Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-09
MANY MISSING IN
ST. LOUIS FIRE;
SCORE INJURED
Exclusive Missouri Athletic
Club DestrOyed-Three Dead,
Fifteen UnaccOunted For.


seriously injured in a fire which early
today destroyed the seven-story
building housing the Missouri Ath-
letic Club and the Boatman's Bank
at Fourth street and Washington
avenue.
The exact number OF dead within
the mass of brick. rock and twisted
iron where the magnificent club
house stood may not be known for
several days
one hundred and ,thirty-five per-
sons were registered at the club last
night. How many of these were in
the building at the time of the fire is
not known
Property Damage sI.00O,O00.
The property damage is estimated
at more than s1.00o,000. In the
vaults of the bank covered by the
ruins are more than s1,000,000 in cur
reney and $4,000 in coin. At day
light only part of the front and rear
walls remained. The roof had cayed
in. carrying several floors with it, and
the side walls had collapsed from the
roof to the ground floor, which is oc-
eupied by the bank.
THE KNOWN DEAD:
wESsLER, G.. T.. forty-nine, general
manager of Ludlow -saylor Wire CONF
pany St Louis: killed in jump from
sixth floor.
hickey, john Martin. forty. of st. Paul.
general auditor of the Ford Automobfis
Company; found burned to death ON
third floor,
RILEY, james, nfty-fre, guest at the
THE MIssING:
HANCOCK. Allen, typewriter salesman.
DECKER, william f., president of paint
company.
KISsER. William A.. president construc-
tion company.
sHYNE, Thomas, manager typewriter es-
change.
SHIELD, William. president lye company
GOERNER. George, president commissions
company.
WEATHERLY. Daniel. salesman who1es
I sale drygoods company.
WRIGHT, Thomas, secretary of the Ap-
polo Club.
ERD. william. real estate dealer. East st.
Louis, Ill.
| MiGISNIss James and DOW. AlIens
buyers for large 81. Louis departments
store.
CROUCH. Bert. sales manager wcsters
Electric Company. 81. Lsuis
THE iNJIRED:
LEVY. Theodore. thirty-four. Louisville
salesnan; both legs injured and LETT
foOt crushed.
sToTT, L. NJ, forty-six. IT. Louis; left
hip fractured internal injuries.
/ WILLIAMS, Zen F.. forty, salesman; left
leg fractured, internal injuries, in seri-
Gus condition.
HOLMES, u. C., forty-two, Mcdonnell.
Mass.
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jumped; ribs fractured, feet crushed,
hurt internally.
WOLF, Lee, thirty merchant at Car
ruthersvilIe, Mo-; oontusions and POSSE
Bile fracture of spine in fall from sees
ond floor of escape.
PLIM. David, forty-three, purchasing
agent for department store: right foot
fractured in fall from rope made Of
sheets.
| HARMED, A. d., thlrty-siX, Chicago, su~
perintendent of an electrical supply
company; right and right ankle
fractured in jump from sixth floor.
! iNAIB, Edward T.. thirty-six. Chicago,
salesman; bruised; rescued by nremen
from sixth floor window.
KOERNER. william. twenty-six. houses
man nt Missouri Athletic Club; both
feet fractured In jumping from sixth
flor 10 roof of four-story building.
WILLIAMS, New York; hands burned
and head bruised.
LITTLE. II. g., Chicago; knee wrenched.
| StHIMBEL, Lee Walsh Charles. forty
one. Chicago; both legs broken and In
! ternaily injured in twenty -five-foot leap
| from sixth floor.
DNhER. John, Engine Company No. 6,
right leg fractured; caught under fall
Ing wall
Many Jump Dozen Stories.
When the flremen arrived a few
/ minutes after the blaze was discov-
cred, the flames We're shooting out of
the roof and all the windows above
| the second floor. Men were jumping
| from windows, others were climbing
| down ropes made of bed clothes.
More than a dozen jumped a dozen
stories to the roof of adjoining build
! ings and suffered broken legs or less
! serious injuries. Those who escaped
/ unhurt ran about the streets in bath
robes or night clothes, apparently
| frenzied, until they were forcibly car
ried into neighboring hotels.
Heroism bordering on the superhu-
man was exhibited both by firemen
and guests at the club The fire.
| fighters time and again lodged one
| falling wall. only to find themselves
under another tottering mass of gran
! ite and brick.
Theodore Levy. of Louisville, KY,
elung to a window sill until both his
! hands were scorched almost black.
Just as he was about to let go, a fire.
man grasped him about the waist ana
carried him down a ladder AT the
! City Hospital. Levy later said two OF
4 the men who had been killed jumped
from the window to which he had
/ clung
COnfiagration Threatened
As the walls and floors cayed in
/ they sent showers of huge burning
embers onto the roofs of the neigh
! boring buildings, and for a time
| threatened to cause a general con-
| flagratlon in the heart of the retail
district To prevent this, all the fire.
/ lighting apparatus of the city was
/ brought to the scene.
Robert c. Magill, manager of the
+ club. and his wife We're reused by the
! smoke. They discovered the fire IN
! The dining-room on the third floor,
and before seeking their own safety
rushed up and down the halls, knock
| ing on doors and waking guests
| Both were badly burned about the
face, hands and feet.
All the municipal ambulanceS and
| police patrol wagons and automobiles
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