Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-18
FROH ALL QUARTERS. TEN FlRBMBN KILLED. Fatal Work of a Falling Brick WaIl.s .s.os TWO HORSE THIEyEsisHoT. Explosion. in a Saltpetre
 Refinery. PROCEEDINGS IN CONGRESS. Reported Resignation of
 Prince Bismarck.

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 Prince Bismarck.
 FATAL FIRE AT INDIANAPOLIS. A Book store Goes Up and Smoke = Several Rifemen IDJured-Five Hun. dred People Assist In Rescuing she Victims The Loss About FIfty
 Thousaad Dollars-Other Fires.
 INDIANAPOLIS, March 17.-A fire in Bowen 6e Merrill's book store this afternoon resulted in the death of at least four men and the injury of dozen others, some of whom will die. The building occupied by the book company was four-story and basement marble front structure facing Washington street just west of Meridian. The fire start ed shortly before three o'clock near the fur- mace iu the sub basement. The fire depart- ment, when it arrived, seemed at loss to locate the fire and began ponring water into the building at the front, when the seat of the trouble was in the rear. For two hours the fight had continued in this way until g majority of the spectators had left under the impression that the fire was out. About 5:30, however, there was terrible crash and the entire building, except the front wall fell inward. At that time number of fires men, variously estimated at eight to twenty, were on the roof of the building and were buried in the debris which was piled forty feet high within the walls of the burned building.
 The work of rescuing the living and ex- tricating the dead was begun immediately by at least five hundred persons, who, in addition So ho nd rnoY hor of tha police force, formed a strong corps of work- CTS. At times their ears would be greeted with the groans of the wounded underneath the ruins, and then their work would be pushed with renewed vigor. The following have been taken out:
 George Faulkner, engineer, No. 1 com" pany.
 George Glenn, fireman, No. 10 company.
 Ulysses Glazier, substitute fireman. Al. Hoffman. pipe man.
 THE LIST OF INJURED.
 The wounded are: Anthony Voltz, pipe man; Lew Raferty, fireman; Thomas Barrett, fireman; A. c. Mover, captain fire depart- ment; Samuel w. Neale, pipe man; Thomas E. Black, pipe man; Webb Robinson, pipe man, slightly; William Partee, pipe man, ,in- ternally hurt, may die; Henry Woodruff, pipe man, badly hurt; Ebenezer Leech, pipe man, cut AAo pIulseos rom 4eIenyT JenkLnss Plpe man, badly bruised; William s. Heinsley, pipe man, badley hurt; John Burkhardt, pipe man, badly hurt about head. Dick Lowrie, pipe man, and Walter Jones are still | under the ruins and both supposed to be l dead.
 The Bowen & Merrill company carried 6 stock valued at $125, GOO, on which there waa an insurance $70,O00. The building was owned by Silas T. Bowen and the loss on that will be $So.ooo. H: P. Wasson, dry goods, suffered loss of 0,O00 by smoke and water, and Byram & Sullivan, dry goods half that amount. Several smaller stocki are badly damaged. Colonel Samuel Merri l of the book firm is the newly appointed con sul 1t Calcutta and will leave for his post to | morrow.
 LATER PARTIcULARs. At this hour Q1 o'olock) the work of exca' l vating the ruins of tho fire is still in progress So far ten fremen are known to be dead Their names are George Faulkner. Ulysse' l Glazier, George Glenn, Al Huffman, Richard Eowrey. T. A. Black, Espey ssamer, Charls Jenkins, Thomas Burkhardt, Andrew Cherry superintendent of fire alarm system. Tn working men digging in the mass of brick iron and mortar are trying to extricate [ man whose face, bloody and bruised, appear just above the debris. He is supposed tt be Daniel Jones, Q pipe man. His feet ar caught by huge iron Rirder and he i being literally piled with stimulan.: to keeE who is supposed to be dead. The scenes . the fire headquarters this evening have beer only exceeded in pathetic interest by thos' at the homes of the dead firemen. Old men fathers of the young fremen who lost thei lives, wives, mothers and children of th' dead and living have crowded into the rooml seeking information of their loved ones, and getting none, have rushed to the scene of thu fire and by their frantic sppeals have mad doubly arduous the work of the men en dsavoring to get at those imprisoned be- meath the ruins.
 FIRE IN A sALTPETRE REFINERY.
 MnLvnLE, N. J., March 17.-At 8 o'clocl this morning fire broke out in a buildinl used for refining saltpetre at Whitehall, Ia tum & Co.'s flint glass works. Tho build ing was . wooden structure and it's contents were large vats filled with saltpetre and thi combustible matter was @ roaring furnace il less than three minutes, sending sheets o flame high in the air, preceded by dens clouds of white smoke obscuring the sun The fire department was soon on the scene but the firm warned them against throwin
 water on the building, as it would result in
 terrible explosion, and the fremen turnet their attention to other property. Tn flames had communicated to factories Nos g and 10 and to an iron foundr next to the saltpetre house. Tn foundry was partly destroyed, but the flame } on the factories were soon extinguished When the saltpetre house was consumed, tn
 water flowing around the building commun
 cated with the remaining saltpetre, causin 1t to explode with terrific report, throwin . blanks and boards over the roofs of othe buildings, shaking the ground like an earth
 quake, and shattering the windows in th
 pot house adjoining the building destroyed
 The fremen had @ miraculous escape frol
 injury. Joshua Errickson was in the sal
 petre house when the fire started. He VI
 enveloped in the flames, and his hair an
 clothing were nearly burned of. He WI rescued with difficulty. The loss is at presel - unknown; no insurance.
 RAILROAD PROPERTY BURNED NEWPORT, Vt., March T.-Fire to-nigl
 destroyed the Boston and Maine woodshe containing three thousand cords of wood, t
 gether with several cars loaded with lumb
 and the towing barge Derby belonRil r to the International company. Loss abo
 $8,0O0.
 A BAY CIrY, Mich., March 17.-Rust Bro ,. & Co., mill was burned this morning by 6 . . incendiary fire; loss $50, ,000, insured. > DEATH OF AN AGED INDIAN.