Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-06-08
BRAVE MEN KILLED. /.
Two Firemen Lose Their Lives and Sew
eral Are Injured by the Collapse Of the
Walls of a Burning Building Ia Omaha,

BRAVE MEN kIllED.
Two Firemen Lose Their Lives and Sew
eral Are Injured by the Collapse Of the
Walls of Burning Building In Omaha,
Neb.
OMAHA, Neb., June 5.-The large
furniture house of Charles ,Shiverick s
Co., on Farham street, burned to the
ground Saturday night, and the fire
was attended withthe death of Capt.
c. D. Cox and Robert Ouray, Of the fire
department., and the fatal injury of
Firemen Ben Morris, Charles Ellington,
George Coulter, G. II. Pringleand James
Conley, of Scranton, Pa, bystander.
The loss on the building is $40, 900 and
the stock s15O,OOO Ed Maurer's res
taurant next door was damaged $685.
600.
During the progress of the fire the
west wall fell, burying the fremen in
the ruins. The fire was caused by
lightning in the worst storm ever ex-
perienced in Omaha. For six hours the
rain descended in torrents and the
lightning never ceased. Telephone and
telegraph wires are burned out, cellars
flooded in almost every part of the city,
and it is roughly estimated that 800,
900 worth of damage has been done to
property.
Heavy rains earlier in the day had
pretty well filed the lowlands of Omaha
and shortly after appeals began to
come in to the police station for help
from the rising waters in thenorthern
part of the city. The fire alarm was
sounded and several companies sent to
the scene. Another force of firemen
was assigned to the southern districts
of the city, where a like situation pre-.
vailed. The fremen found many fam
lilies i'll the second stories of their dwell
ings with a current as swift as the
Missouri threatening TO start their
homes down the river. In many places
the flood was 6 feet deep and rising
with alarming rapidity.
Firemen went to the rescue of the
imprisoned people with everything
that would float two persons. Shed
doors were in demand, and in some
instances prominent citizens came
sailing down the middle of the
avenues between the street car
tracks on their parlor doors, hastily
detached for the purpose of going
for assistance for their families.
Those residing in cottages in Iooded
districts were in the greatest danger,
and many were forced to the highest
point of any single story houses to avoid
the rushing torrents.
Hundreds of people lined the high
grounds surrounding the inundated
places to render what assistance was
possible to those seeking shelter after
being driven from their homes. The
districts from which families were re-
moved from their homes were in the
vicinity of Grace, Clark, Twenty
fourth and Nineteenth streets on the
north, and along Costello and adjacent
avenues on the south. "a
AN OLD BANK ASSIGNS.
Hermann Schaffner & Co., of Chica go
Forced to Suspend-The Senior Partner
CHICAGO, June 5.-Herman Schafner
& Co., the oldest and largest
private bankers in the west, did
not open their doors in the Title and
Trust building Saturday and the news
that the institution was insolvent was
soon the talk of the town. To add to
The excitement came the report that
MIR. Schaffner, one of the best known
men in Chicago and one of the
most popular of the Jewish race,
could not be found, the result. OF
the report being the rumor! that
the banker had beco ne insane over his
troubles or had taken his own life. The
banking firm made an assignment in
the county court at 1910 am. In the
absence of statement by the as.
signes it is given out, but not
authoritatively, by those concerned
that the liabilities of the concern will,
not exceed $500, 1000 and that the assets
more than cover the amount.
Mr.. Schaffner's family have offered
a reward of $500 for information as te
the missing mans whereabouts. The
bank had been in business since 1878
Herman Schaffner and A. G. Becker
composed the firm. The bank trans
acted but little deposit business. Its
specially was the handling of commer
cial paper. In this way the firm is
reported to have handled in the last
year s35, OOO,OOO worth of paper. The
assignment was made, it is said, from
the fear that when the fact of Schaff'
ner's disappearance became public there
would be run on the bank.