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

TOut I'JcS ARE lSOst NJ the NEn
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 f0IrtA victim,
an unknown man, wIs IOWA irtO the
Chicago river by the force OF the explo-
sion. Flfty-one fircmen 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 S. Stramer.
Unknown man.
The injured:
Charles III. Conlay, fireman, burned
about the face. and hands and body
crushed; nay die.
Chief Dennis Swenie, right foot
crushed, left arm wrenched and pain
fully burned.
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the face.
Lieutenant Smith, both legs crushed.
Lieutenant w. II. Bartlett.
Assistant Engineer Benz. Blanc. body
bruised.
John +. Smith. injured by debris.
VIM. Mcclure. Is 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 se-
rtous.
William Hanley, pipeman, cut in the
head.
William Thompson, hit by falling
glass.
G. F. Walters, knocked down by ex.
plosion and injured about spine.
John HEM. struck by falling beam
and skull fractured.
James Mcclure. leg fractured.
Joseph Lacey, badly burned about the
face; case serious.
Frank G. 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 and 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 shout
ders badly bruised.
Lieutentnt Frank Nlgg, badly
burned about the face and arms.
Fireman Charles NJ. Conway died
lUIS MOTlllHS lIoiu llJGrltS received Al
the Northwestern elevator fire late
Yesterday afternoon. The death OF
Conway brings to total of known ia.
t~alities up to four. The report that an
unknown man was blown into the riy'
er and drowned is not confirmed. The
injured firemen are progressing favor
ably. but several are not expected tC
recoyer.
There is little doubt now but thai
the man blown into the river by the
explosion was Thomas M~onahan. {
fireman. who drove Chief sweenie Il
the fire. The chief is certain Monahar
was standing in the neighborhood al
the time of the explosion. He has no
appeared since.