Show f Et BURlD BENET A WAL I Four Firemen Crushed to Death r in Omaha A FAY CREMATED r The City of Omaha Visited by Storm Food and Fire I A Holocaust Occurs In a Jfew YorkApart f xnent House VVlicrcin a Family i r Uuriieil to a Crisp Many Hairbreadth Hair-breadth Escapes i OiiAHA Neb Juno 3ho city received re-ceived n dual visitation from the elements I I 1 this evening All day rain had fallen intermittently i in-termittently the storm blowing from the I r Boutheast Shortly before 7 oclock the t wind chopped about to the north and in a I t few moments the city was submerged by I I one of the most disastrous floods ever experienced L ex-perienced here The rain was accompanied I accom-panied by a heavy electrical display and high winds and in the midst of the flood I p came a fire that tIn tied a loss of nearly a quarter million with an additional horror hor-ror of four deaths and many persons inured in-ured The dead now known all me men are GEORGE COULTER B J MORRIS CAIN COX lHMN MOISny t When the storm was at its height flames burst from the fifth story of tho 41 building occupied by the Shiverick Furniture Fur-niture company on Farnum street In response to a general alarm all companies of tho city department responded but the fire was beyond control It entailed a loss of 52000K fully insured West of the Shiverick building was a twostory structure occupied by Ed Manrers saloon and restaurant On top of this fauildinjr six firemen gathernd the better to fight the fame While they were there the west wall of the r Shiverick block fell outward two of the r firemen heard a cry of horror from the crowd and leaped from the building only to be buried by brick on the sidewalk They were quickly rescued from their perilous predicament The fall of this wall crushed the two EiorV building like an egg shell and the firemen on the roof were carried down to an awful death George Coulter superintendent of the fire and police telegraph system has just been extricated from the ruins crushed ton to-n pulp by the weight of bricks Captain Cox of Hose company No 7 was still alive when found beside Coulter but his injuries resulted in death shortly after his removal B J Morris pipeman of No7 and Pipeman Morrissey of the same company were found side by side still grasping the nozzle which they had clung to even in death It is in possible to search the Manrer building further because of the heat and smoke but there are thought to be a number of others in the wreck The damage from the storm is distributed t distrib-uted all over the city and while not great in single instances will amount to many thousands in the aggregate Street car and other communication is cut off and no general estimate can be made until daylight |