The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-03-16
THREE NEWSPAPER MEN LOST
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 and like flash it spread to the ele- vator we'll and darted to the top so rap
 idly that before the occupants of the
 upper floor were aware of 1t, the rooms
 were filled with flames and with smoke so stifiing that it was with difficulty any of them escaped In the editorial room
 there were but five men, Night Editor
 Tonjaroff, Assistant Managing Editor Frank Blair Assistant Might Editor Russell Hathaway Reporter Shannon and Dr. Bill, who was with MT. Blair In the latter's office. All had to run for their lives
 Hathaway made his way down the narrow staircase. The others got out by the fire escape and jumped to the roof of the adjoining building, and es- capped through the billiard hall. On the upper floor, occupied by the com posing room were some eighteen com positors and proof-readers, whose sltua- ton was most critical. Panc-stricken, they rushed for the windows leading to the fire escapes and all but three of them succeeded in gaining the roof of the Woodbury building, where they re- mained for time shouting to the crowd, and by whom they were warned not to jump as help was at hand.
 Long ladders were raised as quickly as the net work of electric wires over the street would permit, but even before . a ladder could be placed in position to relieve them the men had dropped through a skylight in the Woodbury building roof, and reached places of fofr Tvnn iy, hn i,, the basement there was practically no fire in the building below the fifth story. Fortunately the pressmen do not begin work until about II o'clock and no one was in the press room at the time the fire started, as far as known, except the fireman, who had not been seen up to late hour.
 The three upper stories burned fur iously and it was some time before a stream of sufficient force to do much execution could be brought to bear upon the fire, and even after that 1t took three hours of work to drown out the endangering clements.
 The excitement during the fires pro- gress was intense and it seemed likely | that there were many deaths and acci- l dents. The three victims, all proof l readers, were suffocated before they | had time to reach the fire escapes. l Those who did find them were obliged to jump several feet to the roof of the adjoining building. and in this way quite number of them sustained in- juries, more or less serious, though none of them are likely to result fatally.
 Judson Craft, one of the victims, was man weighing over 25O pounds, and this fact no doubt told against him in his efforts to escape. The bodies were reached about two hours after death
 On the northerly side of the Advertis- CT building is the large buildings occu- pied by the Boston Globe, but as a heavy brick wall separated the two structures. the fire did not enter that building, although it was filled with smoke from top to bottom. As soon as 1t was seen that the resources of the Advertiser and the Record for issuing their editions regularly were destroyed, offers were received from all the man. agers of newspapers in the city. Gen eral Taylor of the Globe offered to pub fisher Barrett and Managing Editor Underwood all possible assistance Mir. OMeara of the Journal offered the facilities of his office for printing the afternoons Record, and the offer , was accepted. Managing Editor JTn- derwood says that it Is impossible to estimate the loss until the actual dam !. age to the pressess is ascertained The 's building is owned by the Massachusetts Real Etate Trust