The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-03-22

Thomas Thornton. fare and hands buT1ea
severely Walter Scott. hands and fare
severely burned. unknown man. badly
buried on hands and face; Steve WI
ifams. 5 years old. face and hands burned:
Fireman william GtsiiGer. sufToca5es ard
fell from ladder internal injuries. VIII
YrobabIy die; Lieut James Adams. in
3grs3 about hips BY falling down stairs
A group q happy women, busy with the
affairs q. the seere. order with which
they were affiliated 1ers In a rsosnen,
brought face TO face with death. sixty
seconds later seven q them lay Easrnea
and bleeding on the pavement, - which
they had dropped. thirty feet below and
others were rescued after they had been
rnoFe or fess severely injured IN thsis eies-
revaie dash down the Single pair Of stairs
that led 70 safety.
TIE HIazs started j8st after 5 o'cIoci
from a gasoline stove explosion III room
In she rear ~ the third floor ~ the hifi5sl-
iag ana next "a the elevator shaft Il wss
not discovered sntf X had spread ., the
adjoining apartments ard the entire flaar
vas aIisS with smoke and fame. 4 about
twenty members uf the weuaen's ledge %
Macca bees We're attending a committee
meeting IN the waiting room in front o..
the -uadIe Of the building on the same
floor They were unconscious of danger
a
sasd them 10 get ont before this flames cat
them of The Warning car7e TOO late.
ttse fire SWEEP through the door sad down
the t1mgie stairway ThaSs. usAgsS7 the
deer fed through the bllitlns smake ard
reached the street with hands ard faces
burned ard bllsfercSf The rcs1 faced a
solsG wall ~ fame
There was fire escape ri the south
frong 90 tie building but net or, %. them
= 81
ed psais-ssrieksn to the windows. through
which IRE gnoke was already pouring in
suTocatlng gufTs- The Grn vas scarcely
a foot behind them. II caught fteir cloth
tnE ana scorehea their faces wlth ;ucreas.
sur Intensity
In smother Instant tire spectators al
trsctea ny the cinsits, ~ smoke were hor-
riaed - sne 0ne after another spring from
tbs open windows ara fan heavily 10 the
Pavement. Nat one arose Trey las n
an sneft aui apparently ufegegs heap uuui
caFrssl tnte the offsee u a vshysse3an across
the street. Most q them wese bleeding
from @exsre CATS ard bruises. and al were
ssssrva}z3 Until their fora ard hiackenet
<sia bAng IN ssssreSS
In Eek minutes All keep Hys TsYl1r
recovered censs,fosisHsSs- aHd physicians
ard nag@eS hastily ssiTn rauneS at4 all
that was possible - relieve thelr suffer
applied. the victims were taken ~ the
C3arksos Aosn!tal ~ the suthsilanc~s
7he body ~ Mira Taylor azw taken e TIRE
rsorg7se, and others whose injuries were
less severe were treated AZ meiTa9aorfu Z
drug - aFs- ans az the ot.ces ~ down.
t0wn pbYsseAsTlx.
Ae&ae frsrn the fatalities A-E the ia}zg-
les - persona The FIRE was not Z serious
nue- Few - the lssers ara af2a - place
~ exsEf estimate 80 tnesT losses aaE fts
sosai xlH not exceed So ls8 TIE loss mr.
tse fsakfinE IS lsz~s sts&n hslf that sena
ard 2sssfs ffoszs teszf TIRE heAvsax losers are
tsn r~assteSe cf tns Boston st@se $40
h@A Barge SsTpstfs stock "a tss naseGts ~
II f&@ 7o}@@k. The loss os TBS various So
cr@e szsc3eg IS that c<,esgpg Tie halls oa tar
saeosla ARD sff.3 aoyss = largely Esy agas5w
sgA s-7>eke ara is estncut 50 e~rf raaf@
tsa% i<s&e q tns A g. Z w tHe ss.szyss
- Res Mes, twa Iosiges ~ tns 1sexEwe sf
Haaor. fear seSixes % Naeeass@cs SD SER
eral et1.@r< ssess regatta ana vAgisssls items
81 furniture Tee Essss-@lsx - Insured up
g i3g - vog eetst. siza2se sn3 Fnast ~ lae
oshe- loseSss aFe lArgnag covered ~ Irs-
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