The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1893-07-11
ANOTHER DAMAGING FIRE
On the Chicago Worlds Fair
Grounds.
Twenty Lives Are Known to Have
Been Lost.
The Great Cold storage Ware House
Catches aud the 265-Foot Tower Col
lapses, BaryinG Thirty Five Fire
men In the burning Debris.

Apsas, hurytng thirty -klye Flro-
men In the burning Debris.
WoRLD's FAIR GROUNDS, CHIcA GO,
July 10.--The tower Of the big cold
storage warehouse, near the Sixty.
fourth street entrance, Is on fire.
II Is now said the building collapsed
and IS or 80 fremen are in the ruins,
including Chief Murphy.
1:50 r. M While the hremen were al
the dome Of the building fighting what
seemed to be an incipient fire, the
flames suddenly burst out 25 feet below
them, about midway Of the big tower,
The imprisoned firemen-- about % In
number were forced to jump The
distance to the roof of the building Is
about 100 feet and many of them have
been killed.
The work OF the department Is at q
standstill, while the flames are spread
ing Ambulances, with assistance from
the different fire departments, are ar
irving from outside the ground, "a, 900
excited men and women surround the
building, yelling like Indians. The ex-
citement is Intense.
The tower fell at 1:55 p. M. and as il
crashed down upon the bodies Of the
PROSTATE men lying upon the roof 1t
went through to the bottom, taking
with ii the bodies Of the unfortunate
men who had just made their terrible
leap
This carried the tower and the
bodies Of the firemen through the roof
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raging underneath.
The fire then broke out all around
the thinly constructed bnilding, and in
five minutes IL was ablaze all over.
About 80 firemen who had gotten on
the roof TO remove the bodies of the
mon were caught In this second death
trap.
But one ladder was to be had, and they
endeavored to get away from the roof
by this route.
A number Of them fell TO the ground,
distance Of nearly 100 feet, and IL Is
thought several were carried down by
the caving Of the roof.
The fire is famed by twenty-milc
breeze, and is spreading TO the paint
shops directly to the south.
The cold storage building stood on
the extreme western edge of the
grounds, near the Sixty fourth street
station, and but for this fact 1t would
have communicated its flames quickly
10 the other buildings
Vast amount of ammonia, used in
making artificial ice, has added to the
fire and the flames are spreading with
great rapidity
The fire department is almost hope
lessly paralyzed by the loss. Of their
men.
The Columbian guards are endeavor-
ing to keep the crowds back. but it is
impossible, and an excited multitude,
now increased to $1,000 people, sur
rounds the building at safe distance
The estimates Of loss of human life
are at present understandable with any
degree Of accuracy
II is safe to say that 20 fremen have
been killed, while there are ramors OF
the loss reaching 35 human lives.
A number of visitors were in the
lower part of the building, together
with the workmen, and ii is not known
whether all have escaped.
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lamity that has ever occurred in con-
nection with the fair
The body of Capt Fitzpatrick, in
charge of tbs fire department stationed
at the service building, has Inst been
taken from the ruins He went up on
the east side of the tower. and when it
collapsed he was seen to reach out for
help, and, IN spite Of the efforts Of three
men who kept hoseon him. he fell be-
low and was burned
Another victim is Dennis Lynch He
fell to the floor below He was the
last to leave the tower, and he fell.
His legs were broken and he can not
live. Henry Geduldig, superintendent
OF the painters staff employed on the
building, Is believed to be dead. 1t is
thought he went below into the fiery
furnace
~ Is now said that 10 men were killed
Accompany of regulars have been sent
to the scene to aid the Colu mbian
guards. The building is one mass OF
flames totally beyond the control Of
the fremen, and the pafntshop. a
building l00x25o feet and two stories
high is on fire in many places. ii will
also GO
The heat from the flames is intense,
the crowds being kept back distance
of 500 feet.
panic was narrowly averted when
some person started rumor that the
ammonia used in the building was
about to explode Women and children
crushed pell-meu away from the build
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