Show N a A sickening catastrophe in indianapolis J DOZEN FIREMEN KILLED anil many man seriously tt minded wounded by b in ins a BuiM ioL tilt OF THE STRIP I 1 insisted kj by the military dm ing out oat the boomers Coon iera i 1 sensation in in sew new york I 1 TERRIBLE FATALITY FROM FIKE FILE I 1 datu firemen buried ia in the debris or of an indianapolis India napoli building 1 march 17 what at first seemed an insignificant fire in in t the he bowen Nl errill bookstore building I 1 ng washington a reet t this 9 afternoon n result resulted in a calastro cat catastrophe astro be in wi which c at le least t ten n men were k killed filed and several wounded some of ho will ill die dle the fire started shortly before three near lear the furnace in the tile subbasement sub gab basement and it was a stubborn one about 6 30 here there was a terrible crash and the entire building except the front wall fell in inward word at the time a number of firemen variously estimated at from froat eight to twe twenty nty were on the roof of oatlie the build me ing and were buried in the debris which piled forty feet high immediately the ilia work of rescuing the jiving living and extracting the dead was begun by at least in in addition to the un on injured firemen and the police force up to ten V t night the following have been taken out deal george faulkner ulissus glazer al at aliff man E stormer S ormer richard lane charles jenkins Jen kias thomas A black george glenn andrew cherry john burkhart Burk bart tue the wounded mounded taken out are anthony volts lewis thos barrett A B I 1 webb wm win P yarl partee tee henry Wco woodruff druff E en ezer leech wm win leong wm hemsley some of these it is is thought cannot live the bowen merill compa company riv carried a stock valued at on which the tile insurance was alie building wits w as valued at 11 II 1 ia wason wa son dry goods suffered a lo 10 los of several smaller stocks were bally badly damage damaged J workmen d aging ging in in the mass of brick brick iron and mortar are trying to extricate a man whose face and bruised appears just above the debris aien supposed to be daniel jones a gipsman pip eruan ilia flis feet are caught by a buee iron girder and he is being literally lioe rally plied piled with elf stimulants m to keep keel him alive underneath ati i him is another man supposed to be dead the scenes at the firo fire headquarters ilive been only exceeded in in pathetic la interest terest by those at the home homes of the dead fi firemen old men catbe a of the young men who lest their lives wives mothers others in and children of the dead and living crowded into the tile room seeking information of their javed ones and getting none have d rushed af lipil to t the h a scene of the fire and bv by their fristic tic appeals made doubly arduous the worl work of those endeavoring to get at the men imprisoned benedith the ruins the first amb ambulance ularce I 1 to leave the scene of the fire carried the remains of the first four men taken from baneth the fallen floors they f were followed by an impromptu procession of carriages carria gei wagons and ped estriana est nans rians and proceeded first to the undertaking establishment and then to the tile homes of the deceased where in in two to instances their coming gave the first intimation of the sorrow that bad fallen on the homes the cause of the disaster is as yet mo not t quite apparent during the two hours and a half halt the fire waa was burning there has been scarcely a flame vis via lible to the in in the streets and alleys though there is is a volume of smoke eo so dense as to utterly obscure the vision about 6 5 the first entrance to the building was nude imade bythe by the firemen who were 4 ere previously held back ly by the smoke suddenly came a cra shand the whole building except the washington street front fell in firemen were on em each of the three floors and roof and they were of course carried down in the collapse it would seem that the building insufficiently was tied to on either side ids of it and the flames ate a hol hole in the center letting the whole cave in it is is feared there may be other bodies in the debris it is reported that three neVe newsboys boys were seen a standing near the rear wall just before the tile collapse watching the firemen if this is its fco bo there is is little ittle hope for their lives oneff one of themire the firemen who ho managed to make his escape practically unhurt from the tile cellar says he thinks there are two or three more men down there yet completely covered by a mass of burned timbers several of the injured firemen who were able to talk were seen by a reporter reporter tonight to night but could add no information to what is is given above allther all they knew was that as they were working without a preliminary crack the tile collapse came and they were ere precipitated I 1 into the tile pit below all but I 1 two or three of the dead and injured firemen bad homes and families me THE www tie the flat ha 10 no iced effect the Fiti amilea nales in the Cow inest ST loin IOUI 14 march 10 word reaches here that there is great activity in fort leavenworth in in preparing ing I 1 for the departure of troops to expel ithe boomers from the cherokee strip there are five companies of infantry lour four of cavalry and onesi one ol 01 artillery artiller yat at the fort and all except the tile artillery artil fery are expected to go to the strip at ri GUTHRIE GuTHRi fc 1 I T march iab I 1 10 the presidents dento proclamation ordering all settlers on the tile cherokee strip to vacate is already having the desired effect this together ther with the orders becq recq received aved by general aft merrill at fort leavenworth to use the it necessary to eject the boomers has already coupe cauree I 1 a considerable exodus from the forbidden territory all day long trains loaded down with boomers were leaving the strip WILLOW seiti vos 1 T march 16 neither the presidents procla proclamation ato nor the order or ler for troops to 0 o oust the boomers lias has yet been received here consequently the boomers are still arriving in their prairie bebson ers ere many tow townsite ansite boomers are here and considerable of the town has been laid off and surveyed the boomers held a meeting to day and organized a town to ft n company two tal 0 female boomers were accorded the privilege of making the first and second choice of corner lots FOOT FORT leavenworth kansas march 16 general bl merritt arritt has orde ordered red six troops r P 8 of cavalry to proceed to the cherok Cherol iee ee strip and oust the boomers there A concentrated movement on the settlers will be made from dutli rie under no circumstances will forcible measures be taken unless the boomers after being given full opportunity to vacate refuse to leave washington march 16 chief meyer of the cherokee nation who came here to protest against the government taking the cherokee strip is to wild over its occupation by boom era lie forcibly expresses the opinion that some of them should be shot down 0 indictments for officials or r the he blind asilom philadelphia march 16 ilar harry W king president of the pennsy pennsyl vania institution for the instruction of the blind was arrested today to day on a charge of sodomy on a warrant sworn out by thomas W barlow a a member of the state board of charities the arrest is the outcome of an investigation begun tuesday I 1 last st by the board of managers of f t the ile institution of the charges charge made against the tile management in a nagele t by one of the the investigation created intense interest by reason of the character of the testimony offered by a number of blind boys who are inmates of tho the institution king was locked up in default of 9 2000 bail he ile denied emphatically t the terrible charge made mail against him and expressed a blidt that it was the result of a conspiracy he lie denounced the charges of m misappropriation i of fu funda ands and cruel treatment of inmates as false philadelphia march 17 the shocking phase assumed by the blind asylum investigation in the arrest and binding over of prefect king has 1 public indignation rills morning the case wai was promptly y turned over to the grand jury an and they afterwards submitted a true bill of an indictment found against king ch aging him with immoral practices Letch inz bribes NEW YORK march 17 Deputy commissioner of public works bernard barnard F martin was arrested today to day on an indictment charging him with receiving bribes while in the sheriffs office when in the order of first clerk under sheriff grant lie ile gave bail in 10 the indictment was found on the testimony of chas G francklyn franck francklyn lyn was arrested on october bod 2nd 1887 1997 in the suit brought by bashe basile cunard of the tile cunard steamship Steam hip company for and locked up in ludlw ludlow street jil alij he ile claigg that while there martin then order of arret arre t clerk received a bribe of from froin him for the privileges of leaving the jail every day and consulting with fill his lawyers at half balf past one deputy sheriff patrick fitzgerald waa was ar arrested restel the charge against deputy fitzgerald is petit larceny and extortion fitzgerald belongs to tammany excitement cit ement over the arrest being made today to day is becoming great it is is common talk in and around the district attorneys office that five indictments have been found one extravagant rumor is to the effect that mayor grant might inight be arrested at any moment while reviewing the st patricks dy day parade parale during daring the afternoon feve several r at detective sergeants kept coming and going from the district attorneys office with unusual speed philip walsh deputy under tinder cleiff grant m was mas as arrested this afternoon and held in bail under indictment for bribery |