Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-03-13
CLUBHOUSE FIRE
COSTS 40 LIVES
IA Bodies Found and Twenty
Six Believed in Ruins.
II OTHERS ARE INJURED
Falling Walls Hamper Firemen's Eff
forts to Recover Victims-Prop-
erty Loss Placed at $780,
OOO-12 Men Escape.

the Missouri Athletic club, b. w. Born
mueller, estimated Monday that forty
persons persisted in the fire which de-
stroyed the seven-story building OF the
Missouri Athletic club and the Boat
mems bank, at Fourth street and
Washington avenue. The loss is
placed at 100000.
This estimate is based on the mem
DRY of the clerks" said Bornmueller.
There were 33 regular guests in the
building at the time, and 20 rooms
were filed with transients."
Fourteen bodies have been recovered
and at least 26 others are believed to
be in the ruins. Firemen last night
hunted for the victims under the glare
of searchlights.
The building of the Bentzen Com
mission company, at the corner or
Fourth street and Lucas avenue, its
foundations weakened by the flood OF
water pouring from the club building,
appears to be near collapse.
The list of known and unidentified
dead as given out at the temporary
headquarters of the club is as follows:
John Martin Hickey, forty, Chicago,
treasurer Ford Manufacturing COM
pany (roofing materially, burned to
death on third floor, leaves widow and
child; Edwin c. Kessler, thirty-seven,
ST. Louis, cashier Ludlow Saylor Wire
company, killed in jump from sixth
floor; James D. Reilly, f1fty-hve, st.
Louis, member Of Ware & Reilly, con-
tractors; William E. Erd, East st.
Louis, ILL.,, real estate dealer, suffo-
Gated and burned; Allen R. Hancock,
St. Louis, salesman Underwood Type
writer company; Lillian Ramsey. maid;
Burt Crouch, lived at club, assistant
sales manager Western Electric com
pany; A. J. Odegaard, st. Louis, sales
agent; William J. Kinser treasurer
Kinser Construction company, st.
Louis; unidentified man, mutilated
band ring on finger containing initials
''B. T." and date "2-23-1904;" unidenti-
fed body, mutilated beyond recogni-
ton.
The revised list of those missing and
believed to be buried in the ruins to-
night reads: L. R. Ruff, st. Louis,
buyer Simmons Hardware company;
Marshall Bier, fur dealer, st. Louis; J.
E. Chasnoff, Sedalia, Mo-, advertising
department, ST. Louis Republic;
Thomas B. Shyne, salesman, Under
wood Typewriter company, Syracuse,
N. Y; Allen Dow, buyer for B. Nugent
& Brother Dry Goods company, ST.
Louis; Michael Thuma, forty-two, Ber-
wyn, Ill.,, manager cutting department
Alschuler, Dreyer & Click Clothing
company of Chicago, guest of Charles
Schimel Of Chicago;W. j. M'Ginnis,
buyer for B. Nugent & Brother Dry
Goods company, st. Louis; Frank w.
Albright, travelling salesman for Rice
Silk Dry Goods company, ST. Louis;
J. L. Haehnlen, engineer, Laclede Gas
Light company, st. Louis; E. P. Will
liams, New York, travelling salesman;
w. A. Hunicke, st. Louis, assistant op-
Grating engineer Missouri Pacific rail
road; Roby Green, Herrin Supply com
pany. Herrin, ILL.,; E. J. MKenna, guest
of a member named Jennings; j. Wolf
son, A. T. Ranus, Marx Hammar, st.
Louis, president Newsletter Cloak and
Suit company, st. Louis; William e.
Becker, ST. Louis, president Becker
More Paint company; D. E. Fitzgerald,
sales manager Pierce Oil corporation,
family resides in Springfield, Mo. !;
Thomas J. Wright, auditor Lemp Brew
ing company, ST. Louis; George Coo
ner, president Holstein Commission
company, st. Louis; John R. Ratz,
president Ryffel & Ratz Plumbing
company, st. Louis; Norman Hancock,
salesman Curlee Clothing company, St
Louis.
The cause of the fire still is a mys-
terry.
Men in their night clothes were
jumping from the windows of the fifth
and sixth floors, where the private
rooms were located; others were
standing on window stills calling for
help and others were clambering down
the three fire escapes. On the Wash.
ington avenue side of the building the
a.