Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-12-10
HOLOCAUST.
Three Fatal and Destructive Fires at
Louisville.
YOUNG LADIES BURNED TO DEATH
And Others Manned By Jumping From the fo'''i
Story Of a Candy FaciOry-HOrriols Scenes
About the Burning Building
men Killed By a Falling Wall.

Strong Il 20. Dullulug, IOui 80
On the instant flames broke from eN .f'
floor and shot out through the r ii
Fire must have been smoulderlng D
.evaral hours in the cellar ana WI q
each of the four stories had DECO
fiIIed with heated air and smoke an
niooion followed and the building We
one mass of flame.
BEFORE the fire could be extinguishac
the wholesale boot and shoe house OF
Bamberger, Strong & Co.; Bliss, wilson
& Co., furnishings and notions; Weiier'
Woolfolk & Payne, boots and shoes;
Joban Boeke 81 Sons, hats, had been
The losses and insurance
are as follows: Bamberger, Strong d
Co., loss, S125, 900; insurance, Sloo'OUO.
RIiss. Wilson 81 Co., loss, $50, 600; lnsur-
ance. $4,000. Weller, voolfolk ~
PAYNE. loss, $4,000; insurance, un-
known. Johan Boeke 81 Sons, loss,
$40, 900; insurance, $4,000
1t was with great difficulty that the
fremen prevented the hames from
Spreading further. Anumber OF people
were sleeping in the upper rooms OF me
buildings but all escaped. One fireman
is missing, and he may have been crush
ed by falling wall.
Later information shows that num-
her of firemen, all Observation-Disclosures
we're caught under the falling wal OF
Ramberger. Strong q Co.'s building.
Fire Chief Hughes and Captain Wealth
erford were injured, four dead hremen
Law under the walls, and four Others are
The dead firemen are William Moore,
William Davis, Sam Baker and Tony
Schlict.
At o'clock another fatal fire was
raging in f. A. Menn 81 Co.'S wholesale
CANDY and fancy grocery house. square
above the Boone Paper Co.'S building.
The origin of the fire is mystery.
Forty girls were at work wrapping
candy on the fourth floor, and all were
not able to escape. The fire was out at
II O'Clock, and then the work OF taking
ont the bodies began. The bodies OF
six girls were taken out burned beyond
G. r. Mem, brother of thesenlor
member of the firm, is supposed to have
been burned to death, and the firemen
think at least five other girls will be
found as soon as the hot embers will
permit a thorough search. The fire cut
OFF escape by the stairway leading from
the fourth floor, where the girls were at
work, and many jumped from the win
dows TO second story projection aud
escaped with broken limbs and bruised
bodies. Others got out unhurt.
The fire originating in the Boone
Paper Co.'S building was supposed 10 be
fully extinguished little after aight
o'clock last night, and later all the
engines were withdrawn. The ladder
men were the only men left. lhey
were watching the adjacent buildings.
The four men were in the Bamber ger,
Strong 81 Co. building about twenty
minutes before three O'Clock this N brn-
ing. The fire in Menn & Co. IS SDfe is
supposed to have originated from one
of the canday furnaces, which possibly
exploded. At any rates the flame; eom-
municated with the new aud big stock
Of Christmas fire wores.
The five bodies taken out are so
charred and blackened that ideutitica-
tiOn is 50 far impossible. Great nfus-
ion exists, Main street, where the prin-
cipal wholesale traffic of the city goes
on, is blocked and the business llhost
at standStill.
The loss on Mem & Co. s bulldog and
stock is placed az $4,000, and ths Total
loss will be nearly three-qusrteIso of a
million. The flames were stopped at
Geo. w. Wicks & Co.'s cotton nouse.
The bodies of the girls were remcsed as
soon as possible to the nearest lpder-
taking establishments.
Five bodies have been recovered.
Three Of these recovered are: Amelia
Dickey, Mary Welsh, Barbars Bell.
Two not identified are supposed TO be
Lou Kern and Clara Bausch. 10 the
Mem wreck another body was ionnd,
supposed certainly TO be Charlie Kim
mel, partner in the firm.
Gangs Of workmen have been y sy in
the rufus of the fire on Main street since
the flames were subdued and are still
busy.
At Mems, the candy factory, where !
ten were entombed by the crashing !
walls, the only unusual sight from with |
out is pile OF wreckage in the street,
inside are drippingS, broken floors ana
rafters. Twenty feet from the iront OF
the building laborers are still digging |
toward the cellar and searching for the |
bodies Of the missing. The mas;is still
'mouldering, and there is no hope Tor
lny.
At 10 o'clock the body OF Charles
KENNEL. the partner in the flm, was
cached at the candy factory, aDQa iltt'e
ater two bodies. supposed to be those OF
Clara Rouch and VIM. Hut1emeier'
This leaves three more supposed 10 DC
a the ruins at that point.
The bodies, as fast as recovered, are
emoved TO the nearest undertaking es-
and there await ioentinea,
ion. The four positively ioen.ineu
lave been taken to the woe-ssrlcRen
ZONES to be prepared for burlai. Inc
Iead recovered at Mennes Co. $ are:
Lulu Klein, 133 West Main
Carrie Lukehardt, 100 Caine.
Barbara Bell. 1923 Rogers.
Amanda Dickey, 1s2 West Main street.
William Hulzemeir. 595 Wal1ut.
Charles Kimmel, 545 East Madison.
Clara Ranch, lao Logan.
Missing and certainly dead at the
Boone Paper Co. are:
Tom Moore.
Sam Baker.
Will Davis.
Tony Schlick.
All OF No. Hook and Ladder Co.