| Show 1 pEOPLE DIE INftAMESo t fOPLE I Deven People Are Cremated in a Fire Which Destroys an Apartment House I in Chicago I f firemen Responding to Alarm Unable Reachthe Burning Structure Struc-ture on Account of ColdBlooded Crew in Charge of Freight Train Who Blockaded Street With Their Train All Were Art Ar-t restedMeaflWh Building Was Destroyed Chicago May SSvcn people were vrncd 1 to death three fatally Injured Ecveral others slightly burned and tJd fire that de thcruise injured In a fr tfat moved a threestory apartment build Oyr South Je it 9316 Marcjuettc avenue I Irg at rnlCuctc Chicago early today DEAD Mrs Josephine Coolcy Mabel Cooler C years old daughter ef t rrs Coolcy innlo Coolcv 13 months old peter Zok owner of the building Jiook Mrs Peter Zook I Victoria Zook Nicholas Zook SPURIOUSLY INJURED SY R0USLY William Cooley husband oC Mrs Jot Jo-t KDhltifc Cole badly burned will die face and body Louisa Christrnsen b2d S burned will probably die J Mabel Christenson 2 years old severely se-verely burned will die Harry Murphy slightly burned and both legs broken by jumping from ICE5 IblrdstorY window will recover John Zook badly burned and bruised jilll rCCocr lire Julia Erwin burned and bruised 1 O t COLDBLOODED TRAINMEN While the occupants of tho burning talMIng were struggling with the rncfcc and flames In hopes of forcIng tdr way to safety the flremen who I er v t responding to the alarm were nhly waiting for a freight train which i the way of the fire engine to S sort away from the crossing and give ucpn road to the lire TRAIN CREW ARRESTED Marshal Drlscoll In charge of the tamon S called to the conductor and brakeman to move the train but they I refuted to comply with his request The police were then sent for and the train crew lU arrested Then under orders or the Flr Marshal the train vroa backed from the crossing but by the time the firemen reached the burnIng burn-Ing building the structure had been C I elroyed CHARRED BODIES FOUND Scattered among the embers were S found tjie chaired remains of the vic rnE T cba4ra wore burned beyond iccognltlon an4 vcre Identified in various va-rious vaya i The train crew who live Elkhart Jnd are being held without ball awaiting the verdict ot the Coroners inquest ORIGIN OF FIRE UNKNOWN I The origin of the Ire la unknown Tho building was an old one built of I wood and burned so rapidly that all I avenues of avnues escape by stairways were cut off before the occupants were I aware of the fire I DISTRESSING INCIDENT I The fire wns fraught with an Incident I of the most distressing character Tho I Wtlo tuoyearold daughter oC Chrls leneen who lived on the third floor was terribly burned her left arm and her face being roasted Her father a followerpf Dr Dowl < refused to allow al-low the little one tIHp medical attention at-tention and fought desperately when she was taken fiom him He Hung to the burncd arm of the child and part of the flesh Wns torn from the member mem-ber When finally the police forced him to give up the little onehe cursed them amiprayed that they might be punished for subjecting his child to the worldly science of medicine The father war knocked down by I borne person per-son In the crowd and barely escaped lynching He was arrested l TRAINMEN RELEASED Officials of the Lake Shore Michigan gan Southern railway on whose tracks the train Ig l said to have blockaded the flrcmen declare that they have evl dence that the blocking lasted but a few minutes and that the members oC I the train crew did everything hI their power to make way for the fire flght I ers Aft r an Investigation by the police po-lice ofltqlrtls the train crew was released re-leased on bonds tonight WHAT NEIGHBORS SAY Persons living in the vicinity of the hulldng were today Inclined to connect the disaster with l warfare that had been waged between the Zook and Cooley families for several days This trouble led to a fierce light between Zook and Cooley Saturday night Cooley Cool-ey was severely beaten and he announced an-nounced that he would apply on Monday Mon-day for a warrant for Zooks arrest The Zooks lived In the front flat on the second floor The Cooleys lived on the floor above |
