The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-23
FiREMEM FALL WITH A FLOOR.
FOUR OF THE MEN KILLED AND
ONE ESCAPES UNHURT.

other Men, Women and Girls In
Jured-The Burned Building
known rs the Dry Goods and
WOODEN Exchange.
Chicago. Nov PA fire. disastrous to
life and property. swept through the Dry
Goods and Woolen Exchange building this
morning.
Five fremen. in the active discharge Of
their duty and totally unmindful of dam
ger. were carried through a floor and
buried under tons Of wreckage from the
five floors above. Four Of the men lie
dead but the fifth is not seriously in
jured.
one girl fell from a window and re-
ceived injuries from which she died
a dozen other men, women and girls
We're hurt or overcome by smoke. and
many We're rescued from imminent death.
The property loss to 2l5 and 217 Van
Buren and 276-7S Franklin street. and the
contents. is estimated at 100000.
The dead are: Patrick j. ODonnell.
lieutenant of engine company No. ?;
Thomas J. Prendergast. a pipeman; Mar
tin Sherlock, a pipeman: John Downs, a
pipeman; Kate Landgraff, employed in
A. Stein & Co.'S garter factory.
Among the injured were:
Daniel McNally pipeman, removed to
ST. Lukes hospital, spralned leg and
bruises.
Olga Keller, leg and arm injured.
Nellie Turner. fell from fourth story
window and seriously hurt
Harry O'Neill, arm broken and back
injured.
John Bruenheimer, badly injured by
falling from the fourth story, while as
sisting girls TO escape.
The others who were injured were girls
ana spectators, who saved them all be-
! ing overcome by smoke, but they soon
| recovered after medical treatment at
! hospitals or their homes.
All the dead and injured firemen were
members Of Engine Co No. ?. Their cap
| tain, Lewis Fieene, escaped the awful
! plunge to death only by hanging to the
! wall Of the window on the second floor un-
III released from his perious position by
! iremen on ladder.
The owner of the burned building is Ma
| than Fischer of the clothing firm whose
/ factory and warehouse is at Van Buren,
| and Franklin streets opposite the scene
! OF death and destruction.
! The following firms were burned out in
| the L-shaped building, which was of one
| the most hre-proof and ornamental in the
| wholesale district: Arnold, Innings and
| sale tailors trimmings: Stern * Beirs,
! wholesale clothing: s. Bernhefrner. SAM
! pies cotton goods; Louis NJ. Barnett tall
ors; the Dime Lunch Co. Warning Bros,
| carpet soap, j. Gralfeldt samples buttons;
i
| BrQadhurst, Lee q Co. Wholesale cotton
| and wooden goods. n. q. Pechman & Co,
wholesale clothing; Arnold Wolf fancy
| ana gentlemen's furnishing goods; W. l..
! loewenback manufacturers agents:
| Branhall Bros. & Co.. samples woolens;
NJ. Kelien, samples clothing; Philip Klein.
gffPHG5tureg gfH5 Of carriers, - . Rq55s- il
ing: Stevens, Sanford & Handy. samples
! clothesi Klotz. Neith q Co, samples but
! tons; Fellows q Co, wholesale linen col
! lars and cuffs 5. ID. Strytter. manufac-
| turers' agents Kalamazoo Pant and over
| coat Company, A. NJ. Ltebenstein, whole
| sale silk handkerchlefs; r. f. Lonacher,
| Wholesale cotton goods: Assenheim &
! Rich, samples clothing; Judah Bros, sam
! pies cloaks and suits f. Butterheid 4 Co.
| pies wcolens; Leavitt * Mitchell Bros,
/ samples cloths, Ccnterville Manufacture
| ing Company, plush cloths; S. Einstein,
| agent; Louis friedman, samples cloth
! ing; S. Worthiemer q Co, samples; Erie
| Button Works samples; 5. Kahan. adyer-
! Using noYeitlesi ID. Rosenkranz, gents
! furnishings Otheman Dyer & South
| wick, samples cloths; Military News Pub
! fishing Company, composing room; Ma
/ tonal Thread Company; Hammond,
! Knowlton K Co wholesale thread; Y.
| Hellesoe. Rubber Type Company; Town
! send Son, Wholesale hosiery and un-
! Gerwear; ;: r Loslnsky, garment manu-
tacturers; NJ Delee, tailor; Hinch & Oulds
| samples cloths.
The loss on the building is 100000, al
| most covered by insurance.
| The aggregate loss of the many tenants
| is placed at 100000. the heaviest individ-
ual loser being Stern < Beirs SIS 900
| The fire started at 9:l3 o'clock on the
fourth floor Of the seven-story build
| ing, in the garter factory of Stein & Co.
/ where many girls We're at work Two
| of these. Kate Landgraf and Nellie Tur-
ner, jumped from the windows TO the
! sidewalk. The others Were helped down
by the firemen and by John Bruenheimer.
/ The latter fell himself after all the girls
| hurt
The janitor thinks the fire was incen-
| diary, and accused a man named BueI.
while other occupants of the building say
| the fire originated in a little room on the
| third floor used in the making of papier
mache forms. No arrest has been made
| in connection with the FIRE.
| Shortly after 1 o'clock came the sec
ond tragedy of the fire. The flames had
been practically eNunguished and the
iremen of engine company No. were
ordered to the fourth floor in the rear
to put out any incipient blaze that might
| be found, much of the contents in thar
! Soaked Not one of the Veteran firemen
| from Chief Swenie down, imagined there
| was any danger from falling floors. The
unfortunate men had taken their hose
from the fourth to the second floor. and
no hre being found. Chen Fiene went to
the window on the north and was in the
act of shouting TO Peter Hart. the driver
| when the fatal crash came.
From the top floor came like an ava
/ lanche tons of timbers fire-proof tiline
merchandise, safes, radiators, fixtures
from the different Offices and a mass of
| other stuff on the heads and on all sides
of the tremen who put duty before safety
| An immense hole was made in the rear
| end of the second floor from the roof
| down, great masses of debris hanging on
| the edges or the opening A cry of horror
arose from civilians and firemen, mingled
with the artillery-like roar of the col
| lapse.
capt Fiene clung for dear life to the
window sin until rescued and then bravelv
Joined the small band of resCuers. whom
Shlel oWelhe sent 70 tne debris, only one
All the others had probably been killed
instantly. After half am hours work
the men. who were i'm danger every min
ute Of more flooring falling on them. ex-
tricated McNally. and the others being
given up for dead streams of water were
poured on the ruins from all parts on ac-
| count of fire breaking out and to save
the bodies from being burned All the
dead fremen We're married and leave large
families. The work of recovering the
bodies was continued throughouf the