Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1906-10-31
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! Kansas: City, + Mo-, Jet: s26 The
Chamber Of Commerce building in
Kansas City, kan, was destroyed, by:
fire early Thursday, and there are in
the; ruins anywhere from half a, dozen
to 30; bodies according to- estimates
given out Thursday morning by fire.
men who worked. on the scene all
night: Assistant Fire Chief Lind in
sists that the dead will not reach,
over. six The actual loss of life
will not be known until. q thorough
search of the ruins can be made, prob.
ably not then, as some Of the: fire.
men assert that many bodies must
have been burned to ashes:-@E
: - - r. List of Known dead:
The known dead: -. =
. Infant of Mr.. and Mrs. John Sparks:
John Lynch, driver of a sand wagon,
lost his life trying to save Sparks
baby; D. R. Young, aged 81, a labor
.er; -J.HF. 2Branahan, woganmaker.>. ):
f: Several persons are: missing, and
close to so others are known to have
been injured: OF the injured, scat
tered among half a dozen hospitals
and private homes, Is were more or
less seriously hurt. Two or three
of these at least will die. 20,
Scene. Weird One.
When the firemen arrived at. the
burning building they saw men hang
ing from window stills on the upper
floors and frantic women with babies
in their arms and children clinging
to them leaning far out from the win
dows, unable to find any means: of
escape, and yet taking advantage OF
the little fresh air which the windows
afforded. -
"A motorman whose car stood just
opposite the burning building said he
saw five or six persons on the up
per floors struggling frantically toes
cape, and he is certain, all of them
succumbed to the smoke and toppled
over into the ruins. He said he had
clear view and would have wit
messed the rescue of the persons, If
any had been possible.
r The janitor of the building, the only
man who is able to approximate the
number of persons in the structure
when 1t was destroyed, was, - found
Thursday afternoon. He said there
were 80 families in the building,
numbering over 100 persons. He
admitted that number of transients
also occupied rooms in there Wednes-
ady night, but was unable to say
just how many of these there were,
or to furnish their names. = f1,,~-.
%'s Broke All His Fingers. :''><*
The first ladders did not; reach
above the third floor, and several per-
sons on the fourth floor did not go
down to the floor below in time to
make use of the ladders. Frank Betar
jumped from the fourth floor and
caught his fingers between the rounds
of a ladder below, and although he
held on he, broke all of his: fingers.
II. G. Wilson pitched his wife from
the fourth floor to the flremen on the
ladders below, and then, with his
young baby, jumped into the arms of
the fireman himself. L. -
: Jesse Ford, a laborer, with his wife
and. young baby in his. arms, climbed
out of a room on the fourth floor and
walked along a beam to- a point d.
rectly above the firemen, dropped his
wife and baby safely to-. them HE
himself jumped and was saved by the
:firemen.}" n 49, = :, "... ~
! Charles Carlin,{ engineer Of the Nor
ris Packing company, Chicago, was
sick with typhoid fever on the third
floor, and is missing: !, Fred Taft, the
negro janitor, is missing He alone
had a list Of. tenants and could tell
who are missing: Mrs. Frances Per-
gueck, who lived on the third floor,
reports her husband and baby miss
ing: ~ = !, ~ ~ X: 4 +, H. !:
/: Eight families lived on42the fourth
floor, ten on the third, eight on the
second: : There were many: children
in these families. = *5 ~:
& The building. was owned by Alder
! man Walter "a. Bunker, OF !; Kansas
City, Kan; who, estimates his loss
e $50 ,ooo.E The cause 4of the flreSis
unknown. hi; IL: = !: i 4
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Il p s53To Probe Banks. Affairs: \
\ I. Butte, Mont, Oct: The United
States 4 bank = examiner has <fat1an