The Sentinel=record., 1913-01-24

the c1tyS largest brick buildings col lapsed about o'clock this afternoon burying women, children and men shoppers, estimated to number 30 to 50 Fire swept the ruins for an hour, suffocating and burning living vic tins as they cried for help. Over six hours after the collapse but eight dead and thirteen injured had been removed from the wreck
 The dead:
 ROSA WELCH.
 MISS KATIE MILLIGAN.
 MISS BESSIE WADE
 RUSSELL HEIGHT, years old.
 N. ID. PRESLEY, clerk.
 LESLIE BUSH, Allen, Tex.
 MRS. MARY STIFF, clerk.
 MISS EVA SEARCY, clerk.
 The last two died after being re- moved from the wrecked building.
 The injured:
 Miss Annie Curtis, seriously.
 Mrs. Mort Shirley, seriously.
 Mrs. Jennie Barnett, seriously.
 John Thomas.
 Vernice Graves.
 Mrs. Hugh Kistler.
 Annie Graves Kistler
 Mrs. Belle McWilliams, clerk.
 Miss Lydia Moreland.
 Miss Lula Searcy, clerk.
 Miss Stella Russell
 Two unidentified women.
 Hope of recovering any more vic tims alive was abandoned at 10:30. Until the -uins are completely cleared from the fatal spot, the exact loss of life cannot be ascertained. but 1t is stated by Mayor Finch that t cannot fail to be over %.
 The collapsed structures were the 5 three-story odd fellows building, oc- cupied by the department store Of eheeyes Brothers. and the adjoining two-story implement store of T. j. Tingle.
 The dry goods store stood on the hortheast corner of the public square, the other adjoining. The collapse ot q wall in the implement house threw its weight of heavy implements against the corner building and with a noise that jared the town to us foundations, both sank into ruins.
 A sale of white goods was on in the great three-story department store and men, women and children thronged its counters.
 The implement store adjoining was doing thriving business. The streets were thronged.
 At the harsh cracking of timbers. clerks and customers alike, broke Tor hne streets. Pressed outward by the weight of the heavy implements of the stock, the wall of the implement store swayed, sagged, and burst through into the department store and in an instant hundreds of tons of merchandise and wrecked and shattered building material reared Into tremendous heap of debris into me heart of the department store, bling s5 feet in the air. Jagged tim. bers stuck from the mass.
 After a moment of stunned inactiv- ity hundreds of rescuers pitched into the ruins. Scarcely had they mount ed the heap when tongues of flame burst through it. From all over the city came workers, fire fighters in huh%eds. They were formed into relays by Mayor Finch As one shift became exhausted another took it's place From the steaming ruin bricks were hurled aside, timbers torn out and cast into the street, and crush ed human forms lifted from the twist ed wreckage and hurried to hospitals. The fire was extinguished in an hour, sometimes beating the volunteer fire ilshters to the victims who prayed Tor their rescners to hurry.
 ". R. Presley, a clerk, was one oi these. In interrupted gasps he told the firemen that he was waiting on Leslie Bush an Allen. Tex, capitalist when the crash came
 Then Presley begged Kill me, or siVe me gun so I can kill myself ID burning. My right foot Is burn ing off"
 few minutes later when the res vuers reached him. Presley was dead ne died in few minutes.
 The body of Bush was recovered