The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-10
Hope for Safety Of
Twenty-Five Missing
Persons Abandoned.
THIRTY-FIVE LIVES
BELIEVED LOST
Holocaust at St. Louis, When
Missouri Athletic Club Build
ing Burns, Trapping Many
Guests in Their Rooms.
Explosion of Gas Respon-
siblc for Disaster.
Especial 70 The rlme,.p,sn.tcl

A'-b'N''i ~ iiC LIE D3ICn.J
-. Louis, Mo, Marcl, o.-l3etwcen
thirty and Thirty five persons lost their
lives IN the nrc, which destroyed the
Missouri Athletic Club and Eoatmen's
Bank Building this morning.
ohcials Of the club. after checking
UP all daE, announced that there was
no hope that tho twenty hvc reported
missing could have escaped EIGHT
bodies are at the morgue
The revised list of dead follows:
hc.sicr, Edwin C.. St. Louis, cashier
Lud!o" Saylor Wire Company. killed
in jump from sixth floor.
Hickey. John Mnrtin, Chicago. treas
urcr Ford manufacturing Company
'roonns materially: burned TO death on
third floor; leaves widow and child.
Heiliy. james d., st. Louis, member
Of arm Ware {. Reilly. contractors
Erd, William H.. East 81 Louis, H.,
real estate dealer, suTocatcd and
burned
Hancock. Allen r., St Louis, saIes-
man Underwood Typewriter Company.
Three unidentified. one believed to
be Thomas wright. secretary Of the
Apollo Club and travelling auditor of
Leiup's Brewer
The Injured.
Following - i revised list OF tho
injured:
Theodore Levy. salesman. treated at
city dispeusary fer cut hands: rescued
by fireman while clinging 10 q window
sill on sixth floor.
Ned VI. scott, st. Louis, left hip
Fractured; internal injuries.
lieu 4. Williams. 2clI West Broad
way, Louisville. Ky, salesman from
Brown shoe Company; leg fractured
internal injuries. in serious condition.
Is. {. Holmes, McComb, Miss, at city
hospital.
L.. l.. Leonard. lawyer jumped; ribs
fractured; feet crushed; hurt internal
Lee Wolf, merchant at Caruthers-
vile. Mo, contuaions ara poss BITE
fracture Of spine
David Blum. purchasing agent for
SIX, liaer <: Fuller Dry Goods Com
pany. right foot fractured in fall.
IL. -. Harmed. Chicago. supcrintcnd-
cnt Of an electrical supply company.
right arm and righ, ankle fractured
iii jump from sixth foor
Edward n. I<aub. Chicago, salesman:
ahrasions and ccutusions in right hand
and laft knee
William korner. house man at Mis-
souri, Athletic Club. both feet frac-
roof ~ fcurstory building
T.. W. Williams. New York. connect
ed with GLOBE Canning Company. East
port. Maine; hands burned and head
bruised.
II. q. Little. Chicago. knee wrenched.
J.. l.. Walsh, bruised
ChnrIes Schinnei, Chicago. both legs
brol,en and Internally injured.
John Dwycr, Engine Company No.
6, right leg fractured; caught under
falling Wall.
Robert MngIli. house manager Mis-
,irs. Robert MnGiu. feet burned and
cut.
The NIsstnr
The list Of missing is as follows:
Marx Hammer, president OF Neu-
stetcrs Clothing store.
Willinm !. kincr, president of Kiner
Construction Company.
George Goener, president Holstein
Commission Company.
}. -. Chasnofr. advertising depart
mcnt ST Louis Republic.
Rohy Green, president Herrin sup
ply Company. Herrin. Ill.
y. u. edcgaard, salesman, Spencer
Ctis Company.
l.. 4. DmT, salesman. Pierce OIL Cor
poration.
ThoinuS shynr. salesman Underwood
Typewriter Company
MnrsiaIi Her. of Bier &. Company.
Eurs.
Allen Dow. salesman, Il. Nugent &
Brothers Dry Goods Company.
Bert Crouch. salesman, Western
Electric Company.
Il. a. Albright, salesman, Rce-Stix
Dry Goods Company.
W. j. McGinnis. salesman. IL. Nugent
& Brothers Dry Goods Conlpanv
J. l.. Isnehnien. Of LacledcS Gasllght
Company.
!. \. Chester, salesman, Roberts
Johnson &; Rand shoe Company.
w. A. HunicLe. railroad engineer,
Missouri Facihc Railroad
- Mcltcnnn, nonresident mem
ber
\. y. Knnu,. with the New York
Underwriters. If Mount Vernon, III
Last seen at $50 +. VI. Sunday I'm her
room reading
W. :. Rnrncs. a merchant Sikeston,
Mo.
John }. Rnt1. of the Hynci-Rat.
Plumbing Company
~. y. MciScnna.
Norman Hancock. salesman for tho
curley Clothing Company.
u. w. Williams, "a salesman
- W0Irson.
William Conboy, head bollboy at NJ.
y. C.
Mike Thuma, "A guest of Charles
Schinnel, sof Chicago
In order TO lose no time in the work
of rescue, arrangements were made to
continue tho work all night -Four
powerful Searclilighis were trained
upon the ruins. and Il fresh relief
corps Was recruited from tho outlying
companies to supplant the niz.men
who were on duty all day. The police
squad OF nifty men was relieved by IL
fresh squad ut II o'clock Tonight
After the streams OF water were
turned off the ruins on the Fourth
street side, frcmcn with axes and picks
made their way 10 the floor. To hcw IN
opening between the wedge of coy
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