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33, ST. LOTUS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1887. PRICE, FIVE CENTl BY CAESIEK, FEFTEE5 CE5T3 A WEES. more than five minutes Before McDonald was no escape, though he was more fortunate than IffiT EDfflDM C'frA'W'f'O-frK-S'! Wednesday. Weather Indications? Refreshing rains com-, the meantime, Crawford's Ice-Cream Soda, 5 cents a glass, here.

Announcement. For the balance of the week Thin Things White Goods, Sateens, Laces, Embroideries and the like ill be sold at prices much thinner than themselves. That Lace Crinkle at 6 1-4 cents is a big bargain. It sold at 20 cents in the early season. The 8 1-3 cent and 10-cent Ginghams at 5 cents a yard few left.

Broadway Boulevard Is crowded these days. That elegant-fitting full custom-made Un-laundered Shirt, open back, shield bosom, bands or cuff at wrist, extra fine and stout, double facings and flat seams, 65 cents! fetches every crnman in search of a bargain. EVINS. they. BARNEY II 'KERN AN was 42 years old.

He was born in Ireland, and came to this country when a boy. Thirty years of his life were scent in s't. Lonia. the youth and early manhood being given to the construction of sewers. He was appointed on the Fire Department thirteen years aeo nd was immediately assigned to No.

truck, where for veara ti with Phellm O'Toole and Conway. whose heroism never was questioned. He was a IK associate, a bright, qnick. intelligent assistant. For several years he has been the foreman of the truck, and on the occasion of the last vacancy on the Chief's Staff of assistants he waa a.

nrnm. inent candidate. Assistant-Chief Fln nerty Is now away on a twenty-days leave of absence and McKernan has been acting Assistant-Chief. If it had not been for this he would have been in the house at Seventh and Olive streets with the other members of No. S's comnanv.

McKernan was the best climber in the department. He handled a pompier ladder with wonderful skill, and in the tournaments at Chicago and Cincinnati, spring and fall of 18S0, he carried away the prizes for climbing. His record of good work is very long. About five years ago he saved a family of five at Eighth and St. Charles.

The ladder was short and did not reach to the high windows: with a Pompier ladder he drew himself up and carried them out one by one. At the Mercantile Club fire last winter he worked at hot heat and with his men saved thirteen servant girls. He leaves a wife and five children. SCENES AT THE 3IORGCE. T.rribl Sights Presented by he Victii Crowds Thronging the Dead-House.

The scene at the Morgue this morning was most animated. Just before the bodies of the firemen arrived a young man who had been killed at the new Mercantile Library build ing was brought in. It was about 9:30 o'clock when tne bodies of Barney McKernan and Frank McDonald arrived together in the Chestnut street patrol-wagon. Like wild-fire news of the arrival of the bodies spread, and soon several firemen from the engine-house on Spruce, just west of Twelfth street, were In the Morgue to render what assistance they conld in getting the bodies properly cleaned and laid out. Clerk John Ryan of the Coroner's office bad hastened down to the Morgue and soon be and Superintendent Dunn were busily engaged fixing up the bodies.

First the men were taken off the stretchers on which they were carried In and placed on slabs. Then their badly torn and tattered clothing stripped from them. THE BODIES PRESENTED TERRIBLE SIGHTS. Barney McKernan was one mass of cuts and bruises. The entire back of his head waa filled with deep gashes, the skull being mashed almost into a jelly.

A gash on th. side of his nose severed that member of his face almost In twain. There was an ugly gasjh on the side of his face and another in his throat. At the base of his chest, on the left side of the body, was a deep gash about five Inches long and an inch wide. There was also a broad bruise across his chest.

McDonald was not so badly cut, but his body was far from sightly. The back of his head contained several ugly gashes which penetrated tbersTSuir; there were a Couple'of cuts-era his face and his body was badly bruised. Chris Hoell's body did not arrive at the Morgue until shortly after noon. The back of his head was almost completely torn off by a scalp wound; bis face was badly bruised and discolored, and there was a deep gash in front of his throat. His left foot and his entire right leg and foot from the knee down had been scalded and the skin was all peeled off.

He was also covered with dirt and debris, but this was soon taken on with a hose. The bodies were all washed and Clerk Ryan sewed up the gashes on all of them. Then they were placed in ice-boxes which had been sent there by the undertaker. While this work was going on a number of people called in and viewed the remains. Very few, however, were admitted.

only firemen and a tew well-known people, as if all who desired to go in were permitted to do so, the place would have been thronged to suffocation, and the officials would have been unable to do any work or get the bodies In proper shape. THE CROWDS WHICH GATHERED outside were greater than have been congregated at the Morgue for a long while. People commenced coming when the first bodies arrived and kept coming from that time on. At no time during the day were there less than twenty or thirty poople standing at the door endeavoring to gain admission to the inside of the building. A sturdy police officer was there, however, to keep them out, and did so.

It was thought that the sun would drive them off, but they remained there through all the heat. No relatives of the dead men were admitted until the bodies could be properly cleaned and arranged, as the sight, of them as tbey had been found would have been a terrible blow to the relatives. Three of McKer- nan's children, Ellen McKernan, a grown woman, John McKernan, a grown man, and Eugene McKernan, a boy of 10 years, were tho first of the relatives of the firemen to go to the Morgue. They were refused admission, but remained about soma time, the unfortunate daughter weeping as though her heart would break. The son John had been with his father when the latter was killed, and bore his affliction with manly fortitude.

The little fellow did not seem to realize what a sad blow he bad and looked around wondertngly at the crowd as he held onto the dress of his weeping sister. McKernan leaves two other grown daughters. Later the wife of another of the victims called, but waa turned away, as the sight would have only added to her already too great distress. Other relatives called during the day, but were all kept out. The date of the Inquest on the bodies) has not yet been set.

AT THE HOUSES. Scenes at the Firemen's Former Haunts A Waiting Wife. When the news got to the engine houses that had suffered losses by reason ot the fallen wall, it was enough to make one's heart blMd seeing those strong men shedding tears for their lost companions. They did not care to show the grief they felt but strode about trying to get control of tears that would well np. Feldtman's wife was at No.

6's, Third and Vine, waiting for her husband. "Is he killed?" she asked, and the fireman who came back with the engine told her no, he was safe. She had heard he was killed and could not get the Idea out of her head. till the boys come-back," they said ta got out. BOTH BODIES WERE TAKEN Into Hanley ft Kinsella's, across the street, whence they were soon taken to the Morgue.

The ruins looked like the crest of a wave. On either side of the center wall Into the. cel lars of No. 610 and 612 had fallen the brick, mortar and lighter debris, but immense iron columns and wooden pillars had been heaped up between two buildings. So great was the pressure from eaoh side that the columns were forced clear across the street.

It was one of them that caught Jame. O'Brien, the spectator, and crushed him against Kinsella's. the sidewalk in front of Nos. 610 and 612 the wavelike shape of the ruins was still plainly defined. Sloping off toward Glasgow's the south and Alklre's on the north the piles of brick and splintered timbers covered the pavement from view.

Where the sloping sides came together there was a massing of the heavy columns Just the same as they were inside tne ruins. The peanuts which had come down from above on fire still sent up their stifling smoke. Ane roasted fruit wa3 heaped over everything, over brick and tim ber, over iron column and over the man beneath. As the firemen dug. their shovels into the mass of smoldering nuts they smoked more fiercely, and occasion ally sent out so blinding a cloud mat worn naa to he suspended for a minute or so until a stream could be played upon the place where the smoke was thickest.

THE FIREMEN'S WORK getting to their dead comrade was but slow at the best. About the first thing to be removed' after the first discovered dead and injured was the wagon of truck No. It had been struck by an iron column and broken in two in the middle, the ends being forced upward, the broken truck much re eembling a letter V. This was chopped entirely through and the two portions re moved. Then, under the direction of Capt.

Evans, the men tied long ropes to the iron pillars, and after a great deal of hauling pulled them out. The worn was very difficult. The heat the mercury standing at 95 in the shade was Increased by the radiation from the ruins, and was made very oppressive by the smoke and dust. The sun blazed down on the -heated scene and blistered the firemen as they plied shovel and pick with the energy of despair or tugged fiercely but in unison at the ropes which were tied to the heavy pieces In the ruins. THE SPECTATORS.

All this work was carried on in the presence of a crowd that stood breathless watching with the deepest Interest the work of exhumation. Bopes had been stretched south almost to Vine street and north to F. Smith's grocery establish ment Including, Alkere's building within the danger district. Against these ropes the crowd was massed in so tight that it was next to impossible to force one' way through. There they stood in the blazing sun waiting for some development and block ing the street for a hundred feet beyond each rope.

The point of vantage was the store of Hanley Kinsolla's and many ex cuses were made by sightseers to get inside the ropes, but a strong cordon of police kept the place clear for the firemen. FORCE OF THE FALL. But Kinsella's was not such a desirable loca tlon a little while before. In fact, -rt was there, clean across the stfeet, that O'Brien met his fatal Injury, His sudden ending shows the force with which the ruins fell. The column that caught O'Brien smashed In the door on the extreme north side of Kinsella's, leaving marks that suggested the passage of a cannon-ball The front of Kinsella had every bit of glass broken In it, as though it had been bombarded by volleys of flying missiles How the spectators escaped with but one of their number hurt is something not easily explained.

It partakes in a great meas ure of the marvelous. When the crash came the spectators In front forced their way through Kinsella's front doors with a rush like a tfdal wave. They had been massed near the south end of Kin sella watching the firemen playing on the ruins of the fire. Had they been at the north end they would have been smashed by the iron column that fell upon O'Brien. The main door being toward the south end when the wall came toward them with anoverhanging awfulness, they just made one united backward flight and got inside en masse.

O'Brien lost his head for a second and paid for it so dearly. As the immense wall came nearer, O'Brien thought he could not get within Kinsella's and dashed northward. But he was too late. Better for him had he staid outside the main door where no murderous missile fell. The others to the north and south of the ruins saw the big iron column shoot forward like a catapult.

They gave a yell of warning, but what good could it do? The iron mass had O'Brien in its grip, and In a second later man and iron and door came together with a crash. The sharpness of the sound was softened by the intervention of the victim's body between the two unyielding substances. It was only for a second, for there was no smoke in that portion, that O'Brien was lost to view. When he was reached he was funnd to be fearfully injured. After being temporarily attended to at F.

Smith's grocery house, he was taken to the City Hospital. THE FRIGHT AT ALKIRE'S. At J. Alkire A grocery house there were more miraculous escapes and. indeed, the men were for a long time unable to tell how they escaped without being caught.

As mentioned in another portion ot this account, the falling ot the north wall of Bishop Spear's tore out a large portion of Alklre's wall. The portion demolished extended from about fifty feet from the front of the office to about the same distance from the rear. It extended into the building about eighteen feet. From the top of Glasgow's, on the opposite side of the ruins, the hole in the wall looked like an im mense bite that had been taken out of Alklre's wall. The opening extended from the top to the ground floor.

Luckily the employes had not yet got scattered through the building, the hour being early, and were all on the first and second floors. As the front and rear portions of the store were left intact, they afforded places of safety to whioh the men fled when the first rumbling was heard. A NOVEL FKACK OF SAFETT. W. AScudder.of the firm of E.G.Scudder Co.

grocers, described the scene at Alk ire's as follows: "My store being the first north of Alklre's I dropped Into the latter to congratulate them on their escape from serious damage by last night's fire. I was talking with Mr. Bemls hi the office when we heard the rumbling of the falling walls. I happened to be facing east, 'and scarcely 'had tht'flzat -sound been heard SHED TO DEATH Three Brave Firemen Killed By Falling alls. Two Others and a Spectator Seri ously Injured.

A Terrible Catastrophe at Bishop Spear's Peanut Warehouse. The Ruins of Last Sight's Fire Fall With Fatal Besnlts. Firemen Hoell. JIcEernao and McDonald Killed Outright James O'Brien, a Spectator, Fatally Injured Firemen Feldt-man and Zimmerman Seriously Hurt-Digging for the Dead Description of the Ruins Before and After the Collapse The Finding of the Dead Bodies Scenes at the Morgue Grief-Stricken Relatives Searching for Their Dead Bow the Ketti Was RecelT.d at the Engine-Houses Aid for the Bereaved Full Particulars of the Awful Calamity. The most terrible catastrophe that has be fallen the Fire Department in Its history oc curred this morning about 9 o'clock.

The walla of the ruins of Bishop Spear's peanut warehouse, 610 and 612 North Second street, fell at that hour and carried with them a portion of J. ALkire Co. 's wholesale grocery house, Nos. 611 and 616. In the ruins were buried a number of firemen, two of whom wits takxk orrr bead.

Another is burled beneath the debris and beyond all probability dead. A spectator is dying at the City Hospital and several firemen are at their homes or at the engine-houses suffering from severe injuries. THE FTRB, WHICH BEGAN o'clock this morning, left the peanut warehouse a mass of ruins. About daylight the fire was got nnder control, and the heaviest part of the force' was taken off the ruins. The No.

6 truok was about the only detachment left at the scene. Hopes had been stretched In front of the building so as as to keep the crowd away and the firemen were all alone in their work of danger and death- A plug stream was being played on the burning peanuts in the third floor. Directing the management of the stream on the third floor were Barney McKernan of No. truck, and acting assistant chief for Finerty, and Frank McDonald, ladderman of So. 6 truck.

The wagon of No. 6 truck was standing right in front of the peanut warehouse, about half war across Second street. From the truck was sent up a ladder to the third floor. UNDER THIS LIFTED LADDER Chris Hoe.ll. foreman of No.

6 truck, and Jacob Feldtman, also of No. 8, were carrying a small ladder northward toward Al klre's. This was the position of the firemen Just before the crash came. As to the spectators they were massed across the street blocking the doorways of Hanley A Kinsella's, No. 616.

The hoarse shouts of McKernan were heard on the third floor, and Hoell orders on the ground as he dragged along the ladder, when all at once the east and west wall of Bishop Spears WATERED AND CRASHED. Then down came the north wall, and with i portion of Alklre's south wall, tearing out Al kire's south side right In the middle. As the middle and north walls came down the front of the peanut warehouse fell out and the extra pressure from the side walls forced the debris out into the street. There was a great cloud of dust and smoke from the burning peanuts. In the crash the firemen went down without a cry, so quick was the collapse.

When the first shock was over It was found that all the firemen had got off except McKeman and McDonald. Hoell, Feldtman, and Wm. Zim merman. In a few seconds M'KKRNAN AND M' DONALD were taken out stone dead, the life crushed out of tuem by the falling timbers. Nothing could be seen of Hoell, but Feldtman, his assistant was taken out from the ruins on the sidewalk with his thigh broken.

Zimmerman was soon found with his left shoulder-blade broken and his face badly cut. A SPECTATOR ACROSS TUB STREET named James O'Brien was caught by a falling iron column ana crushed against Kinsella's door against the street. He was taken to the hospital probably fatally hurt. DIGGING FOR THE DEAD. The Search for the Victims Description of the Huins.

As soon as the walls fell Capt. Evans of the Salvage Corps, who was in the rear of E. J. Glasgow at No. 60S, ran back through the building and out intd the street, where he sent in an alarm for assistance, which was responded to by engine companies 12, 18, S3.

13. 6 and IS and four's and three's trucks and chemical No. 8. "With them came Chief Lindsay and Assistant-Chiefs Gross and Kucker. The finding of McKernaa and McDonald took scarcely any time.

McKernan, who was thrown out into Second street, was found half way across the street, without any debris upon him. He was killed almost instantaneously. When he was reached he groaned only once and then died. McDonald was discovered dead nearer the east curb, under some smol dering peanuts and mortar. It "was not- the the On on all In 6.

VIEW OF when down came the stock from the up. per floors, the debris coming as far forward as the rear end of the office. There were four or five men in the room and they made a break for out-doors. The dust was so great that we couldn't tell but the whole building was comlnlng in on us. The bin vault stood open, and into this Mr.

Bern is and I Jumped, closing the heavy door after us. We waited, and when the noise of falling had ceased stepped out and jumped through a window and into the street. HO ELL'S BODY FOUND. The Search For and Discovery of the Dead Fireman's Remains. The bodies of McKernan and McDonald had been carried off to the Morgue, and the injured men cared for, when it became known that Chris Hoell was Inquiry made as to when he was last seen, brought conflicting reports.

Capt. Chas. Evans of the Salvage Corps was confident that he had seen the Pompier Chief on the sidewalk a minute before the crash. Others claimed to have seen him carrying a small ladder, and others were quite positive that they had seen him mount the ladder. That Hoell was in the ruins there could be no doubt.

But exactly where was a matter difficult to determine. If In the building when the collapso came, it might be hours before the tons of debris could be removed from his CRUSHED AND MANGLED BODT. If on the sidewalk at the time, the recovery ot the body should be a matter of but a few minutes. The ruins were still sullenly smoldering, and it was necessary to keep a plug stream playing uppn the smoking mass. The south wall of the burned building still towered in the air, and, sprung by the intense heat to which it had been subjected, yawned away a matter of fully five Inches at the top from the fire wall of the building adjoining, and seemed ready at any instant to fall with a crash upon the devoted band of firemen who were raking the ruins in search of the body of their comrade.

Capt. Evans considered the danger and at once dispatched a corps of men to the roof of Glasgow's store and with ropes anchored the wall, so that barring a sudden and very high wind it would not fall There was nothing to do but commence a systematic search of the ruins. Chief Lindsay and Assistant-Chief Rucker directed the work. There were firemen in plenty to do the work, and it was with a will and a feverish enthusiasm that they went about their sad task. Long ropes were used to pull out the iron pillars and heavy timbers, and soon the street was lumbered with them.

Some worked with shovels and others with picks, and others with their ready hands threw out the charred bags of nuts. At 11 o'clock A THRILL OF HORROR passed through the crowd which morbidly watched the men at their sad task. A piece of flooring standing upright from a chaotic mass of twisted beams and girders and smoking peanuts was noticed by dozens in the crowd to move distinctly. ''Great God! there is Borne one still alive in the ruins, "was the word passed from mouth to mouth. The firemen rallied to the spot and began to tear away timbers and bricks, like madmen, so eager were they.

The nature of the debris was such hat the men were constantly annoyed by the shifting of the great mass. A tunnel would be started In the fcide of the pile, when it would suddenly fill up. It was Improbable to the last degree that any person could have been In the ruins two hours and a half after the collapse and still be alive, and the movement of the timber was the result of a settling of some portion of the debris. This Idea prevailed after awhile and the wreckers spread out to. resume the systematic search, when a fresh shock was given the throng.

A fireman tugged away at a long piece of flooring that projected from the mass, and pulled it out, when he cried out to Chief Lindsay: "He Is right In here; see the blood on this board I The end of the board, which was torn and splintered, was covered with dark and bloody stains. There seemed to be no doubt but that Hoell' body was located there, and the searchers asain concentrated. As a matter of fact, Hoell' body was found fully twenty feet to the south of, and ten feet above the bloody board, and there is the horrible possibility that some citizen who fled Into the building when thn wall wan falling outward will be found in the ruins. All firemen are accounted for. At 10 minutes to 12, Tom Rucker, who was on the mound of debris, rolled aside a bag filled with peanuts.

The act disclosed a white leather helmet, "HERE HE IS," aid Rucker, in an awed tone. There was a foolish rush of people from-the outside to catch a glimpse of the Door The police vainly endeavored to drive them back. With a crash a part of the eastern portion of the south wall fell into the wreck. There was a wild stampede, which the police took advantage of to keep the Idle throng from returning. The work of recovering the body was slowly conducted.

"He died with the pipe," said Chief Lindsay." Then It wna nstaMlahnd that he had Rone to the third floor. When the front wall gave way, McKernan and McDonald fell outward with It. Hoell had evidently darted Into the building. He lay on his face with his head to the east. The falling ruins had strnoK him on the head and as be fell forward he had thrown up one of his arms across his face.

He lay at an angle ot about 44 degrees, his head belng-the highest. The body was not burned, bu is Was cloaely bnrlea) in THE upon the man, two feet above him. The skull was crushed, and death was probably lis. stantaneous. A bright-looking, neatly-clad youth of 16 or 17 years, with tears'streamlng down his face, was recognized as the son of the dead fireman and tenderly led away, that he might not be further shocked by a sight of the blackened and mangled body of his father.

The patrol-wagon from Chestnut Street Police Station had been in wait ing ror a long time. A shelter was secured, and when the mass of brick and mor tar had been carefully scraped away from around the body by the willing and tender hands of the dead man's comrades, it was carried to the wagon and taken to "the Morgue As the sad little procession picked its way over the encumbered street, firemen and citi zens alike uncovered their heads. A dozen men were then detailed to drag the broken truck, of which the dead man was captain, from the scene, while others were sent back to the ruins to continue the search. and solve, if possible, the mystery of the bloody board which had been pulled out at 11 o'clock. The Dead and Injured.

Barnty SfcKtman. Frank McDonald. ChrU Hoell. Jalce Feldtman. (lerioutly injured.) The killed are: Christ Hoell, acting foreman of truck No.

6 Frank McDonald, ladderman truck No 6. Barnet McKernan, foreman No. 3 truck and Acting Assistant Chief. The seriously Injured are: Jake Feldtman, ladderman truok No. leg broken and Internal Injuries; taken to City Hospital.

Wm. Zimmerman, fireman No. 23 Company left shonlder fractured; cuts on scalp and neck; probably internal injuries; cuts about hands; arms burnt. Will probably die Taken home. James O'Brien, a soectator; crushed about head, chest add back.

Probably fatal. Taken to City Hospital. THE WOUNDED. Character of the Iajnrtes Sustained by Wm. Zimmerman and James O'Brien.

William Zimmerman, one of the Injured firemen, was taken to the City Dispensary and sent from there to tils home, on Leonard and Easton avenues. He has a compound frac- ture of the badly injured left shoulder and is about the head and Is also cut about burnt about the arms. His back. He the hands and clothing was torn into shreds. Dr.

Priest, who examined him, thinks his injuries are very apt to prove iatai. Zimmerman is a years ot age and unmarried. James O'Brien, a citizen who was hurt at the fire, was brought to the Dispensary In an ambulance and sent from there to the City Hospital. He is severely Injured about the head and back, but will probably recover. He Is a printer, livin at 1409 South Second street.

He Is 33 years old and single. Jake Feldtman's injuries are considered serious. His left leg Is broken and he is Internally injured, beside being much bruised. THE UNFORTUNATE FIREMEN. Sketches of the Victims the Disastrous Accident.

Frank McDonald was 32 years of age and single. He joined the Department two years ago, May 4, and was appointed a ladderman on No. 6 truck. He was an active brave fireman, though opportunity had not been given him for any great feats. CHRIST HOELL was Acting Foreman of Io.

Struck. He was. the best-known fireman in St. Louis. In 1877 he was a stonemason and was appointed on the Fire Department after the Southern Hotel fire.

He originated the Pompier Corps, Invented the belt used by the firemen and their scaling ladder, on which he had letters patent. When the system proved a success the Chief gave Hoell permission to travel all over the country teaching his system of life-saving. He was exceptionally active, having been a Turner In his youth, and scaled buildings with his ladder like a cat. He was married, was 43 years old and was the father of five children. He served from 1877 to 18S5onthe No.

truck at Seventh and Olive and was then transferred to No. 6. JAKC FELDTMAN, who Is among the Injured, was appointed on No. 6 truck the same day Frank McDonald Joined. He is married, and has a wife and on.

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L. Isaacs Wall Pajer Excelsior Building, 1210 OUte St. TO ft -4 There are several hundred "loads of. good manure to be had at the Fair Grounds. Parties wishing to take it can do so on application to the Superintendent.

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