Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-07-11
BURNED AE|VE
Eighteen Meb Perish
at the Fair
BY the cpid Storage
House Fire.
SURROUNDED by Mer-
CHESS Flames
They Leap to Sudden,
Awful Death.

I Csacuso. Jaly To- Paid admissions AZ
/.ke FAIR today s7a8
ChIcaet, July i0A ninsiiy con
siructel building. erected by the Her
cnies Iron comrany q Chieaso. Used as
coid storage warehouse ana ace skating
riok AMI situated near the SIXTY fourth
streetenrance O. the exposlticn GROUNDS.
burned = the srouad ia a little over one
bonr this sftclno0n. sending q death, as
,ar "a u - kroNu AZ mbiuight. al least
eighteen mcu aud inJafing nineteen
others
The fali extent u the death wrought
nay nessr be knoxn as the building
cnilap-rl totally IN 80 short tune after
DO Hre started. that many people who
entered hoping 90 render AID before the
pcEl. under which they we're placing
themselves. xas realized were caught
Ike rats in a trapand went unannounced
a. their doorl. u il said that but four
Columbian guards are missing. but there
are many v4raDci-s in the dlffeEeat com
,anies shattered about the grounds and
heir CAPTAINS. wtslle refusing o. commit
h-mselsS. tear that their men have
eeca cFe6Sic,l The following j. llst
4 those VIC met death. the missing and
b. Injured.
D~ad.asd Injured
Dead: Capt. James Fitzpatrick. act
ny caisf Columbian fire Department.:
Lieutenant Moiter. truck II: John Me
Bride. driver company <o. ); William
ucnning. tFuckman company No. ;:
urkrosn American. initials III W." or
-M ~"
Missing Captain Garvey. fire com-
pAoy NJ /; Captaia Page. tire company
No. 3. Lieutenant Parves. tire company
NJ. a, Phi Breen. plpeman. company
No. :. Lieutenant Freeman. company
y. 1. John Saith. pipeman. Company
NJ. :. Paul Schroeder. trucxman. com
pany <o. >, Sergeant Donaldson. xolum-
bian guard. four Columbian ggafis. H.
Strard. company No. 4. Columbian
guaris, Henry Gesiaidig. foreman Ok
painters in cold storage building
aiaiiy injured.
~ o. Nshrney. iadsierman company
NJ J. internally and legs and feet frae
tored
lulnred.
Captain William Barry. ire company
NJ. ; right hand amputated; prank
Bielenbefg. fireman. hands badly
lu,ned. Siig Nofdrun. hreman. Lex
isisned and body bruised: Lewis Frank.
hrrnls p. harmed face and holy, NJ Muir
ray guard. azphy xiated. but recovering:
John Davis. guard hands burned.
" q Fisher. face and head burned;
William Lynch. scalp wounds. +. J.
benshnn. hands burned. G.. ;. Hamin.
halily scaislcd ans bead crushed. g. H.
French. right ie9 injured. Ftrt Goetz.
rixht bsp Injured. igank Faulkner. lire
man. slralnc1 ankie~. Captain Kennedy.
company NJ . hanis and face burned;
Mrs. 4. Moore. face and hands burned.
n Breckenridge. Columbian guSi.
comprny -. lived at flnca-tic. Va.
sisplsa ,ioxn line q hDse. hIister.
iaa 1otb hands. James Kenyon. marshal
IF-liJ battalion, eft leg cut by
ar hght globes which fell when the
virf5 we're burned ~. not serious.
Nagfin kimtaiI Colamhsan guard. com
ps/s . lived al 81 PaaL 10Th hands
t5ra,d ard lett .rE sprained: William
Lanhan. driver = engine 3. feH from
hifr sri split his salp. Edward
Nsfrs ColuHtian ruaFa. ssrhyxiated:
recovered after treatment az the hos
pifsl 1eorxe Paris. fireman engine com
other hrrmeu. han,is badly burned.
treated a. emergency bo-pital aud taken
away - their friends before their names
wprc ascertained.
Mourning f,r the Dead
Death has never done such swift and
shastiy work AZ a IRE IN Chicago since.
thr lark DAYS - Ortober. ISL The
hefrr n tte spectacle viii forever re.
usfo a. n heifou@ nightmare IN the
mt1iis - nens thousands q men and
vunen snn xszed upn ~ II vas In
tsrsi6s,l IS tn ,iseY high'h from
Wkich The victims erre -een a. tai toto
q farnsre - blaxiug fmter and other
infsmashie material D.esis - herr
ian we're done by the frcnen Who p.r
iShe,l and these who bs- g. zsiese over
thet- io@1 rosnfaies The Columbian
gstsf. is-aau we're cot lacking "a bravery
affi aesotisn o. duty N the hnnr q
dis8arr s1l errr ~ the face - death.
There : mrorasng sishtn the Waite
cifs t0sight fer the biackered rem
etots - hamsn beings faa ~ life anil
tiifs yesterday sfc iyteg beneath the
watrr @aasesi wrpek ~ stretched Out N
tir ,erxne outside sae gates. The loss
cf tnr property stii rf1tablY agnounf -
ef'r tss5 a. bot nchoiy except fhose
pfe hsre <ader~d heasrisiiy. . think.
iiiE q fte snopsy hs~ ehea Ere snd
Ersri sfaticr the eucrxency hospital
sra'ind me ems q xae ars evi.iens.ee
- tbe exp sitipn's de9siiy baptism a
IRE
Discovered hs |, fSsy.
ne Ffn Na~ shinin.4 ifs brightest fror,
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>heppart 80 - the s.ii.la t-,ck psb
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SPACES
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