| Show LIRE IRE I REIN IN THE HEART OF PHILADELPHIA wenty four People Lose Their Lives Many More ore Seriously if Not Fatally Hy Hurt The Loss ss is 9 Philadelphia Oct O t fire firo In which Ic c police suy seventeen persons peron lost lives many moro morl mot u were ere seriously lid id p fatally occurred day ia a In tho heart ot of t the business sc in n of at If the city lt The build g i at 1219 and 1221 Market street op o pled ired by Hunt Coup Co up and furniture dealers and fo 0 unoccupied buildings at 1223 and andu an u 5 Market arket street Were vere destroyed luny other buildings were damaged d I the loss la 13 estimated to tobo bo be upwards t OOOO fhe he e tire fire blurted at nt 1080 It Is sup supe St e d to have ha a b n cu by an nn ex eJ talon slun of ot benzine pr or naphtha which Mh th h other material used In tho thu th manu Iture ture ot or furniture was stored In tho thu ar The shot hot up p the tho elevator ft rt and In lew le than five ilva iry ry Inu C 00 of ot the nino floors of ot the tho was ablaze A WILD RUSH hero itero were cro 20 men and men at work vork in III the different do f 1 meats at tha tho to time on the ond hour floor were the th first to see roe the thu wf wIld d dEh ijES es instantly there thero was waa a 0 Eh hi h for thy tho tire but owing to tog highly inflammable nature of or the tho g ut UE a by b w the thu firm the tho blaze blare ead with remarkable rapidity deal den death to the unfortunates as they de do frantic but efforts Escape One woman leaped heaped trout from ono one the he top floors Into Market t street and andI I Instantly Another was vas ned fed to death w I she he was WIlS descend the the tire escape In the hie rear tel of ot the Tiding hung Two others either Jumped or o from tram the tire escape and yere we wed were ed d Flo others who leaped from dows were vore picked d up Jiving but they the theyon Tori on ri the way to the tha hospital BURIED UNDER RUINS lie tile the th fire firo escape was filled with wih stricken men inch and women women the th hall ball halle Il balliett e iett d end and eight persons are ura known Ive Ye a been burled In lii the ruins A mutes later Inter the front wall wal fell tel felland d and It Is ii II not ot t known whether dies edles are oro under t It If I such Is In the theS he S e persons were probably burned h ith th before the wall wal collapsed n the th firemen firem n reached the rear of tIding which faces facos on Commerce e esmal L a small thoroughfare they found reet real smal literally plied IU up with wih vie ho had leral been beep carried down by the thel l wall wail al were cre hastily con conI cn conto I to the te nearest hospital FIRE B UNDER CONTROL FIE the fire fr is still tl burning der control new flew W building at 1217 1 t street as yet pre pro the spread of the to the tue rd In II which direction ton they were by the wind wi 11 Otherwise today 4 fely Iy b Philadelphia would have wit wita the great tire In Its history a nl at business bune s houses on the south of ot Market street were badly ed d I but not seriously burned bUm YE D WITNESSES STORY V witnesses say the tho lames spread rapidity owing to Act ct that much naptha varnish other ther highly Inflammable al was wal as used by the firm Em who started down the lire Ire eg us n II n the rear tar of or the building before 4 mes es were vere visible isible from the tho street compelled m ele to Jump before they two stories Morten because of or the tho I breaking through h tho windows t fire who arrived devoted en r lel entirely to 0 the work of ot C Nets ets were spread In II the tho front rear ar r of ot the and sonic some who wh d were saved In this way waymen I o men one white and one colored from and andOn red cd d the fourth story M On n the fire seano with wih the th flames fame und them The white man mand d Alp up p and ond down and Appeared to reft of his reason renson The colored tood for tor a n few fw seconds s and then to his hil death below The white L t stood on the tire lire lin e until ho he was wn overcome and ana then fell Cel to hl bI d oth othIn ath athin In the There was no fire firo escape on n the tho front of ot the building anti and all ni rushed madly to the he rear STATEMENT An of ot Hunt float Co made the following statement The Tho ho fire tre started d In 11 the basement at atthe atte the tM bottom of or the th new freight elevator shaft ahlf Workmen were ste employed ad adJoining Id Joining adjusting tho tile mechanical ap It being heing Intended to start the tho elevator today toda Tho first any of us on ori the tha ground floor knew of ot the fire ro was WIlS wa when a 1 sheet sl et of leaped upward through the th shaft Ev Every Every ery cry one at nt once rushed r out tho the rear r ar There had bad been on explosion lon Almost Instantly they the names lan s spread throughout the building and there th ro was 10 0 possible means men ni by 3 r which the people on the upper doors could escape except b by jumping Prom Front ti the rear of ot tho the building tiding nil ni the women and men m n employed in the tho cut cur curtain tain and drapery finish department In Inthe II inthe draper the seventh l floor leaped to the ground All Al were ivero more mor or r less Injured some fatally fatali One woman leaped Ical ld from a win window windo window dow do fell f 1 astride of t an polo poll and her body ody was born almost In half The Tho corpse corpe lump hung hu In n the air many minutes before the firemen rould recover it I The dense smoke was Wi responsible for forthe forthe forthe lives Fromen stood I the loss of ot some lel on the pavement with life nets spread prell ready to catch cAch those thoMe who Jumped but both victims and lifesavers were so ao blUnted blinded they could not nt see cuch other Director of Public Safety English was faS faSone one of ot the first rt on wi 01 the scene directing th the work ot of rescue He lie le expressed the fear teM tint bodies boies are burled in inthe Inthe inthe the center tl ot of the ruins and he believes it will J be days bet re all 01 the bodies are arere re red NEW ESTIMATE I OF OP TIlE THE TiE DEAD At 2 reports from various sources led le Director Directo English to esti estimate mate the tho number of ot dead at nineteen No attempt to search the ruins can cami cal be made before tonight t The largest retail stores store of ot the city are located in inthe Inthe inta the ta neighborhood of ot the fire fre and thero there was wag great grent excitement In all au ni these thes places Until the tho th walls wals of of Hunt W WInson WI Wit Inson Company establishment fell el It that no power could stop the spread of the tho flames At John ohn W hun hundreds hundreds ot of men manned the fre apparatus and stood od ready teady tead to tob battle tte the flames lame that It threatened that IH I IOther Other ordered the female remola em I to their homes bomes and the th men hlen got git the he books and ant records to places e of ot safet I The of the tha Philadelphia heading railway at at elU and Mar Market ket ker ke streets ono one OU of or f the th largest In tha country was right In ha the Ue track of or the I fire fro and aM efforts ot of a portion of the fira department were directed to saving this structure After Ater th ti walls fell tel the flames name sub subsided subsided sided and the tM surrounding property pr t erty wan wal wa saved UNIDENTIFIED BODIES DODIS Shortly Shorty before 3 S the men at nt work In the th four tour bodies boies that could co ld not be Identified It I was at 3 i oc k that tont twenty four are known to be dead Only three have hav been Identified as 1 follows IDENTIFIED Susan Busan Gormly aged age 12 42 2 years died at atho hospital ho Fred aped aged n el JO SO died die on onway onway way B to hospital hospital Henry A at Sparrow Spa r I died on way WiY to TILE THE TiE Dolly Doly Cramer supposed to be killed INJURED William Shields foreman tor man manot of ot engine company No 17 1 blown off or ladder concussion ot of the brain twenty scalp wounds condition critical Joseph Toner hoseman of at engine company Na No No 13 n Inhaled smoke serious At tt t one hospital three men men a n woman and a boy lie le unconscious and not Vet et Identified |
