Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-12-10
DISASTROUS FIRES.
LOUISVILLE VISITED BY TWO TERRI
BLY, FATAL CONGREGATIONS.
-Four Firemep Killed by Falling walls
Five Girls Burnod to Deatb-Many
People Injured.
[Br telegraph TO the Dispatch J

LOUISVILLE, December 9.--While the fire.
men were raking away the ruins Of the II.
Boone Paper Company building at 4:SO
o'clock this morning there came the sound
Of q terrific explosion in the building east
of them. This was the Bamberger-StronR
building, four stories high. On the instant
flames broke from every floor and shot out
OF the roof. The fire must have been
smouldering for several hours in the eel
lar and when each OF the four stories had
become filed with heated air and smoke
an explosion followed and the building
was mass of flames.
-FOUR FIREMES KILLED.
Before the fire could be extinguished the
wholesale shoe-house of Bamberger, Strong
& Co., and the establishments of Bliss,
Wilson & Co., furnishing goods and no.
tions; Weller, Voolfolk Il Payne, boots and
shoes. and Johan Boke, hats, had been con-
sumed. The losses and insurance were as
follows: Bamberger, Strong d Co., S125,-
600; insurance, $4,000. Bliss, Wilson d
Co.. S50,000: insurance. $4,000. Weller,
Voolfolk & Payne, S75, 900; insurance un-
known. Johan Boke d Sous, $40, 900; in,
surance, $35 600. -Four fremen we're killed
by falling walls.
FIVE GIRLS LOSE THEIR LIVES.
At 8o'clock another fatal FIRE was raging
in +. A. Mem Il Co. g wholesale candy
and fancy grocery-house, square above
the Boone Paper Company's building. The
origin Of the fire is q 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
the work of taking out bodies began. The
bodies Of five girls have already been
taken out. The fire cut of escape by the
stairway leading 10 the fourth floor, where
the girls were at work. Many Jumped
from the windows TO secOnd-story pro
lection and escaped with broken limbs
and burned bodies. The Others got out
unhu-t.
FIREMES SERIOUSLY INJURED.
While Fire-Chief Hughes and Henry A.
Weatherford, his assistant. were driving tc
another alarm their buggy was run into
and crushed by the salvage-corps truck
and Hughes suffered q conclusion of the
skull. Weatherford was badly shaken up,
but was able TO 90 TO the IRE. Going 70
the fire No. Is engine ran into the
pavement at Twelfth and Broadway,
throwing off Engineer Jim Nuttal
hurting his back and probably crippline
hIm for life. Pat. Shea, hook-and-ladder
man, had hand nearly cut OF by broken
glass.
The fire In Mems candy-works is sup.
posed to have been caused by an explosion
of the candy furnace. In the building
was stored a great quantity of fireworks.
As the fire reached these they exploded
and for some time caused the fireme1
much trouble.
THE MONEY LOSSES.
The loss on Menn & Co.'s building and
stock is placed at $4,000, and the totaI
loss will be nearly three quarters OF mil
lion. The flames were stopped at George
W. Wuck a Co.'s cOtton-house.
Recapitulation of the killed: In Mems
place five girls have been recovered. In
the Menn wreck is supposed certainly to
be Charles Kimmell, IA partner in the firm.
In the Bamberger. Strong d Co. wreck,
Sam. Bajerk, Tony Schict, Will DAVIS,
Tom Moore, all laddermen of Company
No. /.
THE MISSING FIREMEN.
LOUISVILLE, KY. December 9-Ldter.-lI
is III the ruins of the Boone Paper Com
panys building, instead Of BamberRer
Strong & Co.'S as first supposed, that the
four missing tiremen ere now believed tc
be. The hose they we're working stretches
out into the street and serves as guide tC
the searchers.
THE LIST OF DEAD LEGGTHESKD.
From the ruins Of Mem d Co.'s candy.
factory seven bodies have been taken, one
of which is that of Charles Kimmel, part
ner in the firm. Three other bodies ar'
supposed TO be in the ruins.