The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-26
Heroic Deeds of Rescue
 Recorded. EIGHT PERSONS ARE MISSING Railroad Fireman Refuses Aid and
 Saves Child. Two Are Fatally Hurt and Fifty Mofe Or Less Seriously Injured.
 still Recovering
 Bodies.
EIGHT PERSONS ARE MISSING

 are known to be dead. eight others are missing. two are fatally injured an1 fifty moro are moro or less seriously injured as the result of the fire which destroyed the Chamber of Commerce Building here at an carly hour today. A single body has been recovered from the ruins. that of D. R. Young. aged 62 years. It is known that Charles A. Lynch, a laborer. and ths infant of MT. and Mrs Sparks are dead. but their bodies have not been recov- cred. J. F. Branhanl. q wagon maker, died at hospital today from his in- juries.
 It was stated at the Ire department tonight that three bodies arc positively known to be in the ruins. The fremen abandoned their search for bodies to. night and tomorrow the work of delv- ing into the ruins will be taken up by the police department.
 railroad man standing near ths burning building heard a nan in the second story window giving the Broth crhood of Railway Firemen's distress signal. of which he was a member. Finding a, rope. he threw 1t 10 hla brother fireman. who, instead of saving himself. passed 1t to a woman in the window above him. The woman savei herself. but the man was jost. His name Is not known.
 List of the Dead.
 The dead: The infant of MT. end Mrs John A. Sparks.
 J. F. Branahan. wagon maker; elderly.
 D. R. Young. aged sa. a Iaborer.
 The missing
 Charles Carlin. engineer. Nelson Nor rts lacking Company who Was i'll wiLn typhoid fever.
 MT. and Mrs. Charles winslpw, and two children. amos. aged l5. ana Leota. aged l..
 George Muller. invalid, aged SO years. Patrick McGure.
 F. x. Brigman and two daughters. Mabel. aged g. and May. aged 1. Fatally injured:
 An unknown badly.
 w. J. Morley. Missouri Pacific nre- man.
 The negro janitor of the building, the only man able to approximate the number of persons in the structure when 1t was destroyed by fire says there were thirty families in the build- ing. numbering more than one hun- dred 9ersons
 In the ruins of the Chamber of Com-
 
 destroyed by fire early today there arc anywhere from half dozen to thirty bodies. according to estimates given out this morning by firemen who had worked at the scene all night.
 On the other hand. Assistant Fire Chief Lind at o'clock this morning, insisted that the dead would not reach the body of D. R. Young. a laborer. aged 62 years. was removed from the ruins Young had lived on the fourth floor with his family. The fate ot his family Is not known.
 The actual loss of life will not be known until a thorough search of the ruins can be made. probably not then. as some of the firemen assert that many bodies must have been burned to ashes. The building. used as tenement house and containing one hundred rooms. held as nearly as can be learned. be- tween 200 and 300 persons at the time the fire broke out at 1230.
 Many of these composed families many others were transients. whose names are unknown. IL was the cus- tom for many of the trans!ents, who came mostly from the nearby railroad wards. not to register. and thus all trac. of them Is lost for the time be- ing.
 only a thorough search of the ruins that may take days. and an exact ac- counting of the missing. will finally reveal the exact extent of the catas- trophe.
 Among the Injured.
 The injured are:
 George Sparks. hands and face burn. ed.
 Mrs. George Sparks hands. neck ana face burned.
 A. H. West, aged 66. carpenter.
 Thomas Hunter. blacksmith.
 Patrick Horley. railroad laborer.
 Captain J. E. Buchhalter. fireman
 M H. Mccall. railroad laborer.
 Thomas Connor, engineer.
 Alexander McCambridge. engineer.
 John Kane. engineer.
 William Mulvahill. train dispatcher, Missouri Pacific, burns.
 Arthur Childers. policeman. knocked from ambulance by wire and run over, serious.
 Emmet Scott. arm broken.
 J. F. Branahan. wagon maker. both legt broken
 j. K. Sankow. packing house en- ploye.
 Mrs. Mary Sankow.
 Edward Bayless.
 w U. Horley, fireman, Missouri Pa- cihc
 Fred criel reporter. cut on head by falling brick.
 Frank Ditar.
 A. J. Jackson.
 Mrsh J. H. Rose.
 Unknown babe. fatally hurt. dropped from second floor to policeman, who failed to catch her.
 E. O. Earnhart. foreman Fowler Packing House.
 S H. McCauley.
 Frank Otterman, railway clerk
 The chamber of commerce building
 Central streets in the Riverview district or Kansas City. Kansas. It was erected fourteen years ago at a cost of $so.- 900, to be used as @ board of trade. The city grew away from 1t. however. and 1t was never used for It's original purpose. but for many years had been occupied as an apartment house. The structure was four stories in height and built of brick and stone alone. 1t contained one hundred rooms. s1- most all of which were. as far as can be learned. occupied Uy families or in-