The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-03-16
|BURYNG FIVE PEOPLE
A Fearful Fire in Chicago Early
Wednesday Morning.
GOT CAUGHT UNDER A ROOF
Picture Frame F.c.ory Tales Fiss and Causes Ii.
reash Il I've Persons aud he hilary II
ssssral Other.

CntC AGO. March Ia few minutes
after o'clock Wednesday morning FIRE
started in Stephen Carriers picture
frame factory at ia and taG May street
The building was a brick structure i5e
BY ias feet and Eve stories III height. II
was well stocked with picture frames
and material short time after the
fire started The Top 81 the south wall
fell in on the roof of1he stephen Carter
residence. al leo May street. adjoining
the factory The building collapsed.
burying Eve people. The dead are sup
posed - bc:
$. } Chgrtiers hpcls q stephen Car
ter
Lille Charter. IL years old.
The in jnred are:
Mrs Eitienne Charter, wife Of s. J.
Charter.
Rose Charter, 10 years old.
Stephen Carter. rescued from his resi-
dencc, left leg broken and internally
injured.
J. + Cook. driver Of engine No. 8,
crushed by falling wall and badly
bruised. but not fatally.
Patrick OConncr, pipeman, with En-
CINE Company No 2, crushed under
falling wall and bruised about head
and lower limbs.
The floors and inside walls were
weakened by the burning away Of their
frame supports. A part Of the roof fell
first, but no aremen were at work on
the fifth floor. having previously been
ordered down. Crashing down. it car
ried with it great sections Of the floor
Ing, thus weakening the joists that sup
ported the south wall This began TO
totter and soon the top fell.
The mass of bricks fell almost en-
tirely upon the roof Of Mr. Carriers
dwelling, which was frame structure
This was completely and instantly de-
molished, and in the ruins were the
bodies Of five people who had been
sleeping there,
The fire had been burning but
short time. and Mr.. Carter had returned
to the home to awaken those who were
there. simultaneously with the col-
lapse OF the Carter residence part Of
the front wall fell into the street The
firemen and police at once began to d.
rect their attention to rescuing
those known to have been buried UNI
der the Carter house.
The cries of man were heard, and
in another moment Mr.. Carter was
lifted out He was in semi-conscious
condition and Prebably fatally i..j.rod-
Two fircmen were injured by the fall
ing wall.
J. f. Cook, a driver, was working
near the front Of the building when the
wall fell. He was crushed beneath the
brick, and when taken out twas found
that he had received number Of cuts
and bruises about the head and shout
ders 1t is thought he will recover.
In an alley near the Carter residence
Patrick O'Connor was at work, and he.
like Cook, was buried His head was
cut and his lower limbs wereN bruised,
but no bones were broken. He will
probably recover.
The flames destroyed the entire inner
part Of the building, entailing loss Of
$50. 900; fully insured.
A short time after the fireman recon
menced the work Of rescue, Rose
Charter was recovered II was found
that her face and head were badly cut
and bruised. She will recover.
Shortly afterward the iremen took
her mother out. The latter was all
most completely buried, but her life
had been miracuiously saved by q
heavy door that covered her. She was
bruised and cut about the face, but viii
recover.
The body Of s. J. Charter was found
near the cottage south wall at o'clock
The head wns badly crushed by sec
ton Of wall, and death must have been
immediate Soon after Q o'clock the
firemen reached the last victim Lille
Charter Both the bodies were re-
moved to the morgue, where an inquest
will be held.
Corn transmits Hydrophobia 60 . Cow.
WILMINGTON. O., March 10. A few
weeks ago q dog owned by Samuel
Sharp, we'll to do farmer living near