Show HOLOCAUST sixteen laborers loso lose their lives in the Fla flames illos vyv V U tel to the henain Hn nAin dec 10 10 Newn hns lins come of a terrible and chocking holocaust which occurred at rock cut seven miles from this city this morning about by which sixteen t men were burned to death und a large number fatally burned tho tire fire occurred in a boarding hou house al 31 in which nearly fifty wor workmen kinen emp employed loved at pavis davis island dam boarding LATER this mornings horr horror orcy ox feeds anything in thia this vicinity since lie the collision on oil sti beet between 2nd and and ard 3rd A frame boardinghouse boarding house bouse located on the line of or the pittsburg Pitts bura lake erie II 11 R some seven miles below low this cita was yet set on in lire fire by the explosion of a lamp and of forty persons ex known to be alc slee sleeping pinT only awen ty four escaped alive an and even they were all more or less burned and not one of them succeeded in securing curing ee their clothes eo so rapid was tho the progress of the flames the othera others were literally item roasted to death without a possibility of an effort being made to rescue them the building in which the fire occurred as stated above was located about seven miles from the tile city called cot cut rock wat waa owned baiar by martin joyce contractor but was under the management of a mr kown known as boarding house keeper it was about SO 30 feet wide and 50 feet in I length e n g and constructed of sixteen b boards ards placed on end it had a board roof with very steep pitch and a aloft loft formed by the sloping roof was the place in which the laborers were jlane huddled for the night in the lower etory story was tho the din dining ing room an and d at the end of the building was the tile kitch kitchen en tho the stairs leading to the loft little better than a it ladder and were located just at side of the door leading from the dining room to the tile kitchen chen in the loft bunks were arranged but the only lights which penetrated were two openings without glass but which were closed at night with sliding doors so as to keep out the tile chill of the tile air air in ill this dark loft so some me forty three men were supposed to have slept last night at least that number were at supper last evening and none were reported away when thelious theli alie hour our for retiring came the origin ragin of the flames which wrought such terrible destruction to human life and which caused such agony ony to those who escaped from the deathtrap death trap was the upsetting and explosion of a kerosene oil lamp the story as told by an eye witness of the lire fire was substantially as follows between two and three thia this morning sir kown the boarding house keeper arose and kindled a kitchen fire lie ile left the lighted lamp on ob a table near the door leading to tho the dining room aad and went to arouse his wife wire and aud servant girls while he be was gone an e explosion on occurred and in an instant tile dining I room was filled with the flames mr I kown succeeded in in escaping with iii his wife and girls but could not do more than call upon those up stairs to escape for their lives in another moment the flames had enveloped the stairway thus cutting off all means of escape for the doomed men through the small opening at either end and from those the sliding doors had to be removed the loft was filled with straw and combustible material used in bedding and it was only those who were nearest the opening ripening who could make their exit twenty three occupants in rooms on account of the stifling smoke which came from the horrid flames succeeded in squeezing ali rough h the openings some way with their underclothing on fire nude the others rush frantically about tho the room first to one then to the other their In location cation being known by their cries until the smoke suffocated them and their voices were stifled in less time line than it takes to tell it the building was if wrapped rapped in sheets of fire and the survivors could only writhe in pain in and shiver in the frosty airoff air of ga the farly arly morning As soon as possible word was sent to other boarding houses along the line of work in progress and p physicians were summoned from the neighborhood bor jod and this city special ell engines were sent down the Pitts pittsburg burgt lake erie road and in the meanwhile the shivering creatures were provided with such clothes as could be obtained the seriously injured were brought to the depot on the south side and thence removed to the west pennsylvania sylvania hospital while those who were less seriously burned were removed to the hotel bote I of martin marti n joyce on pennsylvania avenue the scenes this mor morning ning i at the site of the ill fated building were of a s sickening ick ening character in a heap in in one corner of the ruins were the charred remains of six men who had evidently succumbed to the fiery element while endeavoring to escape through the openings in the tile roof among these was the body of patrick foley one of the foremen from the tile best source of information ti on the follow following inq ia is a list of those who are known to be be missing or dead there are others yet to be added to the list patrick foley michael donohue thos foster jas carran jolin john reiley john kennedy jerry hanlon john conners john connaly Conn sly and john duffy among those sent to the hospital are john connelly martin tafley taffey michael morgan hugh me keon I ichael el leonard wro wm barr |