The record-union., 1898-03-17
HOLOCAUST
At CHICAGO.
Fire Breaks Out in a Six
Story Building,
Reducing II in a Few Moments
to a Mass Of Ruins.
Hundreds Of People at Work When
The Alarm Was Sounded.
Three Men Killed in Jumping From Windows,
While a Large Number Of People Are
Missing, Believed TO Have Per-
iShed in the Flames.

CHICAGO. March 16. - 1t required
Just twenty minutes this afternoon Tor
one of the most savage fires Chicago
has seen since the famous cold storage
warehouse fire on the Worlds Fair
grounds in 1888 to take anywhere from
five to fifteen lives, MAIN thirty peo-
pie and reduce a six-story brick build
ing TO a pile of blazing timbers, red
hot bricks and twisted iron.
The number Of dead is still in doubt
and probably win not be definitely
known until the debris of the building
is sufficiently cooled to admit of a
search being made for the bodies that
are undoubtedly in the ruins.
THE DEAD.
Three men are known to be dead
They are:
Samuel A. Clark, bookkeeper for the
Olmstead Scientific Company.
Miles A. Smith. salesman for the
Olmstead Scientific Company.
Edward Binz, cashier for Sweet,
Wanach & Co.
SOME Or THE MISSING.
The missing. of whom nothing could
be learned at a late hour, and most Of
whom are without question burned in
the wreck of the building. are:
The following are missing:
". A. Olmstead, President of the
Olrstead Scientific Company When
the explosion occurred he ran to the
rear of the seventh floor of the build
ing, and has not been seen since. 1t
is thought he was buried in the ruins.
Charles Anderson. employed by
Sweet. Wanach & Co., has not been
seen since the first explosion.
Philip Farley, 81 Elburn avenue, en-
ployed as a piano mover by the Con-
over Piano Company, was in the build
ing at the time of the explosion; can
not be found.
An Office boy employed by Sweet.
Wanach & Co. jumped from the sixth
floor. and is thought to be buried in
the debris. caught by falling walls. The
boy was IS years old. but none of the
employees could give his name.
Miss Kate Carney, forewoman of the
National Music Company, believed to
have perished in the flames after help
ing to safety the last one Of forty
girls in her charge.
THE INJURED.
The injured. as far as known, are:
II 3 Cunningham. employed by the
Northern Pacific Express Company
head and body burned
Mary Lapore. 517 South Sangamon
street, employed by Sweet, Wallach &
Co. burned while descending the fire
escape from the sixth floor.
Herman Overman. 1S7 West Harrison
street, descended the fire escape with
Miss / apore. but fell from the sec
ond floor; burned and received inter
nal injuries.
Colored waiter at H. H. Kohlsaat &
Co.'S restaurant, leg broken by falling
wall
Police Officer Rogers, overcome by
smoke.
Samuel C. synder. 259 Hudson ave-
nue.. employed by Sweet, Yyallach &
Co, burned severely.
T. \ Wise. $50 South Albany ave-
nue.. employed by Sweet, Wanach &
Co. burned severely.
David Shaefer. 2905 Wentworth ave-
nue., arm broken while trying to catch
a man who had jumped from the sixth
floor.
Josie Baxa, 56s West Ninsteenth
street. jumped from the second floor,
right ankle broken.
Anna Baxa. jumped from second story
window, ankle sprained and body
bruised.
Unidentified man. jumped from sixth
floor. back broken. taken to the County
Hospital
Engineer ". H. Murphy OF Emerson
Building, overcome by smoke and burned
about face and shoulders.
andrew Nashton, employed by the ".
A. Olmstead Scientific Company, face
and hands burned.
Fred Smith. driver for the Coaover
Piano Company. cut on face by falling
glass.
Emil Brcssmann, 3s3 North Arn.itase
avenue, jumped from sixth aeor. in
jured in spine and lower limbs, viii
probably die
HUNDREDS IN THE BUILDING.
The building was six stories high,
had frontage of ffty-eight feet on