The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-12-22

chicago. ILL.,, Dec. 22.-Chief Fire
Marshal Horan, Assistant Chief Bur-
rouehs. Lieutenant Fitzgerald ana
twenty or more other firemen were Kill
ed and a property loss of million and
quarter dollars was caused by the de-
struction OF the meat warehouse ol
Morris & Co. and other buildings IN
the Union Stock Yards this morning.
The fire was not gotten under control
until 1 O'Clock In addition to the list
of dead, fifty were injured, some IA
tally.
The entire crows of engine compan-
i,s. n and SO, are said TO be among
the dead. In addition six members OF
Company 29 and some Of No. As were
Killed. The hope OF the firemen and
hundreds of admirers of Fire Marshal
Koran chat the fire fighter and his
men had not perished was practically
lost when Battalion Chief Lacey told
OF seeing the marshal and Burroughs
together with eighteen or twenty men,
go down beneath falling wall.
Efforts to Save Men Fruitless.
chief Uoran was in front of the
pipeman," said Lacey. "and Burrousns
recting the work when the crash came
lnow iust where they were and ann
sure they had no chance of escape
Dozens of firemen saw the same sit
uation and many of them ran To the
nile almost frantic and began throw
ing bricks away with their hahds'
They were like so many Goals of ire
ard any work of that sort was useless
Il ordered them back TO fighting the
flames in tine hope the fire might pe
stopped I'm time TO find way To res
cue the poor fellows we saw go oIdoWh
10 what seemed certain death. | was
determined to make every effort WIN
i'm human mower to same the men, but
the condition OF the buildin nade 1t
suicide for the rest of us l" try u
enter it,"
Worked Under Death Trap.
rhe fire started from the eNplosioi
OF an ammonia pipe and spread with
such rapidity that the entire bulldlilE
WAS in flames almost on the instant
general alarm brought all the aVaii-
able fire fighting apparatus TO Wv
scene Marshal Horan arrived lmhe'
dlately and took up the task of direct
ING his men. With Battalion Chlcl
entrance OF the building and the patli'
against the flames was taken UP lro',
beneath a heavy wooden canopy wIllci
hung menacingly above them APPaI
entity not noticing their daHger IN
fremen crowded beneath TINS uea''
trap. Suddenly with a roar ana eN
plosion the canopv and tumbling ton
of brick buried the chief OF tile "o
uxsit
score of his aids.
The nremen, learning the iate
their chief and his men, fought iran
tically to control the fire at tile SPo
where the disaster occurred III va
hoped the victims had been taken on
and carried to hospitals, but lhdu'i
brought the information such was no
the case The men attacked the pilV =
rel hot debris TO rescue their com
rades and dug with desperation W.
bare hands until ordered away by tl'
officers to stop the spread oil ~
flames. which threatened the enur
district
Graphic Story Of Disaster
granhic story of the collapse
the east wall which carried the me
down to death beneath the woou'
covering. Is told iby Lieutenant Mae
Key, who was leading comp"ns
fremen from the top of the ca'o,,
MacKey said he saw the walls pus %
and Immediately shouted Wari''., ;,
AT the same time he jumped rom -
platform himself and was tohow'
Immediately by ten or twelve vi =
men. The escapes OF these were '"'
aculous.
II was In charge of firemen hsh'i'
the flames from the railroad tracNs'
saw one man fall and ran ana caus
hold of his legs and dragged MN -
To the railroad tracks, saving n
Then my men and | rushed TO sa
The others, hut our way was p'"oN