Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1898-01-27
persisted BY FIRE.
Ten to Fifteen Persons Burned to
Death at Spokane, Wash.
a PANIC IN A CHICAGO SCHOOL.
Too Much Realism In Fire Drill Causes an
Exciting Time-Lively Poker Game
Lake Gives Up It's Dead
Shot by Negro.


morning destroyed the Great Eastern
block, six-story structure on River
side avenue. 1t is feared that many
people were burned to death. The up
per floors were occupied by rs or 100
roomers. Mrs. Davies, Of Nebraska
City, Neb., leaped from window to
the stone pavement and was taken to
the hospital She will die. Her daugh-
ter and son-in-law we're saved. Great
crowds in the streets are frantic with
excitement Several thrilling rescues
were made. One man came down .
rope with his babe on his arm and his
wife followed. The building is owned
by Louis Levinsly, OF San Francisco
II cost S225, 900 and is insured for $780,.
900. The stairways were burned away
before the people living IN the house
were awakened and their chance for
escape was cut off. Only the walls Of
the big building remain Estimates
Of the loss OF life vary from 10 to 10.
A PANIC IN A CHICAGO SCHOOL.
CHICAGO, Jan. 3.-Through an error
on the part of an unknown man, q
panic was caused yesterday afternoon
In the Dore school, on Harrison street,
and 1000 children rushed into the
street bareheaded and without any
outdoor wearing apparel. The fire
drills had been discontinued for some
time and yesterday the principal
thought 1t good time to see how
much the pupils had forgotten. Ac-
cordingly he rang the bell suddenly,
The first boys to reach the street be.
gan to cry fire" after their custom
when the fire drills were In progress,
and a man who was passing, thinking
the school was on fire, ran to corner
and turned In an alarm. Before half
the pupils had reached the street, en-
gines and hose carts were piling up
before the building and firemen came
tearing into the school, dragging long
line OF hose This and the putting OF
the engines brought tri6e too much
realism into the drill and there was
great excitement among the pupils.
The principal and the teachers kept
their heads, however, and, while re.
straining the excitement as best they
could, hurried the children through
the doors. Not one Of the children
was hurt.
A LIVELY POKER GAME.
PINEvrLLE, KY, Jan. IS. William
and Harvey Topic are dead, and Lew
Wallace is fatally wounded as the re-
suit Of pistol duel in room in Leslie
county, near the Bell and Harlan
county line, last night The Topic
boys were invited by Wallace to go TO
his house and engage in game Of
draw poker. The game seemed to be
one-sided; Wallace won all the money.
Finally the Topics refused to pay
some money that Wallace said they
owed and u quarrel followed. Peace
was finally secured and the game con-
tinued until nearly morning, when the
quarrel was resumed. Pistols were
drawn, the lights shot out and des-
perate pistol duel began. When the
shooting ceased, the two Topics were
found dead and Wallace fatally
wounded.
LAKE GIVES UP ITS DEAD.
AsHTABuLA, o., Jan, 95.--Three
bc,saies were found on the beach near
this port yesterday morning, having
been washed up by the waves during
the gale the previous night One of
the bodies has been identified rs that
Of James O'Brien, of Erie, who was
lost off q fishing tug three weeks ago,
The others are supposed to be the
bodies of two Swedes who went out to
their nets in rowboat last December
and never returned.
SHOT BY A NEGRO
ARpMoBE, |. T., Jan. 25, AT Auter-
vile, 20 miles west Of here, yesterday,
Henry Stevenson, negro, shot Bud
Pulliam with Winchester. Pulliam
cannot live. The injured man is
brother Of City Marshal Lon Pulliam.
Officers accompanied by the brother of
the wounded man have left for the
scene Of the tragedy. There is fear
that II the negro is captured he will be
strung up.
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