The Cairo bulletin., 1907-05-09
Artists Musicians and Club Women in Wild
Panic in Death Trap
FRENcHMAN JUMPS TO DEATH
AS WIFE WAITE IN NEARBY
STORE; FAINTS.
RUSS COUNTESS HURT
When With Fireman Size is Knocked
From Ladder BY Water Stream
Scores Reach Safety BY
Climbing Down Escape.

hdllhaA Ili&, May OllC nedd, ST
missing, 5 injured, and propert
prosperity loss Of quarter million o
dollars, are me results Of Gre whlcl
destroyed the gniEtssGty Building
this afternoon. The building was OF
cupied BY Montgomery Ward & Com
pany as offices ana by nun rous ar
tss and musicians who lost every
thing.
George DE Mare ageI ~. an art in
strnctor N known % be Head
Among the missing is Miss MauC
Wittebofne, piano teacher, last seer
at toe window Of nor studio on Tn
nfta Goor
The Injured.
MISS ALEXANDRIA Bl lUMBERG
d Russian countess may die.
MAUDE SPEYEP.
MRS. EVA S BOYLE. Sheridan.
hIo-
!. NJ ktANlCHFIELD a fireman.
WILLIAM VAN DUSEN. a fireman
PETER KARAGAARD. q violin
teacher
The University building was bu II
for the 7 NJ. C. A and he corner
stone was laid BY President Clev lana
during his first administration. The
building VAS of brick, five stories
high, and extended 100 feet north of
Locust $ rect asd half a block west
ON Ninth street, Because Of the an
sal condition Of The bu lding it was
abandoned by the Y M C a. ten
years ago. Since then the first and
sacend f0crs have teen occupied BY
..ttssenscrs Ward a. Go4ap&ny, 4, sAu
used 1t as offices and employed 200
clerks, mostly girls.
It contaias two small audiioriums,
one of which that on the third floor
is used by the Kansas City Atheneum
which was holding a session when the
fire red today half a hundred
prominent women being N attend
ance.
Only One Elevator and Stairway
The third, fourth and fifth floors
were occupied by artists and music
ians and some Of the upper rooms |
v re used as living apartments. There |
IS bit one elevator in the building, |
adjoining a stairway, the only means !
)f exi.
The fire started few Minutes be-
lore 3 o'clock in the basement in a
quantity Of twine in the Montgomery
Ward stor room. close to The eleya-
or Ten minutes after the fire broke
,ut he flames began shooting mp the
elevator shaft, and all escape save by
ire escapes was shut off
The hall quickly filled with nsa
mffocatiug smoke. and ten minutes
ater. when the first fire apparatus ar
lived on the scene people crowded
lmost every window appealing for
lelp, while scores of others. mostly
women and girls. filled the Gre es-
apes and were climbing wildly to the
round.
In many studios pupils were taking {
assons. L
The FIRST ladders placed by the fire J
len against the building failed 20 {
ach above the third floor. q
Inside the widest panic prevailed I
ftor the FIRST rush fr the hall way a
n the Athesoum floor. which hai Z
ow become so filled with smoke that t
scape there was impossible the p
ople were driven back to windows
icing Locus and Ninth streets
here was but one fire escape on this .
I'd Of the building. that on the 10 :
Ist street side. This was qgickly \
led with wildly excited women.
Jumped TO Death: Wife Painted.
George De Mare, art Instructor in +
@ Central High school and a portrait
inter who came to this country
ur years ago from Paris. jumped p
ON his studio window on the firth
,or and was picked up dead. Mr.
e Mare recently married a prom
Mt society woman. She was wait
z in a nearby drug store when her
islands dead body was brought in "
ID fainted ~
Miss Alexandria Blumberg. a Rus %
IN countess ard artist who came 10 -
nerica two ve1rs ago aud who had a d
idio on the fourth floor. was over p
me by smrle and carried from her pa
ON by a fireman, who started down y
ladder with her. When they were ID
thin thirty feet Of the ground tha IN
emen below in 'heir excitement ~
med a stream Of water on them
oeking them from the ladder Miss
lmberE was picked uD rncoUscious.
b giug from a fractured skull She
perhans fatally hurt The fireman .
s painfully injured. Ai