The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1911-03-30

ARCH 3D. 1911
strands parted and the two were add
ed to the death list. One girl threy
her pockedbook, then her hat, thel
her furs. from the tenth floor win
dow. A moment later her bod,
came whirlinE after them to death.
i Embrace and Die.
At the ninth floor window . MAJ
and woman appeared. the man EN-
braced the woman and kissed her
Then he hurled her to the street an,
Jumped. Both were killed. Fiv,
/ girls smashed a pane Of glass. drop
ped In single tangls and wsr,
crushed into shapeless mass.
A girl on the eighth door leape<
for the fireman's ladder which reach
ed only to the sixth door. She miss
ed. struck the edge Of the lifenet aut
was picked up with her back broken
From one window q girl Of about 1;
years. q woman, man and two WON
On with their arms about one anoth,
er. threw themselves to the ground II
rapid succession.
The little girl was whirled to the
New York hospital in an auto. She
screamed as the driver and police.
man litter her into the hallway. The
surgeon came out, gave one look a,
her face and touched her wrist. "she
is dead" he said.
One girl Jumped into horse
blanket held by Aremen and police
men. The blanket ripped like cheese
cloth and her body was mangled al
most beyond recognition.
Girls Clubbed Back.
Another fell into a tarpaulin held
by three men. Her weight tore 1t
from their grasp and she struck the
street, breaking almost every bone
in her body.
Almost at the same time a man
somersaulted down upon the shoul-
der Of policeman holding the tar
paulin. He glanced OF, struck the
sidewalk and was picked up dead.
Within the building a man on the
eighth floor stationed himself at the
door of one Of the elevators and with
a club kept back the girls who had
stampeded to the wire cage. Thirty
were admitted to the car at the
time. They we're rushed down as
fast as possible.
A call for ambulances was followed
by successive appeals for police until
500 patrolmen arrived to cope with
the crowd numbering tens Of thou
sands. asmixture Of morbidly curious
and Of half crazed relatives and
friends Of the victims.
Bodies Nude and Charred.
A hundred mounted policemen
had to charge the crowd repeatedly
to keep 1t back. Led by Fire Chief
Croker, a squad Of nremen stormed
the stairways and gained access to
the building at z O'Clock. seach-
lights from buildings opposit light
ed the way Of the IRE fighters as they
ascended to the top floors.
Fifty roasted bodies were found
on the ninth floor. They. lay in ev-
cry possible position. some SO char
red that recognition was impossible.
Half a dozen were nude, with flesh
hanging in shreds to the bones.
Women with their hair burned
away. with here and there a limb
burned entirely OF and the charred
stump visible were lifted tenderly
from the debris, wrapped in oil cloth
and lowered by pulleys to the street.
Across the street there rested on
the sidewalk a hundred pine collins
into which were placed the bodies.
AS fast as this was done the collins
were carried away in any kind OF We
hicle that could be pressed into SER
vice to the morgue at Belleyut hos
pital and to Charities Pier morgue,
opened for the first time since the
Slocum horror.