Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1897-08-14
A FATAL. FIRE IN CHICAGO.
Four Lives Are Lost at the Burning
Of an Elevator and Many
Injured.

Four Lives Are Lost at III Burning
Of an Elevator and Many
Injured.
Chicago. Aug. -Four lives were lost
in an explosion which occurred late
yesterday afternoon during a fire in the
Northwestern grain elevator at Cook
and West Water streets. Three of the
dead are fireqnen. The rojrta victim,
an unknown man, WIS IOWA ir.o the
Chicago river by the force OF the explo-
sion. Fifty-one firemen were injured,
some of them seriously. A number OF
passersby were hurt also. Either the
bursting of a boiler or the explosion of
mill dust caused the awful havoc.
List OF Dead and Injured.
The dead are:
Jacob j. Sohnur.
John j. Corgan.
Jacob 5. Stramer.
Unknown man
The injured:
Charles II. Conlay, fireman, burned
about the face, and hands and body
crushed; may die.
Chief Dennis Swenie, right foot
crushed, left arm wrenched and pain
fully burned.
Fire Marshal Champion, burned about
the face.
Lieutenant Smith, both legs crushed.
Lieutenant w. II. Bartlett.
Assistant Engineer Benz. Blanc, body
bruised.
John f. Smith, injured by debris.
VIM. Mcclure, 10 years old, both feet
crushed.
Thomas Engle. pipeman, cut about
the face and hands, internally injured
lgnatius Bond, cut by falling glass.
Captain John Jones. struck by debris
and rendered unconscious; condition Sc
rious.
William Hanley, pipeman, u in the
head.
William Thompson, hut by falling
glass.
c. f, Walters, knocked down by ex-
plosion and injured about spine.
John HEINZ, struck by falling beam
and skull fractured.
James Mcclure, leg fractured,
Joseph Lacey. badly burned about the
face; case serious.
Frank c. HALEY, face burned beyond
recognition; may lose sight Of both
eyes.
Captain Martin Lacey, burned about
the face and body; wounds on face and
forehead.
Lieutenant John j. Miller. compound
fracture of leg; badly burned: condition
critical.
Captain VIM. Rooney, badly burned
about face; may lose sight of both eyes;
condition serious.
John Evans, fracture OF right arm:
badly burned about the face; condition
critical.
Harry Kugleman, contusions of the
side AID badly burned about the face
and body; condition serious.
VIM. Schubert, bruised and burned
John Massey, left arm crushed at the
shoulder.
Lieutenant Smith, struck by flying
debris.
Lieutenant Frank Donogan, hurt by
falling bricks; injured internally; con
dition serious.
Captain John Evans, face, hands and
shoulders burned.
Captain Falvey. legs, arms and shoul-
ders badly bruised.
Lieutentnt Frank Nigg, badly
burned about the face and arms.
Fireman Charles NJ. Conway died
inns morning from inJUrieS received Mt
the Northwestern elevator fire late
yesterday afternoon. The death of
Conway brings to total of known fa-
t%alities up to four. The report that an
unknown man IA blown into the riy-
er and drowned is not confirmed. The
injured tiremen are progressing favor,
ably, but several are not expected to
cover
There is little doubt now but that
the man blown into the river by the
explosion was Thomas Monahan. Il
fireman, who drove Chief Sweenie to
the fire. The chief is certain Monahau
was standing in the neighborhood AT
the time of the explosion. He has not
appeared since.