The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-12-10
FIRES COST MANY LIVES.
OTHER BODIES MAY BE STILL. IN
TIE RUINS.


Hurt-A Fireman's Hand Nearly Cut
OF by Broken Glass-Louisviue the
Scene of the Casualties.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 9.-While fre-
men were raking away the ruins Of tho
Boone Paper Company's building at 4:SO
o'clock this morning there came the sound
of a terrific explosion In the building next
east of them. That was Bamberger, Strong
& Co.'s building, four stories high In an
Instant flames broke from ever =
floor and shot out through the roof.
The fire must have been smolderinp
for several hours in the cellars. aud when
each of the four stories had become filed
with heated air and smoke an explosion fol-
lowed and the building was a mass Of flames
Before the fire could be extinguished the
wholesale boot and shoe house of Bam-
berger, Strong 81 Co. /; Bliss, Wilson s. Co.,
furnishing goods and notions; Weller,
Voolfolk g. Payne. boots and shoes, and
Johann, Boke Sc Sons, hats, had been oon-
sumed.
LOSSES AND INSURANCE.
The losses and insurance were as follows:
insurance S100. 900; Bliss, Wilson g. Co., loss
$4,000, insurance $4,000; Weller. Wool
folk & Payne, loss $4,000, insurance un-
known; Johann Boke g. Sons, loss $40, 900
insurance unknown.
FOUR FIREMEN KILLED.
Four flremen were killed by falling
wall
AT 8 o'clock another fatal fire was raging
in 4. A. Menn g. Co.'s building, a whole
sale candy and fancy grocery house.
a square above the Boone Paper
Companys building. The origin of the fire
is a 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
off escape by the stairway leading to the
fourth floor, where the girls were at work.
Many jumped from the windows to the
second story projection and escaped with
broken limbs and bruised bodies. Others
got out unhurt.
THE FIRE CHIEF INJURED.
While Fire Chief Hughes and Henry
Wetherford, his assistant, were driving to
another alarm their buggy was run into and
crushed by salvage corps truck and Chief
Hughes suffered a conclusion of the skull.
Wetherford was badly shaken up but was
able to 60 to the fire.
While going to the fire No. 13 engine ran
into the pavement at Twelfth and Broad
hurting his back and probably Gripping
him for life.
Pat Shea, a hook and ladder man, had a
hand nearly cut Off by broken glass.
The fire In Menn's candy works Is sup
posed to have been caused by the explosion
Of the candy furnace. In the building was
stored great quantity of fireworks. As
tie fire reached these they exploded, and
for some time caused the fremen much
trouble.
MENUS LOSS.
The loss on Menn g. Co.'s building and
stock is placed at 5000, and the total loss
will be nearly S75O,000.
The flames were stopped at George w
Wick 81 Co.'s cotton house.
A recapitulation Of the killed shows: In
Menn's place, Eve girls so far recovered; in
the Mem wreck, supposed certainly to be
dead, Charles Kimmell, partner in the
firm.
In the Bamberger, Strong g. Co. wreck:
Samuel Baker, Tony Schicht, William
Davis and Thomas Moore, all ladder men Of
Company No. l.
THEATER BURNED.
CLEVELAND, o., Dec. 9-The Cleveland
theater was burned this morning.
The flames were discovered at o'clock and
before they we're extinguished nothing but
the walls were left. The fire started near
the furnace In the basement. H. r. Jacobs
owned large interest In the building, and
his loss is $4,000. The total loss ia about
$75 900 and the insurance $4,000. The
white Slave" company lost their scenery
and costumes, worth $1,000.
BUSINESS BLOCKS IN ASHES.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, Dec. "a special to
the Eventng Wisconsin from New Rich
mond, Wis, says: "A large portion OF the
business center of the CITY
was wiped out by fire last night
The loss will aggregate between $75, 900 and
100000, with about $40, 900 insurance
Fire engines from st. Paul saved the city,
as 1t was without fire apparatus"
FIRECRACKERs KILL MAN.
Boston, MASS, Dec 0.-The flrecracker
house of Masten & Wells, fireworks manu-
facturers, was blown up shortly before
o'clock this afternoon. But few men were
In the building. One person was killed and
four badly jured, all workmen. The loss
is about $50
MORE BODIES FOUND.
LOUISVILLE. KY, Dec. 10, / A. Mt is
in ruins Of the Boone Paper Company's
building instead OF the Bamberger. Strong g.
Co. building, as at first supposed, that the
four missing fremen are now believed to
be. The hose they were working stretches
out into the street and serves as guide to
the searchers.
From the ruins of Mem e. Co g candy
factory seven bodies have been taken, one
Of which Is that Charles Kimmel, a partner
In the firm. The other bodies are supposed
to be IN the ruins.
OFFICES ON FIRE.
CHATTANOOGA. TENN, Dec. 9.--Fire to-
night in the business center of the city did
considerable damage to block OF one-story
structures rented mostly as ofIlces The
aggregate loss will, however, not be heavy.
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