The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-11-27

ran into the building and dragged a
girl down the stairs from the hallway
on the third floor. Thomas Stokes,
an employee of the coal yard across the
street, aided in catching girls who
dropped from the lower fire escape
landing.
Smoke Is First Warning.
Owing to the roar OF the sewing ma
chimes In the Wolf factory on the
fourth floor, the explosion was not
heard. The first warning the girls at
the building had Was furnished from
smoke spouting through the floor and
the cracking OF flames throughout the
hallway.
The elevator man ran his elevator to
he top floor but appears to have run it
down without making any effort to
rescue.
Before the hundreds OF employees
knew there was q fire in the building
tho wooden stairway leading from the
third to the fourth floor was ablaze
Escape by. that avenue was impossible.
The stairway fell. in fact the burning
boards and balustrades dropped clear
10 The bottom floor before stream of
water was put on the burning build
ing.
The flames literally spouted through
the floors Of the Wolf factory from the
floor below. The door the elevator
shaft and the doors leading to the
halls were open.
When the panic stricken girls opened
the windows on the three sides of the
Wolf work room they created drauaht
that sucked the fire from below and
mGshroomed 1t against the roof
The fire had gathered its great
hcadway within ten minutes after
the explosion on the third floor
The heavily laden floors of the factory
were the first 10 fall into the cellar.
Then the middle part of the roof
crashed into the ruins leaving only the
walls standing Chief Ashley would
not allow his men inside the walls I'M
til experts had pronounced them safe
Tor the time being.
Firemen Show Heroism
A dozen fremen were injured in
fighting the blaze. The members of
The fire department worked desperate
~ to rescue the girls at the windows
and crowded on the fire escapes. but
The flames spread too rapidly. Even
after the entire building was ablaze.
frcmcn rushed into the lower floors
and climbed up the fire escapes ia hope
of saving some who were still alive.
The wooden gate, upon the pickets
of which several were impaled, pro.
tcctcd q wagon entrance on the High
street side Of the building. Both doors
OF the gate were open. swinging out
ward when the fire started. One Of the
gates WAS directly under Il window
from which dozen girls jumped. One
young woman who had jumped from the
fourth story OF the factory building,
died while being carried into st.
Michael s
Three others who were terribly In
Iured in the same manner were past
aid and relatives were calld to their
bedside.
The arrival Of numerous injured
women at the city hospital in a process
sion of ambulanccs and other vehicles
and followed by crowd Of anguished
relatives and friends caused tho great
est excitement along Fairmont avenue.
MANY women hurried from their homes
10 offer what aid they could to the over
worked hospital staff Young internes
on the hospital staff worked swiftly
and silently.
Autos Arc Commandecred
On The way to the hospital the driv-
ers OF tho hospital wagons yelled to
every autUuObile driver to hurry TO the
fire and serve as an ambulance. At
least fifty tOnring cars responded to
this call and transported injured girls
and women to their homes or TO the
llospitals
The injured and dying began to ar
rive nj the City hospital aud the crowds
of gricf-stricken relatives blocked the
streets. Hundreds of children, ran
abont shrieliing for mothers and sisters,
poured INTO the corridors Of the hospl'
tails and added to the confusion. The
smoke and clouds OF sparks from the
Gre descending on factories in the vi
ci-ity sprcad paric thnt took in u halt 2
mile Of the scene, The factories had
TO shut dowh for the day, the many
employees deserting in squads:
Pathetic scenes attended the trans
portation Of the dead, dying and IN
ured TO the hospital hon, G1owds Tn1st~es Ei 'ef OF
the workers in the hospitals, followed
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