The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-26
Victims IN Trapped In on
Upper Floors Of Burn
ing; Building.
GAR-LIGHTER
STARTED LAZE,
Twelve Bodies Recovered, When
Search Is Stopped on Account
Of Tottering Walls Clerk,
Who Had Caused Disaster,
Tells His story-1r1-
quest Is Ordered.

Iells His Story--Irl-
quest Is Ordered.
l Chicago, March 25.-search of tn
/. twreckage for the remaining bodies 3
those who lost their lives In the Els
furniture Company fire here to-da
7 was discontinued this afternoon. OWN
!. 10 danger from tottering walls. bu
! not until after twelve of the dead ha
boon recovered and eleven of thcs
!. identified. While the earlier est
mates placed the number of victim
trapped on the fourth and fifth floor
OF the building as high as twent,
!, later and more thorough investigatio
indicates that there were but sixteer
, TWO Of these escaped, which leave
but two more to be accounted for. Tn
!, the report of Chief Building Inspecto
J Short. who declared that three Of th
walls were in a dangerous condition.
coroner's jury, which was i'm
paneled this afternoon viewed til,
bodies at the morgue. but the inques
was postponed until April o
stoeckel Tells His story.
Leo Stoeckel.sa clerk Of the Eisl
4 Company. who by accident is said Il
have started the fire. told his story
to Fire Attorney Frank Hogan this
afternoon. a, r. stoeckel was brought before
the fire attorney with his hands. which
| mad b>:n burned, swathed in banda ses
/ He appeared heart broken.
About S:45 o'clock this morning,
stoeckel said. Mr.. Mitchell who is a
member of the firm. gave me three
pocket cigar lighters. and told me ~
go to the finishing room. on the fo1rtf,
floor, and fill them with benzine 4; i
had filled two of the lighters out of
the five gallon can and was working
plosion.
sheet of flame almost blinded mo
did not fully regain my senses untii
mad reached the street THE lighter.
contained contriyance to make a
spar, sPark' put whether I5.ignited one Of
dronned rem 9 the'a het' - $do; know either
name shot up in front gof me, or IL
was blown out OF my hands, ~ =
List of Victims.
following Is list Of the identified
= Harry Darlington. aged forty, paint
noSrapher. {, = =. : - = "te u
miner ". Bell, adycrtisinE manager.
Nosie brucke, aged seventeen, ste-
Mrs. Hannah Burden. aged thirty,
widow; fore,Soman folding depart.
Lillian sullivan, aged sixteen, folder.
o,an,,a11 iaisam m Grccn' aged twenty-four,
Ethel Lichtenstcin, aged eighteen,
Harry NJ. Mitchell, auditor OF com.
nrnS, ia s,n,n me mSer t.e Of firm; brother-in-law
Neronicn McGrnth, aged seventeen,
.stenOErnpher. fl f1-.>;-',i.'' -
Gertrude Quinn, nEed twenty, folder.
The Missing.
Mary WarEO, nEcd twenty. folder.
bert st. Clair, aged 8twenty-cirht.
confidential clerk. - : - = =
Three others whose names could not
pc learned. are also reported among
the missing. s. & - 's =
Z. One of the bodies was identified by
FLORENCE sullivan as that OF her sister,
Lillian. She said she recognized a shoe
taken from one Of the bodies as one
which WI had been worn by her sister.
and a switchboard operator. might
easily have shared her sisters fate.
She was to have gone to work for the
Fish Company at noon, taking the
place of another girl. Il
Alexander Bush. street car conduc-
tor identified one Of the bodies as that
of Rosie Brucke. whom he was to have
married on Easter Sunday. He recog-
nized her . through the medium Of a
Eagement ring, he had given her.
# Oneaof the victims lost6his life IN I
a desperate cndeavor toErush;slpstairs to
to the aid of the women and girls i'm
Spread of Flames Rapid.
Ten women and girls. 1t Is said, were
at work on the sixth floor when the ex-
plosion occurred. The spread OF the |
flames i, was :, a., almost instantaneous. and
they found escape cut fl. q They next |
turned TO the front of the bIildinr. /
IN the Windows Iorrified
spectators In the street saw Emma
and heard her scream for help. tTheen he
She jumped. Falling on the awninr
r.8the front entrance to the store. /
she lay.unconscious until DR.. yVilliam
kinsley =, crawling out on the can
once to st. Luke's Hospital, Only a
few blocks away. but died soon after
wards, ,z p r. Kinsley suffered siightl !.
burns. I, Emma Liehtensteln was twen-l
1ltng clerk, y cath was due to inter
lal injuries received in her IA i l.lyIfs sta#
u Soon after Miss Llchtenstein's d les
oerate leap a crash. as if of floors falls
window Disappeared Dr. D IStnsley 1 les
graphically described his experiences
IS fol lows: 5 85 e FB5
NJ was Gnearby when the fire astarteds
md When II reached the scene the sirht L
airly made my hairl tand on end.
The oors Of he building were Ea,8 mass nIa
+ flames. Smoke in great cloud S was f.
olling out OF the wind ows s. iiaiI cried;a
Something must be done; something
must be done a but \ Ike many Others
here. was so gstrtck by the sight Il
t the faces, half revealed In the siSth! Il
tory wi nd ows, that r could 4 scarcely 4
aove. The girls we're Shouting 3. snf .Fofr:s !: &
iod's sake, send us help 4 ana 'others!!g
we're crying for t he 4 Il lranen to raise II
he ladders I tri cd ~ tor sge ct sSaups ftiIs
ront ST airways, but u at the third floor F.
!, gust u OF flame burnt ma bout n tha5 f
ace and hands, and the nextRthinFssf3lS +
new was back In The Estreet 4 agains| 4
'hen aga In the orr les o 6 the epo oorl riris
raped y The upp err, 81 tory5 can a is sn,V
ars.snnd saw one o G i he 4 ris RI hrnw
\ 4 hsr ~ hands ana gut TIE
ers 30 orashe n ga inst the Gan.
YER ron tigi on d q the store Y
carcely ng NyS,l I lid m n ri
III fira lopr' sls
rawled ou SNyi ID oyY, and sst hein, Ii
ssSssa 4s,,Is \ ss hss SaEa