The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-17

20 minutes this afternoon for one of the
most savage fires Chicago has seen
since the famous cold storage ware
house fire on the worlds fair grounds
in 1898, to take anywhere from five to
Is lives, MAIN 80 people and reduce
six-story brick building to pile OF
blazing timbers, red-hot bricks and
twisted iron. The number of dead is
still in doubt and probably will 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. This
will be two days hence. at least. 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 company.
EDWARD BINZ, cashier for Sweet,
Wallach & Co.
An Appalling List.
Those reported missing and who had
not returned home or communicated
with their friends tonight and whose
bodies are believed to be in the ruins,
are the following: w. A. Olmstead.
president of the w. A. Olmstead Scien-
tific company. rushed through the sixth
danger. seen to go towards the rear of
the building and was not seen to leave:
G. Fl. Arms. secretary of w. A. Ohm
stead Scientific company; Mrs. Nj. E.
Harris, widow, AZ years old, employed
as bookkeeper for w. A. Olmstead
Scientific company; unknown woman,
seen at q window on the sixth floor
shortly after Miles Smith leaped to his
death; C. I. Anderson, employed by
Sweet, Wallach & Co.; Charles A.
Price, cashier for Olmstead company;
W. r. Nelson employe of Olmstead
company: William A. Marvin. en-
ployed by the Presbyterian Publishing
company; Tony --, last name un-
known, office boy for Sweet, Wallach e.
Co., jumped from the sixth floor; Fred
Hamille. vaudeville singer, employed by
the National Music company; Solomon
Grollman, jr., Western agent for Henry
Hoffman of Columbus, Ohio: Solomon
Grollman, sr, with Solomon .Grollman.
jr., thought to have met his sons fate;
Anna Guest cashier for the National
Music company; H. r. Nelson. seen
with Samuel Clark and thought TO have
been burned to death; William Marvin,
shipping clerk for the Presbyterian
Board of Publication; William Boss.
errand boy for Presbyterian Board OF
Publication: w. j. Wilcox, partner of
w. A. Olmstead. The following are
among the seriously injured:
Paul G. Snyder, employed by Sweet
Wallach & Co., severely burned about
the head and body, may die; Emil
Bresserman, dropped from the third
floor to street, hip broken ad spine in
iured, may die A. e. Mccullough
jumped from third floor. right hip and
shoulder broken and internal injuries
may die Mary Lapere, fell from fire
escape on second floor to the GROUND
and sustained internal injuries, may
| die: w. s. Lemley, colored waiter at II
| H. Kohlsaat & Co.'S restaurant, be.
| came frightened and jumped from tht
| second floor of restaurant, right les
| broken; Phillip Farley, piano mover
! for Conover Piano company, right les
broken in jumping from the seconc
| story window; Josie Baxa, right an
kle broken in jumping from the sec
/ ond story window: Annie Baxa, jump
/ ed with her sister from the secont
story. severely bruised; David Schaef
er, arm broken in trying to catch A
f. Mccullough, who jumped from th
| third floor; Jacob Kerchin, letter car
rier. jumped from second story, bacl
| injured and ankle sprained; John Nc
| Dermott. employed by the Conove
Piano company. jumped from secont
! floor and dislocated his left shoulder
The building was six stories high
had a frontage of IS feet on Wabasl
avenue. and extended back 160 feet 4
an alley. 1t was of what is know
| as of mill construction, had two eleva
tor shafts. one in front and one in tn
| rear and reaching from the thirt
story to the roof was a light shat
which gave the flames every chance
and it was because of this shaft tha
the fire spread with such awful rapid
! ity.
The Burned Buiiding.
The building was occupied by mum
ber of concerns. some of them employ
/ ing large numbers Of people. II i
estimated that 400 people were at wor
in the building when the fire was dis
| covered.
The origin of the fire. which followe
an explosion, is in doubt. but III
weight of evidence seems to be tina
the explosion was in the lower par
of the building for the explosio
threw the inmates Of the building int