The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-06-29
By FALLING WALLS
Minneapolis Firemen Meet
Death in the Perform
anCe of Duty.
SIX DEAD, SEVERAL INJURED.
McDonald's Wholesale Crock
cry House Was Totally
Destroyed.

MINNEAPoLIs, June 9.-One of the
most disastrous fires which ever visited
Minneapolis accomplished its work Of
destruction and death during the
night. Within an hour after the alarm
rang in at IL o'clock six firemen paid
the penalty of death for their faithful
ness in trying to save the property Of
others. The names of the dead are:
JOSEPH Hoy, truckman.
WALTER RICHARDSON, hoseman.
FRANK EULAINE, lieutenant of hose
company.
JOHN HoRNER, truckman.
CHRISTIAN SAND RS, hoseman.
BERT THOMAS, hoseman, died on the
way to the hospital
Several others were seriously injured,
and it is thought there may be still
more dead who have not yet been ex-
tricated from under the ruins OF the
walls which fell and crushed them.
The seriously injured are: Ed Thielen,
lieutenant of hook and ladder company
No. 2; Captain Caldwell, engine COM
pany No. 6; Frank Egan, hoseman;
Henry Grau, supply wagon, and man
named Gray.
Fell without Warning.
When the firemen arrived at the
scene the building was mass Of flames.
The heat from the fire was intense, and
it soon became evident that the Barge
block at the corner of First avenue
south and Washington avenue. and
Immediately abutting the Mcdonald
building. was in great danger.
Soon after the firemen got to work
an explosion occurred in the North
Star Clothing company's store. The
explosion was followed by q general
crashing and breaking of glass in the
Mcdonald building, the falling OF iron
shutters and the loud crashing in OF
two of the upper floors. With a
mighty roar the flames shot up, and
had burned but few moments in the
deluge of water poured upon it, when
the rear portion OF the side wall facing
the alley fell with q crash. Joseph
Hoy, pipeman of No. 2, had just come
down off the fire escape in the rear OF
the building, and Lieutenant Frank
Eulaine was half way up ladder
When the Crash Came,
tearing off some 30 feet Of the wall. AT
the foot Of the wall and in the little
blind alley between the Mcdonald
block and the adjoining building stood
five more firemen, and in the side alley
running through from Nicollet to First
avenue stood several more. Eulaine
fell from the ladder into the alley, the
brick falling on him and crushing his
head to an unrecognizable mass. Hoy,
Horner, Richardson and Sanders were
crushed to an instant death, and but a
few feet away lay the injured ones
moaning.
The brother firemen at work by the
side of the dead and injured stopped as
if in terror. Then with first thought
Of their brave comrades and not OF
other impending danger from falling
walls, dragged out of the debris the
five dead bodies and the injured. The
dead were at once taken to the morgue
and the injured to the hospital.
Property Loss 100000.
The property loss consisted of the
entire demolition of the building occu.
pied by Mcdonald Bros, dealers in
crockery. chinaware, glassware, silver.
ware and gas fixtures. The building
was four stories with brick wall and
wooden interior frame work and was
well stocked. The fire originated in
the boxes and packing stored in the
rear of the building and was beyond
the power Of the fire department te
control. At few minutes before
midnight the walls fell, one side wal
falling in and the other falling out into
the alley where the firemen were a,
work. The total loss will aggregate
over 800, 900.