Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1913-02-03 | Page 1 | Waitresses Save Lives in Blaze at Sacramento

SA Vf LIVES IN BLAZE AT SACRAMENTO J I i our Killed Another Dying and I Ten in Hospital at California California Cali Cali- fornia Capital EXPLOSION STARTS CONFLAGRATION WHILE GUESTS ARE AT BREAKFAST Women Employees Carry Warning to Inmates t L- L and Direct Rescue of Scores From f. f Smoke and Fire j 1 r S Ca Cal Feb Four 2 Four Four persons are known to be dead another is dying ten are in In hospitals suffering from burns or broken bones and the Othe search for bodies continues tonight in the ruins of the St. St Nicholas house which went vent up in flames while some senne of the guests were at t breakfast this morning and find others were in their rooms An explosion of f fumes of oil which had escaped from a defective burner in the basement the first which quickly enveloped the building IJ The dead I I I La r Mint II N Worn orn 47 years old ole I I C clerk cerk for Wells Fargo Express company corn com pany pany an body boy f found und In ruins rutn I r Pehr Albert lb rt 65 65 y years ars old pensioned j P machinist body found I J ruins I t Dunn DUDD W. W J J. J 30 years ears old local manger man man- r ger r Underwood Underwood Typewriter ter company Unidentified body boda found In ruins i I Fatally Injured Protzman engineer back broken Internal Injuries Dunn and aud Protzman jumped from the windows l windows as did Charles E. E Cox minute Jerk clerk of oC the assembly It R. E E. E Can- Can ell elT clerk of ot tho state fish and game lon Ion and m many my others That Tat nearly all of ot the eighty y persons c rooms In the house were not l t to death herO j fork Pork ork of or Miss Frances Rc Reddick and Miss I lary C waitresses who ran brough the tho burning halls awakening awakening- I everyone cr ono and assisting those who were by smoke After dragging to safety Elner Einer who had lied collapsed col- col 1 lapsed within a few teW feet teet of ot the front entrance Miss Redick Reddick rushed back Into linto the burning building aiding alIng and directing directing those who had become confused con- con fused She was Vas rescued by br a fireman when sho she fell tell exhausted Mary lar Court saved sa the little son of I of Mr and Mrs Thomas Driver by I snatching matching him from his mothers mother's arms Mrs Mrs Driver bare barely escaped with her lifer life lire r I Dunn was an artist of ot considerable i repute Ho had drawn a number of ot 1 cOver cover designs used b by magazines and J weeklies of ot national circulation A brother r lives In Denver Dener I The property loss Is about I