Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-09
Six Men Known to Be Dead
and TWenty-Seven Missing
in St. Louis Blaze.
THIRTY RECEIVE INJURIES;
PROPERTY LOSS, $780, 900
Missouri Athletic Club Building Is
Destroyed-Thousands Witness
Spectacular Escapes.


about thirty were injured in fire
that destroyed the seven-story
building OF the Missouri Athletic
Club today. Three dead are un-
identified.
The property loss was more
than $35o,ooo.
The fire. which broke out about
2 O'Clock this morning. was still
burning at noon, and Fire Chief
Swingley said it would be unsafe
to send any one into the ruins to
search for the missing until to-
night or tomorrow.
Much Money in Bank Vaults.
The building was owned by the Boat
mans Bank. which occupied part of the
first floor The bank opened temporary
quarters this morning in building
four blocks away. In the vaults of the
burned building bank officials said
were s1.S49.0o0 in currency and $4,000
in coin.
Uncertainty as to the number of men
in the building when the fire broke out
made it difficult to determine the exact
number of missing. Jack Reisinger.
night clerk at the club. said forty-fvee
members had rooms at the club, and
that the registration of guests brought
the total number for the night to sew
enty-five- Some OF the regular guests,
however, may not have been in their
rooms when the fire broke out.
The FIRE was believed to have started
OIL the third floor. on which the dining
room was located. On this floor one
known dead jumped from sixth-story
window.
The death of Joseph Chasnof of st.
Joseph. Mo-. advertising manager for the
iirmed by Ernest Evans. who roomed
With. Ehasnof. Evans said he~lost track
Of him IN a corridor.
: The Known Dead.
Those known to be dead are:
G. F. Kessler.. forty-nine, general man
ager Of Ludlow-Saylor Wire Company.
st. Louis; killed in jump. from sixth
floor.
John Martin Hickey. forty. of ST. Paul:
found burned to death on third floor.
James Riley. fifty-five. a guest at the
club.
Inc blSL OF mfSSluS.
Those who are missing:
James McGinnis and Allen Dow buy
ers for large St. Louis department store
Bert Crouch. sales manager, Western
Electric Company. ST. Louis.
Allen Hancock. typewriter salesman.
William E. Becker. president of paint
company.
John Retz. president of plumbing com
pany.
William J. Kinser. president of con-
.,truction company
T.loInas II. Shyne. Syracuse. y Y.
sales manager. Underwood Typewriter
company.
George Goerncr. president commission
rompany.
Daniel Weatheriy. salesman wholesale
dry goods company.
club.
William Erd, real estate dealer East
-. Louis. Ill.
J. l. Haihlen.
" Il. Chcslcy
l.. a. Tiliey.
t.. K. Ruff.
g. r. Smith.
". a. Hunickc
ID. Il. Fitzgerald. Springfield. Mo
Marshall Biern. local fur dealel.
j. K. Chasncff of St. Joseph, Mo. ad
vcrtising manager for the St Louis
Republic.
Frank W Albright. travelling sales
man.
E p williams, New York. travelling
salesman.
Roby Green. Herrin Ill
A ]. Odegaard. agent, Railway Sup
ply Company.
Jennings. nonresident member
Of Missouri Athletic Club
- Mckenna, guest of jennings.
burgess, guest of member
Names of the Injured.
The injured follow:
Theodore Levy. thirty four Louis
Vile. salesman. both legs injured and
left foot crushed.
L. NJ Stott. forty-six. st Louis, left
hip fractured. internal injuries.
Ben F. Williams, forty, left leg frac-
tured. internal injuries. in serious con-
dition. salesman.
J. c. Holmes, forty-two, Macomb. Miss.
L. l. Leonard. forty-one lawyer,
jumped. ribs fractured feet crushed.
hurt internally.
Lee Wolf. thirty -four. merchant at
Carrouthersville. Mo. contusions and
possible fracture of spine in fall from
second floor of fire escape.
David Blum. forty-three. purchasing
agent for department store. right foot
fractured In fall from rope made Of
tnScIS-
A. D. Harmed. thirty-six Chicago.
superintendent of an electrical supply
company. right arm and right ankle
fractured in jump from sixth floor
Edward T. kaub. thirty-six, Chicago
salesman, bruised. rescued by fremen
from sixth floor window
William koerner. twenty-six house
man at Missouri Athletic Club. both
feet fractured in jumping from sixth
floor to roof of four-story building.
F. w. Williams. New York, hands
burned and head bruised
T. C. Little. Chicago, knee wrenched
Lee Walsh.
Charles Schimel. forty-one. Chicago
both legs broken and internally in
jured in twenty-fivefoot leap from
sixth floor
John Dwyer. engine company No. 6
right leg fractured. caught under fall
ing wall.
Dozen Jump Several Stories.
Wnen the firemen arrived. few min
utes after the blaze was discovered TIL,
..ames were shooting out of the roo
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