The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-03-30
ChICA0O'S FATAL FIRE.
Wild Rush For Life OF working Men
and Women.

Wild Rush For Life OF Working Men
and Women.
Chicago, March 2S.-Fire destroyed
the Armour curled hair and felt works,
Thirty-frst and Benson streets, last
night, caused a property loss Of nearly
100000, injured II employees, one IA
tally, and endangered the lives Of 400
others who rushed to escape through the
binding smoke.
The injured are: jeremiah Steele,
jumped from third story window. legs
and arms broken, will die; Joseph Kuda,
badly injured about the legs and body;
John Rhodes, jumped from second story
window, leg broken; George Mosher.
fell down elevator shaft, right shoulder
broken; August SchOmberg, ankle sprain-
ed and scalp wound; Mamie Ryan, face
and arms burned; George Schwartz,
hands, face and head bruised: Nellie
McNab. hands and face burned; Pau
Rosomier, both hands burned and left
side Of head scorched: Harry Lee, fell
from second story window, scalp wounds.
Late last night it was found that six
people who were in the building when the
fire broke out are missing, and 1t Is prob
tue VI pShiShVu'
The missing are James Flanagan. Will
lam ellison, Ella Hennil Wright, Thom-
as Mitchell, Dennis Shcehan and John
White.
Employees on the floor on which the fire
started said that nail, which caught In
a picker" caused friction, igniting the
infammable material with which the ma
chimes were fed. Flames spread to bales
of curled hair, and in three minutes the
entire floor was dense with binding
black smoke. Men and women left their
posts in frantic rushes to the exits.
Many ran to windows and descended by
the fire escapes, but most Of them CROPPED
through the smoke to the first floor and
out the corner entrance.
jeremiah Steele was bending over his
carding machine when the blaze broke
out. Stifled by the smoke he staggered
to a window, swung over the sill and
hung by his finger tips. Meanwhile fire.
men stretched net and shouted to
Steele to drop. He did so, but crashed
to the stone sidewalk.
Convict's Scheme Discovered In Time
Columbus, O., March 2S.-Convict Otis
Hurley was detected yesterday at the
penitentiary as he lay in wait for his
former victim, Miss Daisy Sprague,
whom he attempted to murder in Sep
tember last. Hurley had been in soil
tary confinement and wore ball and
chain, but with the aid of steel saw
he severed his fetters and cut his way
out of the cell. When discovered he was
in hiding on top Of safe in the office
where Miss Sprague is employed as
boOkkeeper. He was armed with still
letto made of half pair Of scissors.
Hurley is serving II year sentence for
his former attempt upon the young
lady's life, with whom he is enamored.
A KIondike For the Paris Exposition.
New York. March 2S.-An important
corporation has just been organized un-
der Canadian and New York auspices to
exploit to the world at the Paris expo
sition perfect representation of life and
work in the Yukon territory, including
all phases of mining, by men direct from
the Klondike. An exact counterpart will
be built, representing portion Of the
main street Of Dawson. There will be
Indian villages, dog teams, together with
moving pictures, the latter to be the re-
suit of an entirely new machine which
Thomas A. Edison is now contracting.
Arrangements have been made to have
on exhibition $5,O0O,000 worth Of gold
dust and nuggets.