Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-03-22
Twenty Women Leap to Escape
Death in Patterson Block.
TWO ARE DASHED TO DEATH
stove Explode. During session OF In.
dies of Ns,csbccs Many
Injured.

Onnhht MAfch sls-'ofnpntaNNely W.
significant In material destruction
but appalling In its harvest OF death
and suffering. was FIRE that partial
~ destroyed tho Patterson block at
Seventeenth and Douglas streets this
afternoon. Two OF the victims have
already passed away. and one more IL
not expected 10 live. and about twenty
uthofH urc suffering from broken limbs
and burned and lnccrnted flesh.
Killed Mis-. Thomas Taylor Mrs.
Anna Schamci.
InJurcd-Aira. g. Il. Brosius. face and
hands burnc1. Mrs. a. King. face bad
~ burned. Mrs. a. l.. Samuclzon. face
and hands severely burned. both wriats
broken. May aamuclson. years.
burned on hands and face. Mn. q. u.
Wilson. face, hands aud shoulders
burned. Mrs. ]. e. Holt. face and hands
burned; Margaret Holt. hands burned.
injured internally. may die, Mt. Mary
hopkins. face and hands badly burned;
Mrs, Mary sullivan. hands aud face He-
Nercly burned. Mrs. W. a. Heed. hands
and face severely burned; MIR. Ed. shi-
ncf. face. body aud hands burned. bad
cut ON head will probably die. Mrs
French. South Omaha. face ana hands
burned. Mfs. a. 4. Smith. face and
hands badly burned. injuries probably
lAAHAAH ANNNH - To- HNANNNNf INV 1AAA htAAANH
burned. cut by glass. Mrs. Thomas
Thornton. face aud hands burned He-
ycroly' Walter Scott. hands nnd face
severely burned. unknown man. badly
burned on face and hands. Stove VII.
Hams, years old. face aud hands
burned Fireman william Cutler, sur.
fochted and fell from ladder. Internal
injuries, will probably die. Lieutenant
JAMES Adams. injured about hips BY
falling down stairs.
ruup ~ happy women. busy with
the nffuirH OF the secret orders with
which they were affiliated, were IN a
moment brought face TO face with
death. sixty seconds later seven OF
them lay burned and bleeding an the
pavement to which they had dropped.
thirty feet below. and the others were
rescued after they had been murc or
less severely injured In their desperate
dash down u single pair OF stairs TINT
led 10 safety.
The blnz. started just offer o'clock
from gasoline stove explosion la a
room In the rear part Of the third nour
of the building and next Ia the clevn.
tor shaft. II was not discovered until
II had spread 10 the adjoining apart.
mcnts. and the entire floor was nlled
with smoke aud flame. About twenty
members ~ the womcn's lodge Of Mac
cnbees were attending committee
% the middle OF the building on the
same floor They were Unconscious OF
danger until the janltor threw open the
door and told them TO get out before
the fnmes cut thOm on. The wnrning
came too late. The nrc swept through
the door ana down the single stairway.
Those nearest tho door He'd through the
binding smoke ana reached the street
with hands and face burned and blls-
tered. The rest faced the solid wall Of
flame.
There was a IRE escape at the south
it ~ the building. but not one OF
them seemed tn have thought OF II.
They rushed panic stricken to The Win
dowH. through which the amc,c was
already pouring In nuffocating punn.
The IRE was scarcely foot behind
them. II caught their clothing and
scorched their faces with inercoiing
intensity
In another instant the spectators,
pttrncted by the clouds 81 smoke. were
rlfled to see one after another spring
from the open windows and fall heav-
ily TO the pavement. Not one arose.
Thcy lay IN an inert and apparently
llfrlcrs heap until carried into the Office
OF physician across the street, Most
OF them were bleeding from severe cuts
and bruises. and all werc burned until
their torn and binckcned skin hung In
shrcdH.
Ia f.w minutes all except Airs. Tay-
Tor recovered consciousness. and ply
Hicinns and nurses hastily summoned
ana all that was possible 10 relieve their
nufferlngs. A. fast NJ hnHty dressings
rnrld be- applied. the victims were
taken to the clnrkaon hospital by the
nmbulnnccs The body ~ Mrn. Taylor
was taken 10 the morguc and Others
whose injuries were less severe were
treated AT nelghboring drug stores and
Aside from the fatalities and the In
Iurlcs to persons. the IRE was not n
serious one, Few OF the losers are able
to place tho exact estimate on tholr