Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-23
19 OF 25 VICTIMS
OF PACKING HOUSE
BLAZE RECOVERED
Chief Horan's Body Among Those
Taken from Ruins of Mel
son Morris Plant
COLD AIR CAUSES BLAST
Explosion That Skaters Walls
Not Due to Ammonia, as
First Supposed
COLD AIR CAUSES BLAST
(Associated Press)

ASSOCIATED freSSJ
CHICAGO, Dec. 22.-Of the twenty
five men killed in a fire at the STOCK
yards today by falling walls, the bodies
of nineteen, including that of Fire Chief
James Horan, had been taken from the
ruins at late hour tonight. The list
of dead includes the chief, the assist
ant chief, two captains. four lieuten-
ants, fourteen city tiremen, two private
firemen and a railroad employe. 1t was
many hours after the explosion of cold
air within the beef refrigerator of Nor
ris & Co.'S plant, which threw wall
on a squad of men, before the bodies
could be released by a steam derrick.
The following is revised list of the
dead, so far as bodies have been re-
covered:
HORAN, JAMES, fire marshal.
BURROUGHS. WILLIAM j., second
assistant fire marshal.
BRANDENBERG, HERMAN leu
tenant.
COLLINS, PATRICK f., captain.
COSTELLO, THOMAS, pipe man.
CRANE, NICHOLAS, truck man.
DAMS, EDW. J., lieutenant.
DOYLE, NICHOLAS. truck man.
DYMURAN, ANDREW. fire watch
man.
Junction galway.
MOORE. CHARLES. truck man.
MORIARITY, ALBERT, truck man.
MAURASKIE, GEORGE, pipe man.
SCHOENSETT, EDW., truck man.
WEBER, WILLIAM F., pipe man.
FNTHOF GEORGE, pipe man.
STURM, w. G.. lieutenant.
TWO UNIDENTIFIED FIREMEN.
AMONG THE MISSING ARE
John F. Dubach, lieutenant.
Thomas OConnor, pipe man.
Joseph Osborn, driver.
j. H. Behrens, driver.
Frank Waters, pipe man.
Charles Sweeney.
William J. Daley.
Charles Cooney.
The incomplete list of injured In
cludes:
John Kassenback, pipe man; possibly
fatally.
Edward Oehler, pipe man; fatally.
John O'Leary, pipe man; fatally.
Martin j. Fitzgerald, pipe man; "a
tally.
Antoine Holland, fireman; not fatally.
John Carney, pipe man; seriously.
A. d. Lannon, captain engine COM
pany; slightly.
James McGrath, captain engine COM
pany; leg broken.
John Miller, pipe man; seriously.
William Walsh, pipe man, seriously.
Lieut.. NJ. Bollman; crushed
Eugene Miller, pipe man; burned ana
crushed.
M. j. Sanders, policeman; overcome
by fumes. ,,. ,o.
come by fumes.
HORAN PINNED UNDER TIMBER
Marshal Horan's body was pinned to
the ground beneath heavy timber
and partly protected by several IRON
girders. The face was free from any
bruises and was recognized as soon as
uncovered.
The body of Lieut.. James Fitzgerald
of engine company No. 90 was found
near the dead chief. Other dead re-
covered are:
PETER POWER, truck man.
MICHAEL McINERNEY, truck man.
RALPH REAPH, private fireman
DENNIE DOYLE, captain.
FRANK WALTERS, pipeman.
The fire broke out afresh at o'clock
tonight after it had taxed the strength
of the fire department for sixteen hours.
Acting Chief Seyferlich sent general
call to outlying districts for fresh men.
These, aided by police reserves, con-
tinued the fight on the fire and the
search for bodies of the dead.
MAYOR Busse spent ten hours person.
allv directing the search for the body
of Chief Horan, who had been life
long friend.
The chiefs body was recovered after
a railroad wrecking train with derricks
and steam shovels was used to clear
away the burning ruins.
NOT AMMONIA EXPLOSION
Insurance inspectors tonight said
that the killing of the chief and his
men was not due to an ammonia eX-
plosion, as at first was supposed, but
to the sudden expansion of the cold air
in the beef warehouse. This, 1t is sald,
caused the four-story wall to fall, as
violently as though an explosion had
occurred within the building.
Apparently maddened by the death
of their chief, firemen threw them
selves recklessly into the work of clear
ing away the fallen wall all day long.
More than fifty men dropped from eX-
haustion and were carried back from
the intense heat of the burning ware
house.
Despite the work of many engine
crews, the fire continued to burn stub
bornly all day.
Thousands thronged into the stock
wards and the police kept spectators
back from the danger line with great
difficulay.
ouois theater tragedy, which like the
disaster of today was holiday time
horror have such pathetic scenes at
tended a fire in Chicago.
The bodies of victims were taken to
undertaking rooms near the fire.
Widows and children of the dead men
frantically crowded into the places.
The bodies We're so badly mutilated in
most cases that the police would not
permit the relatives to view them. In
several instances women struggled
mady with policemen in attempts to
see their dead.
Mayor Busse late tonight called a
special meeting of the city council,
which selected a committee of fifteen
aldermen to take charge of relief work
for families of the dead and to make
funeral arrangements. At the same
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