The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-25
BOYS BURNED IN
KENYON ACADEMY
Three Lives Are Lost in Fire That
Consumes Military
School.
SEVERAL MORE INJURED
YOUNGER CADETS BECAME EX.
CITED AND BROKE LINE.

Gambler, O., Feb. 24.-Three are dead
: and nine seriously injured and several
: others more or less hurt as q result of
, fire. which destroyed Miner Hall.
: Kenyon Military academy. DelanO and
= North Halls and North annex early
today. The fire broke out at a. m,
while the students and college author
i. tiles We're asleep and quickly spread
throughout the buildings named,
= which were destroyed. The search for
= the missing boys, the bodies of whom
lit is now certain are in the ruins, was
a. kept up till late this afternoon when
& the walls OF the burned structures fell,
and their recovery tonight is now re-
garded as improbable for some time.
The search during the day was i'm
= peded by the fact that the ruins were
S.still red hot and made passage through
-.them nearly impossible. The falling
: walls this afternoon barely missed DR..
= Pierce. president of the Kenyon and
; Regents Want and Williams. who were
= heading a party of rescuers through
- the ruins The dead and injured are
!. an students OF the military academy
= and Old Kenyon.
= Parents, sisters and brothers of the
= dead and injured students arrive on
!. every train. The news of the fire
ssspread quickly all over the state and
) kilograms were sent at once by the
= college authorities to parents of the
. boys injured.
:. The property loss by the destruction
of the buildings is estimated at $780,
= 600, with SO per cent insurance.
Following is the list of the missing
and injured:
Missing, believed to be dead:
Henderson, Everett, of Illinois
j .Kunkle. Winfield S.. of Ashtabul O..
:. Fuller, James j, of Warren, o.
~ The Injured:
Z Barnes, Harry. c., Cleveland, spine
injured and leg broken from jumping
Z four stories; may die.
Butler. Lenox W, Cleveland, inter
F.. rally injured, jumped from fourth
! story.
Nicholson. J. Underwood, Steuben-
vile, o. terribly burned about body;
may die.
shannon. r. A, WeIIsville, n. Y.
badly bruised from jumping
Theirwickser, R A, Oak HarbOr
o. badly, burned about arms.
BieFellf A.zG., Columbus, feet badly
burned.
Galway, II. r. Adrian, Mich, inter-
nally injured; may die.
Dorsey, ". O., Dallas. Tex, badly
bruised. jumped three stories.
Brown, Arthur, Cincinnati, student at
Old Kenyon, badly cut while assisting
in. the rescue
Several others were slightly burned
in escaping from the buildings.
Barnes was one Of the last to leave
the DelanO hall, and jumped from the
fourth floor window into a blanket
which gave way, and he was precipi-
tated onto the pavement. sustaining
injuries to the back. One leg was
broken. He viii die.
Escaped, but Returned.
Winfield Kunkle, Ashtabuia, O., re-
turned to the building for some 'pur-
pose and was not seen afterward.
Eighty-five boys We're in the dOrmi-
tory when the flames broke out. An
effort was made to observe military
formation, but the younger students
forgot their military training and
rLshed about the burning building in
a Panic shrieking and crying for help.
The buildings destroyed were Delano
han, Miner hail and the annex
The losses on the building and their
contents will probably aggregate $50
GEO. The insurance is slight.
The origin of the fire is unknown
This is the second time the academy
buildings have been destroyed
The recent sensa tiOnal hazing case
as the result of which il was alleged
that a student from Cincinnati lost his
life, took place at Kenyon college. a
separate institution from the military
academy which was destroyed today.
Students at Kenyon college held
mass meeting and arranged to provide
homes to the military academy stu
dents at Baxley theological seminary,
Old Kenyon dOrmitOry, Harcourt la
dies seminary and the village high
school
The buildings were owned by the
Kenyon college corporation. Delano
hall was used as a dormitory and most
Of the cadets had rooms in that build
ing