The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1918-07-04

lapse 1tdS upon ClJlZcnS.
Men found late this morning III
the ruins were burned alive in
cells. pinned down by w~reckaSe,
their positions indicated.
Few, it is believed, we're killed
outright by the collapse, hut went
through the torture Of Glow ex-
tinction by flames. Their means
and sounds of their struggles
could be heard for eight hours-at-
ter the fire started.
Hundreds of men still arc wOll-
ing in the smoking ruins. Here
and there flames break cut afresh
but indomintable will OF persons
whose families may have been
wiped cut is clearing debris rapid
ly.
Debris is heing cleared iii Tub
fuls. Soaked through and broken
into fine bits, it is believed to have
buried some bodies as effectively
as though they were graves.
Benjamin G.. Wood, 1902 Summit
street, city salesman for the Crane Co.,
Is somewhere in the wreckaGc. mem
bers OF his family believe. Not until
/ o'clock this morning however when
Wood failed to come home did they
realize that he might be in the fire.
He had intended to make some pur-
-chaSes in the Chain grocery, his daugh-
ter, Miss Mildred Wood. declared.
Search was begun last evening and
Woods car was found buried beneath
the wreckage.
Mrs. Jonathan Ostle, 1917 Douglas,
as among the missing. Mrs. Ostle was
a SHOPPER in the Beaumont market, her
husband said today.
my wife went to town, and was in
a bank before IL o'clock, n intended
going to M~orningside. returning by
Beaumont's market to buy meat" said
Mr.. Ostle. IL saw the fire, in he af-
%ternoon, and then bought a paper and
went home. II never occurred TO me
that my wife might have reached the
market about the time OF the col
lapse.
when l got home and found no one
there l knew then that my wife had
gone. She has rot been home since,
and Ifeel sure that she must be dead
in the ruins"
Two girls named Cumrire, nieces of
Jim Cumrinc, Of Hornick. Moore eand
Porterfield, are believed to be dead and
Within reach OF reScuefS, Dut tne!r DOu-
les have not been found.
WE'RE TO MEET DEAD GIRL.
The girls had an engag ament to
meet Myrtle Hongslo, 1911 West First
street, whose body has been recovered,
at the Ruff store at 1 o'clock yester-
day afternoon. 10 minutes before the
collapse.
The fact that the body of the Hong
islo girl has been found and that the
two Cumrine girls still are missing
has led to the belief that tho girls are
dead.
The wife and two daughters, 6 and IL
years old, Of M. Caylor, South Sioux
City, were, seen in front OF the Chain
store five minutes before tho collapse
yesterday. They talked TO friends and
remained standing there for q few min
utes afterward.
They ave not been accounted for.
'Caylor frantically searched all night
In the hope he woul heal their voices.
AA nervous wreck Caylor gave mp
hope at noon, ii hours after the last
voice of the e~ntnombed had been
heard.
II. j. Chapplc, manager of the Singer
Sewing Machine company. who was
across he street when the building COL
lapsed. n who went to work inn
mediately, rescued a woman, whom he
could not identify. He declared that a
woman ana Cnilu were imprisoned be.
hind the west wall. lie talked to the
woman, and they attempted to tear
down the wall separating them, but
without success. At 4 o'clock the cries
OF the child had ceased and the woman
did not reply to calls.
DIR. William Jepson. Ed r. Kearney,
R. Il. Waleilsky, DIR. K. 9. Rowse. Percy
Webb. and many other prominent Sioux
City men, were working valiantly, side
by side with the fremen.
Phil Landry and his wife were in the
building but escaped. Six tailors m !
ployed on the second foor OF the build |
ing were among the missing.
Martial law was established in the
vicinity of the b:rned buildings. Sher- J
tf w II. Jones called out Company
to take charge of the situation at Al
p. m.
Mrs. S. L.. Sleichter was among the !
curses who did valiant work with the |
rescuers. The work of the Red Cross
nurses was OF great assistance in car
ing for the injured as they were taken
out.
PHYSICIAN Is OVERCOME.
DR.. George f.. Ingledae, from the
Trimble building, was overcome by !
smoke n gas while doing rescue
GoCk. He was removed to q nearby !