The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-03-10
UNCERTAINTY AS To
NUMBER KILLED
MISSOURI ATHLETIC CLUB RE-
DUCED TO ASHES BY FIRE OF
UNKNOWN ORIGIN.
MANY HAIR BREADTH ESCAPES
One Hundred and Thirty-Five Persons
Were Registered at the cIub--How
Many Were in the Building at Time
of Fire Is Unknown.

st. Louis, March Six men were
killed, about 2i are unaccounted for,
and about 30 were injured In fire
that destroyed the 7-story building of
! the Missouri Athletic club today.
Three dead are unidentified.
Uncertainty as to the number Of
men in the building when the fire
broke out made it difficult to deter
mine the exact number of missing.
Jack Reis!nger, night clerk at the club
said As members had rooms at the
club, and that the registration of
guests brought the total number for
the night to rs. Some of the regu-
lar guests, however, may not have
been in their rooms when the fire
broke out.
The ruins cannot be searched until
tomorrow.
John Martin Hickey, 40, of St Paul.
found burned to death on third floor
u. A. Run, st. Louis, buyer for whole
sale hardware company; A. J. Ode
/ T..
Supply Co.. Edwin G. Kessler, st. Lon
is, cashier wire company; Jas. d Rel.
| ly, St. Louis, contractor. One UNI
Identified.
The missing-Jas. McGinnis and AL
len Dow, buyers for large st. Louis
department store; Bert Crouch, sales
manager, Western Electric Co., st.
! Louis; Allen Hancock typewriter
| O paint company; VIM. J. Kinser,
lpresldent of construction company;
lThos. Shyne, manager of a typepwrlt'
Ter exchange; VIM. Shields, president
ofw a lye company; Geo. Goerner,
! president of a commission company;
/ Daniel Weatherly, salesman for
Wholesale company; Thos. Wright,
secretary OF the Apollo club VIM Erd
real estate dealer, East ST. Lous, H.;
David Blub.
| The exact number of dead In the
ruins Of the magnificent clubhouse
may not be known for several days.
Officers Of the club differ as to the
number OF persons in the building
mates of the missing vary between Is
and 100.
One hundred and thirty-five per-
sons were registered at the club last
night How many were In the bui d
ing at the time of the fire Is not
known OF those who were in the
club 35 have been accounted for.
The property damage is estimated
DIT more than $1,000,000. In the vaults
OF the bank covered by the ruins are
more than $1,O00,OOO in currency and
$27 900 In coin. At daylight only part
OF the front and rear walls remained.
The Roof had caved in, carrying sever
al floors with 1t, and the side walls
ground floor, which Is occupied by
the bank.
| When fremen arrived flames were
shooting cut of the roof ard all the
windows above the second floor. Men
were jumping from windows or climb
ing down ropes made of bed clothes
More than dozen jumped several
stories to roofs of adjoining buildings,
and suffered broken legs or less seri-
Gus injuries Those who escaped un-
hurt ran about the streets in night
clothes apparently frenzied until they
were forclbly carried into neighboring
hotels
The fire-fghters repeatedly lodged
one falling wall only to find them
selves under another tottering mass OF
granite and brick. Theo Levy, Of Louis
Vile, clung to window sill until both
his hands were scorched almost black.
Just as he was about to let go fire.
imam grasped him about the waist and
Eearried him down ladder. Levy sad
two Of the men who had been killed
jumped from the window, to which
he had chung.