Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-09
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CLUBHOUSE
BLAZE
'remen Recover Nine Bodies,
About Two Score Persons
Are Injured.

ST. LOUIS, March 9, $500 p. m.
Two more are reported missing in
the Missouri Athletic Club fire.
They arc T. G. Little, salesman
from Chicago, and Mike Thuma,
an out of town guest. This makes
the total of dead and missing 3e.
The seriously injured number 20.
4 ST. LOUIS, March 9.-The list Of
81 cad in the Missouri Athletic Club
fre-the fire that destroyed the sew
en-story club building early to-day
bin, it is now believed, reach Sc.
There is considerable confusion
bver the list of the missing, and it
Fill be perhaps "a hours before the
korrect figures on the casulty will be
pbtainable.
Twenty-Five persons believed to
bave lost their lives in the holocaust
Eas the first estimate. But as the
thecKing process at the temporary
beadquarters of the athletic club
Eent on, it was seen that this esti-
bate was too low. Name after name
hi men unaccounted for hours after
he first had burned itself~out was
hdded to the already long list.
Nine Bodies Have Been Recovered.
The probability is that all of the
ahnissing are dead" was the word
Sadly given out by athletic club di-
Sectors this afternoon.
Two Score Injured.
More than two score were injured
kn the fire which destroyed the
pub, one of the finest Institutions
.of its kinds in the United States.
and the building occupied by the
EBoatmen's Bank. A hundred men, as
Par as known, were in the club build
fng when the fire started. The loss to
property is about 100000, The ruins
pre- being searched for bodies. Five
Bodies were recovered early, and four
|more at noon. The list of identified
dead includes;
JOHN MARTIN RICKEY, Chicago,
treasurer of the Ford Manufacturing
Company.
JAMES RILEY, So, ST. Louis.
c. F. KOSSLER, 40, manager of
the Ludlow Saylor Wire Company
81 Louis.
All of these men were killed in
|leaping from the upper floors of the
'eisht-story clubhouse,
Mordecai Brown Safe.
For some time it was feared that
Mordecai Brown, manager of the St
Louis Federals, bud been lost, but
later Mr.. and Mrs. Brown were found
at a hotel
The fire is believed to have started
n the main dining room on the third
moor of the main building. Nearly all
the guests and residents of the club
mad retired when the fire started
ABOUT 1850 a. m. a few guests were
IH the lobby These. with Manager
and Mrs Magill, went through the up
yer nails and awoke everyone When
me guests emerged from their rooms,
every hall was filled with smoke.
Ihe third, fourth and fifth floors
were ablaze before the first alarm was
sven. Less than an hour later fire
was shooting from every window in
,he building, and at 2:45 o'clock the
roof collapsed.
All Injured in Escape.
None Of the persons in the building
escaped without some hurts The
most seriously injured were rushed TO
me city Hospital. Others were cared
iioI in the st, Regis and other nearby
hotels.
The firemen early gave up hope Of
saving the Athletic Club and the
boatmen's Bank Building, and devoted
l1er entire efforts to saving guests
VINO we're about to leap out of upper
" nd5ows, and to preventing the spread
OF the flames.
boatman's Bank officials said at
.ne close of the business on Saturday
.lat there was $1,349,449 in currency
ana $27464 in coin in two large
: pherical safes, which are in a heav
iy constructed vault Of steel set In
Soncrete with a reinforced ceiling.
Inc Benton Commission Company s
Guiding, directly back of the Ath-
'euc Club, was slightly damaged.