The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-02-20

Troy, N. Y, Feb. IA small boy
carelessly throwing a match into a pile
OF oily waste, mass of flames, 300 girls
and women frenzied with fright, fight
ing for life, as the hot flames chased
them with hungry tongues. was the be-
ginning of fire tonight that consumed
thousands of dollars worth of property
and caused the destruction of many
lives.
From the outside of the high building
the first notice of impending disaster
was the sight of body of girls as they
rushed out upon the fire escapes from
the windows, those who were more for
tunate crowding out the entrance. Fol-
lowing them was a mass of smoke, with
flashes of hot fame in lurid streaks.
Then the mass of frenzied humanity.
finding the expresses too small for in
slant escape, began climbing over the
sides of the escapes, and bundles of
clothing filled with writhing humanity
dropped at the feet of Mortified passers-
by.
Within twenty minutes after the fire
started there were three dead women
laid upon the floor of an adjoining store,
and at least dozen MANNED and burn.
ed girls and women taken to the hos
pital or to their homes.
OF the $50 girls and women in the
building, 1t is presumed that at least a
half dozen are in the ruins, for 1t is i'm.
possible to locate all. and there may pos
sibly be a score dead.
1t was just thirty minutes before clos
ing hour'in Stettheimer & Co.'S. shirt.
waist factory on river street, and the 3so
girls and women were working RAPIDLY
to finish up. In the cutting-room on
the fifth floor $50 girls were closing up
their days assignments and preparing to
leave when the whistle blew. Lille
kreiger, who was working near a ma
chine, called to small boy to light the
gas over her work. The boy struck
match and threw the burning
stub to the floor. 1t struck pile of oily
rags and in an instant the girl was en-
veloped in flames. With her clothes and
hair burning she rushed to the window
and at once the room became a strug
Cling, shreiking mass of humanity, fill
ing the windows, the fire-escapes and
the only stairway. tanning and push
ing, tearing each others clothes from
their backs, turning In narrow corners to
| find sister, or mother or friend. the
number in the exits augmented every
minute by those from the other floors.
these girls and women fought for their
lives to get away from the flames that
seemed to be growing to a monstrous
size.
With rare presence of mind, Police
man Farrell, who was on the street see
ing that In the panic a number were liza
BILE to jump, let down the awning over
the entrance. Barely was it down when
two or three forms came flying down
from the fifth and sixth stories, and
bouncing from the awning fell to the
sidewalk.
Lille Krieger, over whose machine
the fire started, was one of these. She
struck the awning, fell on her back and
bounced to her hands and knees on the
walk. She got up and staggered about
until people helped her to her feet
again, By this time nearly every win
dow had female form dangling from it.
and when the firemen arrived there was
a hustle to get the ladders up.
AT the center window on the sixth
floor, woman hanging by her hands
was forced out by the flames licking her
face. With last shrek she let go and
came tumbling over and over until she
struck the pavement. When picked up
1t was found that she was Mrs Margaret
Carroll Her spinal column was forced
through into her brain.
| Just below her, in another window
hung woman, turning appealing
glances to the crowd. The black smoke
was pouring from the window, but as vet
no flames were visible, and the crowd
yelled encouragingly to her to hold on,
but high red fame reached out lust
then and licked her face, and in an in.
slant her body was rebounding from the
pavement. She was Mrs. Foley. ,
widow, and when picked up was dead.
On the same floor, hanging from an
other window, was another woman, an,
salvation in the shape of a ladder wa
almost within her grasp when he
strength failed and she went twirlin.
down to death. She was Mrs. Kane.
The fremen and police worked lik
, heroes, and to their energy was due
great saving of life At least a doze,
women and girls were carried down tn
ladders or dragged out of the corridor,
! the officers and fremen going into tn
!, midst of the smoke. The fire burned S
fiercely by this time that no detaile
search OF the building could be mad
and from what can be learned there wer
many girls and women on the thre
upper stories, either lying in faintin
9 fits or overcome by smoke. 1t was tn
e fact that led to the rumors that the,
l. were at least twenty women dead, ar
D. the story, even at this writing, does NJ
le seem improbable.
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