St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-18
FIREMEN CREMATED.
Eleven Brave Men Burned to
Death and Twenty Others
Scorehed.
Preeipitated From a Burning
Building Into a Crater
Of Flame.
One Less Than a Dozen Black
ened Corpses Taken From
the Ruins.
Others Are Still Buried Under
a Mountain Of Burning
Debris.

indianapolis, March 17.-This aft
ernOOn fire from furnace, in the base
ment of the large book-publishing eS-
tabliShmpnt of the BOwen-Merrill COM
pany, reached some paper. and IN an in
slant the flames were carried by the ele-
vator shaft to the fourth story. The
building, fine stone and iron structure,
fronting on Washington street, was
stored with books and stationery of all
kinds. This large stock was consumed
and the building wrecked. At $50
o'clock this loss gilmore than S150,000, on
building and stock, was followed by the
falling in of the roof, which carried
down more than forty persons, includ-
Ing those who we're working Oh
the various floors. The fire at this hour
had been driven to corner between
the ceiling of the fourth story and the
cOrnice. Parts of the fire companies
were on the roof working their way
down to the fire. The roof seemed
sound and the walls substantial, but
suddenly the walls yielded. A man
threw up his arms and sank into the
seething ruins below. Another man
dropped and then the whole rear roof,
with fifteen men on it, fell on to the top
floor. where the fire was raging. -Four
men were Oh the upper floor under the
roof. These we're crushed
Beneath the Grinding Timbers
and all the men huIled through the
falling floor beneath, which gave way
beneath the weight of the mass. One of
the fremen on the top of the adjoining
building ran TO the front of the building
and shouted to those beneath: For
Gods sake throw water into the upper
windows. Twenty men are buried
there" Instantly ambulances were
telephOned for, and presently the crowd
below moaned under the portentOus de-
velOpmentS. The scene on the heap of
debris Immediately after the collapse
was pitiable and dreadful beyond all
power of description. The limbs of
men here and there were seen Writhing,
while the trunks to which they belonged
were buried from sight. A ladder lay
across three mens and was weighted
down by tons of bricks and timberS.
Another poor fellow who was beyond
all pain. lay close beside his fellows.
shapeless and mangled mass. The lad
der Law across the stomach of one man,
who was screaming with agony; an
other man with broken arm and
twisted body lay next to him. AS fast
as willing hands could hurl away the
bricks the weight was removed, but the
ladder was too firmly held to yield. The
man with a broken arm was dragged
free and carried away. Under HIM,
mute, but breathing, appeared the up
turned lace of poor fellow not seen
10 ,+ov n1Nd
cleaned from his lips, but he was buried
so deeply that no immediate help could
come to him. On all sides
BIackened and Bleeding Faces,
distorted with agony or dreadful in
death, urged the crowd who had scaled
the heap, to redouble their efforts. The
debris had fallen so that it lay with a
yalley-shaped surface and this made
the available space for work very small.
There was no place to deposit the ma
terals dug from the bottom of the val
lev, except to throw them upon the
sides of the depression from which they
continually rolled down toward the cen
ter again. All the work of relief was
thus carried Oh with great difficulty.
One by one the men nearest the surface
were eXtricated. bat as the workers went
uOWH IuIGllcI UllCy lOuhu INV NiNOiiho
and the horror steadily grew. The for
ward part OF the building still stood
high and was burning tiercely, and
threatened every moment to fall down
and bury the brave rescuers, but they
gave no heed to the peril. On either
side the walls lowered and seemed
ready to fall, but there was no time to
think of them. AS fast as the men at
work became exhausted others stood
ready and anxious to fill their places. SO
there was not a moment of delay in the
labor of relief. Every moment was
filled with an awful suspense, for all
were thinking of the friends who
Lay Buried Beneath hem.
Names which men inquired after were
passed hurriedly from lip to lip, and
people bent down to scan closely the
blackened and SCARED faces. Persons
who had friends among the firemen, or
among the citizens who were supposed
to have seen in or near the fatal walls.
became frantic as time passed ana they
could get no word. As the wounded
were carried out of the ruins they were
met with embraces and tears OF JOY. but
when the still, blackened forms were
borne away. motionless and limp, then
it was when the sadness and horror OF
the calamity came upon the waiting
crowd. AT IL 80 p. IN. twenty-five men
had been taken from the ruins, nine of
whom were dead and the rest more or
less injured. Others are known to be
under the mass of debris, but have not
yet been reached. The following is a
complete list of the killed and wounded
as far as is possible to secure 1t at this
hour.
Dead.
GEORGE FAULKEER, engineer No.
ULYSSES GLAZIER, substitute fireman.
GEORGE GLENN, fireman No. 10.
AL HUFFMAN. pipeman.
ESPY STORMER. pipeman.
RICHARD LOWRY. plpeman.
CHARLES JENKINS, pipeman.
ANDREW CHERRY, superintendent fire
alarm system.
THOMAS S. BURKHARDT, pipeman.
THOMAS A. BLACK, pipeman.
WALTER JONES, pipeman, still under
ruins.
Wounded
ANTHONY VoLTz, pipeman.
LEW RAFERT, fireman,
THOMAS BARRETT fireman.
A. c. MERCER, captain fire department.
SAMUEL W. NEAL, pipeman.
WEBB ROBINSON, pipemau; sllghuy;
WILLIAM PARTE, pipeman; internally hurt
HEMRY WOODRUFF, pipeman; badly hurt.
EBENEzER LEECH, pipeman; cut ah'
bruised. " q
THOMAS TAIENTYRE,f foreman Engine No.
fatally crushed.
WILLIAM LONG. pipeman; slightly hurt;
CHARLES JENKINS, pipeman; badly prulseu
WILLIAM HElNsLEY. pipeman; badly hur
JOHN BURKHART, pipeman; paoly hul
about head.
at midnight the workmen digging til