The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-12-23
flames CLAIM
many VICTIMS
ssas
Tin TWO CITIES
FlgEMEN AND POLICEMEN IN
PHILADELPHIA AND CHICAGO
~ LOSE THEIR LIVES.
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FoEtI Reported Cead-Mea. House of
Harris & Co., Goes Down in Chi
Saso, While Big Leather Warehouse
Burns in Philadelphia.

Rurns in Philadelphia.
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Chicago, Dec. 22.-Twenty or more
'firemen, among whom are believed 10
he, Chief Fire Marshal Koran, Bat
talon Chief William Burroughs ami
Lieut.. Fitzgerald, were killed this
morning when crushed beneath g
heavy wooden canopy while fighting
fireS which did 100000 damage to
tle~sbeef house of Nelson, Morris &
Ce.sat 43d and Loomis streets, in the
stock yards. TIE injured number 40
and probably more
Crushed to Death.
The fire, carrying it's loss of life,
started from an explosion Immedi-
atefg after the first alarm, the fire
spread with great rapidity.
tAageneral alarm brought Chief Ho-
ran from his home and he began di-
reeting his men. With Battalion
Chief Burroughs he led line of
pipemen and truckr III to the st
entrance of the building.
ses@s Chief Died at Post.
The battle against the flames was
fought under death trap, fought
from beneath a heavy canopy hang
ing menacingly above them. Appa:-
emily oblivious to their danger, the
firemen crowded beneath the death
trap and then, with roar, tumbiing
tons of brick, buried the department
chief together with more than score
of his aides.
Word was quickly spread among
the firemen that their leader had
gone down under the ruins, and their
the furnace-like building. now envel-
oped from the ground to TIE roof by
the flames.
Few Made Escape.
AT 8 O'Clock there was no trace Of
any of the leaders, and two captains
reported many of their men missing.
The explosion causing the canopy
to drop resulted from a bursting am
MONA pipe. The fire was first dis
covered in the basement, known as
the hide room. A Waterman max
ing his rounds, heard the explosion
and Immediately turned in an alarm
and then fled from the building.
Thousands Witnessed Tragedy.
The wooden canopy death trap
ran alongside the east side of the
building. Railroad tracks hindered
the firemen's work, making it neces-
Hary for the firemen to climb on a
Platform beneath the covering. Hope
Of thousands of the fire chiefs ad-
nirers that he and his men had not
perished, was lost when Battalion
Chief Lacey told of seeing Marshal
and Burroughs together with 10 or
26Smen beneath the falling wall.
Eat the general alarm office it is
Estimated that 20 or 80 men are, fol-
having two hours of hard fire fight
ihg to recover the buried men,
III Assistant Fire Chief Weeps.
Shortly before 10 o'clock there
seemed to be little hope of checking
the flames. Assistant Chief Seyter-
1Eh wept as he called on his men
tpsilo their best
nssWe want to get to the men i'm
1rBoned in the building" said Sey-
feHich. Some of the men may still
Hefalive, but we can do nothing I'M
der these conditions"
s asS Philadelphia Holocaust.
FSs Philadelphia, Dec. 22.-After an
aifsnieht search in the ruins of the
Feather factory of F. Dreidlander.
MIA to 1920 Bedine street, destroyed
Ns fire last night, it is thought that
Ind number of fremen and police
Ihsh killed by falling walls is under
ill.,
KNEire Chief Baxter, who narrowly
E8@aped death, said at 8 O'Clock this
Tqfning that between II and IA fire.
&$n lost their lives. His reports,
HoEever, are incomplete Superin-
61dent of Police Taylor believes
vac death list will reach 20.
ke& Twelve Bodies Recovered.
E2sfwelve bodies have been taken
H1m the ruins. Difficulty in deter
mining the number killed is due 10
tha fact that when the catastrophe
Occurred a general alarm brought
dHDuldnceS anu pdtioi wagons II O4H
aaAgparts of the city, and the injured
~ dead were taken to widely scat
I'd hospitals.
The work of digging in'o the ruins |
Il exasperatingly slow. Fire fighters |,
1hJe been on duty working like tro- /,
jhHs "a hours.
JI Bodies Badly charred.
y GtSome of the bodies removed from