The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-27
TWENTY-FIVE GIRLS DIE IN
FIRE; JUMP BUT MISS NET
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the hurrying crowds, wringing their
hands and wailing their anguish.
Priests Help in Rescues.
Priests who mingled with the crowds
climbed into the ambulances to offer
the consultations of religion to the dying.
Other priests who had hurried to the
scene of the fire assisted the fremen
in CARRYING the injured in their arms
to ST. Michael s hospital several blocks
away
ST. Michael s hospital is private in
stltutlon and has no ambulances. The
ten women carried there were borne in
the arms of firemen, policemen, priests
and citizens,
The nuns of st. Michael's ran ont to
meet them and helped them bear their
burdens into the building. Wards and
private rooms were made ready with all
haste and every available physician in
the neighborhood was summoned to the
aid of the hospital staff.
The police sent detail to control
the throng at the two hospitals. but it
was entirely inadequate. Men, women
and children fought their way into
relatives.
AT least dozen women tainted on
the steps of the hospital and within
| the corridors, When half dozen
pol: :emen -ntered the City hospital to
clear the corridors, they met with fren,
zied opposition, Aged women fought
fiercely to gain the bedside of their
daughters
The priests and clergy who had
the police had failed, and managed to
lead the grief maddened throng from
the wards and corridors.
Slow to Give Alarm.
Dr. j. G. Howard, pastor of the Hal
sey street Methodist Episcopal church
and city chaplain of Newark, was
among the first of the group of clergy
men TO arrive at the City hospital He
summoned his curates and all of his
parishioners capable of administering tc
the injured. He also called to the hos
pital the Rev. Enoch Meaeham: pastor
of the Trinity Methodist EpiscopaI
church, and half dozen priests and
clergymen of other denominations
There were similar scenes at st. Mich
ael's hospital and even then, tht
crowds, unable to see the injured, were
received by a priest, and the anxious
relatives told to seek information al
the City hospital or the nearest police
station.
Two brothers of Alice Molden, the
second victim of the fire TO die in ST
Michael's hospital, arrived a few min
utes after the first had expired. Across
the hallway. they heard one reporter
say to another, "The Molden girl has
died.
"Do you mean Alice Molden7" 7" asked
the younger brother of the reporter
The latter assented, whereupon the lac
lpitched over in a swoon, While he wa:
being cared for, Mrs. Jane Kaiser, o1
100 Orange street, arrived to inquire
AS to the fate of her daughter, one o.
the workers for the Wolf company. Ont
! of the survivors met her at the doo1
and exclaimed;
"Oh, Mrs Kaiser, Mary is all right
She got ont without a scratch
The mother was 80 overcome that sh
tainted
Fire Chief William, C. Ashley mad
, the amazing statement that the re
spousibility for the disaster lies on tn
: employees, who were slow in turning il
the alarm.
The dead identified are Sadie Hauso
Sarah Creeran. Gertrude Denton. Mimi
Walters. Sophia Maduslsy. Ida Woolsey
Mary Kavanaugh, Roy Davidson. Ros
\ Cleary, Theresa Tortorella. Mrs. Mar.
Kearns. Sophia Nicliwak. Ada Otto
Marine Dichn. Carrie Probrecut Mrs
Francis Krathia. Abbie Washington. Mrs
8 Alice Nelson. Mrs. Bessie Rosing an
e Mrs. Mary LaPierrp.