St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-10
FiPemen Buried Under Fall
ing Walls and Workers
Lost in Flames.
The Death List Likely to Be
Swelled by Many Who Are
Badly Hurt.
A Day Of Dire Confusion and
Horror in the Beautiful
Falls City.

trOus fire visited this city last night,
destroying the block of buildings on the
north side of Main street, between Sixth
and Seventh. In the early evening the
store and stock of the Boone Paper
company were destroyed, entailing
loss of $4,000.
While the firemen were working in
the ruins of the Boone Paper company,
at 4:30 this morning, there came the
sound of terrific explosion in the Bam-
berger, Strong & Co. building, four
stories high, OH the east. In an instant
flames broke from every floor and shot
out through the roof. Fire must have
been smouldering for several hours in
the cellar, and when each of the four
stories had become filled with heated
air and smoke an explosion followed.
and the building was one mass of
flames.
A number of firemen, all hook and
ladder men, were caught under a fall
inc wall of Bamberger, Strong & Co.'s
building. The dead.fremen are Will
lam Moore. William Davis, Sam Baker
and Tony Schlicht.
At s o'clock another fatal fire was
raging in +. \. MEME x Co.'s whole
SdlC CoilNg dHO lduCg SIOCcIy uOuSc.
square above the Boone Paper COM
pOny's building. Forty girls were at
work wrapping candy on the fourth
floor and all
Were Not Able TO Escape.
To add to the casualties and the con-
fusion. Maj. Hughes, chief of the fire
department, was badly hurt in an acct
dent. He and Henry Weathertord, the
laf 1af1e
big fire, but they happened to get on
the wrong side of the street. as Maj.
Hughes himself states. The salvage
corps wagon ran into their buggy as
they were rapidly driving up the
street, and almost literally ran over
them. The buggy was smashed,
and the horses tramped on both
Chief Hughes and Weatherford. The
lstter's wrist was badly hurt. and when
the chief called out for help Weather
ford was unable to so to his assistance.
No. Ii engine ran into the pavement at
Twelfth and Broadway, throwing off
back, and probably gripping him
for life. A member of hook
and ladder company was at work
at Mem q Co.'S, and started
to fall, but grabbed at the broken sky
light. He saved himself from probably
a fatal plunge, but nearly severed his
hand from his arm at the wrist. In the
face of these
Disasters and Terrors
the firemen stood bravely to their work,
and new leaders took the places of those
removed. The water tower was manned
and a dozen streams brought to bear
on the place. Within half an
hour the flames were under control,
but within this time half a score of lives
were sacrificed. Of the forty girls, two
escaped at the cost OF grievOuS wounds.
They were Theresa dollhouse and Liz
Zle McGarvey, the latter with
broken leg. The flames communicated
with the big stock of Christ
mas fireworks. The hrst explosion
firebrands all over the store. The sky
light fell in and the entire stock, much
of which as.highly inf1ammable, was
fiercely blazing almost Immediately. The
Sky-rOckets, Roman candles and giant
frecrackerS were so wild in their havoc
that they impeded the work of the fire
men and made it exceedingly dangerous
for them to work uutil the last one had
exploded.
Searching the Ruins.
Gangs of workmen have been busy in
the ruins of the fire on Main street all
day since the flames were Subdued, and
are still buSiiy engaged. At Menne's,
the candy factory, SIT West avenue,
where the ten men were entombed by
the walls, there is a pile of wreckage in
the street, and broken floors and rafters
twenty feet from the front of the building
The mass is still smouldering and there
is no hope for any TO live. 1t is in the
paper company's building, instead of
Bamberger, Strong q Co.'s, as first sup
posed, the missing tiremen are now be-
iieved to be. The hose they were work
ing stretches out onto the street and
serves as a guide to the searchers. They
are hurrying out the bundles of black
ened paper with some faint hope that
one or two of the men may be still alive
wedged between the huge piles of paper
shat filled the cellar. But the steam
and occasional jets of flame breaking
out 4sHAs-IiSI Gttle chance. Crowds
gath a JfuinS but are kept
movn.H fe. They can only
see the blackeneu fronts of five of the
leading business houses of the city, and
in a dim light at narrow entrance
men moving small portions of the
smoking mass within.
At 10 O'Clock the body of Charles Kim
mel was reached at the candy factory,
and a little later two bodies, supposed
to be those of Clara Rauch and William
hulsemeier. This leaves three more
supposed to he in the ruins at this
point.
The Dead Recovered.
LULU KEN.
CARRIE LBCKHARDT.
BARBARA BELL
AMANDA DICKEY.
WILLIAM HULsEMEIER.
CHARLES kI8IMEL.
CLARA RAUCH.
Those missing and certainly dead at
the Boone Paper company are:
Tom MOORE,
SAM BAKER,
WILL DAVIS,
Tony SCHLICK,
All of No. Hook and Ladder company.
At MEME & Co.'S:
IDA BELLE PARKER,
JAMES MUNwEILER.
Thomas Bocholer, who worked at Menne's,
was also missing this afternoon, but his rela-
tive. have not been heard from tonight.
The injured are:
Katie McGarvey, leg broken, internal in
iuries.
Theresa Holthaus, bruised head. face and
arms.
Edward Ininger body bruised
Lille Grenewald, slightly injured.
Maj. Hughes cut about the head; condi-
ton critical.
Patrick Sheedy, ladderman No. 1 hook and
ladder company, badly cut about wrist and
arm,
Alice Grimes. candy maker, internal in
juries.
james NEtall engineer of the Elves y in