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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1908)
i TIIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 26, 100S. TRAGEDY'S MOVING SCENES pathetic Incident! Illumined by the riamei at Chelsea. STORIES PULLED FROM THE RUINS Caaaffear. roreea with a Gm U Aged Wmm Salrlde ef aa laknowa Man A Refege i ' tot Cats. ' Column! and column of newa of the Chelsea (Mass.) fire have been printed In 'the various pspers since the flames swept ;the city, April 11 but In the crush of reg 'ular news matter many amusing and 'touching- Incident which happened during rthe fire and which In many caaea Illustrate forcibly what the situation really waa and what people there had to go through have been crowded out and have until now only 'been told by word of mouth. I-, There are thousand of atorlea (all true ;'torle. too. for there la no cauae for tx s&ggeration, the truth being atrange and Inconceivable enough), which are being re lated of the trials and experiences of the tiefugees. myit of them being repetitions i atorlea of tnelr narrow escape, futile at tempt to aave their property In their I pockete or In trunka and of then watching . their houses burn from a distance, power Se to do anything to help atop the flamea. Nothing ha been printed of the desperate unknown man, one who presumably had IUn humed out of home and who com' Emitted suicide near Union park, the open plot near the Chelsea railway station, while : .L. nl the fire wa raging it way tcrow ma ' Several person were In or near the park at the time and witnessed the trageay The smoke wa pouring all about the square and the flamea were beginning to . leat Into the building bordering tne square .The heat wa Intense and flying ember .and cinder were falling everywhere. The air waa yellow and oppressive with the amoke and heat, and everyone waa hurry ing to get out of the path of the flames -aave one man. He stood on a corner, downcast, sad mlnrlv unmindful of the onrushtng xdanger. Several shouted to him to hurry wway or he would be run down by the fire, 'but he paid attention to no one. At times ( he. waa hidden by a cloud of dense amoke that the high wind drove down Into the 1 nnar ana when It was cleared away he waa- seen, still standing there. .. The last person that were able to get through the auare before the flamea wept across It ' saw the man raise hla eye to the heat ! wave above him. Slowly he put hi hand 1'into one of hla hip pockete and drew forth a revolver. A few caught eight of thla a they were running acrosa the square, I but none could reach hla aide before he ! placed the revolver at hla forehead and fired. He fell, and a no one could In safety atop, the body, lay there until the, j flame reached and consumed lu j Force to Rave Wo ma a ! A young man was standing on Arlington iatreet aupportlng hla aged and lntirm I mother. They had been driven from their .home by the flame and he had halt car rled. half dragsed her as far a he could ,untll hi strength ?ft him. Tongue of fire '. were' leaping vet their head an-1 the old 'woman waa half unconsclou from the oppressive heat. Death stared them both , In the face. An automobile came along !nd the young man hailed It. The driver stopped" and the young man asked him' If ihe would Uke htm and hi mother to i . . . ... . ... i place or earety. i nave io w v""-"""-. my pay received last night, and every cent I have In the world, but you can nave it If you will save ua. I would give you 530 If I had It. but 115 U all I have. The chauffeur calmly announced that he couldn't accommodate thtm unles he g1ven $:s. f Another man who had been hurrying by had stopped to ee it he could be of help to the mother nd her son and heard the ,'tfcmand .of the automobile driver. , Whlp jp'ns out a revolver, which he had taken jfnm his bureau drawer when the fire is,- him from hi house, he leveled It t' - flrlver1 head. Tou take thla young -ii h! mother wherever they want I'V-i. and at the eame time directed the ' ; ' ' ' ret Into the machine.- !'"" with the gun climbed in also, ' -eplng the driver covered with the ., an the time, compelled hint to - them all ouUlde of the fire limit. -r- they reached thl safe apot he V"""1 " th younar man and aald, "Now, , vni; give that driver a d d cent," j-iwi l e didn't. ' - I a valid Walks a Hilt.' , fThe impression that roost people living I'D the path of the fire had that the flamea i would bo" subdued ' before they reached them resulted In many narrow escapee, Jn laamuch a these people didn't leave their 'homei until the last minute. In a house on Walnut street lived on elderly woman, who ; had been practically bedridden for months. She mi able to alt In a chair for awhile leach Hay, but she hadn't walked the lengfa ',of her houae lu. a year. ' It had been the eurtom for her r.ttendanta Ifo bathe her about noon each day, and Sun .'rty, about, that hour her .bath waa pre pared, when It waa noticed that the fire vhad reached threatening proportions. It was decided, however, that inasmuch as i the city had rever been burned up before, and that all big fire are put out, that the - house was safe, and the woman waa placed In the bath. In the midst of the bath It ' was discovered that the house was afire. ." the Invalid was snatched from the bath. 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Obs Eyelet TU la Tsa HXY combine the gr.ee of tbe pump with the sue of tbe exHd. The one cyel.t rlbboa t i. kwos tbe shoe snugly in il.ce sod yet does Bet bind th. foot. Askyeur dealer. , wrttc fur eur "Style Bctt" oux Ait Style Book. C Cioulan & Co. , St. tmmU V.. A. TisGolzinnSIioe Tits llaa Your rtflat' 3 How. the. Fire Spread. The suddenness with ' which the flamea pread over the city and Jumped about ' from place to place, skipping- some houses and then spreading- back, waa illustrated in countless ways. One man on Fourth street waa doing a. bit of painting about his bouse, having forgotten, perhaps, that It was Eunday, and to do the work had clad himself in a pair of old overalls, a dirty jumper and a cap. He aaw the fire loom ing up pretty big from hla window and he went to the street to have a look at the prospect. When he reached the sidewalk he saw neighbor a short dlatanee down the street trying to quench a fire that had caught on hla piasxa. and the painter ran down to help him. They wdrked aeveral minutes, but could not ave the house, and as it. bad become very hot by that time the painter hurried back to his house to get ready to move some things. When he got there flamea had such a hold on his house that he couldn't get Inside the door and he had to run, clad In hla overalla and Jumper, to save hla life. One pair overalla. one juniper, one cap, one pair old shoes. and one suit underwear, are his assets today. " - Another man left his house, which waa then apparently aafe, to go down to see the fire. He had on a smoklrg Jocket and cap. He watched the fire Increase for a while and finally came to the conclusion thai It was bound to take In moat of the city, and to he hurried back to hla home, only to find it In ruins. The blazing brands had Jumped over hla head and burned ahead of him. Many men who had left their homes In this way to go and wtch the fire were later unable, when they started back to their homes, to get through the Are lines to help their families. tfclldr All Afire. Another woman had a( most trying ex perience. She waa doing aome work in her bedroom upstairs, and dressing, and didn't know bow rapidly the fire waa approaching her room. When she had fin tshed she went down staira and found sis children that had been left there by a couple of neighbors. The neighbors had taken them In there for safe keeping white they fought the fires In their homes, and had finally been obliged to run, leaving the children there. The woman In whose house the children had been left had to make her way, unassisted, paat the bla' ing houses lth tbe six children, all the while alapping at the flamea that caugli on her dress and the clothing of the clill dren. The children were frightoned, and she waa nearly distracted, but she man Aged to get to a place of safety with no more injuries than scorched cheeks and singed hair. People In their haste saved everything but what they really aUhed afterward they had . saved. Some grabbed picture from the walls, another grabbed a U!n, another a book, and so on. Once In , i while someone took the thing he or sti realty wanted to aave. Marjurle Sakeman daughter of Rev. F. W. Bakeman, when she came to leave her houae, thought -of her handsome new white dress In whlc aha waa to appear at a iosi-crt vn. Thoughts of b'r inevitable disappolDtmen on the nllit of the concert if she should not have that white dress loomed in front of her, and she saved her dress, and noth ing else. ' A man on Chester avenue was far-sighted enough to pack three or four trunka, and in the face of the oncoming tide of fire, dragged them over Into the Garden ceme tery and atowed them in the lee of a tomb. After the fire had swept over the place he hadn't the slightest hope that his stuff waa aafe, but when he went to investigate, there were bis trunks safe and practically untouched In the ice of the tomb. Cata and a Con. A STUDY OF THE Oil AH AS Alice Fletcher's Eesearches Among Nebraska's First Families." HISTOEY AND BF.TXF.rS OF INDIAN3 As the fire was enveloping the buildings on Broadway, near Chelsea square, a police. man who was standing near by keeping the crowd back heard a heartrending yell Issu ing from a bull ling that was about all gone except the walls and roof. The po liceman started for the building wondering all the while how anyone could have lived so long In that building. Again the shriek came and just as the policeman waa telling some one to hurry to the station for a life net he saw a cat, without a strand of hair, and with much less of a tall that she had dragged about previously In the day, leap from a third-story window of the blazing building to the street. The cat disappeared in the crowd, still shrieking in most human tones. Speaking of cats, there is a whole staff of thetn in the clerk's office in the court house building that have sought refuge there. One man devoted all his energies and risked his life to lead his cow from the flaming city. The cow was his principal asset and part of his means of support, and he made no attempt to save anything except the animal. It was with the great est difficulty that he managed to get her out of danger, too, for the poor animal waa so frightened that ahe refused to move at timee, and when the man and hia charge reached the ferry, which was still running. he was worn out. An immense throng waa crowding the ferry slip, enough to crowd a dosen boats, but wheVi the gatea were opened the man and1 hla cow were pushed aboard and secured a footing on the boat under conditions most uncomfortable to both of them. The crowd for ihe moat part was good natured and began to chide the man about hla cow. They pushed about him and asked him all aorta of vexing . questions. The man took all this bantering aeriously and finally remarked that he "had brought the cow out of h I. but had sot ber into a worae place." A story is being told of a man who waa staring In amasement from the window of a H. & M. train that had just stopped at the Chelsea station. The man waa on hia way to Boston from some district so re mote that be had heard nothing of the Chelsea fire. When the train atopped at the elation he saw other passengers craD ing their necks to ace the sight and he looked out. He bad never seen such a slglit before and couldn't understand it. Neither could he understand why an express train should stop there. He raised the car nrindow, - stuck hia head our and asked of a man standing by the track: "What do you call this bleak, dirty, burned-up, barren, godforsaken place, anyway?" The man spoken to had a sense of humor left even If he had lost everything else by the f're, and in a for. iorn tone replied: "Well, that's god enough; let it go at that." Boston Globe. Aa Explanation of Endeavors Leading; I'p to tbe Da we. Bill of 1880 An Iudiaa "Tom Brown of Ruaby." advent of the whites. Mies j tho Severalty act of lRS9-known as the " A volume shortly to be published by the bureau of ethnology at Washington em bodying the experiences and researches of Miss Alice C. Fletcher of Cambridge among the Omaha tribe of Indians, is certain to be of very considerable general Interest throughout the United States, as well as of particular concern to the region In which the Omahans have been settled since long. before the Fletcher, who several years ago devised the system of loaning small sums of money to aid Indians In buying land and building houses for themselves, haa lived for months at a time among the Qmahas and haa sue- (.'jeded in a marked degree in overcoming the aboriginal reserve and arriving at an understanding of the poetical and musical forma of expression that have beeu handled down from a remote antiquity. In describing for the first time the condi tions under which her work began. Miss Fletcher says: "When I went among the Omahas for scientific study I found the shadow of the fear of removal lurking at every campfire. The memory of the enforced transportation of their relatives, the Ponea tribe, from their home on the Niobrara river to the then Indian Territory waa very fresh In tha memory pf the people. So many Poncas had died from the change of climate, the Omahas. who had for generations lived where they were on the banka of the Mis souri, were In terror lest a like fate might as suddenly overtake them. . Anxiety About Removal. "No one with a touch of humanity could, probe Into their past history, beliefs, leg ends and the like, and Ignore the present anklety. So I temporarily closed my aclentlflc notebooks and set myself to work to plan aome way to help the people. J gathered statistics and tried to show that the people were entitled to own their land and home individually. I sent a petition on to Washington in 1881. Then I waited and the Indians waited, but no word came. Incredulous that such an appeal could pass unheeded, I started for Washington feeling sure If the facts were known that the cry of the people for their homes would be heeded. "It la a long story. But, after months of effort, speaking before the committee of congress, before leading people In the par lors of friends, before churches and wher ever I C'Uid carry the plea for the homes of the Omahas, I secured the passage of a bill which became a law In August, 18S2, giving the Omahas their land in severalty. Having secured their land, . homes were needed. Hence the plan for small loans, which did good work In Its time and place. Then came the matter of education. The homes secured, I then could pursue my researches with an undivided mind. Much of this waa carried on Incidentally, while I allotted the people under the provisions of the bill giving them their homes. "The Omaha bill was tbe forrunner of an Omahan who had been her collaborator ince ISM,,, while the cover and frontispiece were drawn by Apgel de Cora, a Winne bago girl, who has since won her way as an illustrator. First Families of Nebraska. The habitat of the Omahas. In historical times, as Is well known, covered the state cf Nebraska, which waa ceded to the United States government with the reser vstion of a certain tract for the use of the Indiana. At the time of the accne of the Omaha Indian's atory the members of the tribe were living near the Missouri river. In three villages. In those days, as Mr. La Flesche recalls, the Missouri was the only highway of commerce up and down which, laden with supplies for the mission, came the pufflrrfe little steamboats for tho "town of the ied-ha!r," as St. Louis was called by the Indians In memory of the auturn locks of Oovernor Clark.. i As showing the wealth of sentiment among the native people of this region-, Miss FletcheT quotes Mr. La Flesche' recollection of the conditions in his boy hood: "Tho white people speak of the coun try at this period as a 'wilderness,' ' as though it was an empty tract without human Interest or hlstoiy. To us IndlanB it was as clearly defined as it is today; we knew tho boundaries of tribal lands, those of our friends and those of our foe; we were familiar with every stream, the oortoUr of every hill, and each peculiar feature of tne landscape had Its tradition. It was aur home, the acene of our history, and we loved It as our country." Boston Transcript. DQil'T BE TOO FAT BE COMFORTABLE If you are too fat just say to the drug gist the magic word "Marmola." Tako some and watch youreelf grow slighter and slighter until you are comfortably 'thin. Then tell other fat folks about It. It k a good thing to remember the prescription: H ounce Marmola, V ounce Fluid Extract Cascara Aromatic, and 3Vi ounces Syrap Simplex; dose, one teasroonful after meals and before bedtime. While you're taking Muxuioia you can eat and drink aa inuib aa you liks, do a little hm you wikh In Wi line of work or ritu io but you 11 keep va geitlug thin until you etwp taking the nwlli:iuL Pawea bill which extended the provision to other tribes, thus dtvidlrg the common tribal land Into individual holdings, the United States holding the patent In trust for twenty-five years, free from any en cumbrance. But all this Is history. "Pnslrtent Cleveland appointed me among the first five 'special agents' to tarry out the provisions of the art of 1S87, and under it I allotted two other tribes, and then having need to get my scientific work in shape I resigned and devoted my sef to my wrlt'ng." Indian rvasle. The holder of the Thaw fellowship of the Peaboily Museum of Archaeology and Eth nolcgy. Harvard university, with which she has been connected since 1882, Miss Fletcher has already brought together, in a popular form, Botne of the results of her careful study of Indian music in a volume ahloh unJer the title of "Indian Story and 'Sorg" was published twa or three years ao, and which has already become a recognised classic In the literature cf abori ginal mue'e. The expressive Indian songs, one calling upon the dauntless club bran d,l.Mng protagonist of the Omahas in their troubles with the Sioux, another display ing the antt-rare suicide sentiments of a pl.tlosopher who has noted the care with wl tch a grown sparrow protects the pro. geny In the nest, a third consisting of the notes of a yong .lover watching hia In amorata draw xvater from a spring, these and the rest, carefully harmonised for the rlno. have become familiar In many Amer ican homes. Tbe new volume. Issued under governm-rt auiplcesr will give more broadly the facts and cor-cluaiona derived from the unusually Intimate acquaintance with th Indian. Not only lias Miss Fletcher written ex tensively on American archaeological topics, but as president of the American Folk Lore sk:li ty she has been In position to give enocuragement to the publication of literature cot cerning the tribes of the middle and far weat. the has lately taken (special Interest In the popular success of the fascinating story cf a little group of five boys at the Omaha Mission school, the book called "The Middle Five," and pro claimed by another enthusiast as an Amer ican Indian "Tom Brown at Rugby." Thla book was wiltten by Francis Le Flescbo, Specials For This Week Below will be found a list of slightly used Sewing Machines which will be on sale all this week. OPEN EVERY EVENING They have all been overhauled and put in first class shape. WILCOX G. 77 PA for ,,,.,,,.aVZl.JU NEW HOME. Drep Head, 1200 NEW ROYAL AUTOMATIC. f Ofl Drop Head, good as new, lor....;.iOaUU HOUSEHOLD, good as new, 21 QO WHITE. Drop Head. 97 AO shopworn, for STANDARD. Drop Head. 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