Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-03-17
ANOTHER HOLOCAUST
Terribly Fatal Fire 10 The City
Of Chicago.
FROM FIVE TO FIFTEEN LIVES LOST.
Some Thirty People More or Less Sc
riOuSly Injured.
A NUMBER OF PERSONS MISSING.
Most of Them Believed to he I'm
Ruins of Burned Building-Panic
Among Occupants of Building
Many Heroic Rescues.

| since tnc famous cOid-StOrage ware
house fire on the .World's-Fair grounds
in 1898 to take anywhere from five TO
fifteen lives, MAIN 80 people, and re-
duce a six-story brick building, 21j to
221 Wabash avenue, to a pile of blazing
timber, red-hot bricks, and twisted
iron.
The number of dead is still in doubt,
and probably will not be definitely known
until the debris is sufficiently cooled to
admit of a search being made for the
bodies Of those who are undoubtedly in
the ruins. This will require two days
at least.
Three men are known to be dead. They
are as follows:
SAMUEL A. CLARK, bookkeeper for
the Olmstead Scientific Company.
MILES A. SMITH. salesman FOR the
| Olmstead Scientific Company.
EDWARD BINZ, cashier for Sweet,
| Wallace 81 Co.
The missing, of whom nothing could be
! learned at a late hour tonight, and
most of whom are without question
| buried i'm the wreck of the building, are
| as follows:
Those reported mihsing, and who had
| not returned home or communicated with
their friends tonight, and whose bodies
| are believed to be i'm the ruins, are as
| follows:
THE MISSING
w. A. OLMSTEAD, president Of the
w. A. Olmstead Scientific Company; rush
ed through the sixth floor. notifying his
employees of fleir peril seen to go to-
ward rear of the building, and was not
seen to leave.
c. II. ARMIES. secretary of w. A.
Olmstead Scientific Company.
NJ. f.. HARRIS, widow. ~ years old;
employed as bOok-keeper for w. a. Ohm
stead Scientific Company.
UNKNOWN WOMAN, seen at the
window on sixth floor shortly after Miles
Smith leaped to his death.
C. T. ANDERSON. employed by Sweet
Wallace * Co.
TONY ----, last name unknown, office
boy for Sweet. Wallace & Co.
FRED. HAMILL. vaudeville singer; |
employed by National Music Company.
C. A. PRICE, cashier for w. A. Ohm |
stead Scientific Company.
SOLOMON GROLLMAN. JR., western |
agent for Henry Hoffman. Of Colum- |
bus. o.; had rooms with Sweet, Wallace |
* co.
SOLOMON GROLLMAN, sR., with
Solomon GroIlman, Jr.
ANNA GUEST, cashier of the National |
Music Company.
H. R. NELSON, worked for w. A.
Olmstead Scientific Company.
WILLIAM MARVIN, shipping clerk
for Presbyterian Board of Publication.
WILLIAM BOSS, errand boy for Pres
byterian Board of Publication.
w. ]. WILCOX, partner Of w. A. Ohm
steads
CHARLES A. PRICE, cashier for Ohm
stead Company.
w. Il. NELSON, employee of Olmstead
Company.
THE INJURED
The injured are as follows:
PAUL c. SNYDER, employed by
Sweet, Wallace x Co.; severely burned
about the head and body, taken home,
may die.
EMIL BRESSERNIAN. dropped from
third floor to street; hip broken and spine
injured, may die.
a. T. MCULLOUGH, salesman for
Alfred Peats; jumped from third floor,
right hip and shoulder broken, and in
jured internally. may die.
MARY LA PERE, burned about face
and head while climbin. down fire
escape from Sweet. Wallace & Co.'S; fell
from second floor to ground and sustain
ed internal injuries, may die.
HUGH s. ELLIOTT, manager Presby
erian Board of Publication hands and
ace burned not seriously hurt.
HERMAN OVERMAN, fell from fire.
escape; badly bruised.
II. b. CUNNINGHAM, agent for the
Northern Pacific Express Company; head (
md body burned.
w S. LEMLEY colored waiter at II.
/. Kohlsaats restaurant; jumped from
second floor of restaurant right leg
rOken. :
Officer JOSEPH ROGERS, overcome by :
smoke while rescuing people from the !.
,urning building. .
Professor HANSLINE, OF the National :
Music Company; face and hands burned !,
While helping employees to reach the fire. =
scaDe. ).
f. A. WISE, legs and hands severely ;,
,urned.
PHILIP FARLEY, piano-mover for
'onover Piano Company; right leg bro
EN- in jumping from second-story win
ow. p
w. H. MURPHY. engineer; burned $
bout face and shoulders. 5
JOSIE BAXA. right ankle broken in p
imping from second-story window. d
ANNIE BAXA, jumped with her sis
er from second story; severely bruised. II
DAVID SCHAEFER. arm broken in S
rying to catch A. T.. Mccullough, who
lmped from third. floor.
ANDREW NYSTROM, face and hands m
lrned. sr
A. J. NYsTRoM. face, hands, and legs p,
lrned
FRED. SMITH, face and neck cut by
llling glass and head bruised By falling IA
lex. ~
JACOB KERCHIN, letter-carrier; jump -
from second story; back injured and r.
nkle sprained.
JOHN MDERMOTT. jumped from Sc
md floor and dislocated left shoulder 10
JAMES W. WALL, pipe-man; head and 81
ck injured by falling wall.
KATE CARNEY, forewoman OF the
ational Music Company; face and head
lrned in descending from the fourth
)or.
EDWARD ID. HILL. employed by the T
Publishing Company; Sc In
rely burned about the face and neck. II
The building was six stories high had l.
frontage of IS feet on Wabash avenue,
ID extended back lGO feet to an alley. sh
had two elevators and an ar-shaft, W,
hich gave the flames every chance. ,
was because OF the air-shaft that the
q spread with such rapidity The vac
Hiding was occupied by a number OF cle
ncerns some OF them employing large
mbers of people. IL Is estimated that
persons were at work In the building VI
len the fire was discovered. SIX
A PANIC s
rhe origin OF the fire is in dispute, 4
10 weight OF evidence seems 10 be that | 3 Z