Show TWENTY EIGHTMEN WALLED IN BY FIRE BURNED TO DEATH I j Sleeping Quarters Become a CharnelHouse WERE PACKED LIKE SHEEP Steve Set Fir to Shack In Which Mn Were Aslftip PoughtZike Demons toEacaps and i i I R membeiingSavingsought Way Drickand Died J Tohnnlown Paf Nov 21 Twenty eight bodictv i charred andblackened beyond be-yond pojisibllity of Idcntlllcatlon lie tonlghtin he I ruins or what 1was once an Italian lodging shanty located on the line of the Pennsylvania railroad twenty miles cast of this city and threefourths of a mile west of Lilly In addition to tho list of dead there are thlrtytwo men who have been removed re-moved to hospital and several of this number cannot recover The lire started early thlsmornlng while the men were still In bed Them n who escaped from the shanty alive are very reticent about the matter refusing to give any information as to the origin of the blaze According tot the to-t story of one man who escaped the fire started from an overheated stove The stove became rcdhot It Is said and the Interior of the shanty which was lined with InMamrnablo tar paper caught lire CAUGHT FROM STOVE The shanty was ninetythree feet long and about twentyfour feet wide Continued on Page 1a r MEN r BURNED TO DEATH Continued from Page 1 I was occupied by sixtyfive men mostly Italians employed on the Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania railroad Improvements between be-tween Lilly and Portage On each sldo of an aisle which ran down the cente of the structure was t row of bunks three high In these bunks were piles of straw One of the Waterboys em PlaYed on the work said that he was awakened by hearing a man cry out Fire At this time the fire was In the upper end of the shanty only where 0 struggling strug-gling mass of men wore fighting to escape es-cape from the building Awakened suddenly and confused by the sudden alarm the occupants of the shanty were unable to control themselves Some of the men escaped but a few remained asleep In the bunks STRUGGLE FOR GOLD All at once the foreigners on the outside out-side remembered that they had left their trunks in the blazing building Thcn followed a rush of men Into tho building through the lower door oC the building The majority of those who entered en-tered never again saw the outside world Those who strove for the door were In the wildest sort of panic When one man got ahead of another the other pulled him back BURNED TO A CRISP They fought bit and kicked and among those who escaped there are many who bear marks of the llerco struggle One of the witnesses nays ho did not believe that a single mite oC those who went back for his trunk succeeded suc-ceeded In getting out again In the ruins this morning some of tha corpses wero close beside the hoop iron bands of tho trunks and melted gold and silver which had been kept in these receptacles Indicated that the owners had fallen and died with their treasuru In their arms The bodies were all praci tlcally burned to a crisp Peter Con savl superintendent of the coin mlseary said KNOWN BY NUMBER It will bo Impossible for anybody to tell for some days the names of all those who wore burned Tim bosses know them only by numbers I had thelrnames and numbers In my books In the commissary but they were all destroyed de-stroyed There is not the least doubc that several thousand dollars were burned up in the trunks of the men They kept their savings there and I would ay there was some 51000 or 50iK anyhow Many of them had enough togo to-go back to their homes and families In Italy and would aoon have Balled1 |