People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — SIX BURNED TO DEATH [ARTICLE]

SIX BURNED TO DEATH

FATAL EARLY MORNING FIRE AT DETROIT. Case’s Livery Stable Destroyed by Flame* —Valuable Horse Burned to Death—I *40.000, with About One-Half. Insurance. Detroit, Mich., July 10. —At 2 o’clock this morning Are was discovered in the livery stables of G. F. Case, 41 West Congress street, a big four-story brick structure. All of the employes were lodged and fed in the building. On the fourth floor were sleeping accommodations for twenty-five men. How many occupied beds is not definitely known, but five charred bodies are now at the morgue awaiting burial and one other person is missing. There were many narrow escapes and heroic rescues by the firemen and police. The dead: JOHN SHAW, driver, 35 years old; came here from Canada. JOHN BOWMAN, second cook, aged 20; formerly of Bay City. THOMAS WEBB, painter, aged 55; came here from London, Ont. EDWARD HUGHES, hostler, aged 28. JAMES R. SHAW, aged 26. CHARLES DAVIS, barn man; missing. About eighty horses were stabled in the basement, all of which were taken out, with the exception of A. A. Graves’ Ethel G., valued at 81,000, and one of less value. Many vehicles of all descriptions, together with harness and other livery appointments, were destroyed i . James Cummings, aged 18, a stableman, reached a window on the top story, but was overcome by the smoke and flame and fell headlong .through the window to the street. He was so badly injured he may die v The total loss will reach $40,000, partially covered by insurance.