The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-17
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MRS. MINNIE BROWN, aged IS.
residence unknown.
| - HOFFMAN, conductor OF the car.
| HENRY w. MECKLENBERG, aged
30, OF % Mary street, q tailor
CURT LEPHNE, aged 10. residence
unknown.
BESSIE DAVIS. aged 20. Noyes
street school teacher
JAMES MLAUGHLIN, aged IS. OF Il
Trowbr1dge avenue. a printer
HARRY W. FOSTER, aged q, Of 81
Mentor avenue, clerk
MATHEW CALLAHAN, aged %, of
Hamilton stsest, steel worker
MRS. SUERHEIMER, aged 50. Pro-
fessor street
MRS. MARTHA SUERHEIMER.
aged go, OF LA Merchant avenue.
MRS. A W. HOFFMAN. 1415 Pearl
street..
HARVEY HOFFMAN. Is years, son
Of Mrs. az A. W. Hoffman.
ON THE REAR PLATFORM
On the rear platform Of the car before
IT made the terrible plunge were c. \.
Ferguson of Panama, Ohio: John Song
fer of 734s Woodland avenue; Hank
Peters OF Dover; G.. o. Ross Of SO Quincy
street: Andy Bald of so Peton street !;
ed and were sawed Heller says tf1e car
was going Slow and that he heard some
one cry out stop the car; stop the
car"
He 2lso says there was a woman on
the platform and that she jumped safe
ly away but Immediately cried out than
her dauehter was IN the car.
John Sorgfer related his experience as
follows: ION nearing the draw ON the
vIaduct j noticed the conductor leave
tine car and pull a chain, which / sup
posed operated a safety device i'm tfhe
track. The conductor waved his hand
and the car moved slowly forward /
first heard cry stop, stop" Then a
Etltle man standing nearer the car steps
than myself yelled jump / felt the
rear part of the car begin to raise UP
and blindly jumped over the platform
railing, net knowing how or where /
would land- / picked myself UP about
six feet from the edge of the open draw
and picked my hat from among several
others lying about There were three
other men on the platform besides my
self. One wore glasses. and another,
the one who yelled jump had ON a
m'ackaztosh. It came through my mind
that the car was going down, as 1 saw
the iron gate moving as / jumped. /
was leaning against the door jamb but
turned my head when some one in the
viaduct cried STOP / knew no one in
the car at THE time. There was am aw-
full Sh when the car struck"
AT O'Clock this morning a diver who
has been ait work says he has found no
more bodies and lhe is inclined to the be-
lief that There can be not more tllan
one body i'm the car.
ANOTHER DETROIT FIRE
Detroit, Mich, Nov. 16-Another fire
attended with terrible fatalities. occur
red at $50 o'clock this morning when the
factory of the improved Match company
at Bellevue avenue and Fredericks st. ?
burned and thre lives were lost. The
dead are:
REUBEN DAVIS, night foreman, "a
years of age and single.
JOHN WAGNER, night Waterman,
and elderly man and married.
AGNES YETTKE, II years of age.
The factory has been working night
and day. About $50 shift of thirty
hands was busily employed when the
fire suddenly started. possibly by fric-
ton. The flames spread with great
rapidity. All the employees except the
above named escaped.
Davis and Wagner, assisted by the
fettke glr, secured the hre hose and at
to put out the fire. Before
they We're aware of their danger the
flames sprung up all around them and
they Were unable to escape. After
destroying the main building and gut
ting small one the fire burned itself !
out. The bodies recovered are burned |
beyond recognition. The building, ma |
chinery and stock destroyed are yalu- |
ed at $50, 900; insurance $4,000.
The body of Wagner was taken cut |
latter, not 50 badly burned as the others. |
Lizzie Kattanaske. had her nose brok- /
en- and was otherwise injured by fall 1
ing down stairs. Several others were |
painfully burned and bruised.
One of the employees says the fire was
started by Watchman Wagner who |
end fell into tray of matches
that had been assorted and left on the |
iorr. Wagner became excited and gave
,he tray a kick. scattering the burning
in all directions.