Burned To Death

TEBKIBLB 8CKNES. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 2. - Ten human Uves and 8300,000 worth of property was sacriflced Saturday night by a flre that originated in the rooms of the Union League on the third floor of the Minneapolis Tribune building. The fire was discovered shortly after 10 o'clook by a district messenger, and almost before an alarm could be turned in every door and window of the immense eight-stery building was belening flre and smoke. There were upward of eighty men, including the editorial staff and a forcé of compositora, at work on the seventh floor, and these were penned in like sheep by the sheets of flame that separated them from the elevator and stairway. Then began a frenzied stampede for the window and roof. Meanwhilo the fire department had got a ladder up to the sixth floor, and from there thirty or forty men vere taken out of the building and landed on terra firma. Those who were on the roof dared not descend, and several jumped to the roofs of adjoining buildings and escaped with a few bruises. While the work of rescue was going on from the window where the crowd ol printers and others had assem bied, Prof. Olsen, president of the Vermillion (S. D.) University, met a terrible f ate. Mr. Olsen had been spending Thanksgiving here with his brother, and Saturday evening made a cali upon a friend who was employed on the editorial forcé of the Tribune. While seated in his friend'a room the alarm of fire was raised, but aa investigation seemed to show that no particular danger need be apprehended both sat down and resumed their conversation. In a few minutes everybody realized the fact that nearly all hope of escape had been cut off, and Prof. Olsen and his iriend started for the fire-escape leading from the sixth story, on which were located the editorial rooms. Some of those who were on that floor when the blaze was discovered are of opinión that the Tribune employé escaped. Prof. Olsen got out of the window all right and had proceeded down a short distance on the fire escape, when from some unknown reason he let go his hold and feil to the sidewalk. A couple of firemen rushed in and carried Mm to the nearest drug store, where it was found that he was dead, his body having ben terribly crushed by the fall. Seven bodies were found around the building, all of which have been identified. They were: Milton Pickett, assistant city editor of the Pioneer Press; James F. Igoe, Associated Press night operator; Walter E. Miles, night agent and day operator of the Associated Press ; Edward Olsen, president of the University of South Dakota at Vermilion; W. H. MiUman, oommerclal editor of the Tribune; JerryJenklnson, printer; Robert McCutcheon, printer. A sad incident of the fire was the flnding of the body of VV. H. Milman, the commercial editor of the Tribune. His body was found in the rear of the building badly burned. A week ago he returned to his home for dinner and found his wifo dead in her chair from asphyxiation, and he attended her funeral last Monday. He had txpressed a wish that ho might follow her. The building, which stood at the corner of First avenue, Soüth and Fourth streets, was an eight-story brick, and is completely gutted. In it were one weekly and three daily papers. The total loss is estimated at $300,000. The Tribuno loss is placed at 850,000, with $20,000 insurance; the Journal loss is 840,000 and it is half insured, and the Tribune job office lost $60,000, on which there was about 325,000 insurance. Other minor losses make the aggregate given, and the insurance foots up 8150,000. Vermilion, S. D., Dec. 2.- News of the death of Dr. Olsen in the Minneapolis fire caused a feeling of sorrowin this city. Dr. Olsen was about 40 years old, a gradúate of the Chicago University, and for several years a professor of Greek in that institution. He was a man of large culture, spoke several languages fluently, and traveled extensively in Europe, and was among the best-known of the younger educators of the country. About two and a half years ago he was called to tho presidency of the University of Dakota, founded by the Territorial Government. Under his efficiënt management the institution grew rapldly, and at the time of his death there were over 300 students in the institution, and President Olsen's faculty numbered about twenty professors and teachers. He took a large interest in the educational work at Chautauqua, spent several summers at Chautauqua Lake, and was known all over the land among the students in the Chautauqua assemblies. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 3.- The ruins of the Tribune building at Minneapolis were too hot yesterday to permit of a search for bodies. No more persons havo been reported missing, but it is the belief that flfteen met death by the fire.