The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-26
Many Lives Were Lost in Ten
ement House Fire at Kan
SaS City, Kan.
PARTIAL LIST OF THE DEAD
SEVERAL PERSONS MISSING
INJURED LIST.

half a dozen to thirty bodies according
to estimates given out this morning by
firemen who had worked at the scene
all night. Assistant Fire Chief Lind at
o'clock insisted that the dead would
not reach over six
The actual loss of life will not be known
until a thorough search OF the ruins can
be made: probably not then. some of
the firemen assert that some bodies have
been burned TO ashes. The building,
used as a tenement house and contain
ing 100 rooms, held, as near as can be
learned, between 200 and 800 persons at
the time the fire broken out at i o'clock.
Most of these composed families; others
were transents, whose names are I'M
known
Unknown Transients.
The negro janitor said there were thirty
families in the building, numbering over
100 persons. He admitted that a num-
Der of transientS also occupied rooms in
the building last night, but was unable
TO say just how many of these there were
or to furnish their names.
Only a thorough search of the ruins,
that may take days, and an exact ac-
counting of the missing, Will finally
veal the extent of the catastrophe. Al
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. OF the injured.
scattered among half a dozen hospitals
and at private homes, twenty-five We're
more or less seriously hurt. Three of
these at least Will die.
The Known Dead.
Infant of Mr. and Mrs. John A Sparks.
John Lynch. driver of a sand wagon.
y. r. Young. aged 50. laborer.
j. F. Branahan, wagon maker, elderly.
The Missing.
Charles Carin. engineer for Nelson
Morris Packing company, who was i'll
with typhoid fever.
Mrs NJ F. Bridgman. and her two
children, Amos, aged Is, and Leota,
aged T.
third floor and had no occupation.
George Mullin. invalid. aged 80 years
Mrs. Ed Winslow and two daughters
Mabel. aged 9. and May, aged 4.
Edward Winslow.
Mrs. Ella Harris, widow.
Fatally Injured.
Unknown baby
w. J. Morley, Missouri Pacific fire
Others Injured.
Robert Burton. stone mason, seriously
burned.
George Sparks. lived on second floor
hands and face burned.
Mrs. George Sparks; hands, neck and
face burned
A. II. West, aged sc, carpenter at Mis-
souri, Pacific shops; roOmed auOne on
fourth floor; face, neck and hands Sc
Verely burned
Thomas Hunter blacksmith, bruised
and overcome by smoke.
Patrick Morley railroad laborer, hip
broken.
Captain ]. E. Buchalter, fireman. back
hurt by falling ladder.
NJ II. Mccall, railroad laborer; bruised
and cut.
Thomas COnnor. engineer; escaped from
third floor on fire escape; face and hands
burned.
Alexander McCambridge. engineer;
bruised and burned.
John Kane. engineer; burns.
William MulvihIll. 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.
J. X. sanko, packing house employee;
bruises and burns.
Mrs. Mary Sanko, bruised by fall from
fire escape.
Edward Hayless. slight.
Fred Creel, reporter; cut on head by
falling brick.
Frank Ditar, swung to ground from
fourth floor with aid of rope; hurt in
teInally.
A j. Jackson, laborer; slightly hurt
Mrs. j. II. Ross, wife Of Missouri Pa
cific hOStler; hands burned by sliding
down rope from fourth floor.
Il. Q. Earnhart, foreman Fowler pack
ing house; hands badly burned by slid
ing down rope from third story.
s. ii. McCauley. Missouri Pacific fire
men; cut by glass.
Frank Otterman, railway mail clerk:
cut and bruised.
Used as Tenement House.
The Chamber of Commerce building
was situated at Park and Central streets.
in the Rivcrview district of Kansas City,
Kan. it was at a junction of the ele-
waited railways two blocks west of the
Kaw river and mile southeast of what
is now the business district Of Kansas
ION rrrnes
ago. at a cost of $4,000 to be used as a
board of trade. The city grew away from
it, however, and 1T was never used for
ite original purpose, but for many wears
had been occupied as an apartment
house. The structure was four stories
in height, with deep basement, and
faced two streets. It was built of brick
and stood alone The ground floor was
occupied by w. A Lovelace's barber
shop: Edward 7. Summers drug store
Central Avenue Gas Fixture company
Overall laundry, and the Labor Record
Cause of Fire Unknown.
The fire broke out on the ground floor
from some unknown cause. Isolated as
IL was, the burning building was diff
cult of access and it was some time be
fore the fire department reached the
scene. Several companies were al a fire
fi1emen arrived the entire building was
in flames So quickly did the flames
spread that within few minutes after
the fire was discovered all means of es-
cape by the stairway for the scores OF
occupants was shut off. On two sides
p Of the building the elevated railway
tracks hemrned it i'm and made still
harder work for the firemen. Then an
tther obstacle arose. The firemen die
Tot have sufficient ladders and many OF
tnoSe they had were too short 10 reacf
tie upper stories y suffocating smoke
iiiied the building. evidently coming from
the burning stocks of merchandise on thu
1toor below and some of the occupant:
probably were never able TO leave thei
rooms.
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