Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-25
MANY ARE LOST
IN FIERCE BLAZE
At KANSAS CITY
Death List May Mount to
Thirty Persons. a
FIRE WAS IN A Tenement
Several Persons Missing and Fifty
Were Badly Injured.
FIREMEN DIFFER ABOUT DEAD
Flames Scattered So Rapidly That All
Chance of Egress Was Cut
Off Very Quickly.
FIRE WAS IN A Tenement
Several Persons Missing and Fifty
Were Badly Injured.
FIREMEN DIFFER ABOUT DEAD

Kansas City tenement scores of
persons were injured, and it is be-
lleved that many lost their lives.
The fire spread with great rapidity
and all means of egress was cut off.
Lack of equipment on the part of
the fire department added to the
horror of the calamity. How many
unfortunates are burned to a crisp
amid the ruins is now a matter of
rife speculation on the part of the
firemen. Several dead bodies have
been taken out of the ruins, and the
list of the injured is very large.
KANSAS CITY, Kan, October 25.-In
the ruins OF the chamber of commerce
building in Kansas City, Kan, destroyed
by fire early today. there are anywhere
from half a dozen to thirty bodies accord
ing to estimates given out this morning by
firemen who had worked at the scene all
night. On the other hand, Assistant Fire
Chief Lind at clock this morning in
sisted that the dead would not reach over
six
At O'clock this morning the body of
D. r. Young. a laborer aged sixty-two
years, was removed from the ruins. Young
had lived on the fourth floor with his fam
lily. The fate of his family is not known.
Young's body was SO badly burned that It
was difficult to identify it, The actual loss
of life will not be known until a. thorough
search of the ruins can be made, probably
rot then, as some of the firemen assert
that many bodies must have been burned
to ashes. The building. used as a tenement
house and containing 100 rooms, held as
near as can be learned, between 200 and
300 persons at the time the fire broke out
at 1880. Most of these composed families
others were translents, whose names
are unknown. The only person who knows
the actual number Of occupants of the
building is the janitor, who is missing and
believed to be under the great mass Of
debris that is piled high inside the bare
walls of the destroyed structure. 1t was
the custom for many of the transients,
who came mostly from the nearby railroad
yards, not to register, and thus all trace
of them is lost for the time. being. Only
a thorough search Of the ruins that may
take days, and an exact accounting of the
missing, Will FINALLY reveal the extent Of
the catastrophe
Dead Number Four.
At o'clock this morning the known dead
numbered four Several persons are miss
ing and close to fifty others are known to
have been injured. or the injured scat
tered among half a dozen hospitals and at
private homes. twenty-five were more or
less seriously hurt. Two or three of these
at least will die
The known dead:
Robert Burton, a stone mason, burned I'm
his room.
The infant of Mr. and Mrs John A,
Sparks.
John Lynch, driver Of a sand wagon lost
his life trying to Sparks baby
D. r. Young, aged e., a laborer.
The injured:
George Sparks, lived on second floor,
hands and face burned
Mrs. Geo. Sparks, neck and face burned.
A. II. West, aged &C. carpenter at Mis-
souri, Pacific shops, roomed alone on fourth
floor; face, neck and hands severely burned.
Many Injured.
Thomas Hunter, blacksmith; bruised and
overcome by smoke.
Patrick Morley railroad laborer; hip
broken.
Capt. ]. E. Buchhalter, fireman; back
hurt by falling from ladder.
NJ H. Mccall, railroad laborer; bruised
and cut.
Thomas Conner, engineer; escaped from
third floor on fire escape, face and hands
burned.
Alender McCambridge, engineer; bruised
and burned
John Kane engineer: burned.
William MulvahiA. train dispatcher, Mis-
souri, Pacific; burns.
Arthur Childers, policeman; knocked from
ambulance by wire and run over; serious
Emmett Scott; arm broken face and head
bruised.
]. E. Branahan, wagon maker; both legs
broken by jumping from third floor.
]. X. Sankow. packing house employee:
bruises and burns.
Mrs. Mary Sankow; bruised by fall from
fire escape.
Edward Bayless; slight
W. j. Morley, fireman. Missouri Pacific,
jumped from third story; leg broken.
Fred Creel reporter: cut on head by faa-
ing brick.
Frank Dttar swung to ground from fourth
floor with aid of rope; hurt internally.
A. j. Jackson, laborer; slight.
Mrs ]. II. Rose, wife of Missouri Pacific
hostler; hands burned by sliding down rope
from fourth floor.
Unknown babe fatally hurt. dropped from
second floor to policeman. who failed to
catch her.
3. o. Earnhart foreman Fowler Packing