The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-13
TO-DAY WILL TELL
THE AWFUL STORY.
HOLOCAUST AT BROOKLYN LAST
EVENING.
One Million Dollars Loss, and There
is No Knowing How Many Human
Lives Have Been Sacrificed to the
Fire Fiend-It is Feared the Num-
Der is Great.

Buffalo, N Y, April 12.--The plant
of the American Glucose company
burned tonight. The loss will be about
81, 900, 900; insurance, $685., 1000.
The works of the company consisted
of an eleven-story brick building, used
for the manufacture of glucose, and
an eight-story brick building used as
a power house and as a place for MAX
ing the cattle-feeding product; an
eight-story brick building used as a re-
finery and an eight-story storehouse.
The fire was discovered in the dyna-
mo room of the main building, shortly
after o'clock by the or, :. eer.
A general alarm vas til hl2 in, and
the fremen rushed out. N ten min
utes the whole building was on fire;
flames Were bursting through the will
dows and darling from the roof. There
were perhaps 125 men at work tonight.
1t will not be known until a census of
the employees is taken tomorrow,
whether one man or fifty were Gre
mated. 1t is known some of the men
escaped by the fire escape and some
of those on the lower stories jumped
into the canal.
A great many of the men at work
on the upper floor were Germans and
Huns. They may have been burned
or escaped; it is impossible to tell row.
The chances are, however, that sew
eral men were burned t. death. AS
it is, four of the men who jumped were
hurt. These are:
John Young, a workman, hurt about
the head and face.
Two Poles. names unknown, severely
injured.
John Stein, severely burned.
In fifteen minutes the entire build
ing was a mass of flames. In twenty
minutes the walls began to fall. They
fell at frequent intervals until inside
of forty minutes there was but one
corner standing.
The main building was connected with
the power and feed houses by an ele-
waited bridge over Scott street The
flames crept across and ignited. the feed
house. Meanwhile the City fish mar
ket Just across the street caught fire.
Five firemen We're sent inside 10 fight
the flames and a number of streams
We're turned on the roof. The building
was a low, long brick one and the fire
men made a good fight to save it, but
a portion of a blazing wall fell on it
and started the roof to burning. The
firemen inside did know of this and no
one told them. The consequences were
that in a few minutes the roof fell
and buried five firemen
1nTee Ol lileDn eSCdpeQ Win DuL q
few bruises, but Juhn Weber and Lieu
tenant Roy Schraeder were not so for
tunate. Weber was taken out uncon-
scious. His face is badly burned, some
of his ribs are broken and he has also
internal injuries. He may not recover.
Lieutenant Schroeder had his back and
legs hurt.
The feed house was completely de-
stroyed, the walls all having fallen by
10 o'clock. The refinery and the store
house went, and by II o'clock nothing
was left of the mammoth establish
ment but a few walls. The glucose
works We're owned and controlled by C.
]. Hamlin, the famous troteing horse
man, and his sons.
After IL o'clock, the progress of the
fire was checked. AT / o'clock it was
completely under control.
The situation at midnight was such
that it placed all the surrounding prop
erty out of danger from destruction.
Fireman Chris Lang was compelled,
on account of the danger from fallins
walls about midnight to jump from the
roof of one of the lw buildings to the
roof of one of the low buildings to the
and slight injuries. No further serious
accidents have been reported UP to
this hour, 1870 a. M