Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-12-24
I CHIEF KORAN is 10
HA We PUBLIC FUNERAL
UNUSUAL HoNoRs WILL BE PAID
BY CITY; PAY OF MEN KILLED
WILL BE CONTINUED; RAISE
RELIEF FUND.

afternoon the firemen were conhdent
the stockyards fire was under control.
Warehouses No. 6 and with their
stocks and tallow house were des-
troyed. Warehouse No. is still safe.
With all the city fremen accounted
for the identified dead in the police
list number twenty-three. The twenty
fourth man believed dead and whose
body has not been recovered, is a
private fireman for Morris and COM
pany. Business men today planned
the creation of a permanent endow-
ment fund of $3.50, 900 to care for the
widows and children of the martyred
ffremen.
At g o'clock this morning the fire
was still burning fiercely. From ware
house No. the flames were leaping
to other buildings and just before re-
firing from the scene because Of sheer
exhaustion Acting Chief Seyferlich
said he saw no way of preventing the
burning Of warehouse No. 5.
Many firemen narrowly escaped
death this morning AS the members
OF ten engine companies were playing
water on warehouse No. 6, where the
flames had broken out afresh, the
walls suddenly collapsed. Captain
Windheim of engine company No. 81
was knocked down by flying timber
and seriously injured. The other fire.
men escaped with minor injuries. In
the confusion William Sheridan,
clerk in the stock yards, was knocked
of a platform and probably fatally in
jured.
Relief committees will meet today
and formulate plans to raise fund In
aid of the widows and orphans. $50, 900
already has been pledged.
To be Given Public Funeral.
Fire Marshal James Horan, who met
death with twenty-three others, nearly
all Of whom were firemen at the union
stock yards fire, will be given a public
funeral OF military character. The
common council, regiment of cavalry
q squadron of mounted police, platoons
of police and firemen on foot, with
public bodies and semi-public organiza-
tions leading the concourse of citizens
will be the features of the funeral
which probably will be held Monday.
Wages Of Victims Continued.
The city will pay for all funeral ex-,
penses, furnish free medical aid to all
injured and continue for at least six
months the pay Of the firemen killed.
Telegrams of sympathy and regret
came from many quarters today. The
firemaster Of London. England, joining
the fire chiefs of Havana and many
other places in sympathetic kilograms,
After an all day fight against the fire
that early yesterday caused the death
OF Fire Chief James Horan, Assistant
Chief William J.. Burroughs and
twenty-five other fremen, the ex-
hausted fire fighters last night were
still trying to subdue the flames that
burst out afresh in the packing plant
Of Morris & Co. at the stock yards.
Mayor in Search for Body.
All the fifteen men injured at the
Are will recover
The fire broke out afresh at 8
o'clock last night, after it had taxed
the strength of the fire department
for sixteen hours Acting Chief Sey-
ferlfch sent a general call to outlying
stations for fresh men, These, aided
by the police reserve, continued the
fight on the fire and the search for
bodies of the dead
Mayor Busse spent ten hours person
ally directing the search for the body
Of Chief Horan, who had been life
long friend
Insurance inspectors said that the
killing of the chief and his men was
not due to an ammonia explosion, as
at first supposed, but to the sudden
expansion of cold air in the beef ware
house. This, it is said, caused the
four story wall to fall as violently as
though an explosion had occurred
within the building.
Only Three Survivors.
Three members of engine company
No. SO, all who remained Of the entire
crew which went to the fire early in
the morning, were ordered back to
their quarters at $3.50 o'clock as unfit
for duty. All had been burned or
otherwise injEyed in trying to rescue
their Co..