The Mena weekly star., 1906-12-13

x Ithaca. N. Y. Dec. S-Early Friday 1Snprning the beautiful Chi Psi frater- |*ttv house at Cornell University ]sSauebt fire and soon was all aflame. 5YSafore the fire department could ar B3Sve Q l.. Schmuck, of Hanover. Pa, |3Iad jumped from third story win
 nw and was so severely injured that M is feared he will die.
 S Three nf Ithaca's volunteer firemen |$pere killed while fighting the flames.
 <pur students lie in the infirmary at |zhe point of death. It is not known |&pw many are in the ruins. # The chapter house was mansion
 6ult by Mrs. Jennie McGraw Fisk on
 {Ae campus overlooking Cayuga Lake
 I'm never occupied by her because of
 Ser premature death. It was beauti- m structure of sandstone, handsome 4x decorated and finished within with
 narble and mahogany. The walls.
 #hich were of rubble masonry col
 hpsed under the flames and high
 Find. leaving only a heap of ruins. # The firmen killed were: A. s. Robinson, lawyer and graduate of
 cornell. Esty Landon and John Rum Sey They were manipulating hose 8n inc north side of the building when zhe wall collapsed on them and pinned <hem to the ground to slowly roast &ndar the burning debris # When the fire department arrived Inc screams of two men appearing
 h the windows of the southwest tow N. over the main entrance, were keard. For some reason the men hesitated to jump and before they kould be reached the tower collapsed Ind the men were buried beneath khe ruins
 & The chapter house burned rapidly End the walls cracked apart in all 6jrections. The fire was so hot that &he flremen were driven from the Southeast side of the building. Among those taken rom the ruins Mere ]. NJ. McCutcheon of Pittsburg. he football fullback substitute. Those faken out were in pitiable conditions. They were bleeding from cuts caused by falling bricks and timbers and blackened by smoke. Several of them Eere badly burned.
 c. ] Pope. a freshman member of he fraternity, is missing and is sup - I4 ,,rHav fho ,.,tfpc s At present it is Impossible to learn lrom what town or city he halls. Many students at first supposed to De missing are being cared for at pther fraternity houses.
 Schmuck afterward died in the in lirmary. making the list of the pro kle dead six. including the three vol bnteer firemen.
 w. H. Nichols, the student at Cor. bell University who has been miss hg since the burning of the frater- nity house, is a son of George R. Nichols, a commission merchant Of rhicago MT Nichols received a tele- gram saying that his son had not been seen since the fire, and at once started for Ithaca
 President Schurman of Cornell Uni Fersity, in statement given out Fri lay afternoon said:
 Most of the members of the Chi Psi Fraternity slept in the third story of the burned building and all except |wo managed to get out of the build ng alive The two who are missing lnd who 1t is assumed have perished
 n the flames. are w. H. Nichols of rhicago, and F Y. Grelle, of South Orange. N. J. Although Mir. o. L. schmuck of Hanover, Pa, got out f
 he building he went back for his 'oomate Mir. Nichols, and in this at
 empt Co rescue his comrade he was b seriously injured that he died later n the infirmary"
 J. Nj. McCutcheon, of Pittsburg. varsity substitute fullback, is dead at
 he lnfirmary of the injuries received n the Chi Psi Fraternity fire.