Show ME N 0 ALIVE tile the harria e calamity at ft lie Colum columbian ColB nilan blan exposition AW arrul A VIUL SIGHT TOK THE GROWS ald more Comp complete liAe description than App appeared earea in ake last essae of the th alie e A associated press reports r ts gives a more co complete aplet e account of the chicago fire than tun tim boult JOURNAL mr was able to obtain i from special messages published in thelast issue As it proves to be one of tile the buot fat fatal al fires fur for its sh size ie and duration ever known full particulars are given the readers of tim THE JOURNAL the fear that lias has existed for months in the minds of the citizens citi ens of chicago found realization at atlas aaa t in a fri frightful 0 fitful holocaust at the worlds fair that lias has claimed early ti two vo ecore acore of victims and for a time threatened the destruction of the entire white city the disaster wag was all the more inore dreadful because of its sudden transformation from an all innocent flame into a death dealing caU catastrophe strophe the structure that was burned was a cold storage waiel wai ehouse louse one of the smallest buil buildings dinge at the F fair air but not belonging 0 to the exposition it was the ex exhibit hibit of the hercules iron works and ipe ice and gefri refrigerating machine tl i rebuild in ing 0 a 0 rink three adi td i machines some forty i i d 01 0 U which nich added fu 0 PIP w 31 me n a and nd th there e re was 3 vill 1 i ge c quantities of meat i fk ti at t the firo fire did not ii eilf aithar hor 1170 worlds elds borror horror was witness housand 1 people who ml LJ local locality ity when the ala 1 i and strong 0 men inen t well en fainted t as is one oner alwera a other r was snuffed out within full view of the multitude but beyond the reach of human aid the fire was not generally rally observed until about p m and within thirty minutes the great loss of life mccurd occur cd at the first signal the firemen rushed up the huge 0 shaft surrounding the smoke stack atac k and when at the summit began preparations to light fight the flames which first apper appeared red at this point B before the hose lose could cougil aj ba coupled a cry of horror from the crowd below caused tile the firemen to look down for the whole shaft below was cn with flain flames 1 es tile the men stood stolidly for a few moments in full realization of their danger then one grasped graepel a rope cveich which was lowered for the purpose of raising the lio liose ac and half sliding and half ba if fulling falling readied reached tho the roof 90 ctet below in a bruised and burned condition but still alive the crowd became wild with excitement and weeping women and frenzied men rushed around ringing their hands and moaning in anguish over their inability to render aid suddenly every eye was turned upward by the preparations of the fireman to jump lie ile gave a quick spasmodic leap and turned I 1 over a half a dozen times before bs be struck the roof ninety lety feet below when the body struck the roof there was a frightful crash and it bounced far up a again 0 ain into the air from this time 0 on n bodies literally i rained from the steeple as after tile the f first wild leap on ono man after another jumped in quick succession as the flames closed in ill below and tho the heat became moie intense horror of death riveted every eye eve to the scone scene and while men and ad women shouted hp lip tile tho guards guardi were almost powerless to keep keel the crowd away from danger the spectacle became more horri horrible blo as tile the minutes passed and for the last man on tho the cupola was reserved the most fate of all after 1 hia com companions IT agioni 3 had bad leaped to ap I 1 faient abent cath arid and as he be was hesitating the whole shaft began to tremble fremb le and ribra ri brate tc the one f ire man understood the ominous warning in arid and gave a wild leap but too late at the very instant lie he sprang the whole structure collapsed an and I 1 this hum human in being quivering with life and wildly grasping 0 for support tup port with life and mildly grasping for support in a tr fr azy of dc despair pair as 13 been to tn drop into the mass of flames and fire disappear dim into the roaring fernace below As ii a fire firetrap crap the cold storage gatehouse wai wat ehouse could not have hare been more perfectly constructed it was feet lon long feet wide mado of wood ai and id covered with staff the main body of the building was five stores high in ili the center cent cr rose the smoke sino 1 e st stack ack in the shape of ft a cupola r feet high its base was about thirty feet square and ninety feet up there was n u balcony hal cony from which rase a tow tower e r culminating culmination in in the tha mouth of the stack where the fire was first discovered in ili the interior of the toner were wooden beams and a frame stork ork on which the staff was laid it is supposed the fra around the mouth of the chit chimney illicy caught fire from a defect in tile flue fine at first it appe appeared ared an insi insignificant iii affair but knowing the inflammable nature of the structure fire marshal murphy called all the companies out with about fai ty of his nien men coptain fitzpatrick raised raided ladders imide of the tower to the b balcony alceny alcony and from there them ropes were lomei lowered ed to haul u up li tho the hose one had been gotton gotten up when tile the wind caused the fla flames mes to break out in in an alarming r manner an about ten feet from the ton op L of the cupola in ili tile the meantime the if fire re had eaten its way down inside the structure and tho the all ancon fireman were ivere standing on the shell of a barnin burning volcano the fire had been burning scarcely twenty minutes when suddenly flames burst out around the base of the balcony in a perfect fury so terrible was the spectacle that for a moment the crowd stood trans axed with horror all were w i powerless to aid the un gunj men imprisoned on t the lie be feet from the ground all ropes hanging from tile the torvol r 41 W burned away one hose will biti ab U t I 1 iq aik tl 4 iK he fil fn an nt his face and hands bands were tari tl burned by the flie flames whiff him as is ili he D came dewi was taken to a hospital a aj physicians say ho 0 will me ri two of his fellow fireman attempted to follow him but before they were half way down the hose ra gave way way and they dropped into tile the seething mass of fire and were lost another man started down by a portion of rope hanging banging from the tower but it gave way ald and lie he fell striking on his lead head and was instantly killed there now remained according to tile the count of various spectators twenty five to thirty men on the tower tile they were hopelessly beyond human help as the alie longest ladders fell short by fully thirty feet at this terrible moment captain tall form appeared P in front of the men who were huddled tc together on oil the narrow row balcony ile he seemed to bo be addressing his brave followers As AB lie ceased speaking one of the men crept around the burning balcony and re returned a moment later with a rope it was vas hastily lias tily fastened to the railings failings rai lings around the balcony and thrown to the roof fitzpatrick was seen to point to it and a man started to slide down but ere he wis was half way down the cruel flames rolled up tip and lie he was swallowed in the volcano another man tried it and met the same fate one after another five of the men at this point sprang from tho the balcon balcony y to the roof if any of them survived survive the awful leap they were burned to death afterwards the rope burned off about half way down but fitzpatrick seeing his men jumping to their doom seized the strand and 2nd and started down he dropped from the end of the rope and caught on oil a ladder which had been ral raised sed to within twenty feet of it Fi fire reMar marshal murphy phy who was on the roof sprang forward and soon reached fitzpatrick Fitzpatri uk A shout of admiration and encouragement went up the heroic marshal started back with his friend but was enveloped in ill the flames with the energy of despair lie he clutched his comrade and slid down the ladder both murphy arid and fitzpatrick were unconscious when picked up up tile the former however is not ser seriously bously hurt but fitzpatrick is not expected to survive the night scarcely twenty five minutes had clasped since pince the fire was discovered but FO rapid had been the progress that tile the entire tower was bur burned ned away and fell with an awful crash carrying with it the unfortunates who were left on gal cony and several firemen who were playing on oil the flames with a hose lose from the roof As the firemen fled from the roof one of then them nicked up tile the mangled form of one of the unfortunates es who nybo jumped jilin ped from tile the balcony and drol dropped ped it to the 0 ground round thus saving it from cremation seeing YM it I 1 was ras a hopeless hop less pless task to altein attempt p t to savo save the building and nd all who had escaped alive had bad left it the remaining firemen directed their efforts to keep the fl names atiles from spreading ainther fin ther they had already reached the worlds fair set stables ables and the roofs of several hotels across stony island avenue just outside the grounds were on oil fire tile the hotels were saved with but the stables were destroyed le less s than two hours houi after the fire started the cold storage 0 war bouse haq a ing ina ruin it is doubtful if any bodies will ever be recovered so furious and terrific was the heat A borop corop complete ete arid and accurate list of the dead iq i q difficult to obtain as not even the officers of tile the department will know who are lost until after a roll call tonight when the ho fire broke out there were a largo large number of visitors in the building looking at the ice ala machines and other oilier exhibits when the firemen rushed in ill they made a wild rush for the stairways arid and exits in the excitement a number of people cop lohere were thrown down and badly a lyn ed eliou though h as far as known n none e were seriously injured it is reported by some of the columbian guards that a number of we women lost their lives in the buil building din tile firemen discredit v but tonight a ladys j id on a body bod so 0 eniy b 3 1 J elhat ay iy at i it t is impossible ble to eu ij s st sp that of a man or in pr amao ia 1 on wednesday wednes day after the ge fire ni tha dg ae report was sea coul L illel 0 1 1 y a Is ilfred re I 1 1 a and n d it is bif just i nning nn int realized that th efell t alt e extent te I 1 91 1 disa di oter ca cannat jhb bajis jbv aided uli birtir 4 1 I rih bish is sifted and carted hwa anwa I 1 in ll 11 all thirteen bodies hyp been recovered from the ruin rilin a these three firemen died als it is now definitely K known wn that a number of workmen employed in the building ascended the fatal fata tower with fi firemen remel and how many were lost no one knows the last seen of R A drummond who with three or four other workmen going 0 up a ladder into the tower with fire extinguishers before they could have reached the top the whole mass toppled over the center of attraction at the worlds fair is thing not down in the guide books it is the ruins of the cold storage building burned yesterday with such euch fearful results inious in loss of life ten thousand people gatli gathered cred around the debris this morning watching the which still goes on for tile the bodies of victims early this morning the remains of three more of th the e unfortunates were recovered from the ruins so badly charred tig as to make recognition I 1 E impossible though it is not b believed the they were the bodies of firemen owing to the locality in which they t llcy were found being some distance from the deadly smokestack around which the imperiled impe firemen huddled on oil the cupola of th the e balcony a and covered with a mass of twisted steam pipes and machinery machiner y which had fallen from above from the fact that one of tile the bodies had on a leather belt carrying a pair of pincers it is believed the victim was an electric lineman this discovery op opens us the he question of how many persons the tl 10 firemen fi r e m e n lost their lives in tile burned building the total dead bodies so BO far recovered number thirteen but search in the ruins thus far has lieen been very slight owing to the heat and confusion and there is no doubt that tile the list is still incomplete columbian guards on oil duty at the scene during the fire have constantly maintained that several worlds fair visitors and electrical employees and other workers were caught in it the flames and discoveries lend color to their conteri contention tion it is certain that a number of visitors and workmen were in ill the building at tile time the fire broke out ther therefore it has been decided to make a minute examination of the ruins foot by foot as rapidly as possible the electric light company had a number of men in the lower part of the building 0 stringing wires when then the fire re broke ato k e out and a ax several of these thesa ar are e in missing i four columbian guards are still una unaccounted counted for there arc at least ast one hundred people who have missing relatives or friends around the ruins this morning trying to fo identify the bodies dincov discovered red in numerous num erous instances t these he se ar are e 11 worlds 1 Is F fair air yi visitors igors whose friends do not even know they were in the nei neighborhood 0 abor boodon of tile the building and it is therefore probable most in at of tile them will turn up safe many inquiries come from springfield eld ill is as to the fate of lieutenant john 11 II freeman of fire company no 1 there is now no longer any any doubt as to his fate ile he was one of f the first to reach the top of the burning shaft consequently ono one of the first victims of the fire his charred body lias has been recovered arid and in s some 0 mo way identified by his comrades thou though 11 tile the features and form are arc unrecognizable freeman had only entered the worlds fair fire department part ment a few weeks ago he was many years chief fire in marshal arshal of springfield but recently lost his position through a change 0 of administration there are three unidentified lifted bodies known however not to be firemen thero there are seventeen wounded in the hospital and elsewhere of these L J frank fireman will probably die three columbian guards who vent up lip the i deadly cupola to help the firemen draw up the hose are missing and are supposed to have ayt shar shared the lie fate of the firemen an examination of the remains of the structure this morning reveals its flimsy character and many blame the construction department of the worlds fair for allowing 0 it to up in that form it is the council of administration has been warned time and again of the dangerous character of the structure including once by marshal murphy and that the council to cut down expenses ordered the withdrawal with drawl driml of 3 the columbian guards on dut duty 31 there in spite of the protest from the commander but for the favorable direction of the wind yeste yesterday it is believed nothing could have prevented tho the fire from fro m sweeping right r i bt through the white city the council of administration has been in secret session all morning and from the tone of voices heard from within it is evident the session was a stormy one director of works burnham was before the council an hour he declined to say what was asked of him bini but it is not doubted that the firo fire was under consideration continued on fifth page chicago fire continued from first rage page the coroners jury was im paneled viewed the bodies and |