People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — SIX ARE DEAD. [ARTICLE]

SIX ARE DEAD.

Fatal Result of a Detroit Fire Nine Sii Others Injured. ,(•] Detroit, Mich., Oct. B.—Six dead and nine injured is the record of the fire which destroyed the furniture store of Keenan & Jahn at 7:30 a. m. Friday. The fire was discovered in] the shipping room in the basement at the back of the store. An alarm was promptly turned in, but by the time the engines arrived the fire had gained considerable headway, having run up the elevator shaft, and the entire upper floor was a mass of flame and smoke when the first stream was thrown. There were sixty employes in the building and most of them had great difficulty in escaping. The building, an old five-story structure, was soon gutted and the stock ruined. At 9 o’clock the front wall of the building tumbled into Woodward avenue. It came in the shape of a collapse, and the mass of debris did not spread beyond the curb. The firemen working in front of the building were warned and retreated as rapidly as possible. Some got out from under, but a dozen or more were unable to do so on account of the piles of brick, glass and burnt timbers.