SWALLOWED UP
BY THE FLAMES
Many Brave Firemen Cre
, .mated at Chicago.
THE ENTIRE CITY IM MOURNING
Appalling Sranoa Wltnassad at tha Horn
tag of tha Cold Ktoraga Warehousa at
Jaaksoa Tark Tlio Infortuoat Man
Vavead to Leap to Certain Peath The
Vrlghtful Spectacle Causes Strong Man
to Weep anil Woman to Faint Ilesldes
Tboee Killed Many Are Terribly
Braised and llurnnd.
Chicago, July llThe fear that has
listed tor month In tlia minds of nearly
very citizen in Chicago, fear that none
dared utter to his fellows, but that all felt,
ftonod rciiliz.it inu yesterday in a frightful
holocaust at the World's Fair that claimed
Dearly two score of victims and for a time
threatened the destruction of the entire
White City. Yesterday's disaster was all
the more dreadful because of its sudden
transformation from an innocent flame
fbto a death-dealing catastrophe. Like an
animate monster it enticed Its victims to
the topmost stage of a high pinnacle and
then encircling tha whole shaft in sheet
of flame, held them in a trap until one by
one they fell a sacrifice on the fiery altar
that raged beueuth them while 80,000
people stood helplessly by.
The structure that burned yesterday
afternoon wn by comparison, one of the
amalleet buildings of the Fair. It was
the cold storage warehouse and skating
rmk and was not the property of the Ex
position. It wus a concession and exhibit
el the Hercules Iron Works and Ice and
BafrigeratluK Machine Manufacturers. In
addition to the skating rink, there were
three 120 ton ice innchines and SO or 40
barrels of linseed oil. The oil no doubt
greatly hastened the conflagration and
that the fire was not communicated to the
ether World's Fair buildiugs was due to
the favorable winds.
The scene of horror was witnessed by
many thoustiuds of people and strong men
wept and women fainted as one life after
another was sacriilced within full view of
the multitude but b'yond the reach of
human aid. Within 110 minutes from the
time the fire was generally observed, the
great loss of life occurred.
At the first signal the firemen rushed
np the huge shaft surrounding the smoke
stack, and when at the summit begun prep
arations to fight the flames which had
flxst appeared at this point.
Before the hose could be ooupled a cry
of horror from the crowd below caused
the Axemen to look down and the whole
haft below was found to be encircled in
Same.
Instantly every man realized his danger
bat there were few to find an avenue of
escape. One man suddenly grasped a
rope or hose, and half sliding, half falling,
reached the roof ninety feet below in a
braised and burned couditiion, but still
live.
By this time the crowd below became
wild with excitement, and weeping women
and frenzied men rushed hither and
thither, wringing their hands In anguish
over their inability to render aid.
Suddenly one of the firemen was seen
preparing to jump and every eye waa
inroad upward. lie gave a quick, spas
modic leap and turned over and over half
dozen times before he struck the roof 00
feet below. To the spectators he seemed
minute falling this distance, and when
the body struck the roof with a frightiul
crash and bounced four feet into the air,
groan of horror weut up from the crowd,
from this time the bodies rained from the
steep but innocent steeple, but in nearly
every imtance breath and life had fled
when the victim waa picked up on the roof
oalow. After the first wild leap, one man
4tter another jumped in quick succession
as the flames closed in below and the heae
became more intense.
In nearly every instance the victim
inroad over and over again before he
couched tha ronf and in nearly every in
stance the result of the leap for life was
the same death.
The very horror ot death riveted every
eye to the scene, and while men and wo
men shouted hysterically and wept below,
the guards were almost powerless to keep
the crowd away front danger.
The spectacle of death becume more ter
rible as minutes paused, and for the last
nan on the cupola was reserved the most
oreadful fate of all.
After all his companions had leaped to
apparent death aud as the last man was
aesi'ating, the whole shaft began to trem
ble violently. The lone fireman under
stood aright the ominous warning, and
gave a quick, wild loap.
He was too late. At the very Instant he
prang, the wbule structure gave way,
and this human being, quivering with life
and wildly gruspiDg for support in the an
guish of despuir. wus sueii to drop Into the
dame and fire and finally disappear entire
ly into the roaring furnace helow.
Ilia was a litiul deiith by fire, for the
flames caught him while his wlta were still
een, his mind still active and all his
uses alive to the terrible fate to which he
was doomed
As flretrap the cold storage ware
house could not have been more perfectly
wustructed. The structure was two hun
dred and fifty leet long by one hundred
and fifty feet wide, and was constructed
entirely of wood covered over with stall.
The main body ot the building was live
stories high, lit the centre ot this rose
(he smokestack in the shape ot a cupola
so the top of which was almost 200 feet,
i'he base ot this cupola waa about 30 feet
rfjuare. About SO tent from the )ano of
.his cupola there was a balcony from which
mother square tower uiose culmliutiug in
the mouth of the smokestack where the
are was discovered. The interior of that
wwer and aroui.d the smokestuck were the
wooden beams nnd frstiie wotk on which
ib stall covering was laid.
It was at the top ot this cupola that the
lire was discovered. It is supposed thut
.he frame work around the mouth ot the
auge chimney caught from a defect iu the
tine. At first it appeu.-ed to be un insig
uiflcsnt affair. Ilut, knowing the Inflam
mable nature of the structure, Fire Mar
thai Murphy, who hud charge of the fire
department on the grounds, sent in a call
tor all the companies to turn out.
With about 4'J of his men be climbed the
stationary ladders innMu the tower to the
balcony and from there ropes were low
ered to haul np the hose. Only one boss,
that of chemical engine, Juid boon hauled
p when a-usc of wind caused the flames
to break out In au uiarinlng manner about
ten feet from tho top of the cupola. Bo
sudden and so furious was the outbreak
tnd so terrible was the spectacle that for
trie moment the crowd stood there trans
fixed with horror. Strong men wrong
their hand In a hysterical Atanner and
scores of women fainted. All alike were
powerless to aid the unfortnate men Im
prisoned on the balcony ISO feet from the
ground.
All the ropes save one on the north side
of the tower were burned away in au in
stant. The hose from the chemical engine
withstood the heat, however, and spring
ing forward John Davis caught hold of It
and slid down to the main roof of the
warehouse where he fainted away. His
face and hands were terribly burned by
the flames which enveloped his body as he
came down. Ha will recover. Two of his
follow firemen attempted to follow hiru,
but before they were half way down the
hose gave way and they dropped Into the
seething mans of fire and were lost.
As the hose parted and the men sank out
ot sight in the fire the multitude below
gave utterance to a groan of sickening
horror. Another of the imprisoned men
started down the rope on the north side of
the tower and had almost reached the roof
when it gave way and ha fell on his head
and was Instantly killed.
There now remained, accordlna to the
counts of various spectators from 23 to 80
men on toe tower. They were hopelessly
beyond the reach ot help. The longest
ladder fell short of reaching them bv full
30 feet Death of the most awful kind
was fust approaching. At this terrible
moment Marshal Murphy's tali form and
white helmet appeared In front of the men
who were huddled together on the narrow
balcony.
He appeared to be addressing his brave
followers. What he said will nrobablv
never be known for he alone of all the men
around him at that moment escaped alive,
and his Injuries are such that It is doubt
ful if he will ever recover consciousness.
As he ceased to speak one of the men
crept around the burning balcony to the
east and returned a moment later with a
rope that had been left there In the excite
ment; It was hastily fastened to the rail-
iug around the balcony and thrown to the
root, ins loremast man seized it and
started to slide down but ere be was halt
way the flames rolled ud and ha whs
swallowed into the mouth of tho awful
volcano. Another tried it and met the
same fate. One after another five ot the
men at this moment sprang from the bal
cony to the roof and were killed by the
fall.
The rope was burned off about half wav
down aud it hung apparently useless
ugainst a portion of the wall not yet destroyed.
beeing his men jump to their death the
heroic Aiursuul seized the rope and started
down. A ladder had been raised but was
almost 20 feet away from the end of the
rope.
He dropped and caught on the end of
the ladder, but received injuries which
proved fatal.
A large quantity of Unseed oil was
stored on the top floor and when the tower
fell it crashed through the root to this in
flammable fuel and then the flames rolled
up hi(;h in the air.
Seeing that it was a hopeless task to at
tempt to save the bulldinu aud as all who
escaped alive had left the roof, the firemen
now directed their efforts to keep the fire
from spreading. The World's Fair stables
usr. south of this big warehouse was
burning and the fire had spread to roofs of
several hotels across stony Isle avenue just
outside the grounds.
Y ith a good deal of effort the hotels
were saved but the stables were burned to
the ground. In less than two hours from
the time the fire started the big cold stor-
age warehouse was leveled to the itround.
a smoking ruin.
It is doubtful if any of the bodies will
ever be recovered, so furious and tor rifle
was the heat. The building being of wood
and added to this the barrels of oil made
the fire one of the hottest the department
has ever bad to fight.
A complete and accurate list of the dead
will be difficult to obtain, as many ot the
bodies were entirely destroyed, and not
even the officers of the lira department
will know who of their men are gone un
til after roll call to-day.
JOHNNY GRIFFIN KNOCKED OUT
Tha Callfornlan Tuts Him to Sleep la
Jait Fonr Bounds.
Eoby, Ind., July 11. In the prize flght
last night between Johnny Griffin, the
"Kraintres Lad," and Solly Smith, of Cal
ifornia, the former was knocked out In the
fourth round by a chance blow. The
'mill" was witnessed by fully 7,000 peo
ple, and the enthusiasm was high.
Before the flght wus commenced Jim
Corbett bad a little discussion with Par
son Davles, Jackson's manager, the out
come of which was that Corbett and Peter
Jackson were matched to flght to a finish
for J10.000 a side. There was great ex
citement while talk over this match was
being indulged in.
Cut Down Their Employes Pay. '
Toledo, O., July 11. The Mllburn
Wagou Company, whose works are ,the
second Urgent in the world, Studebaker's
alone surpassing them, has served notice
on its eight hundred employes of a 23 per
cent, reduction in wages. A large num
ber ot the men at once laid down their
tools and walked out, aud yesterday af
ternoon not over a score ot men returned
to work.
Iloth Are Charged With Arson.
Worckster, Mass., July 11. Benjamin
F. Learned of Worcester, ID years of age,
was arrested in this city last even In (i on
the cbarce of setting Are to the Eddy
block at Webster, which was burned with
over $31,000 loss July 4. Emory Law
rence, aged 27 years, of Webster, bus also
been arrented, charged witli the suiue of
fense. Summoned to tiruy Gables,
New York, July 10. Ex-Senator John
J. Klernan, ot Brooklyn, left here on the
the limited train tor Boston lost evening.
It is stated thut he hits been summoned to
Gray Gables by President Cleveland. Mr.
Kiernan's application is now on file at
Washington for the position of Naval
Officer at this port
To be Tried by Court Martial.
Wasiiikqtox, July 11. Secretary Her
bert has directed a court martial to asHam
ble at Mare bland, Cal., on the 20th lust.,
for the trial ot Paymaster J. C. Sullivan,
charged with embezzlement.
Cbarqed With Einbezilamont.
Hvrrxio. July 11. Erin Ontario Van
Brocklin, secretary of the Board of Fir
Commissioners, was arrested Inst evening
charged with embezzling a sum said to be
over 50,000.
More Currency to be Printed.
Wahhinoto, July 11. The Comptroller
ot the Currenoy hasorderod National Bank
Currency to be prints J on account of bonds
duposlted to the amount of $i, 007, 000
sir.ee July UL
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The vitality of the snail is remark
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A Frertch scientist says that an un
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William McGough, of Altoona. has
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Unendurable Suspense.
Visitor Can you read the future?
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Shrewd Niece It's too bad, uncle,
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