The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-23
BIG DEATH LIST
 IN FACTORY FIRE Fourteen Bremen and Po-
 ICenen Lose Their Lives KILLED BY FALLING WALLS One of the Men Is Rescued Alive After Being Pinned Down for Thirteen Hours and May Fully Recover

Philadelphia, December 22.-Fourteen fremen and policemen are known to be dead and more than 40 are In hospitals, suffering from injuries from which some will not recover as the result of the collapse of the walls of the burning i've story factory of David Friedlander. dealer in leather remnants, at 1116-1120 Bodine street. The icebound ruins are still be- ing searched for the body of Charles Edle- man, who is known to be dead, and to recover, if possible, the bodies of several other fremen who are reported miss ing.
 William GIazier, who was held fast In the ruins for more than 1S hours, Is in the hospital suffering from pneumonia, but at a late hour tonight his condition was reported to be greatly improved and the physicians have hopes of saving his life.
 Pinned beneath an immense iron girder, | Glazier gave one of the greatest exhibi- tions of fortitude on record. When he was found alive. held down by tons of debris, physicians wanted to amputate his legs in order that he might be removed. He protested. saying:
 'I will get out all right and in plenty of time What good would l be with out my legs? I would rather trust to the boys getting this juxk away"
 Incendiarism Suspected | It is reported that the authorities are | convinced that the fire was of incendiary origin and are prepared to make arrests in the case. The police and firemen say the flames seemed to spring up all over | the building at the same time. There | was nothing stored in the structure of an infiammable character, the floors be- ing filled with machinery and leather I The mass of debris is frozen solid and 1t may be several days before any addt- tional bodies are taken from the ruins. | Although Edlemans body was almost di- rectly beneath Glazier, as the latter lay on the sidewalk, the remaining walls had tc be razed before 1t was deemed safe to continue the work of digging in the ruins. Some of the fire companies whose members met death or injury In the fire and collapse, are today practically wiped out by the disaster Engines No 6, No 2S No 20 and truck No. lost more than half their crews, while other companies suffered less severely. Hardest hit of all was the house at Fourth street and Girard avenue. Five men from the en- zine company No. 20 had been injured and the other men had received burns, cuts and bruises. Their mates. the men of chemical No. 2 and truck No. !, had suffered more severely.
 Many Companies Lose Men
 Each had lost two by death and others of the men were in hospitals. Only four men in each reported for duty. Truck No. came back to Fourth and Race streets at noon with two men, a driver and tillerman. The flremen had left the blaze in patrols and ambulances. | With five men hurt and their foreman killed, the survivors of Engine Company | No IS rode slowly back to the house. l Four men went back with Company No. G. They had lost one man by death and five were injured. Their record was the | same as that of Company No 23. Four 1 men returned to work scared and scared l by the flames; five went 10 the hospitals | and one man died.
 | Some of the bodies removed from the l debris were so badly burned that the l limbs dropped off. When the body of As- sistant Foreman Fred Kalberer was taken | from the ruins 1t was without the head, the foreman being recognized by his uni | form.
 The Identified dead:
 List of the Dead
 George Mackinsky, truck No. [
 William Belmier, truck No. 1.
 John F. Carroll engine company No. 6.
 Fred Kalberer engine company No. 6. | Thomas Entwistle, engine company l No. A.
 Harry Bertolet, engine company No. %
 Robert Stuart. fireman, died in hos 1 pital.
 Charles Edleman, engine company | No. 6.
 William Mcconnell. engine compahy No. 2S. ttr John Collins, truck No. 4. | Thomas Pass. engine company No. @. l August Whiting, engine company No. 2s
 Samuel Parks, ladderman truck A.
 Morris Gelis, policeman. | Five Story Building
 The Friedlander factory was a five story building.
 | The building had been completely burned out and the fire confined to with | In the four walls when the disaster oc- 1 cured
 l Chief Baxter was standing on the roof | ot a two-story house on the north and l was directing the men for the final fight 1 to subdue the flames. water tower | truck had a ladder against the front on 1 bodlne street. playlnS a great stream l of water into the flames, and just inside the building at Bodine street a group of | fremen were throwing water on the burning ruins. Suddenly the Bodine street wall gell inward. burying all the men who were within the building and carrying | down the big, ladder of the truck on | which there was half a dozen men. Four | of the firemen on this ladder are among | the dead.
 | The cries of the firemen caught beneath the ruinst spurred their brother firemen | into instant action without thought of danger to themselves. No sooner had | they climbed over the smoking ruins than part of the north wall came down.
 This caught not only the fremen. but also number of policemen who had 1 plunged into the thick of the rescue work
 In the second crash Chief Baxter, vet eran, and who is about to be retired on full pay for his work In the department, narrowly missed death. Planking on which he had been standing was knocked | from under him by the falling wall and he was lost in the thick smoke and steam. Few who saw the chief disappear thought