Evening journal., 1894-09-18
CAUGHT IN A FIRE TRAP.
Five Victims Of a Factory Blaze
In Washington. :s:sr: -
THEY JUMPED DOWN TO DEATH.
Employees We're ponnod In at the Top of
Five story building without Fire Is
cepes and Fiiled with Feathers and other
Innammnbie Material.


cspes and FILLED with Feathers aud other
Innammnbic Material.
WAsHINGToN, Sept 1s.-The most "a
tnl fire Of recent years IN Washington was
tho burning Of tho mattress factory of
Stumnh 8 Erothors.
Five bodies are at the mnrguo, charred
and crushed beyond recognition; four in
lurod men are at the Emergency hospital,
ono of whom will die and there may be
othorg buried undor tho ruins, us several
Of the workmon arc unaccountod for.
Two OF tho dead at the morguo arc
known 20 bo William H. Tonnyson, an
old man employed in the factory, and
Willie Asho, boy OF 10 years
-Four others who are missing are Henry
ggwlor Phillip Ackorman, Robert Roit-
zol and nm old man who had been employ
cd ln the factory but few days and
whose namo IS not remembered by his om-
ployor.
Those at tho hospital nro Jamos t.
Vaughn, a clork, injured internally viii
probably die, A. T. Haske, both lega bro
ken, may do. Arthur G. Bovlns. Internal
Injuries and fractured wrist Harry lla
con, internal injuries.
No Fire Escapes.
Tho factory, which is owned by Claude
n. and Edward B. Stumph, stood nt the
intersection Of Seventh and X streets and
Massachusetts, avenue lvo story struc-
turc, with thin hriok walls. windows only
at back and front and no fire escapes It
was stovd with fenthcN. shnvings and
other inlsmmablo mntoi.al, and p5 por-
sons woru nt work In IL, six OF thom young
women
Fire was discovered I'm tho picking room
nt the front Of tho second floor. Almost
before an alarm could ho Rivon 20 tho
workmon Il bad spread through tho SEQ
ond story and burst up tho elevator well.
/ There wns delay IA turning In an alarm
on account OF the panic.
The escape Of those on tho ppor floors
was cut or. They stood In tho windows
shouting for help, whilo hundreds on tho
strocts, unable 20 glvo assistance. yollod
/ 90 thom Co walt for the hook and laddcr
| Three mon werc soon on tho roof, two OF
them gostioulating frnntioally. while tho
othcr leaned calmly against chimney
| waiting. Policeman PHI Brown found a
ladder and with the help Of two stalwart
men dragged "a mnttress 60 the roof OF o
blacksmith shop beneath tho oavos Of the
factory.
While those preparations We're under
way Hasko jumped from ono roof, whirl-
ing over and over in tho ar and striking
ON his side. Bevins jumped Co tho roof
and was caught on tho mattress hold by
Policeman Brown and his holpcr8
| Vaughn lonpod headlong, so that IN tho
force OF his fan he tore through the mat
troas as though IL had boen o hlankot
Bacon jumped from a third story win
dow and landed on his stomach norosa a
barrel 20 feot below. Other men chung 60
narrow projections outside the windows
until pilo Of mattresses had bocn heaped
on the sidewalk and jumped on, sustain,
ing severe injuries.
Cloud OF Burning Feathers.
Twenty minutes after tho fro had beou
discovered the east wall foil, crushing tn,
blacksmith shop PHlmor's oystor house
and tho Horse and Cattle Food oompnny'l
building A cloud OF burning foathorl
$3.50 100 feot over the building, and drift
ing down sot fro 20 several awnings IN
front of Seventh street stores making live
| ly work for volunteer firomen with watua
pals
shortly after the othor walls tottorot
ana came down, crushing tho two story
brick building OF the Woodruff File Hold
or company, George J. Bennott's marble
} shop and Hall 81 Cnmmacks furnitur,
store, frame building
One fireman and several spectator
wero hurt by falling bricks A genera
} slarm had called out the whole dopart
! ment, and the ruins were flooded TheI
tho search for bodies was begun.
Scenes 40 the morgue where mon ans
women collected to look for missing rola
tivos, were most distressing The hand
and feet woro burned from all the dead
their features obliterated and clothing con
sumod.
Tho cause OF tho flro Is unknown. tn
factory building was valued at sl5, OO
and It's contents nt S25, 600. The adioin
ing buildings which were crushed woro O
small value, so that $50, 900 viii probabl
: cover the damage 90 them.