The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-06-07
u OTHERS MISSING
ASBLAZE DESTROYS
APARTMENT HOUSE
TWo.Score Others Are Burned
or Injured Following
Mysterious Blast
MANY TRAPPED IN ROOMS
10000 Persons Watch in Hor.
ror as Screaming Figures
Leap From Windows

Cleveland, June 7-(P,-Eleven per-
sons were known dead, IL were miss
ing and almost two score others were
burned or injured in an explosion
and fire which Quilted the six-story
Ellington apartment building in
downtown Cleveland early Tuesday.
Firemen from Is companies hacked
at the still smouldering ruins in
search Of the missing while an IN
vestigation was started into the orig
in of the explosion.
Police and fire wardens reported
they were hampered in their work of
establishing definite casualty list
because the only list OF tenants was
destroyed in the fire.
Cause of the blast was unknown.
The blast was felt over all down.
town Cleveland. A solid wall of flame
enveloped the building, trapping oc-
cupantS in their rooms
Frank Fisher. building Waterman,
informed Fire Warden j. H. Andrews
that tenants in the structure reported
gas odors Monday.
A crowd of 10000 watched in hor-
ror as screaming figures were sill
nouetted against the windows. The
body of an unidentified man hurtled
from the fifth floor to lodge on a
second floor ledge.
Onl0okers Aid Firemen
Onlookers, joining firemen. fought
thef way into the smoke and flames
TO accomplish scores of heroic res
cues. A taxi driver braved death
half dozen times to bring out eight
women.
Mickey Cochrane, catcher for the
Philadelphia Athletics, and Ivan n
Peterman. sports writer for the Phila-
oelphia Bulletin, came from their
rooms in a nearby hotel to aid in the
rescues, bringing three girls down a
ladder to safety.
subsequent explosions hurled glass
ana blazing embers over the crowd
and lgnited awnings a block south on
Euclid avenue.
only Two OF eight bodies located in
tne building had been identified.
CroWds passed through the morr,,e
attempting to identify the other
Probe Incendiarism
Fire Chief James E. Granger said
circumstances Of the blast would pe
1ully investigated as to possible in
cendiarism.
Ihere were about 200 residents in
the apartments. it was estimated by
Ava Bradley. manager Of the M. A
bradley estate, which owns the build
ing.
Most of the victims were in
night clothing. One woman. her
nightgown ablaze, jumped from q
flfth-floor window and landed on tina
roof OF a one story adjacent building.
More than a score were taken IT,
Charity hospital, five of them burned
or cut by glass. Others were given
first aid in the Hotel Hollenden. a
block away. and at st. Josephs ca
thedral house across the street.
The cause of the explosion or where
1t occurred vas not learned.
Chief Granger estimated the dam
age at 100000. covered by insurance.
Damas Desnoyers. an aged resident.
crouched in the window of a fifth
floor room, refusing the pleas to those
below to jump. Finally firemen took
| him down a ladder and then he ex-
planned he would not risk what he
said was a $4,000 Stradivarius by
leaping.
Bradley. who also is a shipping
magnate and owner of the Cleveland
Indians, claimed the loss would ruo
as high as $500,00O.