The Detroit times., 1910-12-22
Chief H0RAh0hEDF|
50 OR MORE DEAD
IN TWO Fires
Head Of Chicago Fire Department
and 80 To 35 Of His Men Periih
In Stock Yards Catas-
trophe.
Twenty One Firemen and Policemen
Are Killed in Similar Disaster
In Philadelphia. +,
THE IDENTIFIED DEAD.

THE IDENTIFIED DEAD.
JAMES KORAN, Fire Chief.
WILLIAM BURROUGHS, Sec Z
ond Assistant Fire Chief. ,
PATRICK COLLINS, Captain =
Of Engine Co. No. SO.
DENNIS DOYLE, Captain En- :
glne Co. No. 80.
GEORGE MARAWskI, Pipe
man Engine Co. No. 40.
CHARLES MOORE, truck man,
hook and ladder Co. No. 18; body
recovered.
MICHAEL CRANE. truck No.
LIEUT.. w. S. sTURM. Engine
Co. No. 81. --''''s
LIEUT.. }. J. FITZGERALD. !
Engine Co. No. %.
THE INJURED.
M. Goldman, Lieutenant, Engine .
Co. No. So; Eugene Miller, En-
CINE Co. No. 48; Arthur WeiIsnd,
Engine Co. No. SO; Joseph Mac
key. Lieutenant, Fire Depart
ment; Capt. James McGrath,
Engine Co. No. 4s. broken leg;
Edward ochler, Engine Co. No.
4S, skull fractured; John O'Leary,
Pipeman, Engine Co. No. 80, in
ternal injuries, will die; John
Garnet, engine company No. 40.
internally injured: Capt. John
Lennon, engine company No. 5,
fatally injured internally.
CHICAGO. Dec. 22.-Thirty to thlr.
ty-five firemen are believed to be dead
here today. Ten bodies have been re-
covered, and at least a score are seri-
ousIy, several fatally injured, as the
result Of a fire which destroyed the
big beef storage house OF Nelson,
Morris & Co., ana for a time threat.
ened to wipe out the whole Chicago
stock yards. Among the victims was
the head OF the Chicago fire depart
ment, Chief James Koran, who with
HIS second assistant, William Bur-
rouehey and more than a score OF men
were killed.
A terrific explosion of ammonia
tore of the roof of the burning struc-
ture. forcing out it's walls and trap
ping the fire chief and his party under
an overhanging canopy and against a
line of freight cars where they roast
I'd TO death while rescuers vainly
fought the gusts OF flames.
Driven back by the wall OF fire the
engine companies and other organiza-
ions, which from all over the city
had answered the repeated alarms.
Ought desperately to save their CON-
aides, but so hot were the flames that
Iii efforts were fruitless until the ces-
,ation of screams and groans from
he imprisoned men told that the last
spark OF life had fled.
Hard fighting then subdued the con-
iagration sufficiently SO that several
bodies were taken from the ruins, but
again the workers were forced back as
resh outbursts of fire came. Then tho
allow house of the Morris company.
the beef house, caught fire.
md only after an hours work was the
OF the whole Morris plant,
md possibly the whole stock yards.
lverted.
No sooner were the flames got under
control early this afternoon than the
Ire fighters again turned to the work
II recovering the dead bodies OF their
comrades. Digging furiously among
he smoking ruins, the bodies OF the
'ictims were brought out. II is not
that an accurate list of the
lead will be obtainable until late to-
light or possibly tomorrow.
The fire started in the Nelson-Mor-
is building at 3 o'clock this morning
rom an unknown cause. Within a
hort time practically the whole fire
orce OF that part of the city was on
he scene fighting the flames. which
ed by the fats of the meats in the
blazed up with great force.
How death came TO Chief Koran
md his fire-fghters was told by
lieut. Joseph Mackey. driver for the
lead chief, who suffered a broken
eg.
Inside the building" Mackey said,
there we're number OF the men
lighting the fire. and outside. near
he wall, Fire Chief Koran and l were
landing talking. near the chiefs
Lieut.. James Fitzgerald.
+ Engine Co. No. %. had just come
~ for orders. when there was ter
ific explosion. The whole OF the
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