Semi-weekly herald., 1910-12-26
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

CHICAGO, Dec. 22.-Fire Marshal
James Horan and between twenty-five
and thirty fremen were killed and for
ty others injured today in fire which
a. an early hour had caused mil
lion and half dollars damage and
at noon still threatened the whole of
the stock yards district.
A wall fell, crushing the over-hang-
ing wooden canopy on the beef house
Of Morris & Company, where the FIRE
started. Beneath the canopy were two
companies OF firemen and the chief.
Three men were crushed to death.
The debris made furnace into which
the firemen were unable to dig for
several hours.
Chiefs Assistants Crushed
Assistant Chief William Burroughs
ard Lieutenant Fitzgerald were with
the marshal under the canopy receiv.
ing orders for directing the fight
against the spreading flames In other
quarters and they went down to their
death with Horan.
Firemen's Brave Help
Other firemen, witnesses of the dis
aster for a brief time deserted the
other parts of the blazing structure
and sought with their bare hands to
drag apart the glowing debris to bring
cut the body of their chief and his
companions. Finding this vain eff
fort. they obeyed again the direction
Of Assistant Marshal Seyferlich and re-
doubled their efforts to prevent the
spreading OF the flames.
Blaze Spread Rapidly
The blaze was discovered at 5
O'Clock by a watchman in the Morris
beef house at Forty-third and Loomis
streets. An ammonia pipe, bursting
started the combustion that spread so
quickly the watchman barely had turn
ed in an alarm before the flames be-
gan bursting from the building. Fire
Marshal Horan, at his home on the
west side, heard the second call for
apparatus and went to the stock yards
in his automobile. BY the time of his
arrival his assistants had abandoned
the effort to save the beef house and
were endeavoring to head off the rush
of fire toward other buildings. Flames
were coming from several structures
nearby.
Shelter Was Treacherous
The awning which later became the
destroyer Of q score of lives seemed
to offer shelter from the flames. I'm
der this the crews fled for shelter, led
by Horan, Burroughs and Fitzgerald
On top of the canopy another group of
firemen played streams OF water into
the heart of the fire. Suddenly Lieu
tenant Joseph Mackey. leader OF the
band above. felt the wall going and
shouted a warning to those below. He
jumped with his men and escaped
death. Meanwhile the firemen who
knew nothing Of this, and augmented
by constantly arriving aides, standing
in the path of flames, stood their
grounds at the building, only to be
driven back by flames.
Whole Stock Yards In Danger
Assistant Marshal Seyferlich, who is
now in command. realizing the futility
Of saving the property then ablaze
drew all his men back. The assist
ant marshal acknowledged the whole
stock yards district in danger. We've
got no water here and we can do
nothing effectively" he said. "The
thing really is beyond our control right
now"
Captain H. H. Fuchs of Engine Com
pany 29. who had just left Marshal
Horan with orders for his company,
walked out from under the canopy just
as 1t crushed out the lives of those
behind him. I'm immune chief" he
told the assistant marshal when he
reported to him four minutes later,
he was the only man left of his crew.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. a.
More than a score of lives were snuff
ed out last night and this morning as
the result of a fire which destroyed
the leather goods factory of D. Fried
lander, on North Bodine street. and as
many more were injured, some fatally.
While nremen were fighting the flames
from the roofs OF adjacent buildings
the south wall of the factory collapsed
turying nearly two score Of firemen.
This morning the record is: Dead 81,
fatally injured, seven.
LONDON. Eng. Dec. 23.-There is
NO news this afternoon of the fate of
Cecil Grace. the airman who disap-
psarsd In fog while attempting to re.