The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-10
FATAL FLAMES.
A SERIES OF CASUALTIES AT LOUIS
WILLIE. KENTUCKY.
Four Members of a Hook and Ladder
Company Crushed TO Death by
q Falling Wall.
4 Factory Fire Results in the Death of
Tires Girls and the Serious Injury Of
Several Others
An Engineer Crippled for Life by Being
Thrown to the Pavement-Ths Chief
of the Department Also Badly
Hurt and the Whole Force
Badly Demoralised-Ths
Losses and Insurance.
The Killed and
Injured.

Injured.
LOUISVILLE. KY, Dec. "a fire broke
out this morning and destroyed the whole
sale boot and shoe house of Bamberger,
Strong & Co, the establishment oil
Bliss, Wilson 81 Co, furnishing goods and
notions: Weller, Wolff & Pa5ne, boots and
shoes, Johnanboeck & Son. hats and caps
The total loss is 500 000 with Insurance. OF
500 O00 One fireman is missing and may
have been crushed by falling wall.
Later information shows that number
of firemen of hook aud ladder company
were caught under falling wall or BAN
berger, Strong Il Cos. building. Fire
Chief Hughes and Captain Weatherford
were injured. Four dead iremen are I'M
der the walls and four others are badly
, burt. The dead firemen are William
More, William Davis, Sam Baker aud
4 Tony Schlicht.
At 8 o'clck another fatal fire was raging
in T. A MEME & Co.'S wholesale candy
and fancy grocery house, a square above
the Boone paper company'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 "a
escape.
The fire was out st IL o'clock aud the
work of taking out the bodies began. The
bodies of five girls have already been taken
out burned beyond Identification. G.. L.
MEME, IA brother of the senior member OF
the firm, is supposed TO have burned 20
death, and the fremen think that the
bodies of other girls will be found as soon
as the hot embers will permit a thorough
search The fire cut off escape from the
stairway leading from the fourth floor
where the girls were at work. Many
Jumped from the windows TO second
4 with ~
limbs and bruised bodies Others got out
unhurt
A fire originating in the Boone Paper
company's building WAS supposed TO be
fully exIinguished little after O'Clock
last night, aud later all the engines were
withdrawn The ladder men were the
only men left. They were watching the
adj jacent buildings. Four men were In
BAN berger, Strong & CO. IS building about
twenty minutes before o'clock this morn
ing. Laddermen McEvery and George
Duff were in the adjoining building OF
Bliss, Wilson & Co A terrific explosion
was heard, and McEvery and Duff rushed
out. They escaped unhurt. McEvery
says that the explosion came from the
building of Bamberger, Strong & Co
Four men were caught by the crashing
walls and timDers and have not since been
| Sear
With its forces weakened by the acci'
deui OF the early morning, the fire depart
mept was called TO the third disaster al
the candy factory. To add TO the casualtie:
aud confusion, Major Hughs, chief Of the
FIRE department. was so badly hurt III an
accident early this morning that he may
not recover. While going to the fire en-
Rine No. - ran into the pavement al
Twelfth aud Broadway, throwing off En-
giueer Jim Nuttall. hurting his back and
probably crippling him for life.
OF the forty girls at the candy factory,
two escaped at the cost OF grievous
wounds. They were Theresa Holthaus
and Lizzie McGarvey. One of them has q
broken leg aud the extent Of the injuries
of the other could not be learned up u
this time, as she was Immediately taken
home in a cab. Some OF those VINO escAp-
ed did so by leaping from rear fourth
story window to the rear roof OF the store
the store being only two stories high IN
the back. The fire is supposed 10 have
arisen from one of the furnaces; which pos
sibly exploded. Great confusion exists.
Main street, where the principal whole
sale traffic Of the city goes Oh, * blockad-
ed and business is almost at stsudstili
The loss on MEME q Co.'S building apd
stock is placed at $72, 900, and the total
loss will be nearly three-quarters OF a mil
lion.
The bodies Of the girls were removed as
| soon as posi- bic to the nearest undertak
been identified as Mary Welsh Of 20i
Eleventh street, Amelia Dickey and Bar
bara Bell The two not identified sre sap
posed u be Louisa Kern and Clara RaUsch
In the MEME wreck Is a body supposed q
be that OF Charles Kimmel. partner oil
the firm. In the Bamberger, Strong q
Co wreck are the bodies OF Samuel Baker
Tony Schlicht, William Davis and Ton
! Moore all iaddermeD Of Company No J.
The injured are Fire Chief Edward
Hughes, Lille Greenwell. Tracy Holhaus
Kate McGarvey, George King and PA
Shea, fireman.
LOUISVILLE. Dec. 9-Ganzs Of workmer
have been searching the ruins of the fre'
on Main street all day since the flames
were subdued and are still busy. Al
Menne's candy factory, where ten w~7e en-
! tombed by the crashing walls, the Oniy
unusual sight from without j. a pile d
wreckage in the street lnside. under tb'
edge of the dripping broken floor auc
/ rRfters the labOreFs are still searching
for the bodies Of the missing. The mass j,
| still smoideTIDg and there j. no hope fol
any At the Boone Paper company
building, the dangerous walls that hrs
deiayed the work were throw
dowa this afternoon. Il is in th'
Paper com oauy's building. instead Of
BAN berger. Strong & Cos a. a. frs
| supposed the missing fremen are nos
believed 70 b.. TIE hoe they we're
working stretches out into iue
street. and served A. guide % tue search
ers They are Carrying ont blocts -
! biackened paper. with some fsiut hop
that one or two OF the men may - Ssh
alive. but the steam and Al OCCASIONAL -
Of fame breaking out show that there 4
little. cha3ee.
All O'Clock the body Il Charles KEN
mel. partner IN toe firm OF AenDs's can
, dy factory. aud a little later. two bodi-i
supposed 70 o. those Il CisTs Ranch an
! William Hul.euueir. were recovered ThH
leaves three more ~ the runs =. ths
| point. The dead recovered AZ Meme s
Co. = factory are LuIa Kern. Carrie Luck
harit, Barbara BelL AmAsds Dicksg
William Hulseunesr. Charles keufnsl ans
. Clara Rauch- Missing aud certainly dead
~ The Bg0ae Paaser company ID ld8al
are Tosa Moore. sam Baker, wiz Davis
and Toul -chlIchi, al q ~. ! hook as
ladder kOmpang-
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Parker. james Msna gslisr. Thomas
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