The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-03-05

After addresses had been made on tn
Hill to increase the pay of the army tn
senate adjourned at p. m.
remained with the panic-stricken chill
dren until they could do no more fol
them and then sought their own safety
Came Down Fire Escape.
Miss Laura Bodey, the only teacher
on the third floor. formed her pupil:
in line and marched them down L
the second floor. where, finding the
flames rushing up the stairway, she
turned them around and hurried then
back again to the third floor. She
here broke a window with chair, and
getting on to the platform of the fire
escape, lifted out her pupils one by
one and sent them down. Four OF
five children who broke from the line
and ran down the stairway were killed
One of the heOrines of the catas-
trophe was little Marie Whitman. She
ran through the smoke-fi.Ied halls and
grasped her little brother, whom she
managed to drag from the room and
take out through a window, both OF
them being nearly strangled with the
smoke.
Teacher Horrors Stricken.
Miss Golmer said: 1t was awful.
can see the wee things in my room
holding out their tiny arms and cry
ing to me to help them. When the
alarm gong rang | started the pupils
marching from the building. When we
started down the front stairs we were
met by solid wall of fl mes and
clouds of dense smoke. We retreated,
and when We turned the children be-
came panic-stricken and / could not
do anything with them. They crammed
into the narrow stairway and / knew
that the only thing for me 10 do was
to get around TO the rear door if pos
sible and help those who were near the
entrance. When / got there, after
climbing out of a window, found the
children so crowded in the narrow pas
saSewaY that l could not pull even
one of them out. These behind pushed
forward and as I stood there the lit
tie ones piled up on one another Those
who could stretched out their arms to
me and cried for me to help them.
tried with all my might to pull them
out and stayed there until the flames
drove me away"
Dragged Out in Time.
Another teacher. Miss Pearl Lynn
narrowly escaped death. She was car
ried toward the rear entrance by the
rush of the panic-stricken pupils and
fell at the bottom of the stairs. with
of the children on top of her.
She lay there, unable to rise because
of the weight of the bodies upon her.
She was dragged from the mass of
dead children just in time to save her
own life
Deputy States Fire Marshal Nathan
t1egenbaum made an inspection of the
ruins after the fire and tonight de-
clared positively that The door of the
opened toward the inside
and that the rear door was locked
when the children reached it. He de-
clared that his investigation so far
failed to establish the cause of the
fire.
List of Known Dead.
Following is a list of the known dead:
Miss Katherine Weller, teacher; Hem
y Shultz. 9; John Rochinsky, z; Will
lam Kanowsky, s.; Henry Lodge, IL;
Dorothy Hart. 8; Clayton Bell, IA: Will
red Cook, 8; Irene Davis, Is; Gretchen
Dorm, 3; Nels Thompson, 6; Thomas
Thompson, 8; Robert Hunter, s.; Rose
;alanson, IL; Rose Bushman, 8; Clark
Dale, 7; Mildred Cunningham, -:
katherine NJ. Duffy, 10; Albert Gould, |
2; Walter Herter, Is; Helena Herter.
8; Edith Herter. s; Hugh McIlrath, IA:
.eda Murphy, IA; Edward Myer, 6;
ohnny Phillips, 10; Mary Ridgeway, |
O; Anna Roth, 10: Lillian Rosterk, IA: |
'orris Sherman, IL; Bernard Schubert. |
2; Harold SandersOn, 8: Mabel SigIer. |
0; James Turner, Il; Norman Turner, |
Max Turner, s; Floyd Brown, 10;
.uella Baldwin. 10; Amelia Burrows. |
|; Norman Bell, 9; Claud Clayton, s; |
ester Centner. 6; Nellie Carlson. 9:
ieda Depner, 70; Percy Day, u; Ma /
Ida Dresh, 9; Arnold Depner, 9; AL
ert Eichelberger, s; Lena Efferly, Z;
race Fiske, teacher; Ray Gould, 6;
'mma Gervic, 9; Ruth Gordon, 3;
atherine Classmere. II; Mary Grus-
uge, ID; Edna Heckler, %; Henry Ku-
at, 10; Edward Kohlten. no age; Wal /
sr Kelley, 8; Richard Kelley, I: Fan
lie Kapudzya, g; Herbert Leonard, II; |
ouise Leonard, 9; Elma Merrinech, IL:
ito Markoshott, 10; Elsie Markoshott,
;; Catherine Message. IL: Gladys Mil
r, IL: Russell Newsbury. u; Paul
Iewbaker, Z; Frank Parah, 8; John
oansk, 6: Jennie Phillips, 5; John
otisky. 6: Norman Quirk, 10: Louis
uirk, s; Daniel Rush, IA; Fern Robin
'n, II; Harry Reeves, 3: Mary Sapar,
/: Mildred Schmitt, 10; Norman
cheppard, no age; Madge Sicily, II:
larry Sicily, no age; Gilbert Sicily. 8:
lem Sanderson, no age; Morris Shep-
I'd, no age; Albert Sprung, no age;
ony Sampson, no age; Mary Sampson.
}: Edwin Sehwan, u; George Schafer. /
}; Ella Steward IA: Fred Swanson, no
sc; Edwin Swanson, no age; Edward