Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1908-02-05 | Page 2 | Upper Stories in a Blaze

UPPER UPP R STORIES IN A BLAZE hALE Many Lives Endangered by lire Fire in Wolff Office O ce Building in Chicago One Man Fatally Burned d Chicago Feb 4 Fire this afternoon In the upper stories of ot the Wolff of office office office fice building 91 1 Dearborn street threat threatened threatened threatened ened serious loss of at life and the fate of those on the seventh and eighth floors was not known for tor a time The fire was finally brought under control with loss W G Stewart was WIlS caught by the flames on the seventh sev nth floor and was wasso wasso so FO badly burned ha hI probably will die Mrs Mary Bachman employed in an office on the seventh floor was over overcome overcome overcome come by y smoke and was waa carried out by Fire Chief Horan Hran Carl and V A Murrell who occupied offices s on the eighth floor loor were caught by the flames and were wore unable to reach re ch the th elevators or stairways They tied a number of ot ladders used by the Janitors together and threw them across a alley to the building east of at the I building Then they together with a aman aman aman man whoso whose name has not been learn learned ed crossed on the ladders to the roof of at the other building and escaped The fames attacked the Chemical National building which adjoins the Wolff building but were extinguished after atter a sharp fight