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Show "lm WW'1 9 mtL U B 11LL. dttilAiJll Chicago Stockyards Blaze Proving Too Much for Firemen ' Chicago, Dor. "JH. Two mro bodies wen reco c-rt'd this morning fnm the ruins of Mori Is A- Co.'s t.torkyard be-f house, where ll.ru Marshal Horan lost his life Thl3 brir.vs the death roll, according to th.- police count, to 20. Twentv-ono. bodies, including that t tho chief, hr.io been recovered, and It U believed that there are at least five others at 111 buried In the debris. Through the nlht fir? was shooting shoot-ing hUh thioufii the roof of two of the Moi-itu building., r.tljolnln.-; the one !n - nilnn. Ea;iy today, thnij.h still turning, the lire was considered unrr,r control. I'.clief committees will meet today ar,( formulate plans to raLse a fund 1t aid of the widows and orphans. Fifty thousand dollars has already beon pledged for tho relief work. As the members of tun engine companies com-panies were, playing water on warehouse ware-house No fi. where tho flames this morning were brenking out afrenh, the walls collapsed. Captain John Wind-helm Wind-helm of engine company No. CI wan knocked down by flying timbers and serioiiHly injured. In the confusion William Saciidan. is yenrs old. a clerk in the stockyards, was knocked off a platform and perhaps fatally injured. in-jured. Fire Burning Fiercely. At S;S0 o'clock thii morning the fire wa-? still burning fiercely. From warehouse N-. the flames were leaping tu other buildings and Just before retiring from the scene be. cause, of xhau.Uion, Acting Chief s0J-ferllch s0J-ferllch said he saw no way of preventing pre-venting the burning of warehouse No. C. The falling of ibe walls and the scattering of burning timbers can zed a tempornry retreat of the firemen. The men were lined ui to throw water wa-ter on a point In wurer.cine No. . Suddenly, when the walls toppled, the alarm was given i'.r the men to retire re-tire They retreated safely Just in time, although many of them received minor burns. Sheridan, the clerk, was knocked off a hlkii platform, falling on the back of a passing fireman. Work of getting bodies continued in spite of the renewed vigor of the blaze, .lu.-t cfter daylight today two more bodies had been rero.c-red, ami these, with the IS b, idles recovered during the night, brought the total, according to the police count, up lo 20. Five or six firemen nre still missing, and until the ruins are cooled the authorities thought It would bo impossible im-possible to tell o.vaetl.- the number of dead It was thouu-iit, however, that It would be n t mom than 2i".. At noon the l.re department was still unable to tay that the hlay.e was under control. It wa.? said that only a lire' wall between warehouses Nor,. 9 f and u prevented another lin; ffjit against the flames. ....... Fur.c.-al cf Flrcmc.i. Kjre ?darshtl J:mes Horai;. who met death, nrd the others, nearly nil of whom were firemen, at tno r'nion stcck.xardi lire, will ,e given a puh-lle puh-lle funeral whleh will hmo s"mctul.ns of a military character, with the common com-mon council, a regiment of cavalry, a squadron of mounted police in;l platoons of pollc-and firemen cn .'o-t, with public l)Odit.i r.nd semi public or-ganlzotlcns or-ganlzotlcns h'-adlng the concourse of citizen who are cxccwd t.j ask to be permltfd to .show their affection for "Clg .Jim." us I no maribal was popularly Irnvn, At a sped j 1 ce.".iion of the council today a commltice of 15 was appointed appoint-ed to lonk after thr funeral, and it was agreed tb.- cit.- would pay for all funeral expense, furnish fre medical med-ical aid to -nil injured nnd continue for at least fix monfh.3 the jav of the firemen killed. Mayor Uusxo has taken personal charge of arrangement and annouue-ed annouue-ed today that hP thought the funerp.I would be held Monday. |