The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1918-07-04

catastrophe. Thirty five volunte,
rapidly this morning the ruins Of
SIX hours ahead of schedule.
Women and babes were in the
through fire and falling timber o.
mated 30 customers we've ther. III
The walls of the cntonbcl {
night, only a few minutes alter {
company, was rescued alive.
Husbands labored all night an
morning. Blank faces indicated
lapse has brought upon citizens.
Men found late this morning iii
the ruins were burned alive in
cells, pinned down by wreckage,
their positions indicated.
Few, it is believed, were killed
outright by the collapse, but gent
through the torture Of Glow ex-
tlnction 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 wok-
ing in the smoking ruins. Here
and there flames break cut afresh
but in~domintable will OF persons
whose families may have been
wiped cut is clearing debris rapid
ly.
Debris is nsjng cleared iii tab-
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 w~reckage, mem
bers of his family believe. Not until
l O'Clock this morning however when
Wood failed to come home did they
realize that he might be i'll 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. 0stle was
"a SHOPPER in the Beaumont market, her
husband said today.
My wife went to town, and was in
a bank before ~ o'clock, and intended
sgoing to M~orningside, returning by
sBeaunlont's market to buy meat said
Mr.. Ostle. Il saw the fire, in the af-
%ternoon, I'M then bought a paper and
went home. 1t never occurred to me
that my wife might have cached the
market about the time sof the coll
lapse.
when l got HON and found no ore
there | knew then that my wife had
gone. She has rot been home since.
and 1 feel sure that she must be dead
in the ruins"
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Two glris named Cun'rine. n'eces OF
Jim Cumrine, Of HorHick, Moore and
Porterfield. are believed to be dead and
within reach of r%escuers, but their bod
les have not been found.
WERE TO MEET DEAD GIRL.
The girls had an engag ament to
meet Myrtle Hongslo, 1911 West First
street, whose body las been recovered,
at the Ruff store at / o'clock yester-
day afternoon. 10 minutes before the
collapse.
The fact that the body or the Hong
sslo girl has been found and that tie
two Cumrine girls still are missing
has led to the belief that the girls are
dead.
The wife and two daughters. 6 and II
years old. of M. Caslor, South Sioux
City, We're seen in front OF the Chain
store five minutes before the collapse
yesterday. They talked to friends and
remained standing there for a few min
HulCS
They have not been accounted for.
Caylor frantically searched all night
in the hope he would hear their voices.
Al nervous MrecF, Caylor gave up
hope at noon, il hours after the last.
voice of the ~entnonbed had been
heard.
IL. Chapp,c, manager of the Singer
Sewing Machine company, who was
across the street when the building col
lapsed. n who went to work i'm
medlately. rescued a whom he
could not identify He declared that a
hind the west wall. lie talked to h
woman, and they attempted to tear
down the wal separating them, but
without success. At 4 o'clock the cries
or the Child had ceased and the woman
did not reply TO calls.
DR.. William Jepsou, Ed r. kearney,
1T. Walensky, DIR. II. G. Rowse, Percy
Webb andsniany other prominent Sioux
City men, were working syaliantiy, side
by side with the freinen.
Phil Landry and his wife were in the
building but escaped. Six tailors en-
tplOyed on the second floor Of the build
ing were among tho missing.
Martial law was established in, the
vicinity OF the burned buildings. Sher-
IN w. II. Jones called out Company D
to a charge of the situation at 4
p. m.
Mrs. S. U. sleichter was among the
purses h did valiant work with the
rescuers. The work Of the Red Cross
s1urses was Ok great assistance in Car
for the injured as they were taken
out.
PHYSICIAN u OVERCOME.
Or. George e. Ingledue, from the
irritable building. was overcome by
smoke and gas while doing rescue
wark. He was removed to . nearby