The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-03-22
Twenty Others Suffering from Broken
Limbs, Burns and Cuts.
LEAPED FORTY FEET TO GROUND
The Building was Filled with Women
Who Became Panic Stricken and
Dashed MadIy Through the
Windows-Ot Were Sc
verely Burncd-Propcrty
Loss Was Small.

OMAHA, NEB., March 2i.-Compara-
lively Insignificant In material destruc-
tion, but appalling ia its harvest of death
and suffering. was fire that partially
destroyed the Patterson block, at Sew
enteonth and Douglas streets this eve
ming. Two Of its victims have already
passed away. one more is not expected to
live, and twenty others are suffering
from broken limbs and burned and lace
rated flesh.
THE VICTIMS.
Killed. Mrs. Thomas Taylor Mrs. Anna
SchameL
Injured. Mrs. @. i. Erossius. face and
hands burned hirs. A.. King. face badly
burned. Mrs. a. l.. Samuclson, face ana
hands severely burned. both wrists
broken: May SamucisOn. ive-years ola,
burned on hands and face; Mrs. g.. D.
Wilson. face. hands and shoulders burhei'
Mrs. j. &. Holt face and hands burned.
Marguerite Holt hands burned. injured
internally may die. Mrs. Mary Hopkins,
face and hands badly burned. Mrs. Mary
Sullivan. hands and face severely burned,
Mrs Wy A. WrcX. hands and
face badly burned, Mrs. Ed'
Schriner. face. body and hands
burned bad cut on head. viii probably
die: Mrs French. South Omaha, face
and hands burned Mrs. a. A. smith
face and hands badly burned, injuries
fatal: Mrs s r. Allen. face and hands
burned. cut by glass. Mrs. Thomas Thorn
ton. face and hands burned severely
Walter Scott. hands and face severely
burned. unknwon man badly burned on
hands and face. Steve Williams. five
vears-old. face and hands burned
Fireman William Guider suffocated ana
fell from ladder. internal injuries. Will
probably die: Lieutenant James Adams
injured about hips by falling down stairs
JUMPED FORTY FEET.
The blaze started shortly after o'clock
A group Of happy women. busy with the
affairs Of the secret orders with which
they were affiliated, were in moment
brought face TO face with death. Sixty
second later several Of them lay burned
and bleeding on the pavements 70 which
they had dropped. forty feet below ana
the others were rescued after they had
been more or less severely injured in their
desperate dash down the single pair of
stairs that led to safety
The fire originated from the explosion
of a gasoline stove in a room in the rear
OF the third floor of the building and /
next TO the elevator shaft. IL was not
discovered until 70 had spread 10 the !
adjoining apartments and the entire noor /
vyas filed with smoke and flame.
About twenty members Of the Woman !
Lodge Of Maccabees We're attending q /
committee meeting in the front waiting /
room on the same floor They were un- /
conscious of danger until lanitor threw /
omen the door and told them 10 yet out /
before the flames cut them off The warn /
ing came too late The fire swept through |
the door and down the single stairway. /
Those nearest the door fed through the /
flinding smoke and reached the street /
with hands and faces burned ana DIS
tered The rest faced solid wall OF /
fame. 1870,
front of the building. but none thought 4
- a They rushed panic stricken 10 the
window through which the smoke was
already pouring The fire was scarcely
, foot behind them. II caught tneir |
clothing and scorched their faces. in an
other instant the spectators were norm
led TO see one after another spring from
he open windows. They were carried
nto the Office Of a physician across the
street. Most Of them were bleeding from
,evere cuts and bruises and all were
burned.
DAMAGE Sl4l6liI.
As fast as dressings could be applied
he victims were taken 10 the Ciarkson
-Iospital. Mrs. Taylor and Mrs. Schamel
lied without recovering consciousness
Aside from the fatalities and the inju-
les to persons, the fire was not Sc
ious one. The loss will not exceed S50,-
co.: half OF which was on the building.
rhe losses are fully covered by insur-
rcc.
Various secret societies which occu-
,ied halls on the second and third floors
ost their regalia ana papers.
at midnight the injured are doing as
we'll as could be expected with tne eA-
eption OF Mrs Scheiner. Mrs. smith ana
~. w. scott. all Of whom, In all proDa-
ility cannot recover.