The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-08
DEAD NUMBER SEVEN
 IN FIRE AT CORNELL
FOUR STUDENTS AND THREE PROMINENT CITIZENS PER
 ISH IN FLAMES.

Two Bodies Still in the Ruins of the
 PalatiaI Chi Psi Fraternity House.
 City and University United fin q COm-
 mon Bond of Sympathy-Acts of
 HerOism-McCutcheon, the Football
 Player, and Schmuck 'O7, Die of In-
 juries Received Trying to Save Com
 rades.
 Ithaca, N. Y, Dec. 7-Al day smoke has drifted across Cornell campus from the ruins of the Chi Psi fraterni- ty house the burning of which at an early hour this morning was attended with loss of life that has thrown not only the university but the whole city into mourning.
 Tonight the dead numbered seven. Of these four were students, and the other prominent townsmen who had responded to the alarm in the capacity of volunteer firemen.
 Amoog the students who escaped death in the flames seven were fn- jured and of these c. !. Pope of East Orange, IN, J., it is feared, will not long survive. He was badly burned
 The bodies of the dead, with she exception of those of ". H. Nichols of Chicago and F. w. Grelle of East Or ange, N. J., were recovered. Tonight it was decided to dynamite the ruins to facilitate the search for the missing bodios.
 The dead: Attorney Alfred s. Robin sen, fireman; John c, Rumsey hard ware merchant, fireman; E. J. Landon, salesman, fireman; F. w. Grille of East Orange, N. J., class of 1910; o. L, schmuck of Hanover, Pa, class of 1907; W. H. Nichols of Chicago, class of 1907; James McCutcheon, jr.. of Pittsburg, Pa. class 1909.
 The injured H. S. Decamp of New York, O9; Harry M Curry of Pitts burg, '09; R. R. Powers of Atlanta, Ga, 10; W. w. Goetz of Milwaukee, Wis, 09; w. A. Uihlein of Milwaukee, Wis, or; c. R. Sailor of Pittsburg or; c. J. Pope of East Orange, N. J., 10.
 The fire has united city and univer- sity in a common bond of sympathy. The heroism of the volunteer iremen who died attacking the fire was match ed by that of Schmuck, who re-entered the flames in a futile effort to save Nichols, his roommate and who died from his injuries and by the courage of McCutcheon, the football player, who remained in the flames until fat ally burned to assist his comrades to escape. Pope, the freshman, received his injuries while seeking to rescue other members of the fraternity and the record of the injured corresponds with that of the men who tried to help their fellows
 Among those earliest on the scene and who contributed most to the work of rescue was several Cornell football men. All did effective work Sam Halliday, former full back, and Earle and Gibson, the half backs of the season just ended, were prominent in the efforts to release the fraternity men cut off from escape by the flames in the lower part of the house.
 The cause of the fire will probably never be discovered. The building is an unsightly wreck, with no particle of its inner furniture remaining. Cor nell Is deprived of one of it's land- marks for the lodge was built in 1881 | by Jennie MoGrawIFiske, at cost of $13O,OOO. The daughter of the lumber king, John McGraw, who was one of Cornells early great benefactors, nev- CT enjoyed her palace, and entered 1t only after death. Around the house have clustered the memories of the great fight for the Fiske millions wag- ed between Prof Willard Fiske, the husband, and Judge Boardman as the of Cornell, to whom Mrs. F'iske left the bulk of her estate.