Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-11-27

THE OMAI
rldors. When half dom police entered
| the City hospital to clear the corridors
/ they met with frenzled opposition. Aged
! women fought frautically 90 gain the
! bedsides Of their daughters.
The priests and clergy who had flocked
to the hospitals prevailed where the po-
! lice failed. and managed to lead the
| grlef-maddened throngs from the wards
and corridors.
News of Death Spreads swiftly.
The news OF q death In the hospital
spread swiftly to the crowd outside, and
when the total Of reported deaths had
reached five the anxious hundreds stom-
peded against the doorways to learn the
names Of those added to the death lost
DR.. J. c. Howard pastor Of the Halsey
Street Methodist Episcopal church and
Z city chaplain Of Newark, was among the
first group Of clergyman to arrive at the
city hospital He summoned his curates
and all Of his Pensioners capable Of min
istering to the injured. lie also called
to the hospital the Rev. Enoch Meacham,
pastor OF the Trinity Methodist Episcopal
church and half a dozen priests and clergy
men Of other denominations.
! There were similar scenes at st. Mich
ael's hospital, and even greater crowds
until a list Of the injured was recovered
by a priest and the anxonus relatives were
/ told to seel, information at the City hospi-
tai or at the nearest police precinct.
Two brothers Of Alice Melden, the'second
victim of the fire to die in ST. MichaeIs
hospital. arrived few minutes after their
sister had expired. As they passed through
the doorway they heard one reporter say
TO another:
THE Melden girl has just died"
'sDo YOU mean Alice Melden?' asked the
Young brother. a lad OF about 16. The re-
porter assented, wheroupon the boy
q pitched over in a swoon. While he was
being cared for Miss Jane Kaiser OF 100
Orange street arrived to inquire about
the fate Of her daughter, one OF the
workers for the Wolf company. One OF
the survivors met her at the door and
exclaimed:
"oh. Mrs. Kaiser, Mary is all right,
she got out without scratch
Statement by chief.
The mother was 50 overcome by the Boou
news that she tainted.
Fire Chief William c. Anstley, made the
amazing statement that the responsibility
for the disaster lies with the employees
who were slow in turning in the alarm
If those precious moments from three
to five, had not been lost" he said not
a single life would have been lost.
Fireman O. G. Brown was washing the
front windows Of the ground floor OF the
building occupied by Engine Company No
L. which is located directly opposite the
scene of the fire. He was on the inside oil
3 the building when he saw one Of the girls
from the Walt factory rush into the street
screaming He ran out to intercept hei
and I'm hysterical tones she told that there
was a fire upstairs Hastily he turned ir
an alarm. Fireman Brown corroborate
Chief Anstley's statement. He says tina.
five minutes were lost in turning in tn
alarm while the employees were trying t
extinguish the blaze
As soon as Fireman Brown had given tn
alarm he rushed across the street closet!
followed by Lieutenant Dargen. The tw
6 men clambered upone of the fire escapes
: the only ones with which the building 4
e equipped The fire escape the mounted Il
n located at the northwest corner Of tn
/. building. The other is in the rear.
i Dragged Through Windows.
n Forty girls were standing in the window
e on the fourth floor chriekng for help.
Il number OF them stoow behind close
n window. which in their fright they ha
If failed to open Fireman Brown kicked tn
d window in and held out his hands for tn
II goris to take hold. The girls were 5
p frightened that they stoow as II in a daz,
d He caught several and dragged theI
through the broken window one by one an
m handed them to Lieutenant Dargan, VIII
g. passed them on to the others. Thus, fort
$. girIs,i all Of them crowded about the wiz
IN dows were led out of the building and dow
ID to safety.
The flames were pouring out Of tn
N windows by the time the last girl With
n reach had been taken out, and Firema
ID Brown, waiting for a lull in the pillows
ID flame thrust his head into the window
At see if there were any more in sight
Of A huge volume of flame-lcked smoke Ell
d. veloped him and he dropped back, chokir
Of and blinded. A rush of flames forced hi
y, to beat retreat to the floor below.
r by that time" said Brown, the CIR
were jumping from every window. 1t wa
es the most awful sight / have ever see
r l never saw a fire spread so fast once
got started Before we could reach Il
girls in the windows over the fire escap,
ed the flames were licking the woodwor
he It's wonder to me none Of them lost the
st heads and jumped like those other 20,
IS creatures"
ly Man and Daughter burned.
on NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-James Clark,
he storekeeper OF the Bronx, stumbled and +,
It's today as he was carrying lighted ker
sene stove and the burning oil saturatC
es his clothes. His married daughter MIR
Annie Hunt wrapped him in her arms
r. an effort to smother the flames, but su
ng ceeded only in setting her own clothes (
We fire. Both were burned severely and Meth,
ng is expected to recover.
IS Georgiana McElroy, years old, spied II
nY remains Of a dolls chair in a burning hes
al Of rubbish this afternoon and rushed in
the fire to rescue it. Her skirts caught fiji
ed and she was burned beyond hopes Of r
y cOvery.
Us Engineers Death Accidental,
n CHISHOLM Mimi. Nov. 26-That GULL