The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-03-17
|I(AUST IN CHICAGO
Lives Are Lost in an
y Appalling Fire.
PEOPLE RECEIVE INJURIES.

|, Have HARD ma.
/ ,,om spreading Among the Big
- : Bic Block. of wabash Avenue and
|S,..,t-property Loss VIII Amount
'' .e ooo-List of the Dead and In
l"r,plo.ion. Cause Havoc
- March l7.-Five persons are
s - have been killed in an explo-
a a fierce fire in the National
Company building. 2l5-2l7 Wa
.'.nue None knows the number
saneath the ruins. Scores were
less injured at the fire by fall
IS and in the panic which swept
IT., The financial loss will ex-
4. oOO OOO. The fire started In A.
[s,., wallpaper establishment on
q eoor. In one minute the flames
-, nm the air shaft and burst
4 tho roof. The $40 persons in
,a,ro rushed to the windows and
avery one Of the seven stor-
bav crawled out on the cornices
'wn the fre-escapes like flies.
orred ont of the exits over one
| Men and women leaped from
raows. Some were caught in the
| n bystanders and in blankets.
. with their lives. Others fell
Is.
The List of Dead.
following are those known to
ost their lives: Miles Smith,
on for Sweet, Wallach a. Co.,
! from the top floor; Samuel F.
EMPLOYED by the w. A. Olmstead
Nc company. jumped from the
floor; Edward w. Binz, credit
\ Sweet. Wallach & Co.: colored
Of the building at 215, name as
known; unidentified woman.
r-William A. Olmstead, presi-
the w. A. Olmstead Scientific
Nv started toward the rear ofthe
after the explosion, not found
De fire.
Some Of the Injured.
Following persons were injured:
A. Wise. salesman for Sweet,
e. Co: II. b. Cunningham, en-
by the Northern Pacific Express
w. face. head and body burned;
han Rogers of the central police
injured in trying to assist peo-
the burning building; Mary La
employed by Sweet, Wallach &
led to come down the fire-escape
e top floor but lost her hold and
stories; Herman Overman. en-
BY the w. A. Olmstead Scientific
by, tried to go down the frees
om the third floor. but lost his
d fell twenty feet; colored wait
be unknown, leg broken; Sam
Snyder, employed by Sweet,
& Co., burned severely; Josie
bnie Baxa both jumped from a
STORY window and were badly
S. Line, musical director,
from a second-story window,
injured.
Worst Since Worlds Fair.
Pre- was one of the worst which
Appened since the cold-storage
81 at Tire Worlds fair grounds,
featened to consume the entire
etween Adams street and Jack
plevard, comprising the houses
& Healy, the Butterick Pub
company. the Singer Sewing
company, the Story Piano
y and the Steger Piano com
u was feared by all the chiefs
department. present that the
would leap the narrow alley in
OF the structure and eat Their
rough to State street, and a
N OF firemen were stationed
p play streams upon the real
the building. Three explosion;
NE ruin during the progress OF
but none Of them was violent
10 be dangerous 10 life.
Game from Narnish Cans.
explosions, il was thought
om cans Of varnish belonging
various piano concerns occu.
pc building and from chemical.
Wallach & Co.'S place, wher,
is thought to have started. A
window stills of the buildinf
ash avenue began to smoke ant
the front Of the building, 81
people leaning out of tn,
nd NTH stories were compelled
at within. Two heavy stream,
We're turned upon the front o
ldlng and the hot woodwork
I'd drenched. This action wa,
" every few minutes durinc
Sc OF the fire, until the grea
which was a prey to tn,
lau burned to the ground