Evening journal., 1914-03-10
80 DEAD MAY
Be TOLL OF
CLUB BLAzF
Seven Bodies Taken From 81
Louis Ruins Up Until
Today
BUILDING A FIRE TRAP
FIRE CHIEF SAY
By rhe united press.

~ AAi' lNAi'N IIfnrl
ST LOUIS. Mo. Mar. 1O.-wie
seven bodies recovered from the Mlr
souri, Athletic Club ruins. 6remes
early today began search for a
missing, believed TO have been throw
from the fifth and sixth floors to ths
basement when the walls and floor
collapsed. When hremen entered th
ruins carly today they failed to locat
the eleven bodies reported by one d
their number as sighted earlier.
Heaps OF debris We're still smoking
early today whilc nrcmen continued
TO play hose uuon The ruins and
was not believed that all the deal
bodies could be removed before l0
night Thirty volunteer workers
daylight attacked The heaps Of rih
hish that imprison the eleven black
ened corpses discovered shortly ad
ter midnight The bodies were Y
badly dishgured. according to FIRE ON
Gals that they may never be identh
fed
Weeping women resumed I'M
watch at the Gre lines long befori
daylight today, their hope abandoned
but PRAYING that by some miracle thf
bodies of their missing might hav(
escaped mutilation that would mako
them impossible of Identification Tws
women. modishly-dressed arrived
early In a limousine and cIuug Il
the fire ropes, sobbing and wringinf
their hands
A morbid crowd surged ahont M
morgue where two of the seven bod
/ les recovered were still unidentified
Only friends or relatives OF those
missing we're admitted. however
/ officials of the athletic club wer,
united In their belief today that be.
tween 30 and 80 persons lost their
lives and Fire Chief Swingley. direct
ing the work Of rescue. hold TO The
same opinion
The building WIS fre-trap.
Swlnglcy declared today. "and op-
posed turning It into p club building
Commercial buildings that house
many persons at night can never ID
anything but hre-traps"
+. Firemen we're ordered from tn.
/, ruins about midnight and the search
postponed unth nearly daylight Thi
WIS partly to allow the ruins furtha
time 10 cool and also TO relieve tn,
men who were completely exhausted
A gold watch with the name OF A
} Odegard. who is among the missing
engraved on t. was found this morn.
ing by District Chief .panzer on The
hfth floor.
Bodies recovered
Erd, William r.. East st. Louis
Hancock, Allen, 4141 Cook avenue
st. Louis.
Kessler Edwin c., cashier Ludlow.
Sayler Wire Company
Riley. James b.. railroad conductor
Hickey. John NJ. ST. Paul. Mimi
The two other bodies at the morgus
have not yet been claimed.
The missing, thought to be dead
Albright, Frank W., salesman. Rice.
Stix Drygoods Company.
Bier, Marshall. fur dealer
Becker, William o.. president
Becker Moore Paint Company
Chasnoff. j. E., advertising promo.
tion department. The Republic
Crouch, Burt assistant sales
manager, Western Electric Company
Dow, Allen. buyer, b. Nugent a
Bro. Drygoods Company.
Fitzgerald. ID. r. Springfield. Mo-
sales manager Pierce oil Corpora
ton
Goerner. George. president Hol.
stein Commission Company.
Green, Roby, Herrin, Ill
Hammer Marx, president Neustet.
er Clock Company.
Hancock. Norman. salesman. Curlee
Clothing Company.
Haehnlen. J. L., engineer. Laclede
Gas Light Company.
Hunickle, W A.. assistant operating
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