Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1910 — 12 PERISH IN CHICAGO FIRE [ARTICLE]

12 PERISH IN CHICAGO FIRE

Explosion Starts Flames in a Big Furniture Store. The Ilves of twelve men and women were lost in a fire in the L. Fish & Co. furniture store, Nineteenth street and Wabash avenue, Chicago. One of the victims, a girl nineteen years of Age, jumped to escape the flames, but was sc badly Injured when she struck a glass awning on the Wabash avenue side of the building that she died soon after being taken to St. Luke’s hospital. Miner W. Bell, one of the department managers of the company, and H. M. Mitchell, auditor of the firm, and a brother-in-law of Isaac Fish, were burned to death. They gave their lives in efforts to save the girls who were trapped by the flames.

The fire started from an explosion. It burned for three hours, threatening to sprpad to other buildings adjoining, but was extinguished. Following is the list of the dead: Ethel Lichtenstein, twenty years old; Mrs. Hannah Burden, thirty; Ethel Anderson, eighteen; Rose Brunske, seventeen; Henry M. .Mitchell, forty; Miner W. Bell, thirty-eight; Bert St Clair, twenty-eight; William Green, twenty-four; Veronica McGrath, seventeen; Mary Wargo, twenty; Gertrude Quinn, twenty Lily Sullivan, sixteen.