Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-09-17
-FOUR LOSE LIVES
AT TWO FIRES
FrankfOrd Chemical Work
ers and Llanerch Club
Employees Perish
LOSS REACHES $500,O00
Blazing Acids and Suffocating
Fumes Injure Flame
Fighting Forces
LOSS REACHES $5OO,OOO

Four persons are dead as the result of
two fires early today
One blaze swept over a half mile of
chemical stills at the Barrett Manufac-
turing Company's plant, Tucker and Ber-
muda streets, killing two, while the
other destroyed the three-story club
house of the Bon Air Country Club,
West Chester pike near Llanerch. burn
ing two persons to death and injuring
two others.
The loss at the Barrett manufacturing
plant Is estimated at 100000. Those
killed were.
Elwood Morris. thirty years old. of
1865 Ruth street; assistant foreman at
the plant.
Sylvester Bass, forty years old, 1858
Melrose street, a workman.
Those killed at the Bon Air Country
Club fire were:
william FurlonE. sixty years old,
club superintendent
Anna Davis. fifty years old, negress.
The injured are:
James f. Allen, forty-five years old,
negro waiter
Alice Hall, forty-two years old,
negress.
The bodies of Morris ana Bass were
recovered from the Barrett plant sew
eral hours after the fire started. They
were buried in the ruins of one of the
outbuildngs, -
They were identified by other work.
men at the plant The wife of Bass,
who. from distance, watched the work
of the f1remen among the ruins, swooned
when her husbands body was carried
out.
MOTIFS was married ana Is survived
y! "ie anu Two chiioieh' bass also
"au twc chiiureh.
battailon Chiet Hugh Colgan FOUND
noth bodies. lie says both men were
Killed by gas or chemical fumes.
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me barIett COMPANY Is workihg or
~ ~uo'elhlient coi'tiae's' making chefiieais
tor explosives.
me nre ourst OUT suddeniy at z:oV
CLOCK this morning IN pulioing CON
tanning large TANK or haphtha' Wthin
Few minutes the naphtha tank ex'
rloded ana names l"aped high IN the air,
spreading rapidly along the line OF
chemlcal stiils that oordered Franktord
creek. other eNplosiohs followed as val
utter vat Caught nte'
Ihere was wlld scramble or work
men 10 escape "hen the hrst names
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squares away was called out to protec
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nl'eeh n'e".em ] m"o "e'e overcome D!
s"iohe anu u oul 'i,u Eli ,,.
Hi,, soo1 1oi'nn, 80. mu ma.
ha;noer e54e No,th seventh street an,
Joseph Scheid. of Roxborough. all of En-
gine Comnanv No. 20 Germa ntown ave
nue and Venango street ard Lieutenan
william C,IaNlx and Hoseman Jsador
weiss. of Company No. 25. Sam Fow
1000 oxford avenue and John Corhett
eo17 sheIhnurna street are in FrapIxfor
IJosnitaI
Crazed Victim Leaps Into Creek
lanes Leonard an employe. maddene
bv fright and painful burns. leaned int
t'rankford Creek and wandered aroun
tbe neighborhood two hours. Later h
roturned IN the fire He said he wa