Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-10


contents, which we're totally destroyed.
Dead.
MORRIS YALL senior member OF the
firm of YalI, Clark & Cohn, manufacturers
Of fine cut glass, formerly OF Chicago
burned to crisp.
ToBE DAVIS. man about town. SUMO
Gated.
JOHN C. LUEDERS father OF Deputy
City Marshal Leo Lueders, skull fractured
in jumping from third-story window
GEORGE THOMPSON, switchman In ter
minal yards, burned to death.
SARAH HARRIS, colored chambermaid'
burned.
B. F. wooDLEY, employe Hamilton
Brown Shoe company, burned.
]. A. M'MULLEN, carpenter, burned.
s. T. COREY, telegraph operator, Mer-
chants Terminal association. >.
VANCE MARLIN. hoistirg engineer,
Greenfield o., burned.
A. J. ALLEN, sedalia, Mo-. stonemason
burned.
&C. e. cANTRoUT, union carpenter, died
at city hospital from burns.
Injured.
Harry Cline. medical student OF Marion,
H., hands badly burned and ankle sprained.
Walter Johnson, employe Hamilton
Brown Shoe company, hands burned, both
legs broken and injured internally.
Henry Robinson, colored night porter,
badly burned.
George Lane, medical student, Rich Hill,
Mo, ankle sprained, in jumping from Sec
ond-story window.
- Sturgeon, dental student, back
sprained in jumping from second-story win
dow
Harry Thompson, medical student, Nash
ville ILL.,, ankle sprained in jumping from
second-story window.
J. J. Lelly, manager Empire hotel, back
badly sprained while escaping from build
ing.
Con Ryan, burned about face.
About ten or twelve others, less se-
riously injured, being bruised burned or
suffering from exposure.
9s1as,aR GAxinK Aisrns.
The FIRE started about $3.50 a. M, when
but few persons were abroad, and gained
considerable headway before 1t was dis
covered and the alarm given. There was
considerable delay in turning in an alarm.
and when the engines finally reached the
scene the whole front of the building was
in flames and the interior was like fur
mace. BY that time all who escaped death
had gotten out of the building by jumping
from the windows or climbing down ropes
made of bedclothes. A few escaped from
the ground floor through the front door.
Some of the escapes were very narrow.
Almost everybody who got out suffered
immediate injury or was frost bitten. The
guests barely had time to get out when
aroused, the flames had spread so rapidly.
Some saved their clothing, which they car
rta in atr dc hut ofh ant
fortunate, losing everything.
After some delay nearby houses were
opened to the unfortunates and they were
given shelter from the biting cold. 1t
was one Of the coldest nights of the win
ter, the ground being covered with ice and
snow and everyone suffered from exposure
The suffering ones we're put under the
care of physicians. Harry Cline, Walter
Johnson, Henry Robinson and an unidenti-
fed man, who died later, were taken to the
city hospital, Robinson recovered enough
to be taken home.
Firemen Conquer the Flames.
After short fight the fremen got the
flames urder control, and assisted by the
police, made a search of the ruins. The
first body found was that of John C. Lue-
ders who was killed by jumping from the
The body OF Lueders and those of the
others found later, were taken to the
morgue, where friends and relatives later
identified them. Sarah Harris was found
on the hrst floor. Her body had been
burned The remains of the other victims
| were found in their rooms, where they
suffocated or burned.
j. ]. Lelly, who manages the house for
his brother-in-law, J. w. Gillian, had
rooms on the first floor. He stated there
were four rooms on the first hoor nine
on the second, and seven on the third. II
all the guests occupied their rooms. thirty
six persons, including the colored porter
and chambermaid were in the building when
It burned. Lelly said he had no means Of
| knowing Just how many persons were in
the house at the time the fire broke out.
Some of them were In the habit OF staying
out late and it is possible all were not
there then.
ROOmer Gives the Alarm.
He was awakened by hearing Con Ryan.
one OF the roomers, crying fire" Lelly
said he grabbed his clothing and money
and hurried into the hall. which was ablaze
| and then without stopping to dress.
stepped out through the front door. Both
stairways we're on fire and he barely had
time to get out, being scorched and sprain-
| ing his back. Lane, Ryan and a man named
| Nicely escaped the same way The only
way for the others who got out alive was
through the window. the burning stairways
cutting on their escape that way. Some
| Jumped, and sustained injuries more or
| less serious, while others who took time
to improyise ropes from their bed clothing
got down safely.
r. A. Woolsey, a medical student, whose
home is in Galesburg ILL.,, had a room on
the second floor. Finding the regular exits
cut of, he slid TO the ground safely with
the aid OF two sheets tied together.
Harry Cline of Marion, ILL.,. who is a
student in the medical department OF Wash
ington university, had a narrow escape
from death He rOomed on the second
floor with Harry Thompson OF Nashville,
ILL.,, student at the same college Cline
was aroused by cries Of FIRE. He awakened
Thompson, and together they attempted to