The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1913-01-24
Search Of Ruins Continued Far Into
Night and Resumed Today
All Night Vigil Kept by
Anxious Ones
MANY INJURED IN
CRITICAL CONDITION
rs Customers and IS Clerks in Store
When Catastrophe Came
Fire Follows the Ter
rifle Crash
Telegram BY United Press.

Telegram BY United Press.
Mckinney. Texas Jan. "a Search
ers today estimated eight dead and IS
seriously injured, many Of whom may
die, in the collapse of the Mississippi
Dry Goods CO. building yesterday
Workers searched the ruins until
o'clock this morning and resumed the
search at dayligh Because OF there
being rs customers and is clerks in
Athe store when It collapsed. it Is feared
that there may be more bsdies in the
debris.
Many perosns who missed their low
I'd ones in the excitement Of attend.
ing the fire kept all night vigil about
the ruins, fearing relatives had been
burned.
Mrs. Lynn Merry social leader oil
Fort Worth. died at her home because
no doctor could be secured, They were
al at The fire.
Notable among the rescues was that
performed by John KistIer. the mer.
chant whose store was across the
street from the department store Ia
saw the walls 20 down and knew his
Mite and daughter had Just entered
the store a moment before Risking
his life he crawled under the broken
timbers and found his wife and daugh.
ter unhurt. dragging them outside
DR.. J. X. Knights, with Wet sponges
and restoratives. kept alive Miss Luna
searcy until other men lifted the
boards which were holding her a pris,
oner
The public schools were closed to-
-aay and nearly all business houses,
except those selling necessities, we're
salso closed. Six Dallas undertakers
are here, together with doctors from
Dallas, Plano, Grcenville and Paris
The collapsed structures we're the
three story odd Fellows building oe
cupied by the department store OF
Cheeyes Brothers and the. adjoining
two story implement store Of 7 J.
Tingle
The dry goods store stood on the
northeast corner OF the public square
the other adjoining The collapse Of
wall in the implement house threw
It's weight Of heavy implements against
me corner building and with noise
that Jared me town TO It's foundations
both sank into ruins.
The dead Rosa Weleh Miss Katl'
Mnligan. Miss Bessie Wade Russell
Height. four years old \ 4. Presley
clerk. Leslie Bush, Allen Texas Mrs
Mary stir clerk Miss Eva searcy
clerk
The last two died after being rcmov
ed from the building
The injured Miss Annie Curtis, ser
iously. Mrs. Mort Shirley seriously
| Mrs. Jennie Barnett seriously Johl
Thomas. Vernie Graves. Mrs. Hug
Kistler Annie Graves kstler Mrs
Belle McWiniams, clerk Miss Lydi
! Moreland Russell Hight Miss Lul
ssarcy, clerk. Mias Stella Russell tw
unidentified women
A sale Of white goods was on in tn
great three story department stor
and men, women and children thronl
ed its counters
The implement store adjoining wa
doing a thriving business The street
were thronged
3jAt the harsh cracking Of timber
clerks and customers alike broke K
the directs Pressed outward by I'll
weight OF the heavy implements
the stock, the wall OF The implemel
store. swayed, sagged and bur-
through into the department stor
and in an instant hundreds Of toi
Of merchandise ana wrecked and sha
tered building material reared into
tremendous heap Of debris into Il
theart Of the department store, pillI
@5 feet in the air. Jagged timbe
4 duck from the mass,
After a moment OF stunned lnaeu
ity. hundreds Of rescuera pitched in
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