The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-01-28
N. H.,
MILL BURNS
Five Boys Killed and Six More
Are Injured
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SPARKS FROM BELT CAUSE
Started Fire--over 500 Operatives Es-
cape from the Five-story Building
Daring Rescues by the
Firemen.
SIP ARKS FROM BELT CAUSE

Dover, N, H., Jan 2S.--The disastrous
fire which visited Dover Saturday cost
the lives Of four, and probably Eve young
mill operatives, with property loss III
100000. The fire destroyed the city's
largest factory building, known IA mill
NO 4, OF the Cocieco Manufacturing
company The bodies Of four boys, char
red beyond all hope OF Identification,
were found in the smoking ruins, and
Ias fiye boys are known to be missing
Iit u believed that another body will
Fbe discovered.
The Missing.
Charles Cosgrove, aged 16.
Constantine Elopulos, aged 10,
John Nieholopnlos, aged IS.
- Redden, aged Is.
~ Hester aged rs
The Injured.
james Ashton, aged As, both legs frac
tured by jumping.
William Turner. aged 50, hip broken
BY jumping,
Theodore Blanos, "a, hands burned and
lacerated.
James Panas, 25, burned and bruised.
Anthony Francis, 25. burned and cut.
John Hester, 40, ankle broken by the
breaking Of a rope on which he was de
scending.
Several Of the injured were hurt while
saving their lives by climbing down The
ropes which they found near the win
dows, and one end 81 which they tied
70 the machinery. The fire broke out
lin the mill not long after the 500 or
more operatives had assembled for their
days work Friction from a belt gene
rating sparks which lodged III d mass
Of cotton, quickly created sheets Of flame
on the third floor, from which the opera
ltives ran 10 the stairways. All ia the
factory soon Knew OF the fire, and the
exits became blocked BIZ a struggling
mass of mill hands. On the fifth or top
floor the operatives were mostly boys.
and it was there undoubtedly that those
whose bodies were found lost their lives.
On the first and second stories the opera
tives were largely girls, and these reached
the ground by the stairways The men
were grouped on tho third and fourth
floors, and II was on the fourth floor that
many found their way OF escape by stair.
WAYS cit of. They were forced to reach
safety BY means IF the windows. The
flames spread quickly upward. threaten.
ing to hem theni m entirely. and several
jumped without LEGISLATION from the win
dove. among them Turner and Ashton
Others secured the ends Of ropes inside
Of tho windows and descended to the
ground. In doing this. however, they
were scorched by tie Ere, and their hands
were lacerated and cait BY the friction
| from the rope.
! There We're many daring rescuns by
+ the fremem -Four imprisoned men on
the fourth floor were taken ont of a
window. though not until they had climb
ed one by one down a stout pole which
the fremen had made fast TO the top
OF ladder too short TO reach the win.
dow sill The city department was as
sisted by FIRE brigade with a steamer
from Portsmouth but not until o'clock
in the afternoon was the fire under con.
troll II was not until some time after
that that the rhins could be examined
to discover whether they contained any
bodies The remains of the four boys
we're found together. The mill Is prac.
tically total loss, although the mschin-
cry on the first and second stories is
damaged only by water The financial
loss j. 100000, fully covered by in,
surance.