The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-28
DEATHIN fH i glI'RFUINS
Fire In a wholesale, House
Brings Death to the Brave
Fighters of the Flames.
Ten Firemen Taken Out Dead
and Thirteen Receive
Serious Injuries.

u 0S0tASlEopu6 al WHICH NJ least ten men
were killed and dozen wounded, some OF
whom will die. The building occupied by
the book company was fonr-story and base
nent, marble front building, f.ci.ls, WASH
tnglon street just west OF MGR; iian. The
fire started shortly before O'Clock nesr the
furnace in the subbsscn,ont. Thc fire
department., when II arrived, seemed at
loss to locate the fire, and began pouring
water into tho 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 majority OF the spectators had
LETT under the impression that the fire wss
out. About $50, however, there was . ter.
rible crash and the entire building, except
the front wall, fell inward. At the time .
number OF firemen, vaiiously 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.
hmm ately the work of rcscuing> the liv-
ing and extricating the dead was begun by
at least five hundred volunteers, who, in
addition to the uninjured aremcn and mem.
bers 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
II o'clock ten fireMen were known to be
dead. Their names arc:
George Faulkner. Ulysses Glader Georee
Glenn, Al Huffman, Espy stormer. Richard
Lowrie, Charles jenkins. Andrew Cherry, super.
hardt and Thomas A. Black.
Wounded-Anthony VoltE, pipeman; Low Raj.
srt. fireman: Thomas Barrett. fireman; 4: Q
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fatally crushed: William Long, slightly hurt;
William Heiusley. pipeman. badly hurt: John
Burkhart. pipeman, badly hurt about head.
PATHETIC sCENEs.
At that hour the workmcn digging the
mass of brick, iron and mortar were trying
to 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 stim-
ulants to keep him alive. Underneath him
is another man who is supposed to be dead.
Tho scenes at the fire headquarters
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.
ing lave crowded into the room, seeking
information of their loved ones, and. get
ting none, have rushed to the scene of the
fire and by their frantic appeals have made
doubly arduous tho work of those cndcav-
oring TO get at those imprisoned beneath
the ruins. Tho first ambulances to leave
tho scene of tho fire carried the re.
mains of the first four men taken from
beneath tho fallen floors. They were fol-
lowed by an impromptu procession of cat.
riages, wagons and pedestrians, and pro-
ceedcd first to the undertaking establish
ment, and then to the homes of tho de-
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 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 o'clock tho first entrance to the
building was made by the firenen, who
had previously been held back by the dense
euhoke ihSuiIlB lTOu WltuIn. 1ueIl laO0eTS
were raised from the front and rear
Of tho building and the building lit
orally swarmcd with firemen. The crowds
in the street began to disperse
and everybody considered the fire practi-
cally extinguishcd when there was sud-
den crash and the whole buil.ling except
the Washington street front fell in with q
crash. Firemen were on each OF the three
floors and the roof and they were, Of course,
carried down with the collapse. 1t would
seem that the building had been insufll-
cisntl, tied to those on either side Of it
end that the flames ate lole III the cen
ter letting the whole ca,, In. A
fund has already been started .o- IL" relic
Of the injured fremei. and the f.milis o
those who are dead which hns already
reached the total Of $1,000 Mayo! sulli-
van has issued proclamation calling for
subscriptions. The coroner has been in
morrow. Bowen. Merrill q Co. carried
stock valued at $4,000, on which
there was an insurance of $4,000
The building was owned by Silas T. Bowen,
and the loss on that will be 900. II. r.
Wasson, dry goods, suffered loss Of $l0,.
600 by smoke and water, and Byran 4 Sui
livan, dry goods, half that amount. Several
smaller stocks are badly damaged. Bowen,
Merrill & Co. have secured new location,
and will reopen for business in few days.
Col. Sam Merrill, Of the firm, 10 the newly
appointed consul general at Calcutta, and
was to have left for his post tomorrow.