The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-11-24

| monetary loss will reach I'm the neigh
| borhoOd OF 5000 The dead are:
James Mckay, Bradley a. Dunning. I'd.
/ Gunther, entry clerk, single. twenty-three
| years old.
The missing are. Edward n. viot. order
| clerk; Daniel Marker, clerk; Henry Rider,
packer.
! The fire started between the fourth and
| fifth floors. at the rear OF the building, and
, spread with frighttui rapidity. The great
majority Of the employees were az lunch
when the alarm was giyen. but there were
eight or nine OF them left on the upper
floors. Those who were first at the scene
saw n terrible sight The whole upper
! floors were a mass Of flames. on the win
dOw-sill Of the fourth window Of the
NTH floor fronting on Bates street. stood
Bradley Dunn'ng. two windows south OF
him stood James Mckay.
Don't Jump; wait FOR the hook and
ladder shrieked The crowd But before
the ladders could be raised the flames
rolled 10 the window where Dunnlng stood.
He bowed his head. grasped the window
with his ha1ds and then dropped The
people watching him had Just time TO
throw n bale Of jute beneath him and Il
was no sooner I'm place than Dunning
struck II. He bounded up like a rubber
ball and then fell 10 the sidewalk. linn
and mangled. He was taken 90 a. near
by drug store and afterwards to Har-
pers Hospital, where he shortly after
wards died from his. injuries The fall
ing OF James Mckay followed I'm few
ulnutes. When he appeared at the win
dow he made no sign that he was star.
ing death IN the face. For a few moments
ne looked over the people who appeared
az dizzy distance below as though won
dering what he might do 10 save his life
lhere We're shouts from below. but ne
eVldently could not hear what was being
said. The roar Of the flames drowned Mn
noises mat came I'm from the street AZ
yer a snort hesitation. he threw his
ieet from the window and slid down until
ne was hoiding on with only one hand.
ne hung this way for several seconds he
fore ne released his grasp. The blaze was
bursting out Of the window when the man
hnally gave up all hopes Of saving him
seit ana slipped loose from his hold. RE
struck on the easement Of the second win
DOW, and partly turned over This throw
MIN 50 far out from the window that mart
OF his body struck ON the electric wires
below which partly turned him over aealn.
lie struck on the sidewalk within
lew feet OF the building. Policemen. fire
men, and spectators quickly ran 10 him.
ana ne was carried 70 the ambulance.
- "i'NVHaNlvuA When picked up, and
~ was thousht that life was extinct. He
nVed' however for couple Of hours af-
ttt being removed 10 Emergency Hospital
The awful spectacle Of McKav's and
Dunnlngs descent was hardly over when
the spectators saw another man creeping
towards the upper window. nearest the
corner lie was on his hands and knees
pima and sufocating with the dense
smoke. He reached the sin. laid one arm
on IT, and as he endeavored 10 shield
ms race from the fierce heat with his
hands tried to lift himself 70 the open
an JUST beyond. He was too far spent
A sudden burst OF flame closed around
MIN, and the horror-stricken beholders
saw his head drop his arm drag slowly
back, and his body sink from view i'm
the flames within.