The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-10-26
Nineteen Persons Are Killed IN
Philadelphia.
NUMBER INJURED UNKNOWN
SOME ROASTED TO DEATH;
LEAPED FROM BUILDING.

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but fully a score of victims were To-
Gated at various hospitals. Police and
6remen are toniebt dervine into fha
ruins in search Of bodies suDnosad Ia
have been buried beneath the debris
as il is feared thar others besides fha
known dead may have lost their lives
in the flames.
The buildings DESTROYED were fine
eight-storv sfr-ucture 1910 and 1921
Market street occuDied nv HINT VIII
kinson & Co unboIsterers ana fr1rnf-
t1Ire dealers and tbrae-sfor,- b7,fi5iness
occ1nied IN, sT,,1i ,,,e,i,,,r'r,,,- T,,
biz, furniture br,ildine extended bscl-
a half block to Commerce street ana
was owned by Henry c. Cleas.
The Known Dead.
Walter StearIy.
j. E Armstrong.
Mrs. Martha Banks. coIored.
Mrs. Mary Mitchell. coIored.
Margaret Grady.
Dorothy Kramer
Martha Baker
Margaret Hebden.
Susan Gormley
Harry House
H A Sparrow.
Charles l.. Sparrow.
Fred Wilmington.
Charles Lands
One unknown white woman.
Four unknown white men.
At 1920 O'Clock this morning the
blaze broke forth in the buudine oc-
cupied BY Hunt. Wilkinson & 60 If
is said that an explosion of naDhthg
or gasoline in the basement was the
cause, but this is denied by Mr.. VII.
kinson, who SAYS there never was &
sufficient quantity of either explosive
about the building to be RESPONSIBLE
for tOday's disaster. Rumor has it
also that an elevator construcror al
work in the basement permitted the
flame of his lantern to comnunicst To
with some of the gaseous HouidS
stored in the basement. and that this
was the cause of the confagra ton
Gil 49,,
WAS 70 OeaSn-
Inc rear OF HUNT, Wilkinson & Co.'S
hulIolhg races on commerce street. a
small thOrOughfare. On the fire es-
capes at TINS end OF the s-hIs.l dizfss'k two
men ana one woman WeSe slow s.
roasted TO death, while the horror
stricken throng on the street below
on Market street Woman m 5 S,s lIo. n.
desperation. Ieaped from a window on
the top floor and was dashed TO dean,
on the pavement
SeVenty-nlne of the 100 persons in
hunt Wilkinson & Co.'S building when
the fire started were employed. anf
the remainder were customers and
outside were the wOrkmen who were
engaged in putting the fnisbfr-,
touches on the new eighth floor More
than half Of the firms employees were
on the upper five floors. and If vas
among these that the Creates ,,,7,,-
Der were killed and injured
With the possible execution IF Tho
engineer. who is missing AM ne,.scr,s
on the first three floors GOT ont of the
building safely. The mem hers Of fbo
firm had their Offices on tba tl,s~5
floor, and their famiIiarit1r T--i.5, -. =
exits is all that saved them from s,,f-
location. Most of those killed vvars = =
work on the sixth floor v-raTe 49, = =
ere engaged in sewing 7rhe,- 49,. -
work in the rear of the bui15iner lI,ss
to the fire escapes. but becar9s -,
fused by the great quantity 81 sr,Cl-5.
that rushed up the stairway ana az
Vator shaft
~ ,1rIl'1s('. 81 II lloor mere We're TWEEN
The erasf ,,,-e,, a. y 81 =. ana liianks 10
man of 49,, e.. ~ IliiLlu OF the Aofe-
IN -iOOi' an escaped
Leaped to Their Death
There were afe,-o, .,...l-.-
number Of o1Itsi5l -, -l'-'1y - ana a
eiglbtb Co. - "OlheIs on the
enabled tbosa on 49, 80 v "sliu llt-N s
the roof Of a., a.Si.i. -.oo- ~ -saeil
building b1,- :, ~ ~ 7 y, : 20. g! y
means Of eScan, ,,-s,s, sl--s..'. LIS
eraI made the Terrible 1ee,9 -, a. 49,
walk and ,S-ere ,,Isl,e,., ~ ~ ~
ers ran the gantIef of s,,,(i-1 - 81.
down the rear FIRE escsres '-'- 49, Q
Among those on the eieI74b f7ro- Nh
jumped and were killed we're II
Sparrow an e,Dart sIe,f,.i,,,1 ~-,-,..-.-
tor. and charles y er,s-,.,,,- - -
nenbevv ana sssfs.a,,+ - -
woman also iI1n,Ded from tl7is 80. -, -
was crushed in the street
Il was exactly 1000 o-crocl- +bie
morning when Howard = Ssfrasf )
Young man emploved nv F5In+ Ty-i1,sf,,
son & Co. observed danes s5oofinr- mn
the elevator shaft fron, fl,a fs.saT,7e,1+
He was ON tbe second g., - 81,
mediatelv gave the alarm, to the o+be-
EMPLOYEES He tI7ar bas+era6 10 ia
street to notify a polieenSan.
Building In Flames.
In the meantime the enrloyaas Of +,,.
/ electrical hlIrea-I ar The cit,- ran 49,