Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-21
BLAZE. SWEPT BY WIND.
DIFFICULT TO CHECK
Falling Wall and Telegraph Pole
Crush Out Lives.
BIG NOZZLE INJURIES MARSHAL
Strikes Him and Throws Him From
Shed-Another Victim Has
Ribs Broken in Two
Story Fall.

CINCINNATI. Ohio. December o1.-Fire
in the modern factory district of this city
early today caused damage estimated at
81 O0OO 600. the deaths of a fireman and a
youth of eighteen and the injury of six
firemen
The fire. which started at o'clock was
one of the most disastrous that the local
fire department has had to battle with for
many years. At the time 1t broke out a
high wind was blowing. When the flames
were finally brought under control ten
firms had been burned out and eight large
buildings destroyed.
The dead:
Robert D. Grear, pipeman, engine COM
pany No. 4.
Walter Morris. eighteen years old.
The injured:
Capt. w. T. Tinley, engine company
No, 4.
Frank Humphries, ppeman. engine COM
pany No. 4.
Geiger Morgan. pipeman, engine COM
pany No. a.
Fire Marshal Phillip Hurley
John Luhn, fireman.
William Hall. fireman
Entire Block Swept.
An entire block from 9th and Sycamore
streets to Broadway was swept by the
flames. The firms burned out are:
Krfppendorf & O'Neal Shoe Company.
southeast
streets.
Taylor Poole Leather Company, north
east corner 9th and Sycamore streets.
Hill Shoe Company, adjoining
Twinlock Company. adjoining the Krip-
pendorf ONeal Shoe Company on the
south.
Sycamore Street Stable Company, barn.
Griess Pfeger Leather Company.
Victor Safe and Lock Company. north
west corner 9th street and Broadway.
Warehouse Of the a. & j. Nurre Com
pany. picture frames and holdings.
Broadway. opposite 9th.
f. o. Duncan Paper Box Factory, ad-
joining the Nurre warehouse.
Wildberg box factory, in the rear Of the
Nurre plant.
Started In Engine Room.
The fire. it is believed, started in the
engine room of the plant of the Krippen-
dorf and ONeal Company. Hardly had
the fire been discovered when the flames
leaped from almost every window, from
cellar to roof. When the fire apparatus
arrived 1t was seen that the shoe factory
was doomed and the. firemen turned to
the work of trying to save adjoining
buildings. They practically surrounded
the fire with water. but 1t had too much
of start, and. aided by the wind, it
continued to spread from building to
building.
While the fire was at its height a wall
of the Krippendorf building fell and
buried Robert Grear His body was re-
covered. Three other fremen, Humphrtes,
Morgan and Capt. Tinley. also were
caught by the falling wall and, all were
badly injured.
Falls Through Hatchway.
Shortly afterward the names Of Luhn
and Hall were added to the list of in
jured firemen. Luhn was at work In a
stable In the rear OF the Griess Pheger
Company. when he stepped into a hatch
way and fell two stories. breaking several
ribs and otherwise injuring himself He
| was the most seriously hurt of any of the
firemen.
Hardly had these two men been taken
to hospitals when an iron electric light
pole 800 feet from the apparent danger
zone of the fire, toppled over and crushed
Walter Davis. He died on the way to
the hospital.
Fire Marshal Hurley was hurt when a
hose escaped the control of pipemen, the
heavy brass nozzle catching him i'm the
back and knocking him from the roof of
shed: \ compound fracture of his right