Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-07-13
BRAVE MEN PERISH.
awful Results of a Fire on the
Worlds Fair Grounds.
The Coid-Storage Warehouse Bursed with
Its Contents-FFemen Forced t@ Jump
to Almost Instant Death-Seven-
teen Lives Sacrificed.
A TIE OF HoRRoR.

CHICAGO, July 1.-THE worlds fair
received baptism of fire and blood
Monday afternoon, the Cold-Storage
building proving funeral pyre for
thirteen firemen and four Columbian
guards, tweRty-four persons receiving
serious injeries. r. A.. Drummond,
Boilermaker Bernard Murphy and
Henry Ceduidid are missing and are
supposed ta have been burned to death
The fire broke out in the tall chimney.
the defective condition of which
caused the insurance men to can
eel the risks on the building one month
ago. White trying to-Gght blaze so
feet above them the firemen We're
wrapped IL flames that burst out with
out warning 20 feet below. Every man
jumped, socle into pit of fire, others
onto the roof, from which, manned and
bruised, they were taken to the hss-
pitfalls.
THE DEAF
The following were killed:
William Denning truck company No 3;
Philip B. Breen truck company No s.; Capt
james Garyey, engine company No. /; John IL
Freeman. iersenant engine company No. /;
James Fitzpatrick, "a years ole, captain engine
company No. 2 compound fracture OF arm,
tcrushed shoulder, burns and Internal injuries,
died at Emergency hospital at O'Clock;
John Mcbride, s-27 Sherman street, compound
fracture of the right leg and burns OF
arms, head and body, died al the Emergency
hospital at O'clock; John Cakill, truck com
pany No {; Burton f. Page captain truck
company No. 3; Lieut. Moulter, tuck company
No 80, died in the Emergency hospital; Charles
Puryis, lieutenant of engine company 10. I;
John A. Smith, driver engine company no. 2.
Columbian uard Pehr and three other guardS
names not yet determined.
FLAMES YIRsr SEEN.
just exactly how the fire started will
probably never b. known, but the
flames first appea.ed on the top
of the wooden cppola whiea sur
mounted the smokestack. The stack.
i91 feet high was built OF steel or iron
pipe incased in wood, IT was just
triding blaze at first, bat the little
tongues of fame. famed by stif
breeze froa the northeast, circled
around and around, gradually eating
their way downward until the
wooden pillars were on fire. BY
this time tho fremen had reached
the main roof Of the Duild-
ing, and under orders from Act
ing Chief Murphy commenced to climb
TO the first platform, 20 feet from the
roof. They assembled by means of wood
en- cIeats nailed to the side of the
tower, taking no ladders with them and
but three or four coils of rope The
first effort to get a line of hose up was
from the southeast corner Of the build
ing, an extension ladder being run up
there. Then the men on the tower let
down two Of their ropes. which were
attached to the hose. and the work Of
drawing up commenced.
Az EMBRACE OF dealt:
All this time the flames were slowly
consuming the crown Of the tower and
pieces Of blazing wood dropping own
inside and between the stack and its
covering Of pine started the flames
which soon wrapped the men IN an ems
brace Of death. Ten minute lad
elapsed before even though.
IS danger struck the fremen.
bot Little puff 4 white