The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-22
suffering from broken limbs and burned

suffering from broken limbs and burned
| and lacerated flesh.
Killed.-Mrs. Thomas Taylor Mrs.
Anna Schamel.
Injured.-Mrs. c. E. Brosius, face and
hands burned; Mrs. A. King, face badly
burned; Mrs. A. l.. Samuelson, face and
hands severely burned, both wrists
broken; May Samuelson, years,
burned on hands and face; Mrs G. D..
| Wilson, face, hands and shoulders
burned; Mrs. j. C. Holt, face and hands
! burned; Marguerite Holt, hands burned,
injured internally, may die; Mrs Mary
Hopkins face and head badly burned;
Mrs. Mary Sullivan, hands and face Sc
verely burned; Mrs. w. A. Reed, hands
| and face severely burned; Mrs. Ed Shi-
ner, face body and hands burned, bad
cut on head, will probably die; Mrs.
French, South Omaha, face and hands
burned; Mrs. A. A. Smith, face and
| hands badly burned injuries probably
| fatal; Mrs. c. E. Allen, face and hands
burned, cut by glass; Mrs. Thomas
Thornton, face and hands burned Sc
verely; Walter Scott, hands and face
severely burned; unknown man, badly
burned on hands and face; Steve Will
! liams, years old, face and hands
burned; Fireman William Guider, suf-
! located and fell from ladder, internal
| injuries, will probably die; Lieutenant
James Adams, injured about hips by
| falling down stairs.
A group of happy women, busy with
the affairs 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 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 in their desperate
| dash down the single pair of stairs that
| led to safety.
The blaze started just after O'Clock
/ from a gasoline stove explosion in a
room in the rear part of the third floor
of the building, and next to the eleya-
| tor, shaft It was not discovered until
it had spread to the adjoining apart
ments. and the entire floor was filled
with smoke and fame. About twenty
members of the women's lodge of Mac
| cabees were attending a committee
meeting in the waiting room in front
of the middle of the building on the
same floor They were unconscious OF
| danger until a. janitor threw open the
door and told them to get out before
/ the flames cut them off. The warning
came too late. The fire swept through
( the door and down the single stairway
! Those nearest the door fled through the
binding smoke and reached the street
with hands and faces burned and blis-
tered. The rest faced a solid wall ot
flame
There was a fire escape at the south
front of the building, but not one o1
them seems to have thought of 1T. They
rushed panic stricken to the windows
through which the smoke was already
pouring in suffocating puffs. The fire
was scarcely foot behind them. i
caught their clothing and scorched theil
faces with increasing intensity.
In another instant the spectators at
tracted by the clouds of smoke. were
Mortified to see one after another spring
from the open windows and fall heavily
to the pavement. Not one arose. They
Law in an inert and apparently lifeles:
heap until carried into the Office of {
physician across the street. Most o.
them We're bleeding from severe cut:
and bruises, and all were burned unit
their torn and blackened skin hung IL
shreds>
In a few minutes all except Mrs. Tay
lor recovered consciousness, and ply
sicians and nurses, hastily summoned
did all that was possible to relieve theia
sufferings. AS fast as hasty dressing!
could be applied, the victims wer'
taken to- the Clarkson hospital by the
ambulances. The body of Mrs. Taylor
> was taken to the morgue and other: