New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-17
LIVES LOST IN CHICAGO.
THREE KNOWN TO BE DEAD AND. MANY
MISSING AFTER A DISASTROUS FIRE

AN EXPLOSION THOUGHT TO HAVE OCCURRED IN
THE LOWER PART OF wABAsH-AVE'
p,,,rn,Nc-RAP1r SPREAD OF FLAMES.
Chicago March is.-It required just twenty MIN
utc, this afternoon for one OF the most Saws 80
chicago has seen since the famous cola-sto .ee eos
wareho,se fire on the Worlds Fair grounos' III 1880
70 take from five to fifteen lives. MAIN 'hir'y Pc.
nile ami reduce a six-story brick ouidihe 10 d p
a, hla.nu timber red hot bricks and t"s'e" mn
The number OF dead Is still IN ooup.' anu p,o
ably will not be definitely known unth INC ue0' -
~ the building is sufficiently cooled TO ad'i'' oi
" 80 r,ode for the bodies OF those VINO
49, ,,naouhteaIv IN tho ruins. This will be TWO
days hence at least 49,, r,.v arc.
Three men are known TO be dead my
Samuel A Clark bookkeeper for 'ne O'''s' .
scientific Company; Miles A Smith. salesman io'
the Ol:rstead Scientific Company Eu"aiu D"~
cashier for Sweet. Wallach CO.
THE DEAD OR MISSING.
Thoss reported missing and who had not re'ulhou
home or communicated with their friends to-nish'
and whose bodies are pehe'eo ~ oo " Wv
are the following:
AxnrypsoN G T.. employed by Sweet, wa:lach 4 Co.;
not seen to leave he building after the fire started
ARMS C H. secretary OF A. Om ste o5s ans
has not been since.
ROSS William Grand boy for Presbyterian Board OF
GRIIIIMAN. Solomon. ST. w.,
hoffman Of Columbus. Ohio; had rooms with sweet
CHEST Anna cashier for the National Mus'' Company
HAMILL. Fred vaudeville singer emp ars 0y Ma
tiona Music Company: not seen SINCE hre
HARRIS Mrs NJ T. widow. forty-two years old en-
nioy.d as bookkAeper for ". A. Olmstead Scentnc
COMPANY; not seen by other employees as 'ney 'u''''
MARVIN william shipping clerk for Presbyterian boaru
OF Publication; not at home .
~ W A
soientisc COMPANY rushed through the SIKH no., noor
ard rear OF the building.
PRICE C. A.. cashier for W. A. omstead
PRICE. Charles A. cashier for olms'"ad Company
S s en-. Sfs by pcs as
MARVIN william A.. employed by PRESBYTERIAN Pub.
fishing Company; last seen g.oplns his way through
smoke and fames the htn floor
WILCOX w j. partner Of W. A.. olmstead, was in
building on sixth noor when fire started.
- Tony last unknown; office boy OF sweet
fell into the ruins ii is thought.
shortly after Miles smith leaped his death; was
not afterward.
THE SERIOUSLY INJURED.
Those most seriously injured
Emil cropped from h d,a floor TO street
LA PERE. Mary. burned about face and head while
elTbss down FIRE escape from iron, Sweet Wa lila aus
tainei internal injuries: may die
MCCULLOUGH a. T.. salesman Tor Alfred Peats, Jumped
internal injuries: may die.
SNYDER Pau, c. employed by Sweet. wallach & Co.
severely burned about head ard BODY: may die
The building was six stories high. had frontage
OF fny-threc feet IN Wabash-ave. and extended
back one hundred and sixty feet to an alley. 1t
Of what is known as mil, construction. had two
elevator shafts in front in the rear.
and reaching from the third story 10 the roof was
light shaft. which gave the flames every chance.
1t because OF this shaft that the fire spread
with such awful rapidly The building
pied by n number Of concerns, some OF them en-
poying large numbers OF people. 1t is estimated
that four hundred persons work In the
building when the fire was discovered.
The origin OF the fire is in dispute. BY some 1t is
said 10 have been caused by explosion OF colo
dion In the Wallpaper warerooms OF Alfred Peat
on the third floor, and by others TO have been the
result Of an explosion among some Photographic
chemicals in the Photographic supply house OF
Sweet. Wallach d Co.. on the sixth floor EN-
ployes Of both concerns deny that there was any
explosion IN their vicinity
=, The weight OF evidence seems 10 be. however
that the explosion In the lower part of the
building for the flames shot up the light shaft
inmates OF the building into panic and on
several floors a wild stampede for the starways
and elevators began. To add to the panic the men
in charge OF the elevators their cars up TO the
top Of the building shouting Fire AT every floor
When they reached the top both elevators took on
n loao of frightened wo'ren AMI started for the
bottom The front ele ,ator In charge OF Harry
Gleason: boy. and that in the rear was handled
kept their heads, showed much GOODNESS and bray
cry and were Instrumental in saving many lives.
OF Lowell Mass II was worth about s75on0, and
Is said 70 be partially insured. The loss on con-
cost $1,000 or $1,000 to replace the pate late IsS
broken In the stores on the opposite side Of