Omaha daily bee., 1910-12-23
WATER SUPPLY IS INSUFFICIENT
Damage Up to Late Hour Exceeds
Million and Half.
DIES WHILE LEADING HIS MEN
Chief Fire Marshal Directing Fight in
Person When Killed.
FIFTY MEN ARE INJURED
Most Of Victims Were Under wooden
Canopy, which Was Crushed
by the Fau OF a Brick
WALL

by the FAN OF n Brick
wall.
CHICAGO. Dec. Z-Fire Marshal James
Koran and tventy-three OF his firemen
were killed early today in a fire which
caused 81. .15a 0o0 damage 70 the warehouses
and stock OF Norris & Co. packers and for
hours threatened the whole stock yards
district.
The injured will number more than fifi,'
listing being difficult because they we're
rushed in ambulances and private automo-
hiles 20 hospitals and homes in many Sec
uons Of the city. Seven bodies have been
recovered.
Late IN the day announcement was made
that the dead would number twenty -four.
consisting OF Fire Marshal James Horan.
Second Assistant Sire Marshal william
Burroughs, nineteen city nremen. two pri-
vate hremen OF Morris & Co. and stephen
Leen, -6 years old, yard clerk OF the Chi
cago Junction Railroad company.
FLAMES Under Control.
The fire now is confined 10 the two ware
houses. the taIlow house and the minor
buildings and the danger TO the stock
yards as a whole practically has been re-
moved II is not believed possible that any
beneath the crumbled wall are alive.
The following are the known dead:
sAAIES HORAN. fire marzhal.
LILLIAN j. BURROWS, assistant mas
PATRICK F. COLLINS. engine captain.
DENNIS DOYLE, engine captain
JOsEt,h MAaAWBEKI, pipemRn.
CHARLES MOORE. trucknInn.
The missing,
Thomas O'C1un0r. pipennan
James Foster pipennan.
Joseph Osborne dFiver
J. II. Behruna driver
Nicholas Crane. IuckIuan.
Frank Waters pipeman.
Two entire Gre companies. the names OF
the members not previously counted in
the dead, missing or injured. being:
Charles Borkery, lieutenant
William J. Daley.
Peter j. Kill
William T. Weber
John F. DuhaCh. Lieutenant
Charles CUney
John q. Link.
Joseph y. Muihern
Francis p EaEan.
John J. MCClarY.
James J. Bannon.
John HelfeIt-
William T. Murphy.
The incomplete list OF Injured incIu,.-.
John p kassenback. pipeman. possibI,
Edward Oehler. pipeman. fatally.
John y Leary, pipeman. fatally.
Martin J. Fitzgerald. pipeman, fatally
antoine Hellend. fireman. not fatally
John Carney pipeman. seriously
a y. Lannon. captain engine company.
Joseph Macksy. driver leg broken.
James Mc'5rath, captain engine company,
leg broken.
John Miller. pipeman seriously.
William Wash. pipeman. seriously
Lieutenant NJ. Boltman. crushed
Eugene Miller. pipeman, crushed.
fumes "
James Hendricks. policeman. overcome
by hemp fumes.
Fire starts in Basement.
The blaze was discovered al about
o'clock by a watnhman in the Morris beef
house at Forry-third and LOOMS streets
An ammonia pipe. bursting. started com
busu0n thar sVtead so quickly the watch
man barely had turned IN The alarm before
the flames began bursting from the build-
ing
Fire Chief Koran. a. his home on The
y est side, heard the second call Tor an
paratus ana went to The stock yards in
his automobile. BY the time OF his Ar
rival his assistants had abandoned the ef-
fort 70 save the beef house and were en-
GeavoTng 70 head Off the rush OF ara
towards other buildings. Planes we're cou-
ing from several structures near by.
The awning which later became the 5s
stroyer OF a score OF lives seemed 10 ,ff.-
a shelter from the flames. Under tbis t,.
crews fled for shelter. led by Koran. Rt--
roughs and Fitzgerald
on top OF the canopy another pr,,,,, %.
fremen PLAYED streams Of water irr, -
heart of tine fire. Suddenly LieuteBaB, -
seph MacEgy. leader OF the hand ,b,,..
felt the wall going and shouted a wa-,i-,,
20 those below he jumped with ti. -
and escaped death. But below. the caBon,,
found victims.
several HuiIdInEs DESTROYED.
Meanwhile hremen who knew notlInr AZ
this we're augmented oy constantI- 49,
ing aids. were standing On the pain az tn
flames. They stood their ground al buiI5-
Ing after buildins. only 20 be driven hack
Assistant Marshal seyfsriich. who nov,
was 10 command. realizing the futiIr, M
saving property then ablazs. drew an the
men back
The assistant marshal acknowledre5 q.
lel5 tHat the whole stock yards distr-et
was u danger
We've Eot no water here and we can do
nothing effectively" he said The rpt,.,
really De- beyond our control right now
CaTrain a. d. FIcls 0f engine corrr.r-.
p "-' -.-- .--t .'-- A-'tl ai-a- huran With
orders clg lis company. walked QUA f-,-,
under The canopy lust as IL crushed out tas
lives behind him
'i n im1une- chief ho told the assistant
marshal. when bee reported 90 him "a -
later. tae only man len of bt-
crew
streams of water from one Who'll. m.
company were poured on the fatsr -
and had cooled IL 70 some extent -,