| Show f I 1 r 91 11 t 0 D cwm H a 0 DIA or I 1 H 1 t t IN M R PORI or in va L A FM ND I 1 M ea alia frim OZI one of the victims Vidi mems in an effort to so save horses horse sa i I 1 I 1 is cut off aff by hames flame and perishes I 1 1 in sight of S spectators F portland ore feb 12 at least six persons lost their lives in a alre which swept a busy little commercial district at the east end of the morrison street steel bridge spanning the wil jamette river at an early hour this morning nor ning ten or more persons were seriously injured and were removed to hospitals or to nearby resi residences derites the dead nathaniel P young watchman for the east side transfer company and for or the C R davis fuel company harry taylor a boy aged 12 two unknown women two unknown men list of injured 1 1 mrs airs 11 bailey face and hands bands seriously burned i aloyd bailey about 17 years old face end and hands seriously burned mrs airs nettle browne dislocated hip when she jumped from the second I 1 story k walter browne a son severely burned and bruised I 1 mrs nan edmunds fractured several ribs when she jumped from second story also burned about athe aie body mrs airs mac Macl rvin lodging house keeper jumped from second story window back and hip badly sprained R H babcock sherlock mich ilich left I 1 1 hip crushed jumped from second story window fred kruegrr Kru egre detroit left wrist fractured and back sprained jumped from second story A number of persons tare are reported missing the fire started in the mount hood saloon and consumed that place and the lodging house above it in which a majority of those killed and injured were nvere sleeping the loss is estimated at twenty two hor horses ses prop property arty of the T ast side transfer Tra nefer company were destroyed in the fire alre watchman young met eath death T iq in an lerola effort to save sae F the imperiled imperil dd horses borses he had M made several trips into tho the transfer companas comp anys stable endeavoring deavo ring to save the horses when he was wag cut oft off by the flames he mado his way to one of the upper windows which he broke looking out he dav v aved his hands to the crowd belo below and cried good bye boys I 1 cant get out this time and he fell back into the f flames ames the district burned is partly built over a sink and as a the planking along the sidewalks burned the position of the firemen became precarious in endeavoring deavo ring to save some of the lodgers from the rooming house over the mount hood saloon two firemen were overcome by smoke and were saved from death by their comrades |
