The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-01-12
ANOTHER BODY IS
 FOUND IN RUINS
Remains of Heroic Fireman
 are Recovered
BUILDINGS ARE VACATED
Danger From Ruins of the History Building Cause Orders re Be Issued To Tenants of
 Adjoining Stores.

New York, January 1.-The body of Thomas J. Phillips, one of the three fire men whose lives were snuffed out in the burning of the 13-story Parker building on Fourth avenue, last night, was recovered late today. Search for the remaining dead will be continued when the ruins are cooled. The tall, blackened walls of the skyscraper threaten tonight to topple Into the street, and the police have ordered the tenants of the smaller buildings in the vicinity to leave. dozen buildings have been vacated.
 Fire broke out again tonight on the fifth and sixth stories of the Parker build ing, but the flames were quickly extin- guished by the fire companies which are still pouring streams of water on the smouldering skeleton. Phillips body was found lying among some debris near the elevator shaft. It was identified by one of his brothers who recognized bunch of keys found in his pocket.
 Search of the Ruins.
 With the first stroke of oawn this morn- ing, scores of firemen began the task of searching the ruins of the Parker building for the bodies of three firemen, who were reported missing after the call ing of the roll of the companies that took part in fighting the spectacular fire that destroyed the 13-story building last night Although considered fireproof, the great building burned almost like finder. The fire in the upper stories gained good headway unchecked, as it was far beyond the reach of even the fire departments great water towers. Sensational rescues were the feature of the fire.
 Five men who were at work on the top floor of the building were cut off from rescue below, and sought the roof. where they stood si1houtted against the flames which had broken through the roof. From the top of an adjoining building several stories lower than the blazing one, line was shot up from a mortar, and, with this line, the beleagured men drew up a large rope which they fastened to q chimney, sliding down to the lower roof in safety.
 Three tiremen were caught in the sixth story when a floor below them dropped, and were forced upward to the seventh, and then to the eighth story of the build ing. From below it seemed that rescue was impossible, until several of the fire men seizing scaling ladders, began to swing themselves up the face of the tot tering wall. Climbing to window ledge, the ladder with its great hook was drawl, up and swung to a higher ledge, the men working heroically until their endangered comrades were reached. Down the smok- ing wall the men came slowly, almost painfully, until they were near enough to the ground to drop into their comrades outstretched arms. So narrow was the escape for the rescuers as well as the rescued, that the ladders themselves were burned where they hung when the fire ] men dropped from their rungs.
 But even the rescue of these men was not completed for three who went up into the building failed to return. The other three disappeared in the mass of falling concrete and twisted steel beams. It is their bodies that sorrowing comrades were searching for among the smoking ruins this morning. Of the missing, a score or more firemen were hurt, their | injuries ranging from painful bruises to 1 injuries that may prove fatal.