Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-03-09
TWO PERSONS REPORTED MISS
ING MAY HAVE BEEN LOST
IN CONFLAGRATiON.
ST. PAUL DEPARTMENT HELPS
Property Loss Estimated to Be il
Neighborhood Of $1,000, oo0-
Minneapolis Full Fighting
Force Brought Out.

Minneapolis, March 6. - Skeleton
walls OF the Syndicate building between
fifth and Sixth streets on Nicollet
avenue, marking what once was the
home OF five prominent Minneapolis re.
tail establishment, standing as CHASTITY
monuments over the ashes where two
women may have lost their lies in a
naelstrom of flame that devastated the
structure early Sunday morning. The
alarm was sent in at a. m. A "3-11'
alarm followed, at 4:07, calling out
many additional companies with ap.
paratus, and general alarm was sent
In at 1886, which brought the full fire
fighting force of the city to the scene.
Mrs. Mary Buck. proprietress of the
Arion Lunch rooms, on the second
floor of the "arcade" of the building,
and an employee, Miss Bertha Radens,
are reported missing.
The building, valued at about $780,
GOO, is badly damaged, and the
stocks of the Model Clothing house,
the F. w. Woolworth company, J. B.
Hudson & Son, jewelers., the Young
Quinlan company, the Minneapolis Dry
Goods company, given a valuation es-
timated in the neighborhood of 81 ,OOO,-
600 are either ashes or water drenched
and smoke affected
Origin Not Placed.
Fire, probably originating, it is
rumored, from spontaneous combustion
in the Photographic studios of S. P.
Eggan on the top floor near the Sixth
street corner of the building or from
an overheated range in the Arion lunch
rooms, resulted in the telephoning OF
a still alarm into fire headquarters by
Douglas Bedding, head night man in
the Elgin Lunch restaurant across the
street, and a general alarm soon af-
terward brought every fire COM
pany in the city to the scene. Later
the st. Paul department sent over
apparatus, and police from every pre-
cinct in Minneapolis were called.
Fifty men, women and children,
sleeping in the upper floors of the
building, were awakened by dense
clouds of smoke and the cracking of
flames that rushed upward borne by
currents Of air in the elevator shaft
and light well in the Arcade. Battling
for their lives in the narrow dark pas
sageway, whole families strove to
make an exit from the front Of the
building, but were beaten back by the
hot blasts to the windows overlooking
the alley at the rear Of the building
directly opposit the rear walls Of the
New England Furniture and Carpet
company's establishment
Refugees Handed Out BY Firemen.
twenty-five of the refugees were
taken out by hremen who swarmed
ever the rear Of the buildings and
forming living chains handed the wo-
men and children down to the lower
levels.
DR.. Otto Gunvalson and his wife
were awakened IN their apartments on
the third floor by flames breaking
through the transom of their bed room.
IN their night robes they rushed
through the flaming vortex in the hall
and gained q rear window. AS soon
q the window was opened, the draught
created sent the flames from the burn
ing walls through tho opening. Dr..
0unvalson dragged his wife to a ledge,
leaped to q smoking beam that had
been dfslodged from q floor above and
~ws, ti&1 elutcing his terrified