Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1893-07-11

THE BUILDING THAT ROASTED THE MEN.
time after the fire started that many peo-
pie who entered the building hoping to
render aid-before the peril under which
they were placing themselves was realized
were caught like rats in trap and went
unannounced to their DOOM 1t is said
that six Columbian guards are missing.
but there are many vacancies in the diff
ferent companies scattered about the
grounds, and the captains, while refusing
to commit themselves, fear that their men
have been cremated.
Dead, Missing and Fatally Hurt.
The follow. ,g is list of those who met
death, the missing and the injured: Dead
Captain James Fitzpatrick, acting chief
Columbian fire department; John Nc
Bride, driver, company No. s; William
Denning, trrckman, Company No. s;
Lieutenant Moulter, truck IS; unknown
American, initials on belt II w" or
an. H.
Missing-Captain Carney, fire company
No. l; Captain Page, fire company No. ?;
Lieutenant Purvis, fire company No. 4;
Phil Breen, pipeman company No. 8; Lieu
tenant Freeman, company No. /; John
Smith, pipeman company No. 2; Paul
Schroeder, truckman company No s; John
Cahill, truckman company No. s; Sergeant
Donaldson, Columbian guard; four other
Columbian guards; H. Strand, company
No Columbian guards; Henry Geduldig,
foreman of painters in cold storage build
ing.
Fatally injured-W. o. Mahoney, lad.
derman, Company No. /; internally and
legs and feet fractured
The Roll of Injured.
Injured-Captain William Barry, fire
company No. s; right hand amputated:
Frank Bielen' erg, fireman, hands badly
burned; Sig Nordrum, fireman, leg burned
and body bruised; Lewis Frank, fireman,
burned about the face and body; NJ. Muir
ray, guard, asphyxiated, but recoverinr:
John Davis, guard, hands burned; w. G.
Fisher, face and head burned.
William Lynch, scalp wounds;
7. j. Donation. hands burned; G. S Ha-
man, badly scalded and hands crushed:
G, B, French, right leg injured; Fred
Goetz, right hip injured; Frank Faulkner
fireman, sprained ankles; Captain Ker-
nedy, Comp. ~ No. ), hands and face
burned; four other firemen hands badly
burned, treated at Emergency hospital and
taken away by their friends be-
fore their names were ascertained
Mrs. E. d. Moore, burned face and hands;
H. Breckenridge, Columbian guard bills.
tered both hands; James Kenyon, marshal
Twelfth battalion, left leg cut; Martin
Kimball. Columbian guard, both hands
burned and left leg sprained; William
Lenehan, driver of engine No 8, split
scalp; Edward Murray, Columbian guard.
asphyxiated, recovered; George Paris, fire
man engine company 6, hands and arms
blstered.
Cause of the Terrible Disaster.
The cause of this frightful loss of life
was the iron funnel that went from top to
bottom of the great tower. There is an
other cause. For weeks the cry in the
city papers and elsewhere has been
economy" in the management of the fair.
Particularly was the demand made for
reduction Of the Columbian guard, there
being in some quarters the fiercest denun.
citation of those very useful men. and Col.
onel Rice, the commander of the corps.
has come for good share thereof. Tho
colonel would say but little when aue3-
toned as to the cause of the catastrophe.
What Economy Is Responsible For.
This is what he said: "This is the result
of the reduction in the force of guards by
the administration If the two QUARTS
who were taken from the warehouse last
week had been there they could
have extinguished the fire with
the chemicals at hand as they hal
done before in the same place. The guards
were there to take precautions against fire
because of the dangerous construction of
the bnilding.u 1t is fact that the tower
was on fire twice before and the fire was
extinguished as the colonel states.
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