Show A anre march 7 the new office of the evening union burned out this afternoon and the blaze was attended with the most sickening horror ever witnessed in this city six of the employees meeting a terrible deatha them jumping from the mill story and being crushed into a B hap elees mass below six others were injured tile fire was first baZ discovered disc overe 11 the mailing broom and clouds of sin 0 ke were pouring out of the ov er st ory windows before fifty souls on tle upper floor were aware of their danger flames shot up the old elevator in the rear shutting off escape by the stairway and most of the em acs who escaped found their w a to the round by way of the roof 1 t alle rear the unfortunate men and women who crowded into the editorial room met a horrible fate the ero plo w bo rushed into the editorial room we cut off tom in the rear and had toe horrible alternative of burning to death or jump to the side wa ik below and sustain rightful mu ti lation the fire department responded promptly but it seem 4 an age be fa re it reached the windows of the fifth caory A ladder was put to the fourth story and the sight of rescue so near deemed to madden the suffering at tile two windows who drop groug ead n succession to the sidewalk be raw six fell in this way some of them forced off and some mad 1 leap ing and the crowd gros 1 W and turned their heads away as they whirled through the air the dead areas follows henry J goulding foreman composing compo room burned to death miss G thompson 0 of reader airs frederick E larryo editorial department fell from window and killed mr lainson Lain zon quebec juniper and killed IV H ovey of booton fell to sidewalk mr brown a the injured are thomas donahue timothy dunn joseph witty ana G F all compositors their injuries are very serious and they may die it is thought the fire started among the lumber a closet on the ground floor the only avail in the mca was an old water can there vi ere no force pumps or fire buckets of any sort A large canvass sheet was ached over the s sidewalk three men jumped on this but broke t brough and fell on the pavement A woman a I 1 s through and landed on the sidewalk in ble joseph landford was standing on the sidewalk at the end of the building furthest from the corner when airs farley fell she fell on his neck throwing him to the gro und senseless airs farley was killed instantly st lanford was soon restored reB to consciousness and not seriously hurt |