New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-03-26
DEIA TIL IN THE RUINS
Fire in a Wholesale House
Brings Death to the Brave
Fighters of the Flames.
Ten Firemen Taken Out Dead
and Thirteen Receive
Serious Injuries.

e INDIANAPOLIS, Special. What at first
seemed an insignificant fire in Bowen
Merrill & Co.'S. book store to-day resulted
IN catastrophe in which at least ten men
were killed and dozen wounded, some Of
whom will die. The building occupied by
the book company was a four-story and base
ment marble, front building, facing Wash
ington street just west Of Meridian. The
FIRE started shortly before 3 O'Clock near the
furnace in the subbasement. The fire
departmen when it arrived, seemed at
q loss to locate the fire. and began pouring
water into the building at the front when
the seat Of the trouble was in the rear. For
swo hours the fight had continued in this
way until majority Of the spectators had
left under the impression that the fire was
out. About $50, however, there was a ter
rible crash and the entire building, except
the front wall, fellinward. At the time q
number OF fremen, va1iously 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
Che walls of the burned building
hmm ateiy the work of rescuing the liv-
ing and extricating the dead was begun by
at least five hundred volunteers, who, in
sbers of the police, formed strong corps Of
workers. At times their ears would be
greeted by the groans of the wounded un-
derneath the ruins and then the work
would be pushed with renewed vigor. At
Ill o'clock ten fremen were known to be
dead Their names are:
George Faulkner, Ulysses GlaIer, George
Glenn, Al Huffman, Espy Stormer, Richard
Eowre, Charles Jenkins, Andrew Cherry, super
Intendent Of 1 fire alarm system; Thomas S: Burk
Wounded-AnthonyV oltz, pipeman; Lew Raj
art, fireman: Thomas Barrett, fireman: A. C.
Mercer captain fire department; Samuel W.
slightly; William Parte, pipeman internally,
may die Henry Woodruff, pipeman, badly
bruised Tom Taentyre fopeman Engine me No 2
fatally crushed William Long, slightly hurt
William Heinsiey, pipeman, badly hurt John
-Burkhart, pipelnan, badly hurt about head.
PATHETIC SCENES.
at that hour the workmen digging the
mass of brick, iron and mortar were trying
co extricate man whose face, bloody and
bruised, appears just above the debris. He
is supposed to be Daniel Jones, pipeman.
His feet are caught by huge iron girder,
and he is being literally piled with slim
ulants to keep him alive. Underneath him
is another man who is supposed to be dead.
N5[=tFS
tonight have been only exceeded in
pathetic interest by those at the homes
of the dead firemen. Old men, fathers of
the younger men who lost their lives wives,
mothers and children of the dead and liv-
information of their loved ones, and, get
ting none, have rushed to the scene Of the
fire and by their frantic appeals have made
T.. - ~
0ring to get at those imprisoned beneath
the ruins. The first ambulances to leave
she scene of the fire carried the re-
mains of the first four men taken from
beneath the fallen floors. They were fol-
lowed by an impromptu procession of cal
1iages, wagons and pedestrians, and pro-
ceeded first to the undertaking establish
nents and then to the homes of the de-
&C ceased, where, in two instances, their COM
ing gave the first intimation of the sorrow
that had fallen on the home. The cause Of
the loss Of life is as yet not quite apparent.
During the two hours and half which the
fire was burning there had been
SCARCELY A FLAME VISIBLE
to the spectators in the streets and alleys
though the volume of smoke had been so
=. dense as to utterly obstruct the vision.
About S o'clock the first entrance to the
building was made by the firenlen, who
had previously been held back by the dense
were raised from the front and rear
of the building and the building lit
orally swarmed with firemen. The crowds
in the street began to disperse
and everybody considered the fire practi-
cally extinguished when there was a sud-
den crash and the whole building except
the Washington street front fell in with a
crash. Firemen were on each of the three
y floors and the roof and they were, of course,
carried down with the collapse. It would
seem that the building had been INSULT
GENTLY tied to those on either sideso it
and that the flames ate a hole in the cen
, ter letting the whole cave in. A
fund has already been started for the relic
of the injured fremen and the families o
those who. are dead which has already
reached the total OF 1900. Mayor Sulli-
van has issued proclamati onHscalling for
vestigating and will hold an inquest to-
morrow. Bowen, Merrill & Co. carried
u q stock valued at $125,000, on which
!: there was an insurance OF $4,000.
/. The building was owned by Silas T. Bowen,
and the loss on that will be $4,000. III. Z.
WATSON, dry goods, suffered a loss of $40, :
900 by smoke and water, and Byran & Sui
livan, dry goods, half that amount. Several
smaller stocks are badly damaged Bowen,
Merrill & Co. have secured q new LOCATION
aud will reopen for business in a few days.
Col. Sam Merrill, of the firm. is the newly
appointed consul general at Calcutta, and
was to have left for his post o-morrow.
ENGLISH LABOR TR OUBLES.
Strikes OF Gigantic Proportions
Among Workmen in England.
LONDON, Special. Ten thousand miners
in North Wales have Joined the strike, and
also twenty thousand Tyne side en-
gineers. Several mills in Lanca-
shire have been compelled to