The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-07-11
AFlTAL FIRE AT THE FAIR.
Eiabtccn Men Killed and Nineteen
Others Injured.

Warehouse and Ice Skating Rink
mhe victims of the Horror Caught
In the Tower Before They Realized
Their Peril.
Chicago, July 1O.-Fire was discovered
n the tower of 9 big cold storage ware
Iouse near the Sixty-Fourth street en-
trance of the worlds fair this afternoon
otl.50 O'Clock While large number of
fr.men were on the tower of the building
flames burst out below them and they
were forced to jump to the roof below,
distance of about 100 feet. A
ta,y minutes later the tower fell upon
the roof, crushing it iu and carrying into
the burning building a large number
Of fremen, dead and alive.
Among those carried down
by the tower were some who had come,
mon the roof to help their companions
ohad fallen or jumped from the dome.
This all happened in sight of 10000 orF30-
0Qovsitors to the fair. The exciten ont
among them was iudescribable. Fire
Marshal Murray reports fourteen fiHmen
killed. Two or three painters at work
in the tower could not possibly
have escaped and several Columbian
c1,ards who ioned in the effort 10 ex-
tinguish the fire at its first Appearance
lost their lives. The cold storage
warehouse was destroyed; its dimen-
sions were l30 by 255 feet. 1t had a mas
sive tower running to an altitu6S) of 260
feet The place was outfitted wa tn COM
plete apparatus for the manufactur of
ice. cold storage, etc, and was. on the
grounds as an exhibit. An artificial ice
rink in the top story had just cen com
pleted and the place was usually thronged
with sight seers.
FLIMsILY CONSTRUCTED.
Chicago, July 10, II p. MA fimslly
constructed building, erected, by the Her
cnlcs Iron Co., of Chicago used as a
cold storage warehouse and ice skating
rink, and situated near the Sixth street
entrance to the exposition grounds, was
burned to the ground in a little over an
hour this afternoon, sending TO death, as
far as is known at midnigfR, at least Is
men and inluring 10 others
The full extent of the death wrought
may never be known, as the building col
la5ped in so short time after the fire
started that many people who entered
the building hoping to reader aid before
the peril under which they were placing
themselves was realized, were caught
like rats in trap. 1t is said that but
four Columbian guards are missing, but
there are many vacancies in the different
companies scattered about the grounds
and dtheir captains while refusing to com
nit themselves, fear that their men have
Following is is list of those who met
death. the missing and the injured:
ID.
Capt James Fitzpatrick, acting chief
Of the Columbian fire department.
John Mcbride, driJer OF company No.
William Denning, truckman of company
Nos
An unknown AmeG Gican with the initials
Oh his belt, H. w" or IN. H"
MISSING.
Capt Garvey, of Fire Company No. |.
Capt Page, of Eth'e Company No 2.
Lieut.. Pcrvis, of Fire Company No. 4.
Phil Brecn, pipe Dan, Company No. ).
Lieut. Freeman, Company No. l.
John Smith, piTeman, Company No 2.
Paul Schrmderb truckmau, Company
Nos
John Cahill, trdclIman, Company No. s.
Sergeant Dona ldson, Columbian guard.
Four Columbian Guards.
H. $. Strand, Company No 4, Colum-
bian Guards
Henry Geduing, foreman of the
painters in the cold storage building.
Lieut.. Walter, truck 16.
FATALLY INJURED.
w. O. Mahcmay, ladderman, Company
No !, internally injured and legs and feet
fractured.
INJURED.
Capt William Barry, fire company No.
!, right hand amputated.
Frank Bellenberg, fireman, hands badly
injured
Sig, NordInm, fireman, leg burned and
body bruised
Lewis Frank, fireman, burned about the
lace and body.
NJ Murray, guard, asphyxiated, but re-
covering
John Davis. guard, hands burned.
W. G. Fisher, face and head burned.
william Lynch, scalp wounds.
l. j. DOrHhOn, hands burned.
H. >. Haman badly scalded and hands
crushed
&. b. FlHnch, right leg injured.
FRED GQetz, right hip injured,
frank Faulkner, fireman, sprained
Capt Kennedy, Company No 5, hands
and face burned.
four other tiremen with hands burned,
were treated at the Emergency hospital
anu taken away by their friends before
Lnglr nam cs were ascertained.
Denninsg died soon after being brought
70 the hospital from his burns and other
g. Mrs. 8. D. More, burned about the
IaGe and hands,
H. breckenridge, q Columbian guard,
company 80; lived at Fincastle, Va,
aupped down a line of hose, blistering
Doth haglds.
lanes Kenyon, marshal of the twelfth
,U,Salilon, left leg cut by an arc light glass,
m4eh fell when the wires burned off;
not Sc rious.
Martin Kimball, a Columbian guard of
ffonN my A. lived at St. Paul, both hands
'IUIACu U.,u and left leg sprained.
WIklam Lenehan, driver of engine No.
y 'ei Ieil&trom ladder and split his scalp.
s.rI Ll F" ard \. Murry, a Columbian guard,
ptaF[lated, recovered after treatment
al the hospital
20 Paris a fireman of Engine Com
PaH5 FNo. e, hands and arms blistered.
AN NEXPLosIoN FEARED.
c. In9 foreign commissioners and United
So %,aH S army officers acted promptly in re
5uI TO furnishing men for guard duty
y,Iu y the hight of the excitement,
y.lI wnR n almost reached a panic, when it
,r "~ feared that the blazing wreck of the
W., %o2 len shell would explode on account
~ "lc ammonia stored there and the boil