The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-22
THIRTEEN ARE LOST
FIRE CLEANS OUT BUSINESS BLOCKS
IN CHICAGO.
Total Loss Over Six Hundred Thousand
Dollars -Four Hundred Girls in One Es-
Establishment Receive No Warning of
the Fire Until the Smoke Comes Pour
ing in Upon Them, but by the Goodness
of Officers are Moved Out of Harms
Way-Dust Explosion Starts the Confia-
Pration-Losses in Detail.

Chicago, Nov. 21-The Excelsior
building at Canal and Jackson streets
and an eight story brick structure i'm
medfaItely adjoining 1t. ait III and 173
South Canal street, were destroyed by
fire this afternoon Not less than rar-
teen valuable manufacturing plants
located in the two buildings were lost.
including the Shober-Carqueville LFth-
ographfng company, the Charles En-
merck Feature company and the large
establishment Of Strauss. Eisendrath
& Drom. The total loss is not less than
$500. 900
The fire was a hard one to subdue and
attended witlh no little danger. The es-
cape of several hundred girls from the
Strauss, Eisendrath & Drom factory
was made possible by GOODNESS and de-
cfsaon. A number OF the girls suffered
from fright and sustained slight bruis-
es. Before the fight with the fire was
ended, Fire Chief Sweeney had ex-
ihausted the regular calls for engines
and had to speedily summon twenty
more.
An approxirnate list OF the loss Is:
Excelsior building. seven story
brick. 1880 Charles Emmerich & Co,
features, 100000; George E. Lloyd &
Co., bicycles and stereotyping. $50, 900;
Schnadig Bros & Co., shoes, $4,000; Fl.
r. Puffer & Co, felt hats, $4,000;
Strauss, EiserIdrath & Drorn. ladies
waists, $4,000; several smaller con-
Germs losing an aggregate Of $4,000;
eight story brick building III 10 173
South Canal street, owned by Warren
Springer, total loss $4,000; A ]. Her
bust & Co, typewriter, carbons and
ribbons, s20,0
An aggregate loss of $4,000 was sus-
nainad by the smaller concerns in this
building.
The four story brick building, 1s5 to
1863 South Canal street, owned by w. j..
Wilson, was damaged by water and
falling walls to the extent of $4,000 The
tenants of this building sustained an ag-
er-egate loss of 81 900.
The fire started by a dust explosion
in the renovating room of Charles En-
merck G. Co on the fourth floor Of the
Excelsior building and spread so rap
idly that the worhunen in that part OF
the establishment had barely time TO
give the alarm and get out In safety.
In the sixth floor a, serious loss Of life
was narrowly avertted. Strauss, Eisen-
dartY1 & Drom, makers OF shirt waists,
employ 400 girls and none of them were
aware of THE fire until it had made con1
siderable Roadway and the smoke came
pouring into the working room in thick
clouds A wild rush was made for the
three elevators which were kept run
ming until the last possible minute, and
while many Of the girls escaped in this
way, others took to the stairs. When
1.-THE main floor was reached the jam be-
x,ag,,a frioH7ltf1,I a nd hllt for fine efforts
of officers Brennan and Ma1oney Of the
Desplafnes street station, who managed
TO keep them ass of frightened girls NOV
ing and in some instances by force. pre-
vented them from crowding too violent
ly, many lives must have been lost Sew
era1 of the girls tainted but soon reviv-
ed when taken ito THE open air.
Nearly all of the losses are covered by
fnSuran nee