The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-03-17
FORTY PERISH OR
ARE NAMED
TIE WINDY CITY'S GREATEST
FIRE SINCE 1892.
IT WAS THE WORK OF TWENTY MINUTES
A Six Story Building Goes to Ashes Graphic
Escapes and Heroic ResCueS'- Some
Jumped From Windows and Were
Crushed on Pavement.
Crushed on Pavement.

Chicago, Ill.,, March 16.-It required
just twenty minutes this afternoon for
one of the most savage fires Chicago
has seen since the famous cOld-storage
warehouse fire on the Worlds Fair
grounds in 1893 to take anywhere from
five 10 fifteen lives, maim thirty people
and reduce a six-stOry brick building to
a pile of blazing timber, red-hOt bricks
and twisted iron.
The number of dead is still in doubt
and probably will not he definitely
known until the debris is sufficiently
cooled to admit of "a search being made
for the bodies of those who are un-
dOubtedly in the ruins. This will re-
quire two days at least.
Three men are known to be dead.
They are:
SAMUEL ~ CLARK. bOok-keeper
for the Olmstead Scientific Company.
MILES \. SMITH, salesman for the
Omstead Scientific Company.
EDWARD BLNZ, cashier for Sweet,
Wallace and Company
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. \. OLNISTEAD, President of the
Il. 4. Olmstead Scientific Company;
rushed through the sixth floor, notifying
his employees of their peril, seen to go
toward the rear of the building and
was not seen to leave.
C. IL. ARMS, Secretary of W. A.
Olmstead Scientific Company.
MRS. NJ. L. HARRIS, widow, ~
years old. employed as boOk-keeper for
W. A. Olmstead Scientific Company.
Unknown woman seen at the window
on sixth floor shortly after Miles Smith
leaped to his death.
c. T. ANDERSON, employed by
Sweet. Wallach Il Company.
TONY --. last name unknown;
office hoy for Sweet Walach Il Co.
FRED HAMILL vaudeville singer,
employed by National Music Company.
c. y. PRICE. Cashier for w. y.
Olmstead Scientific Company.
SOLOMON GROLLMAN, .Ir., west
ern agent for Henry Hoffman, of Co
lumbus. Ohio, had rooms with Sweet,
Wallach x Co.
SOLOMON GROLLMAN, ST., with
Solomon Grollman, Jr.
ANNA GUEST, cashier of the Ma
ti0nal Music Company.
H. r. NELSON. worked for w. y.
Olnnstead Scientific Company.
WA. MARVIN, shipping clerk for
Presbyterian Board of Publication.
WM. BOSS. errand boy for Presby-
tcrian Board of Publications.
w. J. WILCOX, partner of w. a.
Olmstead.
CHARLES A. PRICE, cashier for
Olmstead Scientific Company.
W. Il. NELSON, employe of Olmstead
Scientific Company.
WM. A. MARVIN, employed by
Presbyterian Publishing Company.
PAUL G.. SNYDER, employed by
Sweet, Wallach and Company, severely
burned about the head and body, taken
home; may die.
EMIL BRESSERMAN, dropped from
third floor to street, hip broken and
spine injured; may die.
A. Il. MCCULLOUGH. salesman for
Alfred Peats, jumped from third floor,
right hip and shoulder broken and intern
al injuries; may die.
MARY LA PERE, burned about face
and head while climbing down fire escape
from Sweet, WallaCh and COmpany'S
floor. fell from second floor to ground
and sustained interan injuries; may die
HUGH S. ELLIOTT, manager Pres
byterian Board of Publication, hands
and face burned. not serious.
HERMAN OVERMAN, fell from fire
escape: badly bruised.
III. Il. CUNNINGHAM, agent for the
Northern Pacific Express Company.
head and body burned.
w. s. LEMLY, cOlOred waiter at II.
II. Kohlaas and COmpany's restaurant.
jumped from second floor of restaurant;
right leg broken.
OFFICER JOS. ROGERS, overcome
by smoke while rescuing people from
the burning building.
PROF. HANSLINE, of the National
Music Company, face and hands burned
while helping employees to reach the fire
escape
Il. A. WISE, legs and hands severely
burned.
PHILIP FARLEY, piano mover for
ConnOver Piano Company, right leg
broken in jumping from second story
window.
w II. MURPHY, engineer. burned
about face and shoulders.
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