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Correspondence Of The Journal,

Correspondence Of The Journal.
Christiania, Norway, Sept. To-
Yesterday was a day Of. unexpected
death to ten and sorrow to many more
in Christiania.
A five story business building
modern, according to local require
ments-burned down. The walls and
the polished marble facade are still
standing. but everything inside was
consumed by the flames. Worst Of all
is the great loss Of human lives, a loss
surprising any such casualty In Chris
tiania for many years.
One-half of the ground floor was oc-
cupied by a leading shoe store. In a
back room shoe backing was being
boiled over an oil flame. It exploded
and In a second the whole place was
aflame. ..-,,...s. ,5.sf g. io5. ~
An alarm was telephoned to the fire.
department at ONCE, but it is, claimed
that the girl who sent the message. in
her excitement, gave wrong location,
which caused a delay of two minutes
In the arrival of the firemen: That
tWo-mfnute delay, perhaps, was the:
undoing of the ten victims who found
their tragic death in the flames in, that
short period. e.
A woman saved herself and her
three little ones by crawling over onto
the roof of the next building The
elevator girl stuck to her post, max
ing trips and arousing the people as
| long as possible, and to her cool and
lives saved must be credited She
shouted Fire as she made her life
saving trips, but the building was too
large for everybody to hear her cries
one OF the victims had just begun
work IN. one of the offices that very
morning, where she found her sad
DEATH half an hour later. Another
was celebrating her birthday. A young
man lost both his sister and his sweet
heart. One of the scrubwomen leaves
three and the other five little ones be-
hind. Beside those dead, a mum Der
were injured by the fire, some rather
seriously. - -. ,.......-- Il .5z-a
smoke and flames before half of the in
! mates knew of the fire, and by the time
they did realize the situation there
was no. avenue of escape for some of
them. Smoke and flames in every di-
rectlon was all they saw and the two
minutes delay in the arrival of the
tlre lighters must certainly have been
an eternity for some Of them.
I Not that there is any just blame to
pc LAID at the door Of the men, who
from the moment they arrived fought
like heroes, with their own lives at
stake, to save those imprisoned. It is
not TAR from a miracle that some of
them did. not lose their lives yester-
day. J. happened. e-.pass the burning
building, just as they arrived, and to,
me it 1ooked as If they courted death
when they began work. One seeing
I them sclimb the ladders and enter
That sea Of flames and smoke could
certainly have nothing but words of
praise. ~ p. :
| But@as far as saving lives goes, it
was all. too late. The death list in
kongens gade 20 reads:s;# La
F. - ., .. ~.
Elisa Wage, 10 years. old, office girl
Mimi .Andersen-Nilsen, % years old, Of
| flee girl.
| Maia Frolich, 20 years old, office girl
Ragna1 Olsen, 10 years old, office girl
| Mrs. .Borghild Gabrielsen, office girl.
Mrs. Maren. Hansen, scrubwoman. NJ :<gs
Mrs. Marie Evensen, scrubwonan.
Thor Schoyen, Is years old, clerk.
Ludwig Solunl, Al years old, agent.
Chr. M. Middelfart, 30 years old, agent.
| All the dead were Christiania .peo-