Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-26
Many Are Injured at
Kansas City,
Kansas
Possible That Thirty
Bodies Were
Consumed
Actual Loss Of Life VIII Not Be
Known Until the Ruins Are
earched-Entire Fami-
lies Missing
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Kas., Oct. 25.-In
the ruins of the Chamber of Com
merce building in Kansas City, Kas.,
destroyed by fire early today, there are
anywhere from 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 s O'Clock
insisted that the dead would not reach
over six.
The actual loss of life will not be
known until thorough search of the
ruins can be made. probably not then,
as some of the firemen assert that some
bodies have been burned to ashes.
The building, used as tenement
house, and containing 100 rooms, held
as near as can be learned between zoo
300 persons at the time the fire broke
out at 1880 o'clock. f
Most of these composed families; 9TH
ers were transients whose names are
unknown.
The negro janitor said there were
thirty families in the building num-
bering over one hundred persons. He
admitted that number of transients
also occupied rooms in the building last
night, but was unable to say just how
many of these there were or their
names.
Only a thorough search of the ruins,
that may take days. and an exact ac-
counting of the missing will finally re-
veal the extent of the catastrophe.
At 8 O'Clock this morning the known
dead numbered four. Several persons
are missing 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 were more or less seriously
hurt Three at least of these will die.
The known dead:
j. r. BRANAHAN, wagon maker,
elderly.
INFANT of Mr.. and Mrs. John A.
Sparks.
wagon
D. r. YOUNG, aged go, a laborer.
The missing:
Charles Carlin, engineer for Nelson
Morris Packing company, who was i'll
with typhoid fever.
Mrs. Elsa Harris.
Mrs. M. e. Brigham, her two chill
dren, Amos, aged Is. and Leota. aged II.
Patrick MCGUIRE, who lived on the
third floor and had no occupation.
George Mullin, invalid, aged 60
Mrs. Edwin Slow and two daughters,
Mabel, aged g. and Edna, 4.
Unknown baby.
w. J. Morley, Missouri Pacific fre-
man.
others injured:
Robert Burton. stone mason, serl-
ously burned.
George Sparks, hands, neck and race
burned.
Mrs. George Sparks, burned.
A. H. West aged 66, carpenter at
Missouri Pacific shops, face, neck and
hands severely burned.
Thomas Hunter, blacksmith, bruised
and overcome by smoke.
Patrick Morley, railroad laborer hip
broken.
Captain j. e. Buchhalter, fireman,
back hurt by falling ladder.
M. H. Mccall, railroad laborer, cut
and bruised.
Thomas Connor. engineer, escaped
from third floor on fire escape; face
and hands burned
Alexander McCambrldge, engineer
bruised and burned.
John Kane, engineer burns.
William Mulvihill, train dispatcher
Missouri Pacific. burns.
Arthur Childers, policeman, knocked
from ambulance by wire and run over,
serious.
Emmett Scott. arm broken. face and
head bruised
j. K. Sanko. packing house employe,
bruised and burns.
Mrs. Mary Sanko. bruised by fall
from fire escape
Edward Bayless. slight.
Fred Creel reporter, cut on head by
falling brick
Frank Ditar swung to ground from
fourth floor with aid of rope, hurt In
ternally.
A. j. jackson. laborer, slightly hurt.
Mrs. j. II. Ross, wife Of Missouri
Pacific hostler, hands burned by slid
ing down rope from fourth floor.
70. o. Eanhart, foreman Fowler
packing house. hands badly burned by
sliding down rope from third story.
$. IA. MoCauley. Missouri Pacific fire.
man. hurt by glass.
Frank Otterman, railway mail clerk,
cut and bruised.
The chamber of commerce building
was situated lat Park and Central
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