The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-10
DEAD In THE RUINS.
More Than a Dozen Lives Lost
by Fires in Louisville.
FOUR FIREMEN BURIED ALIVE.
Forty Girls ut Work I'm . Candy Factory
Cut on From the stairs-The Charred
Bodies OF seven Recovered.

LOUISVILLE, Dec. Awhile french were
raklng away the ruins of the Boone Paper
Company at 40 O'Clock this morning
the adjoining four-story brick block of
Hamburger, strong & Co. fell. Some
say there was an explosion in tie
building, but this is unlikely. -Four
hremen-Thomas Moore, lillian Davis. samuel
Baker and Tony Schliek. all OF No. / hook
ana ladder compsny-were overwhelmed, and
Their bodies are wedged in between the huge
piles OF paper tina, filled the cellar OF the Boone
Paper Company
The following firms were burned out: Bam-
berger strong & Co, boots ana shoes: loss. sl25,
CO..; insurance, 10000 Bliss, Wilson & Co.,
furnishing goods and notions; loss, 81, 600; in
surance, $4,000 Weller, Wolfok & Payne, boots
and shoes: loss. $4,000: insurance unknown.
Johanooeke Sons. hats; loss, $4,000; insur-
ance, $685.
AT o'clock another fatal fire broke out al F.
NJ Aenne & Co.'S wholesale candy and fancy
grocery house, square above the Boone Paper
Company's building Forty girls were
a. work on the fourth floor. and
all were not able 10 escape The
bodies of Lulu Klein, Carrie Luckhardt, Bar
oara Bell. Amanda Diekey, William Hull
meier, Charles Kimmel, Clara and Ida Parker
have been recovered James Weinler and Thomas
Buchler, who worked at Menne's were also mis-
sing his afternoon, but their relstives have not
been heard rom tonight The injured are Katie
MeGarvey, Theresa HoI;naus, Edward Iniger.
Lille Greenwaid, May Hughes. James INITIAL,
Patrick sheehy, Alien Grimes, Henry Wether-
ford.
The IRE cut of escape by the stairway leading
from the fourth floor, where the girls were at
work. Many jumped from the windows to
second story projection, and ESCAPED with
broken limbs aud bruised bodies Others got
out unhurt With its forces weakened and de-
moralized by the accident of the early
morning the fire department was called to the
disaster al the candy factory To add to the
casualties and confusion Chief Hughes, OF the
hFe department, was bsily hurt in the accident
this morning, suffering conclusion OF tae
brain. He and Henry Wetherfori, the chiefs
assistant. while going to the FIRE were run
into by salvage corps wagon, and their buggy
smashed and trampled by the horses but the
injuries OF Motherhood not so bad as those of
his chief number OF other fremen were
badly injured at the candy shop fire. In the
face OF these disasters the fremen stood bravely
at their work. and within half an hour had the
flames under control, but within this time half
score of lives were sacrificed.
How the fires originated is still uncertain.
There were oBly two Office fires at the Boone
Paper Company's building, and il ia certain the
flames originated in neither OF these. At Menne
& Co.'S number of fires We're burning, but no
one can account for the starting OF the confia-
grafton.
The loss on the MEME Company's building
and stock is placed at $4,000, and the total loss
by eli the fires will be nearly $4,000. The
flames stopped at George W. Wickes & Co.'S
cotton house
NEW RICHMOND. Wis, Dec. "a large por-
ton of the business part OF the city was wiped
ont by fire last night. The loss will aggregate
about 10000 with $4,000 insurance Fire en-
gines from ST. Paul saved the city, as it 10
without fire apparatus.