The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-03-09
80 TO So LOSE LIVES IN FIRE
WHICH BURNS THE MISSOURI
ATHLETIC CLUB AT ST. LOUIS
Twenty-Five Are Injured in Escaping
From Seven-Story Bui|ding--Mu
HeroiSm Is Displayed

fire Her body swathed in medicated
cotton and an arm broken, she told Of
Ger escape and rousing the guests in
3S rooms.
Financial Manager Walter Frsk OF
tie ST. Louis Federal league baseball
club, was in the hotel, but escaped un-
injured Manager Mordecai Brown OF
the St Louis federals left the hotel
few hours before the fire
As the walls and floors caved i'm
they sent burning embers to the roofs
Of neighboring structures, which for "a
time threatened a general connagra-
tion in the heart of the retail district.
Telephone Boy a Hero.
Many guests credited their escape a.
the youthful telephone boy who re-
mained at his post on the ground
noor, even after the hremen began
pouring water into the building.
The fire started about o'clock this
morning, and half an nour later tho
boilers in the basement began TO eN-
plode
The fare of the fire brought thou
sands Of spectators to the scene ONLY
to hamper the work of the hremen un-
I'll they were driven back by the po-
lice. Before long hundreds of automo-
bilcs belonging to members who had
been apprised of the fire lined the
downtown streets. Men and woman
relatives and friends OF the victims
who were known TO have lived In the
club rushed to the hotel then TO the
hospital and then To the morguc, seek
ing information.
Judge Bishop. assistant circuit at
torney, roomed on the sixth floor.
THE roar of the flames cracking
like giant fire crackers awoSr me-" he
said after his escape from the buildinI.
Thank God, there was fire escape iu
front of my window. I ran down six
flights. ] saw several men jump and
bounce eff the sidewalk like rubber
balls was slightly bruised
List Of the Dead.
The known uead.
L. A. RUFF. st. Louis buyer for a
hardware company.
\. j. ODEGAARD. -. Louis sales
agent
EDWIN G. KEss1.ER, 81 Louis,
cashier of "a wire company.
JOHN NJ. RlCKEY, of Chicaep.
treasurer and auditor of the Ford Man
ufaoturiug company
JAMES REILLY, 81 Louis, coutrar-
tor.
one Unidentified,
Tho directors Of the club appointed
committee, headed by Walter &,
Ritch, To- get "a complete list OF tl"
missing.
About twelve men escaped from TN"
nfth noor coming down "a rope made
of bed sheets. one of them, Lewis
GAY lord, am advertising man of Ne"
York, was asleep when the fire broke
out. but was awakened by screams,
Douuing bath robe he ran into tht
corridor filed with smoke and rushed
, to "a stairway The carpets ON the
stairs were ablazc, and escape hy that
method was Impossible. The elevator
shaft was a furnace. He started for 20
window opening on the roof Of "a seed
store fifteen feet below I'm the cort-
dor he heard some one cry, u IN blind.
Don't leave me here TO die The man
did not give his name Gaylord led
him To the room Of Henry Baker. ,u
whose room GAYLORD. Baker and the
blind man were Joined by nine others.
The twelve men went down % rope o-
bed sheets To- the roof of the seed store
and were rescued. While the men were
escaping another man loapcd into thu
room and fcll unconscious ON tho noor
lie recovered consciousness quickly
and escaped down the rope.
Three Injured in West Virginia.
Clarksburg, W. Va. March g.
Three were perhaps fatally injured in
fire which destroyed the Lowe build
ing and seriously damaged the ten
story building OF the Union National
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