Show DIED IN I THE FLAMES t A Fatal Fire in the Minneapolis Tribune Building SECRETARY WISDOMS DECISION 1 Concerning Government Honey In National Banks The Case Against Powderly Dismissed Dis-missed Elaine 1 BetterSchurz 1U MzNAroLIs Nov 30A fire was discovered dis-covered on the third floor of the Tribuue building about 1045 tonight and soon the entire building was wrapped in flumes On the seventh floor were situated the many offices of the Tribune staff of editors v reporters and compositors A number of j employees in attempting t escape jumped from the windows and a number of lives were lost At midnight seven bodies had been taken out of the ruins The only one yet identified is that of Prof Olsen of Vermillion Ver-million university Dakota who had gone t see a friend He jumped from the top of the floor and was instantly killed 1 a mrhe number of lives lost i over half adozen and possibly ten or more The building is an eightstory one at the corner cor-ner of First avenue and Fourth street It is occupied by the Tribune and Star evening even-ing edition of the Tribune Minneapolis office of tho Pioneer Press and the Evening Journal and besdes a lar o number of other offices The Tribune editorial edi-torial force is on the seventh floor and their composing rooms above it On these two floors tnere were nearly oneS one-S hundred persons employed when the fire broke out Access to the building is byway by-way of an elevator around which a narrow aud dark stairway wound At night this stairway was the only means of ingress or egress The building might be cailod a veritable fire trap and the dinner to those located there has often bjen commented uiiou The fire broke out of the third floor and soon the upper floors were cut oil from the street The 100rs ol b lilding was on a corner and the adjoining buildings were only one story in height so no means of escape were offered in that direction as the flames cut off the escape of the Planter Press force on the sixth floor as well as the Tribune folks on IF the seventh and eighth floors Reporter Barnes of the Pioneer Press had a narrow escape from the building and left behind f him Milton Picket assistant city editor t lg fJ ai f ifl and one of the oldest men in the service of the paper Picket was lost in the burning burn-ing building Tee Tribune force suffered most they being located higher up and had less warning of their danger James F Igoe night operator for the Associated As-sociated Press met with a sad death He was at work on the seventh floor when the report of fire was received and immediately imme-diately opened the key stating the fact to the head office at Chcago and asking for a minutes time t investigate Soon he returned turned to the instrument apparently thinking think-ing he was safe and told the sending perator to continue In a moment he said he would have to skip and found it w as too late and that escape was cut off He jumped from the seventh story window and was so badly injured that Le died before be-fore reaching the hospital He leaves a family Oli man Pierce aprinter was also killed but up t midnight only six bodies have ben taken from the ruins which were then falling iu Those known to be dead arc Assistant City Editor Pickett W E Milesagent of the Associated Press James F Igoe Associated Press operator John Olsen president of the Vermillion Dakotu college Mary Caldwell McCutch son and Pierce printers Sparks are flying in all directions and the adjoining buildings occupied by a saloon sa-loon restaurant and tailor store are doomed The Tribune building i twenty five years old a brickstructuro and valued at 300000 The loss will probably reach a million dollars |