| Show FOUR ND I If I f I N R Rt t SkyScraper on on Fire in Chicago i t WILD WIL F ll i I t BU UT NO ONE WAS D Dt t Chicago Jan J Fir fr out esit to this afternoon in lit tJ the tae M Je a one oco OIl square east at of the Iro Ir js theatre Owing to the fact that upwards of 4 peo Pet people i ipie pie occupy y the offices Mid and stores res in inthe Inthe the giant giam structure 8 the fire caused cau ed great excitement e The series of l 1 the rotunda in the cellar of the tile build lug big continued to run while the smoke and flames issued from front tile the windows in lit the fourth story fo 7 where the lire fire mated Ir The people ople p were removed from the upper floors floor a as ad rapidly aa an pos pee possible sible sibie Great crowds of spectators S quickly surrounded the tho th Teti being Befog Jl tag drawn from the fashionable stopping shopping district dt of ot State street and anI adjoining thor thoroughfares thoroughfares The sight t of o the Ole majestic structure through the clouds of smoke and flames was wu one ODe long lon to he De Quickly Firemen were summoned by lit b an alarm automatically s sent MIlt at in from frees the tile rooms in which the lire Are re began hegan The firemen remen Quickly made connection with the eta sta standpipe in the t Im un Immediately Immedi mediately medi tely ton tong tona of water Seeded flooded the floors where the smoke smelts and d Maze blaze were were thickest The danger d was wa as increased In rea ed by the suspected presence pre of a tRy tit of chemicals chemi whick Occupants de declared declared dared were stored st near Rear the e place where the flames originated orl nate Occupants of ot o the gild warned by Ity the suffocating clouds of smoke that rose rese through b the many mIU stories and aDd penetrated every corridor lost lest no time in making efforts for fer sa re ite e exits Guards weye wee stationed at each eleva elevator elevator elevatOr tor landing on every floor and ad the ue people were hurried from the building Explosion of The origin of the fire was ii t in an ex cx of or chemicals In sit Q oce on the fifth floor fio The explosion wee was a sufficient notice of danger to the oc or occupants occupants of the floors Doors immediately i above and below but was waa unheeded by hun hundreds hundreds deeds of ot other persons in the vast structure who received their warning when suddenly confronted with nth walls waIls wal of dense d nse smoke Flames Flame followed the Ute explosion and na quickly s the floors floers above Men and ud women rushed wildly for Dr the stalin stairs and slid elevators So rapidly did the im ha immense immense mense skyscraper nil 1111 with smoke that the firemen found it almost impossible ble bleto to work ark within the walls wails In a short time tim the fire was raging racing on three floors oora containing many chemical establish establishments moats menu and ad doctors docton offices Further ex cx explosions plo lons were momentarily feared As M Asat Mat Asat at the Iroquois catastrophe Fire Mar Marshal Marshal was wan soon on hand baud and h qu quickly warned his me ine of the Ute danger If Shortly after the arrive arrival of the en engines gines a ladder was raised at the tile south southwest southWest west corner of or the building and a flee fire fireman fleeman man ascended to the fifth floor fleer where whre the Ire fire was waa burning People o oIn In the height het ht of the excitement the crowds in the street saw sw sa a man maR clad cladin cladIn cladin in a heavy beavy overcoat step etsO from the lIre fire escape of the fourteenth floor and d be begin beu begin gin u to descend the building the he elevator men while wh running their machines without ceasing helped to stilt still the occupants From the top floor down the barriers were ere Jammed with passengers H Jt U a num nurn number bee ber t r of women fainted in the ts The flames appeared in the of R laoo t Co of Xray apparatus on Oft the fifth th floor I The explosion lon which was tIM the cau e of at I Ithe I the fire occurred hi J 1 worth wort of va vacuum vacuum I tubes which wore were stored in the 8 eute le Smoke poured out one of t the tile rooms which bleh occupied the entire fAUN southwest t corno corn of the tb skyscraper With almost almo t incredible swiftness very ery floor door of the temple above aboe the fifth was sled filled with dene denle smoke while the lie floors below wet e deluged with water I I Detachments nUl of police pollee Were ere quickly I on hand aiding the firemen in the ef effort effort effort fort to control the fire and calm cala the people Dodged Beams and nd Stones Stun Armed with axes and picks pc Jm the fire firemen firemen firemen men broke doom and ami windows In the tte rotunda at the bottom of the elevator well persons leaving the elevators after descending in time from I Ithe the upper stories were weft obliged to dodge do e heavy heay beams and fragments of stone j jaud I and aud plaster falling failing in t the rotunda from the fifth floor noor and breaking jagged j holes I If in the costly mosaic pavement Thousands of people on OR the street I I watching the tile tire lire were thrown wn into a I panic pank by an explosion w eh threw t a aJ aI J quantity of acid through the Ole windows I I i I sending ending t smarting fluid rushing on the crowds below In the rush for safety an old man men I was thrown down an area way being behig picked up unconscious The tire lIre was I out within an hour bour A number of or per persons persons sons song were injured H B Frt in whose suite the fire originated was fund found unconscious ue on the floor Twelve girls in his employ made their The injured are as a follows LIst of Injured Julius J Ernest Eruest stock clerk elerk for tor Friedr lander hands bands and face burned John Stack slightly burned Henry Buehl slightly burned Walter WaJter Davney laborer injure by b broken glassand g aad burned bout about face Walter Sparker face burned W v C Preston John Sullivan J 7 C U Sullivan John Long i iT T Leonard George Mullet t Fred Lynch John Stearns I Louis Louts Tremayne B Smith M K years Te of age e thrown down own area way by crowd in street op opposite opposite opposite the tire lire taken k Iak to hospital SPItal unconscious scions Bootblack loag Climb I George Gear Asre a barber and aed hT To Ta Tony Tany ny 11 a el eJ down ilow the tile flee fire escape rom Use the nineteenth Jda flour floor of I the temple T When hea the knowledge of Gf tile the fire are re reached the barber ui slop shop o everybody made mad ah a atuk for the t They T wen wese fulL Persons Persona were Weft clambering into lute them tb at a rate that threatened accidents unless the congestion was WU relieved Thereupon poR and the bootblack ran to t the Ute lire fire escape ae e and ad started to climb downward Several ue said SIdd as a awe we passed pa by a Mr smoke rolled Oiled out in volumes volume tIt that threatened to suf suffocate cate f us Os But we knew kaew it was death if we lost our hold and ancl we hung hun oa OIl For a was feared that the water which threatened to flood 1 the basement would put out t the t fires ares in inthe Inthe the boilers bothers and thus stop atop the tale eleva elevators elevators tors tore on which the ibe many y upper floors depended de for toe safety Tho drains were fount found t jun Ui Ie to i the wa war warter water ter tee te ie deYa con COIl to tarunA rune run runAs As e A they t 7 passed pawed the u burning floUr floor they theys I 1 s r it L c 6 7 vere fo t Ji lieal a ana 4 mok swept In ip through the elevators seeking the window at atthe atthe the be rear r which er helf In dear clear clearing r rUte lug ing the Ute ale air The Tha gr at rotunda a shaft abaft with its runways for fee fourteen eleva eeva elevators elevators tors tore made an ideal chimney for the escaping smoke and the elevator men meu for many trips in tn succession suc on were I forced foP to breathe the th sm k an sir Weak and d faint at their levers Jeven how however hOwever however ever they uy aided in the Ute escape of or hun hull hundreds reds deeds of people While men inca and woman n n were fleeing I in wild confusion front froni th the building Lieutenant Commander Joint John P F Laby Luby V U 1 S N thundered Sit It flown down at a I number of j for fG the navy Vy I who were Jl be t before tore fore him in his hla office o l on the h fourteenth Core Coor I IThe The first fi t duty of a 1 t muse or is i to I orders Ordera he shouted d Go on with ith the t examinations The Tit e building is 18 lIre fire ATeI The men nn obeyed They rheY remained at their desks and aDd while hila they the did Aid not bot at attempt attempt attempt tempt to answer aa the t r before them they remained calm cahu aad nad coot coet un UP until I Itil til Ut the fire are wOe was over and nd d other ten tenants tenants ants uta began be n flocking be batik bel to tA the build lug ing W nt nt Back After y yI I Friedlander brother of the head bead of the concern CORee in Whose premises the fire are began was In la this the counting room I checking up the days daes r receipts when hen henan an shouted Fl FI e He Ue a made madea I Ia Ia a desk dash for the street but he recalled ned I that he had left heft l hi in tho the drawer Dampening a he be placed it over hs mouth month ann and In re xe returning turning and getting goetting the toe money lon J Henry Martin a cl pk in the offices of Hirsch A I of Jewelry led tile thai employee of the company down the e t stairs after they had hati placed their books booksin in hi the safe and aa locked the offices Down seven Hven flights the walked making their way as if II in a fire drill c The act is said saki to baTe quieted diet d d those rushing ro bing down behind them and pre pee prevented vented v injury to many people in a rush down clown the stairs Among the Ute concerns damaged by bywater bywAter bywater water and smoke are ate areS ateS areS S B E Grass Co COrl real estate I CoL Co H HL L C Davis Co eo Womans Woman s club Royal Ro League Leacue Knights of Pythias and other fraternal society ty lodge ge halls hails Owing to the extraordinary ory precautions those adopted in Iii constructing the build building buildIng ing In the loss 1055 by fire it is estimated ed will w 1 not exceed aO |
