Show WAB SH CRUSHED caught by the wall of ofa a burning roundhouse round house THREE DEAD ONE DYING I 1 fourteen were burled buried under tinder tho the ruins the rescued were all badly injured lives lost and property destroyed oy by Ala alabama barna floods and a cyclone cleveland world burned out toledo 0 march 17 the roundhouse ol of the elie wabash railroad C company 0 pa Y in not this city located at the foot t ot S south 0 uth street on the lock dock was burned to the ground between 10 and 11 today three quarters of an hour after the first alarm was sent in ili the southwest out wall of the building feet in circumference fell in burying twelve men under underneath noath it two of them more berc instantly killed a third died a short time after being taken out of the de brahs and ami the others were all badly hurt one due probably fatally all but one john bowen were employees of the wabash DEAD H R 11 BOUT MAN skull crushed internally terri eternally ter nally ally injured J J PRESTON back broken skull crushed killed instantly instant Y JOHN BOWEN skull crushed internally injured kit killed instantly INJURED F r 11 toward howard head bruised face cut slightly burned will recover john leary lee legi broken arlia arm crushed skull fractured may the die patrick skull fractured shoulder broken li aill U recover martin Cre gruenburg Grcen enburg burg head cut will recover co vor hairy zimmermann lega leers sprained holy boby bruised toni laed becker becher head bead bruised brul sed shoulder sprained 51 rainea raI casper becker head and shoulders cut henry cording dIng head bruised and cut T C lauer head iud and neck sprained lead cut THE FIRST ALARM the first alarm of the firo fire came by telephone phone to the district offices at 10 10 a ell A few minutes previously a resident of the neighborhood baw a emill tattle name burst out of the cupoli of tile the building and he ran to the office odthe of the general foreman directly ivoin from the round dud and fled those in charge general foreman ll howard award summoned the companas comp anys private privat e lire department consisting of fifteen met men to tile seene scene and a stream of water was directed toward the blazing blazin g tu pola A heavy wind was blosl blowing n g and the 1 ure I re TOOK ate te its way down to the roof of tin the te when file chief mayora reached bed the 11 ire re 11 he C saw aw that there was danger of 0 the flames reaching the oil house repair shops hops and the wabash elevator all in 6 close proximity unit and he immediately immetta acly sent in a general ularm meanwhile the force of the company had directed their efforts toward boward smothering tile the names flana et from the structure which menaced the oil ell house and elie die fire it at this hl pont point was held bem fairly tn in check the root roof was already ablaze end and threatened d to collapse collan sc ovary every moment bat the failing of tile atals was TVIS not at this time anticipated the iron braces supporting n the root expanded in fit tile hie dri tenise heat beat and the elie frail frame collapsed with a muffled roar evar in on OIL tile the stalled cripliver crip lives TWELVE werl CAUGHT at this his moment the southwest kouth west wall I 1 11 feet hlin and eighteen indies inches thick w u eon to 0 totter outward from the lateral ral pressure of the falli fallier nr roof and a yell went up to apprise of their danger the fifteen men at work lit in tills portion of the building the warning cimo came too late and twelve of the men were burled lit in a pile of at brick several feet that only two were killed outright was nothing mottling short of miraculous streams si ams of water sicre ere louied on the smoking debris and na is soon as possible the work of rescue began preston ind and bowen were bulled completely and were dead some sometime time before their bodies were ere reached they were badly crushed cru olied bowens features being Bohl bohlman mall was taken out in an unconscious condition and removed to his brome where lie died a u few haure afterward liy fly tills flits time halt bait a dozen phyll physicians clans had reached the scene and attention was directed toward carrien carri ln out tho the injured leary was wa found to be the worst auf feier ind and it was feared he would scarcely live out the day the th gobberg oti hern though badly used up will probably I 1 recover the atie had a stu liborn orn w lh the now doomed roundhouse the heavy and greatly aiding alding the stubborn names at A L noon tile the lire are was practically pa under control utter bets deploying toying all that was inflammable of the building the alie property properly logs joss la Is estimated at pro probably bazly insure d tho roundhouse which had a capacity of two twenty nty contained only six alx engines and allese are till all badly damaged A wheeling lake erle erie coal car and it a baltimore ohio box C car or were also consumed I 1 late lareto to night two more men were I 1 found wild who were Injured by the falling fallin J finley an engineer W wall a it they are of air An andrews drons ind and george towers machinist both in ill employ craft loy of the 1 fanley Fl nley IS quite seriously hurt hla h chesi hes aclus clus crushed ed and ho he sustained a severe scalp wound towers has a fracture or 0 the left jg 1 and la Is met moier e or less bruised |