Show A STORME WAREHOUSE Wl EHOUSE FIRE narrow escape of the men in the building I 1 THE LOSSES NEARLY A MILLION I 1 pittsburg Pitts burtt narrowly escapes escape s a terrible conflagration A number injured u re d but no lives are lost los t PITTSBURG oct 27 the explosion of a barrel of whisky in the big warehouse ol 01 the chataqua lake ice co company in puny this afternoon caused the des destruction truc tion of nearly worth of property yand and serious injury to eight persons several of the injured it is feared will die A decoro or more of others sustained slight cuts and bruises or were trampled on by t the he mob surrounding the burning buil buildings dings th the fatally hurt are TJ T J martin griffith Grif lith and edovard edward sees the leas less seriously injured are william 00 cox x william smith frank mccann william wisman and john Itei seche when the first explosion occurred the men quickly gave the alarm and started forthe for the stairs but the flames badal had already cut off retreat and the only means of exit left them were the windows fifty feet from the ground the heat beat was so intoner that they were forced to creep out upon the window sills and bans hang by their hands until the fire department arrived they were terribly burned before rescued in a short time the fire spread to the seven story building of the pittsburg storage company ad adjoining adio ining and both structures feet iong long and feet deep are burning fiercely jat at 2 it looked as though the whole block from street to and from pike to penn avenue were doomed and the residents were notified to move out to add to the excitement it was discovered that a large tank of ammonia was located in the cellar of the ice com banys building and the police fearing an explosion quickly ordered the occupants of the houses on street to also vacate all the houses in the neighborhood are cheap class tenements crowded to suffocation willi with polish jews and slavs when they were told to move out a a 6 panic indescribable started among them soon after they got out the wall of the big building was blown out b by the explosion of more whisky stor stored therein n and the debris buried the long row of tenements in the tile alley and a three story brick dwelling on street none of the inmates saved eared any of their furniture the ruins took fire immediately and tor for a R while whilo the entire tenement district of penn avenue was threatened with destruction by the firemen succeeded in drowning out the flames but it was lato late this evening before the tile fire was really under control roT when who 1 the walls of the big building fell the great mob of people made a rush to get butof danger many men tripped and fell and were trampled under loot foot aad and scores of people received sig slight II I 1 t im unes I 1 8 at midnight 1 it t the lie loss was placed at of which w was is sustained by the chautauqua lake ice company gany and by the pittsburg storage forage company president scott of the tile latter litter concern stated that nearly every firm doing business in the down town district of pittsburg had goods stored in their warehouse it ie is thought that all losses are covered by insurance |