Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1898-03-17
Terrible Holocaust,
Fifteen Lives Were Lost and
Thirty More Injured.
Only Few Bodies Have So Far Been
Recovered.

at the worlds fair, broke out In six
story building at the corner Of Wabash
avenue and Jackson boulevard, The
death list will probably reach 10, and
may exceed that figure. The injured
number about 80. The following is a
list of the dead so far as known:
Samuel A. Smith, sales man.
Samuel A, Clark, jumped from the
fourth floor, employed by the Ohm
stead Scientific Company,
An unidentified man, taken from
2l5 Wabash avenue, burned beyond
recognition.
w. A. Olmstead, president Olmstead
Scientific Company.
Mis4 Kate Carney, forewoman of
the National Music Company, believed
to have perished in the flames, after
helping to safety the last one Of the 40
girls in her charge.
Charles Anderson, employed by the
Sweet & Wallace Company.
Philip Farley, employed as a piano
mover by the Conover PianoCompany.
An Office boy employed by the Sweet
g. Wallach Company, jumped from the
sixth or;thought to be buried in the
debris,
The injured are.
II. B. Cunningham, employed by the
Northern Pacific Express Company
| head and hody burned
Mary Lapore, employed by the
Sweet & Wallach Company, burned
while descending the fire escape from
the sixth floor.
A colored waiter, leg broken by a
falling wall.
Police Officer Rogers, overcome by
smoke.
Samuel G. Snyder, employed by the
Sweet g. Wallach Company, burned
severely.
E. A. Wise, employed by the
Sweet g. Wallach company, burned
severely.
David Schafer, arm broken while
trying to catch a man who hac
| Jumped from sixth floor.
Josie Baxa, jumped from secon
floor, right ankle broken.
Anna Baxa, jumped from seconC
floor, ankle sprained and body bruised
IUAn unidentified man, jumped from
the sixth floor, back broken,
| Engineer Murphy, of the Emerson
building burned about the face and
shouldeas.
Andrew Nashton, face and hands
burned,
| Fred Smith, cut on the face by fall
ing glass.
Emil Bresemann, jumped from th'
sixth floor, injured spine and lowe
limbs. will probably die.
The Emerson Piano Company oc'
capied the first, second and thirC
stories of the building, Among th'
other tenants were the Presbyterian
board of publications and the Swee
&iWallach Company, dealers in pho
tographic supplies, the latter on th
sixth floor. 1t was here that the FIR
broke out. The floor was stored will
chemicals and material used in tn,
manufacture of Photographic supplies
and according to some who escaped
the entire floor was swept with flame
in five minutes after the fire brok
out.
Three hundred girls were employs
by this firm, and when the fire brok
out panic ensued, many of the un
fortunate women being trampled IN
, der the feet OF their comrades, j
their frantic efforts to escape. On
off from escape by the elevators an
stairways, The people penned in th
burning building began jumping fror
windows, and though the firemen an
Others held canvas many were crushe
on the stone sidewalks. Accordin
to an eyewitness as many as 10 jumpe
at once from the top floor, and othel
we're seen shortly after to fall bac
into the flames.
The flames quickly spread to tn
floors beneath. The tiremen wei
badly handicapped by the terrif
heat. Within radious of a bloc
the heat was intense. The fierce:
fire was in the rear of the ConoYt
Company's store.
Thirty-fiye minutes after the iii
broke out the floors had all falleI
and a moment later the wall fel
Shortly after the front wall fell th
outward tracks of the UDion Elevate
loop was completely covered with d.
bris and blocked the whole elevate
system.
Miss Carney was true heroin
Although at the outset she had a
opportunity to escape with the otht
: women, she seemed TO feel it her dut
to stay and help the escape of I'll
girls over whom she had charg