The Globe-republican., 1894-04-13
LIFE'S UNCERTAINTIES.
Nine Firemen Cremated in a Burn
ing Theater.
l1ilwaukee's Opera House Destroyed With
Distressing Resufts-A Calamity ut
Petersburg, Va.-CasuaIties OF
Lesser Importance.
Milwaukee's Horror.

Milwaukee, Horror.
MILWAUKEE. April 10-Nine fire
men are dead. six are seriously in
jured. and Milwaukee's leading theater
the Davidson, is in ruins, the result o
fire which mysteriously started il
the roof of the building at 4:2O o'clocl
yesterday morning. The loss of tn,
building, scenery and equipments o
the Lilliputian Co. aggregates $500, 900
on which there is an insurance of $50,
600. of which $40, 600 is carried by Ros
enfield Bros. owners of the Lilliputians
Their loss will be S15, 600.
Twenty firemen were upon the roo1
of the building, working under the
direction of the chiefs. and it was
thought that the blaze was under con
troll, when the roof seemed to bulge
under their feet, and in momen,
every man was pitched into the audi
torium Of the theater, some falling into
the parquette and others upon the bal
comics
Deeds of heroism were numerous as
usual under such circumstances.
Michael Dunn. captain of one OF the
fire tugs, slid down rope, made it
fast to several of the men who were
not imprisoned by the debris, and then
climbed the rope hand over hand to the
roof of the Davidson hotel. which es-
capped destruction. The fire took a new
start amid the debris, and amid the
groans and shouts of the imprisoned
ho of II
was kept up until 8 o'clock last night,
when the eighth body was taken out.
and the work abandoned until to-day,
with only one corpse to remove, that
of Third Assistant Chief Jansen, Q
brother of Chief of Police Jansen.
Fifteen Killed.
PETERSBURG, Va, April 10.-Fully fif
teen men were killed and half as many
more wounded by an explosion of pow
der in the fireworks factory of Romaine
Bros. in this city Saturday afternoon.
Just prior to the explosion Charles n.
Romaine, the senior member of the
firm: Mr.. John Bland, the senior mem
ber of the tobacco firm of Bland Bros
& Wright; Capt J. Tosh, prominent
II
of Bland Bros, were engaged in con-
versation in the Office of the fireworks
company. Fire was discovered in an
Outbuilding, and these gentlemen went
to the assistance of the employees and
tried to eXtinguish it by throwing
buckets of water on it.
An alarm had been turned in and
just as Chief Engineer Farley of the
fire department turned into the yard
the explosion occurred. Messrs John
Bland and Charles Romaine were killed
instantly and their bodies horribly
mangled. Both are members of the
city council. Chief Engineer Farley
was fatally injured and died in two
hours. Capt Tosh's body was burned
beyond recognition. The other dead
are: Robert Roland, James Roland,
James Perkins. William Tyler, John T.
Harris, Il. Graves and five others not
identified.
Panic I'm a School.
CHICAGO, April 10.-A panic occurred
in the Humboldt public school yester-
day afternoon, and in the mad rush of
the children to escape from the build
ing one boy was killed and over a
score were crushed and trampled. Four
teen children lie in the St Eliza beth
hospital under the care of physicians,
while many others were carried to
their homes by the police. The chill
dren were preparing to leave for a re-
cess when a loud explosion startled
every teacher and pupil in the school,
steam pipe had burst in
one of the rooms, and moment
later the children were rushing pell-
NELL through the halls and down the
stairs, shrieking with fear. They went
down by dozens and We're trampled be-
meath hurrying feet until the stairs
were covered with unconscious bodies.
When the shrieking children went out
into the street someone turned in an
alarm of fire, and in few moments
the fire and police departments were
on the scene. The firemen soon re-
moved fifteen children. who were hur-
ried to St Elizabeth's hospital On
the way one boy, named Daniel Gun.
stein. 10 years old. died. Andrew An.
derson, aged 6 years Benjamin Harris,
years ana Theodore Ellison, 10 years.
were fatally injured In addition to
these several others were seriously in
jured.
Crushed In an Elevator.
CHICAGO, April a.-Frank Kennedy
was crushed to death and Frederick
Koenig, perhaps, fatally injured. be-
meath the elevator in the Columbus
Cloak Co.'S store Sunday. The men
were making some repairs to the eleva
tor. They had been working half an
hour when they were startled by see.
ing the elevator cable in motion They
looked up and saw the cage coming
down upon them. Before they could
move the cage had cut off all means of
escape Both Kennedy and Koenig
shouted for help. and then both were
crushed by the heavy cage which set
tied down upon them
Accident ut MemphkA
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 9.-Yesterday
morning at S:2O the brick three-story
hui1dinU IA and 1SS Real stroot r.,l