw
ing his life. He clung to the child pluckily,
his leg was broken. AS he hung
there the dense mass of people below turned |
away from the awful scene, thinking that
Loucks would perhaps be obliged to loosen
his grasp from weakness. Not so. He
called for assistance, and in a twinkling he
was reached by two other iremen, whocar-
ried the child safely to the ground and
tenderly helped Loucks to an ambulance,
which conveyed him to his home
Fireman Sim Hoyle, of headquarters,
entered the burning building to help rescue
the inmates. He found two women CRYING
for help. Hoyle seized bQth and started for
a window.
A Difficult Task BraveIy Performed.
When he reached it ladder was near
1im, but few feet to one side. The flames
md smoke were rapidly enveloping the
brave fireman and his burdens Quickly
Hoyle pushed one woman out of the win
low, and held her with his teeth by her
hight clothes. He held the other woman
inside the room, hung himself out and drew
he ladder TO him\ with his foot, and de-
cended safely wit the women His act I
vas loudly applau ded. HoyIe was fright
ully burned.
Said Fireman jim, Madden of headuuar- I
ers: 'I will newell forget those shrieks.
Ny God, it was awful! Those poor, Gagged
,eople who could not help themselves,
creamed until you COD i'd scarcely stand to
listen any longer"
81 took little chill out of Georgia
treet window 1t was Sith its mother and ,
told the lady to stay Ind I would return
or her. When I got part way down the !
on's arms and started bacA for the mother
ut before L reached tl}e window she ,
nmped to the sidewalk. II don't know ,
hat became of her
SIN few minutes heard scream, and,
ooking up, saw three f5ces at fourth ,
tory window. They cried for ladder and !
-e tried to go to them, but before We could :
each the window all of them fell back into =,
ne flames and were burned up. Those J
lree people had hopes of escaping even up !
} the time they persisted, for at every )