The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-22
VAULT is SEVERITY TESTED.
SEARCHING FOR THE OTHERS.
1t Was After Neon Before the Laxt
BOdy Was Recovered.


No sooner did the sun commence to
shine through the clouds yesterday morn
ing and reveal in awful detail the scene
of the nights disaster than crowds
Of interested people from the Twin Cities
made their appearance. 1t was known
that Lieut.. F. M. Edy, Louis Wagner
and Burt Irish were still buried deep be-
meath the ruins and this knowledge
seemed to root every one to the place
after having arrived.
A large number of firemen. teamsters,
linemen and others were busily engaged
in removing the ruins that covered the
dead men, and a hopeless job it seemed
at. first, for the whole of the McCor-
mick Harvester warehouse was now one
mass of machinery. Willing hands Piled
shovels and made mortar and bricks and
iron fly. Teams pulled out the heavy
machinery Increasingly the workers hur-
ried about Policemen shouted to keep
back the crowds. 1t seemed as If it
would be a day at least before the men
would be found, for there was no trace
as to what direction they had run The
firemen only knew approximately where
they were and had to guess at it.
About II o'clock some one shouted,
the crowd surged and the policemen
welded their clubs. Then it was known
that a man had been located. Lieut. Eidy
was the first S. w. Manning saw him
and it was he that shouted. Every man
began to work as if possessed. Bricks
and sand and dust filled the air. In ten
or fifteen minutes the whole body was
uncovered. The man was lying on his
face with his arms crossed over his head
and one leg broken The face and hands
were badly burned. Quickly the firemer
picked the body UP, covered it with a
blanket and placed it on a stretcher ard
delivered it to the patrol wagon.
When the body was being dug up Bert
Edy, son of the dead man, was stand ng
near, but friends. seeing that the strain
would be too much, took h m away.
WAGNER is FOUND.
AT exactly 1905 D. M the next body,
that of Louis Wagner was uncovered.
Some minutes before he had been located
oy Patrick Fleming, Truck No. /. Wag-
ner also was lying on his face with his
arms thrown crossw;se over his head
His arms and face We're burned badly,
and, at the time, he could only be recog-
nfzed by his form. He, too, was placed
upon a stretcher and covered and taken
away by the patrol wagon.
No sooner had Wagner been carried
away than Burt Irish the last man, was
discovered a couple of feet away There
was much heavy machinery over the
man. When uncovered he was also found
to be on his face, with his arms over
his head. Ills skull was cracked and he
must have died instantaneouSly The
body was taken away at ITO p. m.
Street Commissioner Fred Wegncr
brother of Louis Wagner, was en- the
scene of the fire all forenoon He bore
up bravely and showed no sign CT the
sorrow that was expressing him Fred
Wagner thinks that his brother had $3.50
insurance in the Firemens' Relief asso-
cia ton and 81, UG0 in the Woodmen's fund
Chas Banker and wife, brother-in-iaw
and sister-in-law of Burt Irish, ami also
the wife of the dead man, were present
wfcn his dead body was discovered. AS
soon as they learned that he had been
found they disappeared.
All of the unfortunate men who lost
their lives in the fire at the transfer were
first, taken TO the morgue, where they
were cared for by Superintendent Ric1.
ardSon and Health Commissioner Ohage
All of the bodies with one exception
were then taken to Dampier's undertake
ing establishment. Wagner was taken to
Schroeder's Of hose company No. 49,
oniy one man now lives, Andrew Larson
The crew Of men who worked during
the day to recover the bodies stuck to
their posts. Not man ceased mis- labors
even to take a little to eat 1T is i'm
possible to obtain the names of all those
who took part in the labor of love but
drew Larson, No. Is: NJ. J. McDoneugh,
No. 1; Andrew Cosgrove. No. IA, Merriam
park; Albert Mashek, No. "A, Merriam
park; Louis Wendt, truck 4; WenZeI
Moiha, No. /, hook and ladder: Capt
Livageod No. II, Chief Midway district:
Stanley Manning. Eneman; Geo. Lightner.
chsmicaf 3 Luke Webb. No I, nook and
ladder. Lieut.. Longaven. truck No. /;
Emil Johnson, No. 3; Geo. McNeiliis. No
l, hook and ladder: Capt. James Null
crone No /, hook and ladder: Joe Cor
ley, truck 2, headquarters; Tom Blake,
chemical 6; Cor Clarkin. Hamline, truck
II; John Mipcsue. truck 6.
In the middle of the forenoon the Great
Northern Railway company sent a wreck-
ing train TO the scene of the fire. The
train, however, was only needed for
about an hour. Following is the wreck,
ing crew: Engineer. james Fifer: Gre
man, Joe BoDuy; CONDUCTOR Barney Glib
bons; brakeman, jeen Snaulling and John
Maloney.
Turing the day there were about TWEEN.