Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-03-19
FATE OR FIREMEN
Eleven Lose Their Lives at an
indianapolis Fire.
A Falling Roof Carries Them
to Horrible Deaths.
The COnfagration Caused by a Flar-
ing Gas-Jet.

Total Destruction of the Great Book Es-
tablishment of the Bowen-MerrilL
Company on Washington Street.-The
Dangerous Elevator Shaft Again the
Means of Spreading the FIames-Lists
of the Killed and Injured.
Dead.
The list of killed is:
Andrew Cherry, superintendent of
fire telegraph.
Richard Lowry, No. engine.
George Glenn, pipeman, hose compa-
ny No. s.
George S. Faulkner, driver No. en-
gine.
Ulysses G. Glazier, substitute.
Thomas A. Black, ladderman, No. 8
company.
Albert Hoffman, pipeman, No. 10 hose
company.
John Burkhart, substitute with No. 1.
Espy Stormer, pipeman No. l.,
Henly Woodruff, pipeman, No. 5.
Tony Voltz, driver, No. 2 truck.
Injured.
The following are the injured
William G. Tallentire, captain of No.
2; both arms broken, head and shoulders
bruised.
Ash Glazier, No. 4; head and shoulders
bruised,
Webb Robertson, No. engine COM
pany; seriously hurt.
Eb Leach, No 2; face badly cut, skull
fractured, left arm mashed and hurt in
ternally.
Charles jenkins, driver No. engine;
badly cut about the face and left leg
bruised.
William Partee, No. 13; hurt internally
and face cut
William Long, No. 7; head and chest
bruised, left leg injured and hurt inter-
nally
All. Muir, No. 9 truck bruised about
face and arms.
William McGinnis, No. 8; head and
chest bruised.
William Hinesley, No. f. face and
head badly cut and bruised; three ribs
broken and injured internally.
William Reasner, No. 5; face cut and
arm bruised.
Thomas Barrett, No. 6; head and face
bruised.
Samuel Jones, No. Il badly hurt; still
in the ruins.
Fred Bloomer, No. /; face cut.
George Diller, No. 1; face cut and left
arm bruised.
Samuel Neal, No. / both arms broken;
head and back badly bruised.
Louis Raffert, No B. arm broken;
scalp wounds and internal injuries.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 10 "A fiaring
gas Jet in the Bowen Merrill big book
establishment, on Washington street, at
A p. m. Monday, caused the most terri
BILE confagration and catastrophe this
city has witnessed for many years. The
jet set fire to box of states, and the
flames spread rapidly among the papers,
books and packing material.
Soon dense columns of smoke rolled
through the immense building, and the
firemen had great difficulty in suppress
ing the flames. The fire leaped to every
floor of the block through the elevator,
and the whole strength of the fire de-
partment was called out too late
Burned In the Ruins.
At $3.50 p. m. a number of tiremen
were on ladder placed against a rear
wall, while others had forced them
selves into the basement below, when
suddenly the roof of the rear portion
crumbled, the rear wall plunged out
ward, and the sides fell heavily, carry
ing score or more of firemen down,
some of them to their death.
"Save the Boys !"
1t was an appalling sight to the thou
a., of 0Nlo
jenkins, pipeman, staggered out of
the smoke and dirt with his skull laid
bare by terrible cash, crying: Save
them! Save the boys!" did all realize
what had happened.
To the Rescue.
Brave hands then tore the debris away
and Webb Robinson, pipeman of the
Fives, was first rescued with a broken
ankle. Then Engineer George Faulk-
ner of the Ones was taken out uncon-
conscious, but he died in a few minutes.
Captain Sam. Neal of the chemical No.
was rescued next with fractured skull
and internal injuries.
Capt. William Long, of the Sevens,
lay in the debris for an hour, while a
stream of water prevented his being
burned alive. His head was badly
bruised and burned, but unless his in
ternal injuries are severe, will recover.
Driver Eb Leach of the Twos, was
pulled out of pile of burning rubbish in
time to save his life.
The body of George Glenn, driver of
the Tens, was found with his life crushed
out and almost beyond recognition.
Ulysses Glazier, pipeman, died in his
brothers arms before he could be extri-
Gated from the wreck.
William Tallentyre was pulled out
with an arm broken in two places.
Great Heat.
The heat of the burning debris made
the work of the rescuers very slow.
About 10 p. m the body of Superin-
tendent Andrew Cherry, of the fire
alarm telegraph, was found midway be-
tween two walls, where he fell when the
roof went down. The remains were
badly crushed.
William Partee, pipeman, was taken
ont in an unconscious condition.
Capt William McGinness, of the
Eighths, who was carried down with
the roof, was badly injured internally.
At midnight the rescuing party To-
Gated William Jones, Hiram Woodruff,
Richard Lowry and John Burkhardt.
The former was held in the debris by
heavy beams across his body, and it re-
uuired the work of hours TO get him out.
Stormer and Woodruff were dead, but
Burkhardt was still alive, and an effort