The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1898-03-17
A LQIge Building in ChiCQg0 Re.
1uced % Ashes in Twenty Minutes.
SEVERAL KILLED AND AAhY WOUNDED
Tho Lnrgo Number or Persons rat
work In tho building Bocamo
P"hic Stricken-Thrce Persons
Dash Themselves to Dcnth bv
Jumping from tho windows,
Chicago, March 16, 1895.

Chicago, March 16, 1895.
1t required just twenty minutes this
aTtcrnon2l for ore uf the most slNare
firai5 Chicago has seen since the IA
lt.nls cold storage warehouse fire in
tht Worlds Fair Grounds in 1893 10
take anwhere from five to fifteen
hreS' maim thirty people and reduce
Il six story brick building to pile of
blazing timber. red hot bricks and
twisted iron.
The number dG dead is stiN in doubt
and probably will not be definitely
krlt"m m;!til the debris is sufficient
ly cooled TO allow of Il search being
made for u.ia bodies on thi:c who are
undoubtedly in the ruins. This VIII
require at least two dars. ThuEc men
are known to be dead. They are:
Samuel y. Clark bookkecper fer the
OMstca'd Sch-ntiic Company.
IAliltS -. Smith, salesman for tho
Omstcad Sciciatitic Company.
Edward Binz, cashier for Sweet, Wal
lace & Co.
The missing. OF whom nothing could
be lcarnlsd at late hour tonight and
buried In the wreck of the building,
are:
THE MISSING.
Those reported missE!ts and who had
not returned home or communicated
with their friends to-nighiy and whosa
bsii2s Gre believed to be In the ruins
are the following: w. a. Olm:tcad, pres
idcnt of the w. y. Olmstcad Scientific
company, rushed through the sixth hcor.
notifying his employees of their peril.
saen 10 go toward rear CT tina building,
and was INST seen to leave.
c. II. Arms, secretary OF w. a. Ohm
stead Scientific company. Mrs. NJ. e.
Harris. widow, AZ years cid, employed
as boollkccpcr for w. y. OlmstSad Scien-
iifc company.
urkcEwn woman seem at the window
on sixth nocr shortly after Miles Smith
leupcd 10 his death.
G. II. Anderson. employed by Sweet,
Wallace e Co.
boy for Sweet, Wallace & Co.
Fred IIamtll, vaudeville singer. en-
ployed by National Music cempary
c. ~ Price. cashier for w. \. Ohm
stead Scientific company.
SO!mon GrOllman .Jr, Western
agent for Henry Holtzman, of Colum-
bus. Ohio: had ro2ms with Sweet, Wal
lace & Co
solomon Grollmar Sr., with Sor-mcn
Anna Guest, cashier for the National
Music company.
III. II. Nelson worked for w A. Ohm
steady Scientific com1Guy
William Marvin, shipping clerk for
Presbyterian B.nrd OF Publications
William Boss, errand boy for Prcsby-
tcr!an Board Of Publication
stead.
Charles y. Prizes. cashier for Ohm
stead Company.
W. II. Nelson, cmploye OF Olmstead
company.
William y. Marvin. employed by Pres
byt7rA1n Publishing company.
THE; HNIURED:
l'nul c. Snyder. employed by Sweet.
Wallace & Co. severely burned about
;he head and body, taken home; may
die.
Emil Brcssermam, dr.ppcd from third
NOR 10 street. hip broken and spine
injunad; may die.
n. r.. Mccullough, salesman for AL
fred Pcats, jumped from third floor.
right hip and shoulder broken and in
tcrnal injuries; may die.
Mary I,ar'ere, burned about face and
mead while climbing DOWN fire escape
'''' 'I''~'', " h"'IiIc N ". ) 1Ell
from sedAnd floor to ground and sus-
tanned internal injuries; may die.
Hugh S. Elliott. manager Presbyte-
ran Beard OF Publication, hands and
face burned; not serious
Herman Overman, fell from fire es-
cape; badly bruised
ii. B, Cunningham, agent fer the
Northern Pacific Express company.
head and body burned.
WI S. L,emley, colored, waiter at
II. II. kohlsaat & OA's restaurant,
jumped from second floor Of restaurant.
right leg broken.
officer Joseph Rogers. overcome by
smoke while rescuing people from the
burning building.
Plirf. Hanslne, Of the National Music
company, face and hands burned while
helping employees to reach the fire es-
cane.
e. a. Wise. legs and hands severely
burned.
Philip Farley. piano mover for C.n-
mover Piano company. right leg broken
IN jumping from second story window.
w. II. Murphy engineer, burned
aEHut faoe and shoulders.
Josie Baxa, right ankle broken in
jumping frcm second story window.
An'ade l5axa, jumped with her sister
from second floor; severely bruised
Davis Scha efer, arm broken trying -
catch a. Z. Mccullough, who jumped
from third foor
Andrew Nystrom, face and hands
burnsd -