Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-11
EATH AT THE FAIR.
tbtecn Men and Probably More
Hurried IntO Eternity.
CRNED IN MID-AIR,
the walls OF Ruined
snud,ng-sucs Their Terrible Fate
Many Injured.
.r,.,,yraps to tho Dispaich.l

...,asa cold-stOrace WarenOuse anu
80, ucs. and situated near tho
.'..-tb-s,reet entrance 20 the exposi-
.-.....ls was burned to tho ground
a -..i. over an hour this stternoon.
,.-, !e4th. ~ far as IS known at
~ ~. 40 least eighteen men and IN
nineteen others.
.., extent Of the death wrought
,..,.'r ne known, as the building COZ
t,iallv m 50 short a time after the
4 s,.rtci that many people who entered
Xfy,l.irC hoping to render asslstahce oe-
tlo peril under when thsy were
kang themselves was feAilzou "e'e
Eglfhkr rats IN trap.
so,d that bnt four Columbian
4 ia arc missing. but there are many
r.. IN the different companies scat
e nssnt the grounds. and their cap
while refusing TO commit them
fear that thor men have been ere
4 pEAD AND MISSING.
q Loving IS list Of those who met
4 ~ The missing. and the inlured;
"a al. Captain james Fitzpatrick, act
Il l.of Columbian FIRE Department.
4 .Lr wa American, initials on belt
Il IS. .7 or M. H."
q .r NcBrlde. driver. Company No. 8.
n .Am Denning. truckman. Company
ing. Captain Garvey, Fire Company
4 .I,ain Page. Fire Company No. 8.
n tenant Motion, Truck 10.
,.ltarant Purvis. Fire Company No. 4.
b.. Brseu. plpeman, Company No. 3.
j 55gfruan. Freeman. Company No. /.
4 lin Smith, pipeman. Company No. 2.
1,.I SCHROEDER, truckman, Company
4 70 Cahil. truckman, Company No. :.
Il fcoaut Donaldson, COLUMBIAN uuatu'
j .ur Columbian guards.
"a e. strand. Company No. 4, Coluinoiah
y Esrd. s.. -
i I,,ry Geduldig. foreman of painters IN
}. I-stoIago building.
TIE INJURED.
n tally injured: W. o. Mahoney, ladder
n Nr, Company No. ], lnteTnaiIy H.
IL J and legs and feet fractured.
7frrrad. Captain William Barry, Fire
4 upang 40. 5. right hand amputated.
q f.lk Woleuberg, fireman, hands badly
4 Nordrum, fireman, leg burned and
e. frank, fireman, burned about the
j aad tody 80,
81 Murray. guard, partially asphy1iated,
ni r-cover'ng.
BON Davis. guard. hands burned.
N e.. Fisher, face and head burned.
n Iham iNpch. scalp wounds.
N D. D1uahon. hands burned.
Ia Is. H4mau, badly scalded and hands
fnsled
IA. B. French. rqht leg injured.
a.rt.f lltrs rFrn r4aH
1ruk Faulkner, fireman, spralned an-
Iaptsin Kennedy Fire Company No. 8,
al ds and face burned.
A. other hromen, hands badly burned,
nstted al Emergency Hospital and taken
<tv Nv their friends before thor names
1rre ascertaluod.
a.. Is. ID. Moore, face aud hand burned.
B.uulug died soon after beng brought
D IT. hospital from ms burns and other
Mo c,
.o,nutuN no. 30. home at flncastle, va.
Ind down "a line of hose. clustering
pih hands.
'Jarr, KENYON. marshal, Twelfth Batta-
I.f '-g cue rv hight globes, which
n when wires Woro burned oil ; not seri-
'Al.rt.u Kimball. Columbian Guard. Com
n. $50 4. home at 81. Paul; both hands
4, "a and lctt leg sprmned.
fNIuu ieutham. driver of engine No.
IN from ladder aud split his scalp.
HI lNsIi Murry. Columbian Guard, part
h sa-plyN.t"d; recovered alter treatment
hospital
h .-, far,. fireman, engine company
i llIs Ald arms bllstefod.
ALMOST PANIC.
"a .. foreign commissioners and United
Il, ,.- army Yifcers acted promptly IN re-
n O.. furnishing men for guard duty
81 ., the height Of the excitement.
IA almost reached "a panic when II was
ka tlv blazing wreck OF the wooden
would explode Oh account of the
n l..... stored there and the boilers, but
b word wa, soon passed around that the
n il..l q was ia sOid form. All the men OF
"a llrl lutnntry. tnited states Army. on
III p. fn "a" exposition camp, the French
arm. C.Iys. spanish Military Guard, and
n g4iu hlls' cowboys reinforced the
n Guards and uniformed guides, who.
n tLe ambulance and hospital corps.
ftr..I lu maintaining order, and etfec-
b. until the iuhammable towering mass
b. become smoking black ruin. Later
n Tho day Is most effective Gordon around
n ruins was formed bv immense pools OF
ka'Dr from the pipes. hvdrants, and hose.
fiu- served the fremen IN good stead
aa thew wore engaged IN shaking the
b '-.s and pulling away blackened umbers
\ rot at the bodies of tho victims or what
nma.uci Of them.
lhc loss of property will probably reach
-, 1000.
CUT oFF ny TIiF FLAMES.
Before the fremen got to work several
,auteIs. elcctno-light, men, and Others
Employed IA the building ascended 10y
J elevators 70 the main roof, and alter
sard, climbed up the spiral staircase
.ich was bulit around the great death
hap OF u smoke-stack until they reached
b. balcony underneath the burning GU
a. They found tho flames had gone too
b. 20 be smothered by the chemicals at
haud They waited for the hremen to
|uu them, thinking they could be OF as
nstaucc. About thirty men were upon
be tower and were cut of 10y the flames.
Due man, painter. slid down q line of
se that had been carried up by the fire
n.,u. Others waited aud were burned TO
ash or were killed or injured by legping
j. the roof below.
Many of these who jumped were i'm
badded fast ia the root composition. A
fOYo hung from the upper balcony, and o
amber 81 the Gagged men were seen 10
ttrasglo tor possession Of the rope, but II
.o5u burned OF. One by one they dropped
frou the tower. some cllnging to the
ming rope as far as 1t afforded them any
q. aad then shooting through a solid
ILcct II Games TO the roof.
An APPALLING SIGHT.
The sight was too much tor even the
phtary men aud old hremen on tho
krouud 90 bear without shudder and a
slniug away OF faces. Human forms
|eap!ug through danes "a hundred feet OF
faorc down. down, down 70 sure death.
5roscutcd a sight the stoniest heart could
p; witness UnmOyed.
he las. man on that tower died the he
p death among all those heroes who
hosd the furnace below them. he had
Rn'tec without apparent fear until there
g ouiy himself left. He was fireman,
ni De- grssped the remnant OF burning
~ Just a. tho whole tower structure
Tted diagonally and fell towards the
TN, night over the PROSTATE bodies OF
- poor fellows who had lesped 10
ape TIE pitiless flames. The last man
20 woIt down 20 desth with the tower
~ ite' down as far as the rope went and
eh the rush Of flames and air was 10
a Vis' bus body was turned round and
pGnu ih i's passage within sight OF all,
20 the blazing tower fell over his form,
nnAlng a funeral pyre and ending hls
fVny' ne Vas not dead before striking
4he ROOT
When the tower toppled over there was
Pl9 hope Of saving any who bad not been
tNkch on the roof. The bodies on striking