| Show I fi CNCINn HORROR Destruction of a Large Printing Establishment Es-tablishment by Eire z The Terrible Leaps or Jirl Employes From the Fifth Story Seventeen Dead Bodies Already Taken Prom the Huins Five Girls Fatal Jump CINCINNATI May 21t the fire this afternoon in Sullivans printing establishment establish-ment No 19 Sixth street eight girls and women jumped from the fifth story to the sidewalk and fivo of them are dead CINCINNATI May 1 L fire on Sixth street this afternoon caused THE DEATH OF SEVENTEEN PEESONS It was at first thought only the women who jumped from the fifthstory window were killed but when the fire was subdued so that the firemen could enter it was found that fifteen dead bodies lay in a heap on the fifth floor and one on the fourth There were six who jumped from the window and were killed and one man after saving the lives of two women by letting down a ropo from the roof was himself Idlled by tho burning of the same ropo before he reached the ground This was Mr Sullivan brother of i the proprietor of the printing works The fire originated by tho EXPLOSION OF A GASOLINE STOVE On the ground floor The flames entered the elevator chute which is near tho stairway stair-way and all chance of escape was thus cutoff cut-off The killed were mostly employes of the dye works which occupied a portion of the building In addition to the list of those who were killed by leaping from the fifth story ELEVEN MORE COUPSES WEKE FOUND Inside the building and tho search is now being prosecuted The fifth story was completely com-pletely burned out but the wall is still standing The mass of telegraph and telephone tele-phone wires prevented tho firemen from putting up the ladders promptly for the relief re-lief of the inmates |
