The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-08-17
1'W|XT FIRE and WATER
Burning of a Temporary Water
Works Crib Three Miles Out
From Cleveland, o.
At LEAST A DOZEN HUMAN LIVES LOST.
Nv Almost superbuman Efforts n
Number OF Who Were
hOugh to be Doomed to Death
by s~uTocation in the Tunnel
Were Rescued Alive.

Cleveland, O., Aug. 14.-Fire, early
Wednesday morning, destroyed a
temporary waterworks crib W. miles
out in the lake, resulting in the death
of ut least ten men, while two Others
were probably fatally injured. In adj
dition to a large number of workmen
who were in the crib, IL Others were
at work in the tunnel leading from
il, POO feet below the bottom of the
lake. As air, which was pumped from
the crib to supply the men working
in the tunnel, was cut off as a result
of its destruction, it was at first sup
posed that these men had all per
ished.
Subsequently, however, nine of the
men in the tunnel were rescued after
heroic work upon the part of their
fellow workmen.
1t is said that two men are still in
the tunnel, but those rescued state
that one of these, Victor Kaufman, OF
Canton, is dead.
The known Dead. 4
Following is ii list of the dead and
injured so far as now known:
John Martin, drowned.
Mike Snyder, drowned.
Arthur Hasty, drowned.
Victor Kaufman, Canton, s%uffocat-
ed.
Five men, names unknown, burned
to death.
The Injured.
John Lee, broken back.
o. Braddock, frightfully burned.
Fire and horbor tugs with rescuing
parties on board reached the crib
soon after the flames broke out, but
when they arrived the structure was
a seething mass of flames, and all
hope of saving it was abandoned.
Men, stark naked, could be distin-
guished swimming and floating in the
water, shouting for help. Others
were clinging to ropes which they
had tied to the rafters, but the
flames were burning the ropes away,
and one by one the men were falling
into the lake.
The tugs circled around the burn
ing crib, picking up men from the
water, and meantime playing heavy
streams upon the flames.
After an hours hard work, the
flames were diminished enough so
, that the firemen could climb up the
charred steps and fight the fire from
| the interior. Then the horror of the
calamity was first realized. Every
Ill Xo4o1 ,y,, Will. Al,
fremen were pouring water on the
flames there was a roaring furnace
beneath, which could not be reached
But the firemen chung to their places
and fought every inch of the way I'M
til the fire was under control. After
human bodies were found burned be-
yond recognition. Two were in the
attitude of prayer. They must have
been awakened by the fire, but could
not escape. They were caught like
rats in a trap. One body was burned
to almost nothing. All hat could be
found of it were a skull and some
bones. The bodies of two other men
lay close to those hat were on their
knees, and it looked as though they
never knew what happened TO them
They must have been suffocoted be-
fore the flames reached them
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