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Show 'ii 1 PHILADELPHIA FIRE ARE PLACED AT FIFTEEN BY POLICE Injured Number More Than Fifty, of Whom Twentyfive Are in Hospitals, Some of n Them Fatally Injured BODIES OF SOME OF THE DEAD ENCASED IN SOLID CAKES OF ICE One Man Brought Out Alive After Being Pinned Down by Heavy Beams for Twelve Hours Crowds Cheer. Philadelphia. Dec. 22. Fifteen known dead, 14 firemen ;ind one policeman, po-liceman, and more than 50 injured, of whom 25 are still in hospitals. Is the record of last night's lire at the leatb er factory of Daniel Friedlander In this city.' These figures were given out by the police at noon today and the city officials of-ficials believe tboy have accounted for all the men who were at work nt the fire when the walls of the flvc-story flvc-story building fell on them. Philadelphia, Dec. 2. Members of the police and Are departments of this city were working until daybreak In tho lco-covered rulus of D. Frled-lamlers Frled-lamlers leather factory In the faint hope of rescuing any of their comrades com-rades who might still be alive under the mass of bricks and lion girders which crushed down upon them last nii-'ht while they wore fighting the flames. Incomplete lints (.hows twentythreo dead, nineteen of whom have been identified. Sixteen are firemen and throe are policemen. Headed by the director of public safetv the raombvrs of both depart- hope nf rescuing those men who wero trying to remove a giraer which imprisoned im-prisoned a Pri-mtn wh- the threatening threaten-ing wall era' In d c'.own up:n them. At lenst fiftren or t;i...ie lost Ih.-ir live.. Tho bodli'i "I tn were recovered almost al-most Immediately. It wa.i ri!io the wor; disasters which has overtaken tb-.- Phila Ivlphla Are department. ... Although tht uK'ni-lMiy 1'jss will not ex( -ce,l . .ti th lo:.s of life anions the firemen v.-as greater llr.m at nny previous fire In the history of the department. de-partment. Ectir.'.atinq the - Dead. Philadelphia, Dec. 22. After an all-nii;ht all-nii;ht ,en;c') u: Hie r'llns of the leather leath-er factory of (J. 1'rb d!andc r. 1114-1120 Boillne jtivct. iK st roved by fire lat j uight, it is tiimilit the Dumber of firemen and policemen killed by falling fall-ing vvalL; Is uner 2'. John ('. r.axler, chief of the fire department, who Ind narrow -scnp; from death, said that nt a. m. bis I reports showed t,;it from 11 to 11 J flrenn-n Ion their lives. He savs, however, that hi.s rcparis are not complete. com-plete. Superintendent of Police Tav lor be-i be-i llevos that the nu-uler of deaths will I reaeii :. I'ii to a. m. !J bodies j had been taken t'roi.i lite ruin? ' The docility in determining tho 1 number of men killed U due V) tho , fact that win n the cat.istroplie occurred oc-curred a general alarm wnf ?cnt In for , anibiilnncpR and j-.ollco patrols, and the i injured and d-ad were taken to wide- ly scattered hoi -Hal:; and other ! places. j The work of digging Into the ruins is exaHperailtigly slow to the police-i police-i men and firemen v. ho have been on . duty all ni.zht This is dm- principally principal-ly to the extreme cold weather, which froze' the wet rtiirin into an almost solid mass. It v.n one of the coldest morulnv;3 of the ser'soc, and the rescuers res-cuers s-'uffcrcd kecnty. Working to Rescue a Man. Lying face downward, with tons cf brick less than a foot above U3 head, and wltli his lower limbs pinioned to the pavement, William Glazier, a mem-Imt mem-Imt of engine company No. C, at daylight day-light held frequent conversations with, the scores of firemen and policemen who vwrc straining every effort to reach the machinery which held him a prisoner. mcnts have been at work since before midnight loM night and it will be late today before the exact extent of tho loss of life can le determined. More than half of tho Identified dead were in the rescue party which shortly before 3 o'clock this morning were burled beneath debris when the north wall, the last of the building to remain standing, crashed down upon them. In addition to the injured firefighters, firefight-ers, a host of spectators were injured injur-ed by the falling walls last night and several are In hospitals In a critical , condition. j Among them are Mrs. Mary A. Neu- j matin, aed 50 years, whose back waa crushed by a falling brick; Robert. Walton, ai:ed 21 years, who Is covered cov-ered with burns, and Walter Manger, aged 1C years, whose legs and arms are all broken. The lire, which originated on the first floor of the Friedlander factory, 1 a five story brick structure at lllfi to 1120 North Bodlne street. In the i Northeastern section of the city, had , gained considerable headway before ' It was discovered shortly before 10 o clock lust nltiit. Tho work of the firemen wan further Impeded by the fact that all tho fire plugs In the vi- I cinity were frozen solid. Before they i could be thawed out, tho entire body ; 1 Brother firemen of Glazier were un-1 un-1 able to crawl beneath the debris nnd ; provide him with stimulants to make him ns comfortable as possible, j A huge tarpaulin was dragged Into j the narrow passageway to the help-I help-I less fireman and sprtd about his ; body to keep bis clot.h s from becom-j becom-j ing saturate. I by the water, which j was being thrown uiton the smoulder-j smoulder-j Inp ruins. - i Glazier, unle.ej some of the ruins j falls upon hlni, probably will be taken I out ftllvo in a few hours. Limbo Drop Off. Some Of the bodies removed from the debris were so badly burned that i the limbs dropped off. When the body j of Assistant Foreman Fred Kalber-i Kalber-i ger was taken from the ruins It was ; I without the head, tho foreman being recognized by hl.v uniform. The Identified Dead. PATRICK CARROLL, truck No. 7. GEORGE MACK IN SKY, truck 7. WILLIAM BEL.MIER, truck 1. JOHN l CARROLL, engine company com-pany No. 6. FRED KALIlERGER, engine company compa-ny C. THOMAS ENTWISTLE. engine coin pa nv 21. HARRY MERTOLET, engine company com-pany 2U. ROBERT STUART, fireman died in hosoital. . ; CHARLES kUI;EM EN. engine com-pany- C I Continued 0n Page Eight.) of the building was a mass of flames. Firemen, under the direction of Chief Baxter, began a systematic attack. Truck No. 7, a huge modern water tower, and engine company No. 2Z were gotten into position on the Bo-dlno Bo-dlno Ptrcet front. Lines of hose were also run from Third street through a t. umber of small bouses. Hardly had the work begun when the Bodlna street wall collapsed, carrying with Jt members of th company who were leaning against It on their extension ladders. A majority of the men working work-ing at that point were thrown Into the blazing ruins. A moment later the south wall and the east wall near Thirl street fell. The roof of a fmall house In Third street, from which Baxter was directing di-recting the work of his men. was cut in half nnd the veteran leader narrowly nar-rowly escaped. The falling bricks cKtlnulshed J most of the flames, but thoeo firemen who escaped the fire and shock bad their lives further endangered by the I freezing water which filled the base-ment. base-ment. Some of the bodies were removed re-moved frozen solid In cakes of Ice. As the firemen fell back, the rllce reserves were called out from all sections sec-tions of the city. Disregarding the menace of -the north wall, which was still threatening above them, they went manfully to the assistance of the firemen In the the Imprisoned man was found by tho rescuing gang bo called out: "I'm feeling pretty good; I'll hold out as long as 1 can." Priest Crept to Imprisoned. Father Englert of SL Mark's Catholic Cath-olic church was gent for and hp crept as close to Glazier as he could and administered spiritual comfort. "Am I going- to die, do you think?" asked Glazier. "No, old man; not a hit of it," replied re-plied the surgeon. "We are going to save you. You'll get a Christmas dinner, all right." In an effort to shield Glazier fmm l a possible fall of debris, two Jaek3 , were put In place and ero3 these tho firemen attempted to lay a board. Before the board could be adjusted more bricks and mortar tumbled down j on the helpless man and his face was j contorted with pain. "I can't Add out much longer," he cried. "Cheer up," shouted one of the physicians. phy-sicians. "We're getting to you." "All right; I'll grin and bear it," said Glazier. Glazier Rescued. Fireman Glazier w?s Hnally rescued res-cued at 11:30 a. m., after having leen held helpless by heavy timbers for 13 ; hours. i He was conscious and wasrushcd to a hospital. There tho doctors said he could not live, as txth legs were broken and he was injured internally. The police at thi3 hour said 13 were known to bo dead. UU 1 i Dead In Philadelphia Fire Number Fifteen (Continued from Page One.) WILLIAM M'CONXELL, engine company 2;.- Injured Total Fifty. The number of firemen and policemen police-men injured will total nearly GO, of whom several may die. The injured are scattered in about a dozen hospitals. hospi-tals. The Frledlander factory was a live-storr live-storr building on tho .west side of Bodlnn street, Tho rea'r part of the structure was only as high as the' two-story two-story houses that adjoin that part of the factory on either side. The building build-ing had been completely burned out and the fire conllned to within the four walls when the disaster occurred. occur-red. Chief Baxter was standing on the roof of a two-story house and "was directing di-recting the men. Water tower truck !'o. 7 had a ladder against the front wall oa Bodlno street playing a good stream Into the flames. Just insido the building at Bodlne street a group of firemen were throwing water on the ruins. Suddenly the Bodlne 6treet wall fell Inward, burying all tho men who were within the building and earning ear-ning down tlie 'big ladder of truck Xo. 7, on which were half a dozen firemen. fire-men. Four of the men on this ladder are among the dead. Cries of Firemen. The cries of the firemen caught beneath be-neath the ruins spurred their comrades com-rades to instant action. No sooner had these men climbed over the smoking smok-ing ruins than part of the north wall came down. This caught not only the firemen, but also a number of policemen po-licemen who had plunged into the thick of the rescue work. In the second crash Chief Baxter, a veteran who is about to be retired on full pay for his work in the department, depart-ment, narrowly missed death. Planking Plank-ing on which he had been standing 1 was knocked from under him by the I falling wall, and he was lost in tho ' I smoke and steam. Few who saw tho ! I chief disappear thought he would come 1 out alive, but as the smoke cleared he was seen climbing over the ruins, unhurt. un-hurt. Baxter immediately gave orders for I more help, and 300 policemen were 1 brought to the scene. Some of the injured were ahle to extricate theni6ehes. Others were pulled out by a leg and pome men could be seen but could not be reach- ' ed. Glazier's escape from death bordered border-ed on the miraculous. His head could be seen from under the mangled bodv , of Fireman Charles Ed lemon. When |
