The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1914-03-09
WOMAN DISCOVERS FIRE.


Fire was discovered by a woman,
who, with an escort, was waiting in
the club lobby for q taNicab. Lookins
out the window. the woman suddenly
saw a great burst OF fame reflected in
a large plate glass window across the
street.
She and her escort rushed to Night
iClerk Jack. RciSinger. and the boy
telephone operator Norman Roe
shouting the alarm.
CALLED ss ROOMS.
Roe rang the telephone of ninety
eight rooms before washed from his
switchboard by the fire Nlosc.
Reisinger. no less heroic. rushed in
to the basement turkish bath estab-
lishment and aroused the attendants
and hathers all Of whom arc believed
to have escaped.
Reisinger then rushed for the reg
ister of the club. but the flames cut
him off from the desk in an incon-
ceivably short time.
DRIVES THROUGH FUNNEL OF
FLAMES.
Failing in this. Rcisinger jumped
into the elevator. drove it through a
funnel of flames to the fifth floor
where he awakened and assisted Man
ager Masill and Mrs. Magill i'm rous-
ing guests.
Mrs. Masill and her husband per-
sonally aroused men in thirty-cigh.
rooms.
FLAMES SHOOT FROM WINDOWS.
When Battalion Chief Luckers' au-
tomobilc slid to a halt in front of the
club, he said he found the flames
shooting out OF the second and third
floor windows like from the blast of
a furnace. The floor above the clerks
desk and lobby had caved in. but the
have been blown upward, indicating
All explosion.
WALLS TOOPLE EARLY.
Walls on the fifth to seventh stories,
with floors, began topping and cav
ing within short time after Lucker
led his men up the scaling ladders.
Men jumped from windows in night
clothes, but each time the fremen
spread the life nets, they We're sud-
denly driven hack by falling walls. and
Il number of them suffering broken
legs and arms, and other injuries.
FIGHT LIKE TIGERS.
uc llISiilGii !ouSuA lke tlSerS. now
ever. and refused to he driven back,
except for moment at the time.
They carried leads of hose to points
where men. running down fire cs-
capes. had been caught by the fur
mace of fire at the third floor
Shouting directions and encourage
ment through megaphones, tho fire.
men played streams of water on tho
trapped men until. veritable moving
fountains, the club guests descended
the scorching escapes through streams
OF water TO safety.
MRS. MAGILL NEARLY DEAD.
Mrs. Magill, the heroine, with her
arm broken and her bod swathcd
from head to foot in cotton. and her
hair burned of, is at the hospital, it
was learned. She had rushed back
into the fire and rescued maids from
the servants quarters.
NAY REQUIRE DAYS.
The exact number IF dead within
the ruins may not be known for sew
eral days.
The one hundred and thirty-flve
persons, nearly all we'll known bust
ness and professional men. were s reg.
!stered at the club.
AL oHACAS SeAGS EeIeI committee of
club executives and city officials took
up headquarters at the Press club in
an endeavor to determine the total
death list.
BLAZE rs SPECTACULAR.
The spectacular blaze attracted
thousands of residents from their beds
to witness heroism bordering on su.
perhuman, exhibited by the city fire.
men, club servants and club guests.
HEROIC EFFORTS.
In response to general alarm, chief,
battalion chiefs, lesser officials of the
fire department. personally led their
men in frensied attempts to reach
burning people on the two upper
hoors OF the seven story building.
I With heat-crased club guests
jumping from roofs and upper moons,
reckless fremen dashed under fallin9
walls and erected scaling ladders n
frantic endeavors to sat help to the
victims trapped in the appsr aoors.