The Green Forest tribune., 1914-03-13
ST. LOUIS CLUB
 HOUSE IS BURNED
DEATH TOLL OF MISSOURI ATH. LETlc CLUB WAS PLACED AT
 THiRTY-oNE TUESDAY.
GREATEST LOSS IN CITY
Property Loss Is Near Half Million, Many Victims Were Buried
 in the Ruins.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
 St. Louis.-Between 30 and 35 guests of the Missouri Athletic Club perish ed in the flames that destroyed the building Monday morning. This is the belief of officers of the club. Seven bodies had been recovered Monday evening and from 23 to 29 persons are still unaccounted for. Bremen con. tinued to search for bodies in the smouldering ruins under the glare of searchlights.
 A committee opened headquarters at Press Club and asked all who were guests of the Missouri Athletic Club to report, but 30 to 35 did not register and hourly the feeling grew that all these were lost.
 The revised list of dead follows:
 Kessler, Edwin C., St. Louis, cash. fer Ludlow Saylor Wire Company, kill ed in jump from sixth floor
 Hickey, John Martin, Chicago, treas- urer Ford Manufacturing Company (roofing materials), burned to death on third floor; leaves widow land child.
 Reilly, James D., St. Louis, member of firm Ware & Reilly, contractors.
 Erd, William E.. East St. Louis, H.. real estate dealers, suffocated and burned.
 Hancock, Allen R., St. Louis, sales man Underwood Typewriter Company
 An unidentified body, mutilated be- yond recognition.
 Following is revised list of those the ruins:
 L. R. Ruff, St. Louis buyer Simmons Harware Company.
 Marshall Eyer, fur dealer, St. Louis
 J. E. Chasnoff, Sedalia, Mo-, adver- Using department St. Louis Republic
 Burl Crouch, assistant sales mana. ger, Western Electric Company.
 Thomas B. Shyne, salesman Under. wood Typewriter Company, Syracuse, N. Y.
 Allen Dow, buyer for B. Nugent 6 Bros. Dry Goods Company St. Louis.
 w. J. McGinis, buyer B. Nugent & Bros. Dry Goods Company, St. Louis.
 Frank W. Albright, travelling sales man, Rice-Stix Dry Goods Company, St. Louis.
 J. L. Hachlen, engineer Laclede Gas Light Company, St. Louis.
 E. P. Williams, New York, travelling salesman.
 w. A. Hunicle, St. Louis, assistant operating engineer Missouri Pacific railroad.
 Robbin Green, Herrin Supply com pany, Herrin, III.
 B. J. McKenna, guest of a member named Jennings.
 J. Wolfson.
 A. T. Ranus.
 Michael Thuma, Berwyn. H.. en- ploye Alschuller Dryor and Click Cloth ing company of Chicago.
 Marx Hammer, St. Louis, president Neusteter Cloak and Suit Company, St. Louis.
 William E. Becker, St. Louis, presi- dent Becker-Moore Paint company
 D. E. Fitzgerald sales manager Pierce Oil company, family resides in Springfield, Mo.
 Thomas J. Wright, auditor Lemp Brewing company, St. Louis.
 George Goener, president Holstein Commission company, St. Louis.
 A. J. Odegard, St. Louis, sales agt. Spencer Otis company, railway SUD- plies, St Louis.
 Norman Hancock, salesman Curlo Clothing company, St. Louis.
 William J. Kinser, treasurer Kinser Construction company, St. Louis.
 The blaze cost more lives than any previous fire in the city's history. It completely wrecked a seven-story building occupied by the Missouri Ath- letic Club and by the Boatmen's bank, caused property loss estimated at S466,000 and forced the abandonment of the intercollegiate track meet.