Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-10-25
RUINS OF FIRE
GIVE BACK DEAD
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building caught fire yesterday noon,
and only the concentration of all
, equipment on that structure saved 1t
and probably the church on the cor
ner of Fifth and Boulder. Three sep
arate times earlier in the morning the
Majestic theater was found tc be In
flames, but each time the firemen, by
diverting the streams Of water from
the already wrecked Ohio building,
saved the structure
The fire, which gutted the greater
portion OF the Mayo building and
which resulted in more than 5000. 900
In damages. Is traced by Captain
Woods to the presence on the south
side of the building Of wooden con-
struction hoist. 1t was this that gave
the flames their ladder of entrance
into the floors beneath and which
finally ate into the stairway and
caused the death Of the two fircmen.
The lncompleted portion of the
Mayo building, the eighth, ninth and
tenth floors, contained much scaffold-
ing and when the flames lcaped into
these floors they We're swept south
ward by TIE north wind to the south
side, whore they bit into the wooden
hoist. Eating downward they gained
, entrance into the lower floors, and by
sweeping back north across the build-
Ing TO the draught created by the
| stairway and elevator 1t was then
! the supports Of the stairway were
weakened and the firemen were sent
crashing to their death.
Ben Ianes and Ross Shepard were
not the only victims of the fire, how
ever, tho they We're the only ones who
died in the line of battle, Jack Brill,
another fireman, suffered painful in
Juries when the accelerated pressure
from n steamer wrenched the nCzZle
ircm hs hands and threw him against
pile of debris which had but a mo-
/ ment before dropped from the Ohio
building. Lewis Damn who was re-
moved TO local hospital while the
fire was being fought back from the
Majestic thcater building. suffered a
/ ladly bruised leg and bodily mi Iries
when piece of concrete dropped from
the Mayo building in which he was
working
Captain wood, who took charge of
the WORK OF holding the blaze to its
confines carly yesterday morning, saw
IN the presence of water tower a
means which would have saved the
Mayo building.
Unable to drive the water from the
steamer hose above the third floor OF
the Mayo building, the firemcn were
poWcrlesS to screen the walls of the
! Mayo building with water except from
! the top of that structure. When the
stairway of this building cayed in,
means of reaching this objective point
were eliminated and the firemen W -
{ only able TO drive streams Of water
against the heated north wall of tho
Mayo building, which was partially
protected by wireglass, which was
melted in many places by the intense
neat of the flames in the Ohio build
ing.
Every available string of hose
/ possessed by the department was
/ called into play, either in fighting the
] buildings which We're burning, or in
tNoso IN Danger, and for
more than two hours $500 gallons of
y. Sc VI. were sent thru the several noz-
/ 2les In an effort to beat down the
| flames.
ResculnS Bodies Diffi"S'.
The removal of the bodies Of Hanes
! and Shepard presented a difficult
task and H. II. Harris. superintendent
of public construction, took personal
/ supervision of the work early yes
terday morning and the fact that the
| bodies were removed without acci-
dent was largely due to his efforts.
In the office of the city building
inspector there was some speculation
/ II -
upon the new building code, which Is
being framed. In that quarter there
was but one reason given for the
! fire, that of building ordinance Vio-
lation and a lack Of cooperation be-
tween the builders and the building
department
II was pointed out that this Is
! Tulsa's first big fire-perhaps not its
last or biggest 1t was shown that
dangerous as the storing of oils and
paints in buildings in the fire zone.
There are, at the present time. twelve
garages in Tulsa located beneath room
4 ing houses or hotels. Efforts to enact
an ordinance which would prohibit
isuch hazards have met, time and time
, again. with vigorous opposition, but
| this would be weakened If a fire which
should claim score of victims should
result in one of these cases.
Loss 100000.
While no accurate estimate of the
! damage can he secured until the in ur-
ance adiusters have completed their
survey and all records have been pro-
cured. II Is estimated that the loss will
approximate 100000. or this sum,
! s150OOO is estimated as the loss to
the Mayo Furniture company. This
fered not only from the heat but from
the water. and there are few articles
(which escaped damage.
In the complete destruction of the
ohio buildins. loss of $55.000 re-
suited, and the tenants of this build
ing probably lost to the amount or
S55 600. The Palace office Supply
company's loss Is estimated at 500, 900,
and the Tulsa Decorating companys
Dh a..
Electric company's loss approximately
$4,000, and the tenants of the Mavo
building about $4,000. the latter at
tributed mostly to the damage done
hv water to records. law libraries and
equipment in the offices of oil COM
panies with offices there.
A tribute to the two fire fighters
who met their death in the Flames
yesterday morning was paid nv the
students Of the MONT school nj Central
hi0h school last n'Ght, when this body
adopted resolutions laudatorv TO the