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Show DIED TO SAVE HIS COAT Workman in Chicago Factory Perishes Girls Punlc-Strlckcn. CHICAGO. July 1. After having an excellent opportunity to escape the Ilames which yestorday gutted the three upper floors of tho factory building at 4b4-46S Carrdll uvg.uo, Tony Grlzello returned to the blazing building for an old coat and was burned to death. His charred remains were found a few minutes min-utes later by firemen who had hurried to his rescue. Tho fire, which caused a loss of nearly $60,000, created a panic among the hundreds of employees of the building, and several girls employed by the Cruv-or Cruv-or Manufacturing company on tho sixth fioor, were overcome by the smoke and were with difficulty taken to tho ground by means of tho fire escapes. Girls Cruwl Across Ladder. At tho first alarm Eva Dahn, Ida Don-n,er Don-n,er and Nellie Richardson, who were employed on the top fioor of the building, build-ing, hurried to mako their escape. They reached the fourth fioor in safety, but were headed off by the flames and finally reached a place of surety by crawling across a ladder to a neighboring roof. Tho fire was first discovered shortly after tho noon hbur. and a 4-11 call brought twenty engines to the scone. It was found Impossible to do moro than confine tho flames to tho upper stories of tho building, occupied by tho Chicago Matt Board company and the Cruver Manufacturing company. The lower threo floors, occ,upleu uy v-hurcnui & Spaulding, steel furniture manufacturers: manufac-turers: the JiyoHtlnghouse Electric company com-pany and a portion of the plant of the Matt Board company, escaped with little lit-tle damage. Tho police and fire officials have boen unable to find the cause of tho fire. The flames started on the fourth fioor, and preceded by a denso smoke quickly pained a foothold on the fifth and sixth fipors. Girls Panlc-Strlcken. Many of the girls employed by tho Cruver company became panic stricken and mado a rush for the stairways. Those wero found to bo Impassable and aided by the firemen they climbed down the fire escapes. Grlzollo, who was foreman in the toolroom tool-room on tho top floor of the building, was one of tho first to reach tho flro escape, but remembering a coat which he had left In the toolroom he returned to get it. The" flames mounted rapidly and his escape was cut off. Tho building was valued at $1,)0.000 and Its contents at 560.000. Tho loss Is fully covered by Insurance. |
