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

b.ro nv the force Of his GOODNESS he got
thirt, girls on the front fire escape and
dovyn to the lower landing and the street
before the flood OF panic-stricken girls
from the top floor began TO pour from
the windows.
Al McHugh's direction the girls hung
nv their hands from the platform anu
dropped the twenty-five feet to the street
Nearly all were safely caught by firemen
and other rescuers.
Harry Buunell, 13-year-old hero, ran
INTO the building and dragged girl down
the stairs from the hallway on the thiru
floor
Thomas Stokes, an employe Of coal
yard across the street, aided in catching
girls who dropped from the lower fire es-
cape landing. He caught one girl in ms
arms who had jumped from the third
floor and bore the shock so firmly that
she escaped injury
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 by smoke spouung
through the floor and the cracking Of
flames in the hallway. The elevator man
ran his car to the top floor, but appears
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any effort at rescue
Escape IA Cut OFF.
Before the Wolf employees knew there
was a fire In the building, the wooden
stairway leading frolRs .tiae third TO the
fourth floors was aBIazet Escape by thai
avenue was impossible The stairway fell
in fact the burning boards and balustrades
dropped clear to the ground floor before
q stream OF water was put on the building
The flames literally spouted through the
floor Of the Wolf factory from the floor
below The door OF the~eevator shaft anc
the doors leading TO the hall were open
When the panic stricken girls opened the
windows on the three sides OF the Wor
workroom, they created draught that
sucked the fire up from below and mush
roomed It against the room.
The fire had gathered its direct harves
Of death within ten minutes after the eN
plosion on the third floor. The fatally in
1ured were then on their way to the hos
pitfalls. or were in the hands OF hospita
surgeons
Drs Evans and Cough OF the City hos
pitaJ rsked their own lives in efforts t.
get to the injured.
The heavy laden floors OF the factor!
were the first to fall into the cellar Incl
the greater part of the roof crashed int,
the ruins, leaving only the walls stand
Ing, Chief Ashley would not allow hi
men inside the walls until experts ha'
pronounced them safe for the time being
dozen fremen were injured in fight
ing the bloze. The members OF the fir,
department worked frantically to rescu,
the girls at the windows and crowded OF
the fire escapes, but the flames spreaC
too rapidly, Even after the entire build
ing was ablaze, firemen rushed into tn,
lower floors and climbed upon the fir,
escapes in the hope Of saving some VIII,
were sull alive.
The wooden gate. upon the pickets o.
which several victims we're impaleG pro
tected u wagon entrance on the Higl
street side Of the building. Both door
Of, the gata were open, swinging outward
when the fire started. One OF the gate
WAS directly under a window from which
half a dozen girls jumped.
The smoke and clouds OF sparks from
the fire descending upon factories in tn
vicinity started a panic that took I'm
half a mile Of the scene Many faotorle
had to shut down for the day, thelr man!
employees deserving in squads.
Many heroic rescues were made by tn
fireman and police, who we're first to re