The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-04-23
Committee Named
IN MIDST OF LIFE WE ARE IN DEATH.
 WARNING SPOKEN
 BY THE DISASTER
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sazed impotently with a furious clang- ing of warning gongs, the government which is civil,zation came in its repre- sentatives, ani6ulances engines for the extinction of fire, doctors and policemen. Upon the smoking pile streams were turned About the inclosure ropes were stretched. Officers drove back the cu- rous the morbid, the terrified Traffic about the corners was estopped.
 And then the rescuers were prepared for their labor
 Nc sooner had the crash come than those trained in the gathering of news rrshed from the front of the wreck to the rear For a moment no sound came from the scene of the disaster. And then one faintly heard voice-"W Whitlock, WhitlCcki' Immediately afterward,, as- sisted by fireman, Leonard I<leybecker, manager of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea company, pale despite the smoke and dust with which his face was smeared, came staggering from the ruins. But Whitlock. for whom he had called. came not and the following morning. after the mass of brick and mortar had been par tially cleared away, his body, inclined across a desk, was found. In his fingers held tightly the pencil with which wfer death came he was conducting busi- ness
 And just as Kleybecker came into the ali, again gallant girl climbed her way into safety through front window, and fremen. with a cry of gladness drew an other through a hole they had chiseled in the wall.
 But the delight of rescuerr and spec tators was short lived. For scarcely had the shout of gladness died the lips when number of firemen came stagger- in. a ip1D nd n1a ar- gled form. It was the body of Alex Me- Leod, manager of the Ham Shoe store. At the same instance firemen reported tthat the torn and bleeding form of a girl had beer perceived lying still in the maw of the holocaust.
 The sight of the dead touched the wing oi Imagination and one stood trans fixed in the horror of his awful specu- Ia tion. It was shortly after o'clock that the wall had tumbled, and generally at that moment all downtown stores are crowded How many had death taken for it. toll? How many families, yet unaware of the horror, were patiently awaiting the homecoming of their dead?
 It was this thought which drove the fremen, bravely fighting against the danger which beset them, into the depths of the buildings, drove them into the smoke, and dust and gaseous vapor which continually drifted upward to impede and stife and blind them.
 On the outside, the wind had subsided and the shadow of night was rapidly falling. The vast throngs drifted away, and the tale of the awful disaster was carried into every section of the city. And from a distance the great heart of Birmingham throbbed in pity and com passion, and into the brain of every i'm dividual flashed with a clear light the significance of that solemn warning: Tn the midst of life We are in death."
 At midnight, the last of the simply curious and morbidly ,morose was gone. In the depth of the ruined structures fremen, street hands and convicts la bored. Directing the work were city off, ficials and policemen. Newspaper report CTS. alert for each new development, hur- fted hither and thither, asking question