Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-02-18

the roof and from IL small buildings on
the south caught.
About o'clock the iremen heard
shrieks coming from the one story build
ing on the sOu,a. Iney discovered an
Italian peddler named Joseph Rossi,
who kept a stand in front of the build
ing. pinioned by the legs under a heavy
beam. Three policemen started to as
sist him, and with a fireman worked
for three-Quarters Of an hour. They
had just about gotten him loose when
with a roar the great south walls
CAME CRASHING DOWN
and the hOrrihed spectators saw the
brave little group buried from view.
When the smoke and dust had cleared
there was a rush of willing workers
and in a little while the men were
taken out All were injured and had
TO be removed 20 the hospital. The
Italian viii probably die, but the brave
policemen. while badly hurt. will re-
cover
Supt. Willard. OF the police force,
says that he saw a number of girls at
windows who never came out but fell
back into the flames.
One fir-man who was working from
the rear saw three girls with their
arms wound tightly about each other
turn in their frenzy and jump back into
the flames Some Of the women who
escaped tell of stumbling over PROSTATE
bates o01 ore nC-ftiva -hot Sc~~e Of
girls perished. The girls who did es-
clpe 1--we ll various subuI Ban places
and hurried away. so that until the roll
Is called in the morning tha exact num-
Der of missing will not be know. Lot
tie and Nellie Hull. sisters. graSped
each other tightly by the hands and
started down the stars from the sixth
story. AT the landing Of the fifth floor
they encountered a wall of flame and
smoke Nellie had on only her cOrsets
and skirt. having been making her tOi-
let LOttie. who was also partially un-
dressed threw her dress over Nellie's
face and together they went through
the flames. LOttie's hair was burned
completely off when she reached the
sid walk. hut Nellie was burned only
about her bare arms
THE TOTAL LOSS BY THE FIRE
IS from S25O.0O0 to $500 900. with about
$1,000 600 insurance. At least 500 people
are thrown out OF employment. The
fremen worked tonight with the ther-
mOmeter down below zero and suf-
fered very much.
Two cOrOners were summoned and
a jury was empanelled TO care for the
dead
'VST OF THF DEAN;
The following Is a list OF the unfor-
tunates Obtainable up TO II o'clock
MRS. MARGARET CARROLL,
jumped from window
MRS. FOLEY, jumped from window.
MRS. ROBERT KANE, jumped from
window.
LIST OF INJURED.
Mamie Day. jumped and badly hurt
Annette Harrington. badly hurt: Lii
liam OathOut. burned; Mamie ROurke,
burned; Lillian Kreiger. burned and
badly bruised; James Quinn. under
wall. will die; Frank ROssi Italian,
bruised by falling wall; Policeman
Burke. bruised by falling wall. Police
man Watson bruised by falling wall;
Fireman Mcclure. bruised by falling
wall, LOttie Hull. severely burned; Nell
lie Hull. badly bruised
MISSING AND PROBABLY DEAD.
MAMIE DANKS.
b. KATIE O'CONNOR.
/ MISS O'NEILL.
Z MISS HEBBERSCHER
Midnight-S -Supt of Police Willard
said at midnight. THE returns from
the various precincts show that there
are az least fifteen people missing. and
with the five already known to be miss
ing that will make twenty lost in the
ruins. I imagine that there are many
more. for it seems to me impossible that
an the people in that building could es-
caps A great many people would not
report 10 the police at all.
The roll call i'm the morning will evil
IDENTIFY show that between twenty and
thirty people are under the ruins. Up
IN Z o'clock no othsr bodies had been
recovered.
CROOKED WORK CHARGED