The record-union., 1891-12-10
FATAL FLAMES.
Two Fires at Louisville Cause the
Loss of Many Lives.

Loss of Many Lives.
LOUISVILLE, Dec. 9.-WhiIe the fire.
men were raking away the ruins of the
Boone Paper Company building at 4:30
O'Clock this morning, there came the
sound of a terrific explosion in Bam-
berger, Strong Il Co.'s building, four
stories high. In an instant flames broke
ont from every floor and shot out through
the roof. The fire must have been smol-
dering for several hours in the cellar
and when each of the four stories had
been filled with heated air and smoke the
explosion occurred.
1t was with great difficulty that the
tiremen prevented the flames from
spreading further. A number of people
were sleeping in the upper rooms, but all
escaped.
A number of fremen were caught un-
der the falling wall of Bamberger. Strong
G Co.'s building. Fire Chief Hughes and
Captain WeatherfOrd are injured. Four
dead tiremen lay under the walls and
four others are badly hurt.
The dead are William Moore, William
Davis, Sam Baker and Tony SchHght.
The losses foot up total of about $780,
600.
SEVERAL LIVES LOST.
At s O'Clock another fatal fire was rag
ing at f. A. Emon q Co.'s wholesale
candy and fancy grocery house, one
square above the Boone Paper Com
pany's building. The origion of the fire
IS mystery. Forty girls were at work
on the fourth floor and all were not able
to escape. The bodies of six girls have
already been taken out, burned almost
beyond identification.
c. 7. Menn, brother of the senior men,
Der Of the firm, is supposed to have been
burned to death, and the firemen think
at least five other girls will be found
soon. A thorough search is being made
The fire cut OFT escape by the stairway
leading from the fourth floor, where the
girls We're at work. Many jumped from
the windows to the second-story proiec-
ton, and escaped with broken limbs and
bruised bodies. Others got out unhurt.
With its force weakened and demor-
allied by the accident of the early morn
ing, the Fire Department was called to
the disaster at the candy factory To
add TO the confusion Major Chief Hughes
of the Fire Department was so badly
hurt in the accident Of the early mornino
that he may not recover. He and Henry
Weatherford, the Chiefs assistant, while
going to the tire, was run into by the
Salvage Corps wagon and their buggy
smashed. Both were trampled by the
horses, but the injuries of Weatherford
were not so bad as those of his Chief A
jured at the candy-shop fire.
In the face OF these disasters the firemen
stood braVely to their work, and within
another half hour the flames were under
control.
Within this time half score of lives
had been sacrificed.
The work of searching for bodies in the
buildings destroyed by fire this morning
was still going on at midnight The
missing tiremen are now believed to be
in the ruins of the Boone Paper Company
building, wedged between huge piles of
paper that filed the cellar.
The dead recovered at Menne & Co.'s
are Lulu Klein, Carrie Luckhardt, Bar
bara Bell, Amanda Dickey. William
Hulsemeier, Charles Kimmel, Clara
Ranch and Ida Parker.
The missing and certainly dead at the
Boone Paper Company are Tom Moore.
Sam Baker, VIII Davis and Tony
Schlick, all of No. l Hook and Ladder
Company. James Weinler and Thomas
Brehulder, who worked at Mennes, We're
also missing this afternoon, but their
relatives have not been heard from to-
night.
The injured are: Katie McGarvey.
Theresa Holthas, Edward Inninger, Lii
lie Grenwald, Major Hughes, James Nut
tall, Patrick Sheehy, Allen Grimes and
Henry Wetherford. Fire Chief Hughes
has conclusion OF the brain.
How the fires originated is still uncer-
tain. There were only TWO office fires at the
Boone Paper Company's building, and it
IS certain the flames originated at neither.
At Menne d Co.'S a number of fires were
burning, but none account for the start
ing Of the conhagration.
It's now doubtful if there was an ex-
ploslon at Hamburger, Sterne & Co.'s,
next door TO the Boone Company. at the
time the tiremen were caught.
1t is thought the total loss will reach
three-quarters of million.