The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1898-03-18
NINETEEN KILLED
And About Thirty Injured in Fire in the
Heart of ChicagO-Heavy Loss.

the worlds falf IN 1875 broke Out III
the building at the corner of Wabash
avenue and jackson boulevard We'd
nesday. The death list will probably
reach Is and may exceed that figure.
The injured number about 80.
The following is a list of dead and
injured so far as known:
Dead-Miles A. Smith, salesman,
lived at 1886 Wrightwood avenue.
Samuel A: Clark, jumped from the
fourth floor, employed by the w. A.
Olmstead Scientific Co.
Unidentified man. taken from 215
Wabash avenue, burned beyond recOg-
milton.
w. A. Olmstead, president of the
Olmstead Scientific Co., when the eX-
plosions occurred, ran to the rear of
the seventh floor of the building and
has not been seen since. 1t is thought
he was buried in the ruins.
Miss Kate Carney, forewOman of the
National Music Co., believed to have
persisted in the flames after helping to
safety the last one of 40 girls in her
charge.
Charles Anderson, employed by
Sweet Wallach & Co., has not been
seen since the first explosion.
Injured-Samuel c. Snyder, 259 Hud-
son avenue, employed by Sweet, Wal
ZACH & Co., burned severely.
E. A. Wise, 154 South Albany avenue,
employed by Sweet, Wallach & Co.,
burned severely.
Mary Lapere, 571 South Sangamon
- Nv, q
Co., burned while descending the fire
escape from the sixth floor, taken
home.
Herman Overman, 1S9 west Harrison
street, descended the fire escape with
Miss Lapere but fell from the second
floor; burned and received internal in
juries, taken home.
Philip Farley, 81 Elburn avenue, en-
plOyed as piano mover by the Con-
over Piano Co., was in the building at
the time of the explosion, can not be
found.
An Office boy. employed by Sweet,
Wallach & Co., jumped from the sixth
| floor, and is thought to be buried in
the debris caused by the falling walls
Andrew Nashton, employed by the
w. A. Olmstead Scientific Co., face and
hands burned.
Fred Smith, driver for the Con-
over Piano Co., face cut by falling
glass.
Emile BrOzeman, of 3S3 North Arm
itage avenue, jumped from sixth floor;
injuries to spine and lower limbs; will
probably die.
David Schaefer, 29O5 Wentworth
avenue, arm broken while trying to
catch man who had jumped from the
+ sixth floor.
Josie Baxa, $50 West Nineteenth
street, jumped from second floor; right
ankle broken.
Police officer Rogers, overcome by
smoke, taken to county hospital
Annie Baxa, $50 West Nineteenth
street, jumped from second-story win
dow; ankle sprained and body bruised.
Unidentified man, jumped fromAixth
floor, back broken, taken to the'65afnty
hospital
The Concver Piano Co. occupied the
first, second and third stories of the
building, the other tenants including
L
and the Sweet, Wallach & Co., dealers
! in Photographic supplies, the latter
! firm being on the sixth floor. 1t was
/ here that the fire broke out.
! The floor was stored with chemicals
and materials used in the manufacture
/ of Photographic supplies, and accord
! ing to some who escaped the entire
! floor was swept with flames in five min
/ utes after the fire broke out. Three
/ hundred girls were employed by this
! firm and when the fire broke out
panic ensued, many of the I'M
fortunate women being trampled under
! the feet of their comrades in their
frantic efforts to escape. Cut off from
escape by the elevators and stairways,
! people penned in the burning building
! began jumping from the windows, and
| though the fremen and others held
nets and canvas, many were crushed
on the stone sidewalks. According to
eye witnesses as many as ten jumped
at once from the top floor,
and others were seen shortly
after to fall back into the flames The
flames quickly spread to the floors be-
| nedGn, anu the uOOr occupied OV the
Presbyterian Board of Publication and
the Sunday-School Supply Co. also
contained material which readily
burned. On the lower floors the
piano supplies and instruments held
in stock by the Conover Piano
Co. were soon transformed into tin,
der. The fremen were badly handi
capped by the heat, which was ter
rife. Within a radius of a block the
heat broke panes of glass and dis
lodged signs, and streams of water
were directed on the buildings on both
sides of the street that far awav in
order to prevent them from catching
fire. Several times minor blazes die
occur. The greatest danger was in the
rear of the COnover building, where
were located big dry goods stores.
Thirty-fve minutes after the fire haC
broken out, the floors had all fallen
and moment or two later the rear
wall fell The fremen working there
were warned but barely in time for l;
of them to escape being crushed.
Nineteen persons are reported miss