The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-18
SALVATION ARMY NURSERY IN CIy-
CINNATI SCENE OF
FATAL FIRE
TRAPPED IN the UPPER STORIES
BLAZING sTAIRwAYs CoMPLETELY
SHUT OFF THE ESCAPE OF
THE INMATES
MANY MORE WERE INJURED
One Man Lost His Own Life While
Trying to Rescue His Children
Fire In Tenement
District.

CINCINNATI, O., Sept IA branch
nursery of the Salvation Army, at 4O8
East Front street, burned this evening,
and its occupants were Imprisoned so
that many were suffocate to death and
others seriously injured. At sos p. m
Walter Fisher, a barkeeper in an ad-
joining saloon. discovered the fire and
sent in a still alarm On account of the
cold weather the fire had been started
in the stove for the little tots who are
cared for by others during the day,
while their mothers are engaged else
where. 1t is thought that this caused the
fire, through some defect in fues or parts
OF the old tenement building of four
stories. Most of the mothers knew moth
ing of the calamity until they were
through with their days work, and were
then hunting at the morgue for the dead,
or at the hospitals for the injured At
both of these places, as well as about
the burned building. the scenes were In
describable. The fremen rushed into the
blazing mission to rescue women and
children, but most of those on the upper
floors were
BEYOND HOPE.
The patrol wagons dashed with all DOS
sible speed to the hospitals with those
that We're rescued and their cries were
heard along the streets. Al; of the hos
pital physicians were called in, and the
| nurses did their utmost to relieve those
suffering from burns. The office floor
! was used as church, the second as
headquarters for the destitute and for
cooking, and the upper floors for the
nursery. The women and children could
have been seen from these upper stories
pleading for help when the stairways
/ were enveloped in flames. The fire was
soon controlled. but not until six had
| died from suffocation and others were
seriously burned.
The fire occurred near the river front,
the most densely populated part of the
! city The nursery is near the old Spen-
| Ger house, and children from that tene-
ment were in the burned building. Capt.
/ Lodge was suffocated while CARRYING chill
| dren from her floor. John Harkins, who
lives in the old Spencer house, now used
as tenement quarters. lost his life while
! endeavor.ng to save his children The
/ patrol wagons rushed to the hospitals
first and then separated the dead from
! the dying before going to the morgue.
AT THE ARMY MISSION.
The mission was in charge of staff
Captains Erickson, Anderson and Nc
Kenny, who conducted kindergarten as
well as other instruction for the little
ones while their mothers were working
! OUT Capt. Erickson recently arrived
from New York to superintend the in
| struction
CINCINNATI, Sept. T.-Early in the
! evening it was currently reported that
] g dozen were killed and many injured
! but later all were accounted for, except
+ six killed, three fatally injured and four
! seriously injured as follows. The dead
are:
/ JAMES HARKINs, painter. aged forty
: years
! HERBERT HARKINs, aged four
! years, son Of James Harkjns.
i RHODA HARKINS, aged five months
! MAGGIE WILLIAMS, ageil three
/ months.
EDWARD MULLEN, aged four years.
| MICHAEL FERRELL, aged six years
The following are fatally injured AMI
] not expected to survive the night:
| Post Capt. Elizabeth Erickson, of New
/ York, a native of Sweden, aged twenty
! five.
Staff Capt Bertha Anderson, of Chi
! cago, aged thirty-five, also a native of
/ Sweden.