The Prescott daily news., 1910-12-23

a packing house ire at Chicago; 13 fremen and policemen were killed by falling walls in a factory fire in PhiladeIphia; firemen were kiIleo by falling walls in a $2,oo0,ooo fire in Cincinnati.
 Chicago, Dec. 23.-Twenty-six fire men, among them Fire Marshal James Horan, Battalion Chief William Burroughs and Lieutenant Fitzgerald, were killed when they were crushed beneath Q heavy wooden canopy which fell while they were fighting a. fire which did damage e5timated at $500, GOO to the beef hose of Nelson Nor ris X Go. at Forty hird and Loomis streets, in the stock yards. The in- jured number is not less than forty, it is estimated.
 The fire, entailing 9 loss of life which may reach forty persons, start ed from an explosion Immediately after the first alarm was given the fire spread with great rapidty. In few minutes it was seen that the firemon had a hard fight on their hands.
 A general alarm brought Marshal Horan from his home on the west side of the city, and as soon as he reached the scene he took up the task of directing his men. With Bat talion Chief Burroughs he led a line of pipemen and truckmen to the east entrance of the building and battle against the flames was taken up from beneath the heavy wooden canopy which hung above them.
 Firemen in Death Trap.
 Apparently not noticing their dan ger, the firemen crowded beneath this death trap. Suddenly, with the roar of an explosion and tumbling tons of bricks. the fire chief, together with more than a score of his aids. were lost 10 view from their comrades.
 In a second the word spread among the fremen that their leader had gone down under the ruins and their ei- forts were doubled in attacking the furnace-iike building which was no, enveloped from ground to roof by the flames.
 Ammonia Pipe Bursts.
 As time wore on and the marshal was nowhere to be seen, it was ap- parent to the men that he was either lost or had been removed to a hos pital. Frantic inquiries were made in all hospitals and a search of adjoin- ing buildings was made, but he could not be found Likewise the other men were missing. It was stated that the explosion which caused the drop of the canopy was from the bursting of an ammonia pipe.
 Assistant Chief Seyferlich, who took charge of the men after the death of Chief Horan, alternately sobbed and swore at the terrible odds and declared that the blaze would spread
 All hell couldn't stop that fire from spreading" shouted Seyferlich through his parched lips. We cant keep pressure enough to save the rest of the Morris plant I'd give my life for d-d good head of water"
 Acting Chief Seyferlich called all his fremen away from the burning plant of Nelson Morris & Go and abandoned the entire block to the flames. He feared that the ammonia in their refrigerating plant would blow up at any moment, and should 1t have happened while the firemen were at work hundreds might have been killed.
 The police drove the crowds back with their revolvers to prevent more deaths from explosions.
 Dead in Philadelphia Blaze.
 Philadelphia, Dec. 23.-Thirteen fremen and policemen were killed by falling walls and some estimates place the number at twenty, as the result of. the fire which destroyed the D.