St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-10

STOailS Of the imprisoned Hremcn. Tile
| work OF rescue began and was kept up
until O'clock tonight, when the eighth
body was taken out ana the work aban-
doned until tomorrow with only one
| corpse to remOve--that of Third Assist
ant Chief Jansen, brother of Chief Of
Police Jansen.
The following is revised and cor
rected list of the dead.
THIRD ASSISTANT CHIEF AUG
UST JANSEN, 265 Eighth street.
FRANK M'GURK, lieutenant Truck
Company No. 4, and acting captain No.
IA, 3g7 Park street.
FRED KROESSCHMUER, pipeman
Chemical Company No. 2.
CAPT. ARCHIE CAMPBELL, of
the fire boat Foley, II Iwenty-seventh
street.
ALLIE RIES, Company No. 8 KILLED
by falling LADDER.
JAMES c. FREEMAN, lieutenant
Company No. 4.
FRANK WINNIE. Chemical No, 4,
found i'll balcony of theater.
THOMAS MORGAN, Engine Com
pany No. l.
JOHN FARRELL, Chemical No. 2.
The injured are:
Charles Schunk, captain Chemical
No. 2, compound fracture of leg AMI
hand and severely bruised about the
head; thirty-two years of age.
John Geo, pipeman. No.. 4, badly
bruised about the head and arms; thlr-
ty-four years of age.
John Farrell, No. 4, found alive in
ruins and taken to his home.
Frank Schroeder, No. 5. badly sprained
back aud head cut: twenty-seven wears
of age.
Fred Mauher, No. 5, foot crushed and
back Sprained; twenty-four years OF
aye.
Patrick Linehan, captain No. 4, collar
bone fractured and internally injured
Lieut.. Curran, No. 2, internally in
jured, probably fatally.
John Crowley. No. IA, single, badly
burned and crushed.
THE ROOF FELL DOWN.
Shortly after O'clock, when the fire
was seemingly under control, the the
the brave tiremen stood as they fought
the flames, went down, and the brave
men were carried with it to the floor of
the auditorium below. Some were ex-
tricated from the furnace of flames, in
which the whole interior was now en-
veloped, by their brave and more for
tunate comrades, who riSked their lives
to drag out the PROSTATE forms OF the
dead and injured men. Six or eight
men were soon brought out. and those
who are able to speak said there must
be ten more in the ruins, where living
death awaited them. For these poor
fellows there was no chance. The
burning roof had fallen on them, and
they were roasted to death if they had
not been killed in that terrible plunge
from the roof.
CRY OF HORROR
went up from the tremen who saw the
awful catastrophe. The members of
the insurance patrol were covering up
the seats in the parquette of the theater
when suddenly light was seen through
the roof above. The men in the theater
ran back just in time, and the next mo-
ment the roof fell into the parQuette of
the theater. Several of the men in the
theater were caught by the falling tim
bers. The scene that followed is ne yer
to be forgotten by those who witnessed
it. For moment all was dark, when
suddenly a tremendous sheet of fame
shot up, and with it came the cries of
the firemen who had fallen through the
roof to the theater below. One man
was heard to cry:
"MY GOD, HELP ME! I AM ROASTING
To DEATH"
The men were hurled under the blaz-
ing roof, and there seemed to be little
hope if any would come out alive, even
if they had not been killed by their ter
rible fall. There was trouble in getting
water on the fire, which now rapidly
made its way through the theater and
scenery. The water was finally turned
on, and several of the firemen, who had
fallen near the front door of the lobby,
were dragged from the burning debris
and carried out more or less iniur ed.
The men were removed to the saloon
across the street. and their wounds
dressed, while the firemen 5ravely kept
at work pouring deluge Of water on
the debris and trying to rescue others of
the unfortunates. But soon no more
cries were heard and it was evident that
all who had not been brought out must
now be past hope. The interior of the
auditorium soon became a seething
mass of flames. which the firemen vainly
endeavored to subdus in order to save
their doomed comrades. While the
frantic men were at work amidst
the ruins ON the first floor of the
parquette. the gallery began to burn,
and while directing their attention to
this blaze. another portion of the roof
fell, making the rescue of the impris-
oned men impossible, and adding more
fuel to the fire.
TIE FIRST FATALITY
of the fire happened before the more
awful tragedy on the roof. Ollie Refs,
a fireman. lost his life while trying to
reach the roof of the theater before the
roof fell, He had put ladder from the
northern wing of the hotel building,
which is two stories lower than the thea
ter proper. when the ladder swayed and
he fell with it to the roof of the wing.
He was carried away and died in the
arms Of his comrades. He was mem
Der of Engine Company No. s.
! Assistant Chief DeYer, who was