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Show ibis Are Trapped in I Upper Floors of Missouri Athletic I at Early Hour j Morning When iL o w e r Part Is sloped in Flames. km UNABLE tfAKE HEADWAY l Bodies Picked Up She Sidewalk: Un-mates Un-mates Jump to ir Death to Avoid nation; Entire :k Seems Doomed. s i IiOUIS, March 9. Three jdead, scores of men missing iought to be incinerated in Jus and about fifty injured Ko toll exacted by a fire fa destroyed the Missouri Ath-ub, Ath-ub, one of the most exclu-irganization exclu-irganization of the city, Ifhis morning. t o'clock the fire still was thc control of the fire de-Mmt, de-Mmt, The four upper stories fMV seven-story structure had Kin. Tlie Boatmen's hank, K occupied the two lower ISof the building, was buried jjtfrtiins. (Kindred and tliirty-five meui-Hre meui-Hre registered in the build--fjlthe time of the fire and it ,jeved about 100 others were .jmibuilding. Of these not more ftfty had been accounted for lclock. BuiS, March 9 Pirc early this was discovered bursting from Slows of the lower four stories jisBouri Athletic club at Fourth ' .hington avenues. The blaze to destroy the buildiug oc-lw oc-lw the club and the Boatmen -'s JjKle fire drove scores of room-ijfte room-ijfte clnb into the stroet in their (tfW). o'clock overy lire-man in tho Ron tho scone, but the blaze rjBfiall directions and was. far be-"5K be-"5K control of the firemen. Tho 'jMock bounded by Fourth street, yjwt Washington avenue and Lu-jjye, Lu-jjye, ecemed to bo doomed. jpR&half an hour after the Are JMpvered tho flumes were shoot-lfgh shoot-lfgh tho seven floors of tho club Ml on Upper Floors. ?K'oomcrs at the .club, not more IjKnty were accounted for an jfcr the alarm was given. The fMf, men are believed to have WPed on tho floors above tho ijfBPhe entiro building is a soolh- Ko'cloclc this morning tho roof fflJBivo structure occupying half HpaTo caved in, carrying down IjWveral floors, and it is believed Mb 100 dead. Every available JK6 81113 Polico patrol wagon in been called to the scone. SBeoimted For. FjB1 census of those who cb-IK11 cb-IK11 the building tras taken by W. and an officer of the club and jjKthan two dozen men wore ac-fBDr' ac-fBDr' !t is almost certain all W ero burned to death. lock the bodies of three men nd on the Bidewalk where they rom the fourth floor. Ono jjButiivacd on Page Two.) 1 LIVES III LOST l HI AT ST. (Continued from Pago One.) of theso was identified as John Martin .Rickey of Chicago. Tho firo is believed In have originated origi-nated in tho dining room on tho third floor of the building, although the police po-lice are givinjr some crcdouco to the thoory that fafo blowers may bo responsible, re-sponsible, as two explosions woro heard in the Boatmen 's banlt. When tho 'firemen arrived the entire building was ablazo and inon and women wom-en wore jumping from all floors above tho fourth. About a score of these escaped es-caped death by lauding on tho roofs of smaller buildings adjoining tho club. Tho threo dead wore killed iu headlong head-long dashes lo tho pavement. Ono man, Theodore Levy of .lackson. Tenn.. clung to tho sill of a sixth story window win-dow until both his handa were eharred black. -Just a ho was about to lot go his hold lie was rescued by firemen. Wheu he had been treated at the dispensary, dis-pensary, Lovy said two of tbb mon who wero killed had jumped from tho window win-dow to which he hung. Many Injured. At 5 o'clock this morning tho city dispoiiparv housed twenty injured inenl-berri inenl-berri (jf Ihd club, tho city hospital nine inoro seriously injured. Thirty others who had escaped in night clothing wero taken caro of in downtown hotels. The. firo soon spread to tho St. Louis f-'ced company on Washington avenue, the St Louis Poultry and Seod company com-pany ou Fourth street, tho Beckman Butter and Egg company and tho Bont-zon Bont-zon commission company on Fourth street, noar Lucas avenue. Thcso buildings, build-ings, loo, seomcd doomnd. At this hour only part, of the front and roar walls of tho M. A. C. building remained. remain-ed. The iutcrior and aidowalls had caved in carrying down all the floors to tho second, where the dobris waa stopped by the vaults of tho Boatmen Boat-men 's hank. List of Injured: ThoGo at tho hospital were: Leo Wolf, CurttihorsvilJc, Mo,, fractured frac-tured log. Bon Williams, Louisville, Ky., burns on body. Ned Scott, St. Louis, fractured thigh. L. Leonard, St. Louis, internal - injuries. in-juries. Charles Schimcl, Chicago, fracturod g". 'X. E. llarnod, Chicago, fracturod leg. W. C. Holmes, St. Louis, shock aud exposure. William Knrnor, St. Louis, both logo broken. E. T. Kaub, Forest Park, 111., fractured frac-tured knee. Rescued : P. J. Donely, Henry Schrciber. Alfred Al-fred Frank, Jiustacc Synne, L. Buckloy, IT. S. Newman, David Bloom, J. Gay; lord, R. T. Evunu, Mortimer Lovy, ,lif-lian ,lif-lian Cilascow, C. Orriejc Bishop. Carl Strauss, Paul Buss, Thomas C. Littlo, George II. Allen, all of St. Louis; A. A. Bourne, llaclccnsack. N. E. P. Jones, Chicago; ". IJ. Baker, Cincinnati; V. B. Sites, Leo Walsh, Teo Levy, -Jackson, Tenn. |
