Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-23

would be no opportunity for a complete
roll call until late today. Through the
night fire was shooting high through the
the one in ruins.
Fight Continues Perilous.
AS the members Of ten engine COM
panies were playing water on warehouse
No. e. where the flames this morning
broke out afresh, the walls collapsed:
Capt. John Windheim of engine COM
pany GA was knocked down by
flying timber and seriously injured. In
the confusion William Sheridan, eighteen
years old. a clerk in the stock yards.
was knocked off platform and perhaps
fatally injured.
At $3.50 o'clock this morning the fire
was still burning fiercely. From ware
house No. g the flames were leaping to
other buildings. and just before retiring
from the scene because Of sheer exhaus-
ton Acting Chief Seyferlich said he saw
no way of preventing the burning of
warehouse No. 5.
The falling of the walls and the scat
tering of the burning timbers caused a
men were lined up to throw water on a
point in warehouse No. 6. Suddenly,
when the walls toppled. the alarm was
given for the men to retire. They
reached safety just in time. although
many received minor burns. Capt. Wind
helm. who was badly burned, was one
of the last to get out. Sheridan, the
clerk, was knocked off a high platform,
falling on the back Of a passing fireman.
Twenty Bodies Are Recovered.
Work of getting out bodies continued
in spite Of the renewed vigor of the blaze.
Just after daylight today two more bodies
had been recovered. These. with the
eighteen bodies recovered during the
night, brought the total. according to the
police count early today. up to twenty.
Five or six firemen are still missing,
and until the ruins are cooled the author
tiles thought 1T would be impossible to
tell exactly the number of dead. 1t was
thought, however, it would not be more
than twenty-siX.
Christmas Candles at Bier.
In place of happy Christmas gatherings
there will be funerals in many Chicago
homes.
One Of the most pitiable aftermaths Of
the stock yards fire was the scene in the
home of william Weber. a member of
engine company No. 80, and one of the
victims. His company was one of the
first at the fire and he was killed by the
falling of the first wall.
When his bruised ana DIackeneO corpse
was taken from the ruins three little
letters to Santa Claus in children's hand
writing and list Of presents he was to
buy were found in his pocket. He was
to have been or duty at o'clock yes
terday morning and had intended spend
ing the day uptown buying presents.
Word of his death was taken to his
home at 10 o'clock In the parlor Of the
home his widow and three children were
busy unpacking household furniture, they
having just moved into the home. A
Christmas tree had been one of the first
things to be put up In the parlor. At
noon, when the body was taken to the
home. the little tapers that had stood I'M
lighted on the tree were lighted and
placed at the head of the coffin.
Identified Brothers Body.
Instead of a family reunion and a mer-
~ Christmas which was to have been
celebrated in the home of william
Moriarty the funeral service will be held
over the body of Albert J. Moriarty.
member of truck company No. IL, who
persisted in the fire.
William Moriarty, member of south
ern base ball team, and George third
baseman of the Detroit Tigers. brothers of
the dead fireman, reached the fire in time
to see a number of bodies taken from the
ruins and q few minutes later identified
that of their brother