Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-22
FATAL FIRE IN OMAHA,
Another Harvest Of Death
Among Women
TWO VICTIMS ALREADY GONE
One More Not Expected 10 Live and
Twenty Others Suffering.
,RoxEN LIMBS AND BuRNT FLESH
Panic and II Jumping FRO" ~"
,c pnvements Forty Feet
,,o,xrv LIMBS AND BuRNT FLEs"


..,,....e..nt I'm material destruc-
..'''' '..ro,liing in its harvest of death
..5 surerinc. was a fire that par''"ily
I..,ro,,l the Patterson Block at seven
,.o,,s and Douglas streets. this evening
.r.,. of ifs victims have already passed.
ono more is not expected TO hve'
.,5 twenty others are suffering from
,-.,.r limbs and burned and lacerated
lesh.
The killed: 80
Mrs. THOMAS TAYLOR.
Mrs. ANNA SCHAMEL
Injured: ,s.
Mrs. c. F. BROss1Us. face and hanoS
,,~s KING. face badly burned.
Mrs A l.. sAMUEIsON. face ana
nends severely burned; both wrists
broken. .a
MAY sAMUELSON, years oio' uuilieo
ON hands and face.
Mrs. G. u. WILSON. face hands ana
shoulders burned
Mrs. J. c. HOLT. face and hands Durh-
ed. ,o,.
MARGUERITE HOLT hands Durheu'
injured internally; may die.
Mrs MARY HOPKINS, face and hands
badly burned.
Mrs. MARY SULLIVAN, hands ana
face severely burned.
Mrs. W. A. WREN, hands ana face Sc
yerely burned.
Mrs. ED. sCHREINER. face. body and
hands burned, bad cut on head will pro-
lably die.
Mrs. FRENCH. Of South Omaha, face
ana hands burned.
Mrs. a. a. SMITH, face and hands
l.ly burned, injuries fatal
v~e. G.. r.. ALLEN, face and hands
lued: cut by glass.
1frs THOMAS THORNTON, face and
hands burned severely.
WALTER SCOTT, hands and face Sc
verely burned.
hands and face
STEVE WILLIAMS, years old, race
and hands burned.
Fireman WILLIAM GUIDER, suffo-
Gated. and fell from ladder; internal IN
ilries: will probably die.
Lieutenant JAMES ADAMS. injured
about hips by falling downstairs.
HOUR or WINDSOR HOTEL FIRE.
The blaze started shortly after 3 o'clock.
a group of happy women. busy with the
affairs OF the secret orders with which
they were affiliated. were in "a moment
brought face 10 face with death. Sixty
second later several Of them lay burned
and bleeding on the pavements, 40 feet
below. 10 which they had dropped and
the others were rescued after they had
beon more or less severely injured in a
desperate dash down the sole pair OF
stairs that led 10 safety.
The fire originated from the explosion
of gasoline stove in room in the rea
NJ the third floor of the building and mex
t0 The elevator-shaft. 1t was not discov
cred until II had spread TO the ad-
joining apartments and the entire hoo
was flied with smoke and flame.
WARNING TOO LATE.
About twenty members of the Woman
Lodge OF Maccabees were attending ,
committee meeting in the front waiting
room on the same floor. They were un
conscious of danger until janitor threw
.nen the door and told them TO get on
before the flames should cut them of
Tho warning came TOO late. The fire
swept through the door and down the
single stairway. Those nearest the doO
fed through the binding smoke alt
reached the street with hands and face.
burned and bnstcred. The rest faced
solid wall Of flame. There was a frees
cape at the south front Of The building
hut none thought of it. They rushcC
panic-stricken 10 the windows, thr0usl
which the smoke was already pouring
The fire was scarcely a foot behind them
IL caught their clothing and scorche'
their faces.
JUMPING FROM WINDOWS.
In another instant the spectators wer
N0rriGcd 10 see one after another sprln'
from the open windows. They were car
ir1 into the Office of a physician acros
tho street. Most Of them were bleedln.
flom severe cuts and bruises. and al
wcto burned As fast as dressings coui
h. applied the victims were taken 10 I'M
CirEsgu Hospital. Mrs. Taylor ana MIS-
Shaml died without recovering con
sciousuts-.
Aside fom the fatalities and the lhJu
rics to persons. the fire was not a Sc
rious one. The loss will not exceed SyV,HI
half Of which was on the buldlhs' III
losses arc fully covered by insurance v d
ri0ls secret societies. which occupied h"i.
or the second ana third floors, lost ihe'
Icsalia and papers.
THREE MORE WILL DIE.
At midnight the injured are doing as
wei as could be expected. with the 'N,
ceDtlOn of Airs. Scheiner Mrs. Smith ano
Vs. ". Scott. neither Of whom, In all
probability, can recover.