The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-03-22
WOMEN THE VICTIMS.
Two Killed and Many Injured at
M Omaha Fire.

Omaha, March H.-Con paratlvely iusie
nificant in material destruction. but appal-
ling in its harvest Of death and suffer
ing. was a fire that partially destroyed the
Patterson block at 18th and Douglass
streets this afternoon. Two Of It's Victims
have already passed away, one moro is
not expected to live and about twenty
ot--ers are suffering from broken limbs and
burned and iacerated flesh
KILLED.
! Mrs. Thomas Taylor.
| Mrs. Anna Scamel.
INJURED.
Mrs C. E. Brosius, face and mands
burned
Mrs. A King face badly burned
Mrs. A. L. samuelson. face ana hands
severely burned. both wrists broken
May Samuelson, years old, burned on
hands and face.
Mrs. G. d. Wilson, face, hands and
shoulders burned.
Mrs. j. c. Holt, face and hands burned
Margurite Holt, hands burned. injured
Internally; may die
Mrs Mary Hopkins, face and head badly
burned
Mrs. Mary Sullivan, hands and face
severely burned
Mrs. w a. Rex, hands and face severe
ly burned.
Mrs. I'd Simmer, face body and hands
burned, bad cut on head; will probably
die.
Mrs. French, so4th Omaha face and
hands burned.
Mrs A. A. Smith, face and hands badly
burned; injuries probably Iatal.
Mrs. c. E. Allen, face and hands burn
ed. cut by glass.
Mrs Thomas Thornton. face and hands
burned severely.
Walter Scott, hands and face severely
burned.
Unknown man, badly burned on hands
and face.
Steve Williams, years old, face and
hands burned
Fireman William Guider, suffocated and
fell from ladder internal injuries; will pro
badly die.
Lieut.. James Adams injured about hips
by falling down stairs.
no WIT STARTED.
A group of happy women, busy with the
affairs OF the secret order with which
they were affiliated, were in n moment
brought face to face with death. Sixty
seconds later seven Of them lay burned
and bleeding on the pavement TO which
they had dropped thirty feet below. and
the others We're rescued after they had
been more or less severely injured i'm their
dsperate dash down the sing.e pair Of
stairs that led to safety
The blaze started just after O'clock
from a gasolene stove explosion in a room
in the rear Of the third floor of the build
ing and next to the elevator shaft. II was
not discovered until 1t had spread to the
adjoining apartments and the entire floor
was fred with smoke and flames. Abor'
twenty members % the Womans LcGge
OF Maccabees were attending a commit
tee meeting in the waiting room IN front
of the middle of the building on the same
floor. They were unconscious OF danger
until janltor throw open the door and
told them to get out before the flames
cut them of. The warning came too late.
/ 'rne fire swept through the door and down
| the single stairway. Those nearest the
door fed through the binding smoke and
reached the setreet with hands and faces
| burned and blstered. The rest faced a
| solid wall of flames There was a fire es-
cape at the south front of the building
but not one of them seems 20 have thought
Of IT, They rushed panic stricken TO the
windows through which the smoke was
already pouring i'm suffocating puffs. The
| fire was scarcely foot behind them. lit
caught their clothing ana scorched their
faces with increasing intensity
In an other instant the spectators, at
tracted by the clouds OF smoke, were
l GaI n a ha fr
from the open windows and fall heavily
to the pavement Not one arose They
/ lay in an inert and apparently nfeless
heap until carried into the office Of a
physician across the street Most Of them
were bleeding from severe cuts and brui-
ss, and all were burned until their torn
and blackened skin hung in shreds,
In few minutes, all except Mrs Tay-
lor recovered consciousness, and ply
sicians and nurses, hastily summoned, did
al that was possible to relieve t.eir suf-
ferings As fast as hasty dressings could
be applied the victims were taken to the
Clarkson hospital by the ambulances. The
body of Mrs Taylor was ta@en 10 the
morgue and others whose injuries were
less severe were treated at neghbofing
drug stores and at the offices OF dowr
| town physicians.
Aside from the fatalities and the injuries
20 persons, the fire was not a serious one
Few of the losers are able to place an TX
act estimate on their losses, but the to
tai viii not exceed $4,000. The loss OF
the building is less than half that sum
ar side from that the hevlest losers ar
the proprotors Of the Boston store, VIII
had a large surplus stock in the basemen
OF the block. The loss OF the variou
secret societies that occupy the halls o.
the second and third liOOrs is Target
by water and smoke, and Is difficult {
estimate One lodge OF the A. O u. W
two lodges os Red Men, two lodges Of tn
Degree Of honor four lodges Of .,4accabee
and several others lost regaha and var
ious items of furniture. The building
insured up TO the so per cent clause an
q q ha Ia r.aafs.,