The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1910-12-24
F|REMEN MEET
i AWFUL DEATH
Twenty-nine Perish in Chi.
cago Catastrophe.
SEVERAL OFFICERS In LIST

CEVENAL VIIlVLNC LIN LlSl
Victims include Marshal Horan, As
sistant Chief Burroughs and Lieu
tenant Fitzgerald-Disaster Caused
by Falling of Canopy While Hun
dreds of Firemen Were Fighting
Serious Blaze at Stock Yards.
Chicago, Dec. 23.-Fire Marshal
James Horan and twenty-eight of his
nremen were killed in a fire which
caused $1,25O,O00 damage to the ware
house and stock of Morris & Co., pack
ers, and for hours threatened the
whole stock yards district.
The injured will number more than
fifty, listing being difficult because
they were rushed in ambulances and
private automobiles to hospitals and
homes in many sections Of the city.
After nine hours work the fire had
been hedged in and its spread had
been checked, but efforts to save any
of the buildings attacked by the flames
were unavailing.
Horan and his men were standing
under projecting canopy beside Nor
ris & Co.'S beef house when the wall
and canopy fell upon them. burying
Them many feet beneath a heap of
burning. blowing debris and red hot
bricks. Seven bodies have been re-
covered.
The buildings destroyed include two
warehouses full OF dressed meat, hemp,
etc., tallcw house and other struc.
lures.
The fire started from the explosion
OF an ammonia pipe at a. m.
How the Men Met Death.
Several hours after the fire started
b wooden canopy fell from the beef
be use of Morris & Co., carrying with
It tons of red hot bricks and debris
upon two companies of firemen and
the chief, crushing them to death and
encasing their bodies in yeritable
furnace, into which their comrades
were unable to dig for several hours,
SO that practically all those who were
not killed outright when the walls fell
were roasted to death before help
could come to them.
Assistant Chief William Burroughs
and Lieutenant Fitzgerald were with
the marshal under the fatal canopy
when it fell and went down to their
death with Marshal Horan.
Other firemen, witnesses of the dis
aster which met their chief, for a
brief time deserted the other parts OF
the blazing structure and, rushing to
the pyre, sought with their bare hands
to drag apart the glowing bricks and
debris to bring the body of their chief
and his i'll fated comrades to what
safety remained for them. Finding
this vain effort they obeyed again
the direction of Assistant Marshal
Seyferlich and redoubled their efforts
to shut in the spreading area of de.
struction.
others Have Narrow Escape.
An explosion occurred on the TOP
floor of warehouse No. 6 and the root
was blown into the air. Flames shot
skyward and half dozen companies
of flremen who had stationed them
selves on the further end of the root
narrowly escaped being struck by fly
ing debris. They managed to Chamber
down fire escapes in time to escape
The victims of the disaster follow:
JAMES HORAN, fire marshal
WILLIAM J. BURROUGHS, assist
ant marshal.
PATRICK E. COLLINS, engine cap
tain.
JOSEPH MURAWEskI, pipeman.
CHARLES MOORE, truckman.
THOMAS o'CONNOR, pipeman.
JAMES FOSTER, pipeman.
JOSEPH OSBORNE, driver.
NICHOLAS CRANE, truckman.
FRANK WATERS, pipeman.
CHARLES BERkERY, lieutenant
CHARLES sWEENiE.
WILLIAM J. DALEY.
PETER j. KILL.
WILLIAM T. WEBER.
JOHN r. DUBAcH, Lieutenant
CHARLES cooNEY.
JOHN G. LINK.
JOSEPH P. MULHERN.
FRANCIS p. EAGAN.
JOHN J. M'cLARY.
JAMES J. eANNON.
JOHN HELFERT.
WILLIAM r. MURPHY.
Connecticut Game Birds Freeze.
Lebanon, Conn, Dec. 23.-Fox nun
ers report that thousands OF the Quai
grouse and pheasants with which tn
section has been recently stocke'
have been killed by the recent col
snap. Ten thousand dollars worth
imported Hungarian pheasants, d
tributed last year, are all gone O.
shooting prospects arc very poor 4
Ano1AAR season