Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1910 — 14KILLEDINPENNSYFIRE [ARTICLE]

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Falling Walls cf Leather Factory Causes Large Death Toll. i - ' , William Glazier, Fireman, Taken from Ruins After Being Buried for 14 Hours and May Live. Philadelphia, Dec 23. —Thirteen firemen and one policemen were killed when the walls of the Friedlander Leather factory, en North Bodine street, collapsed after the place had been destroyed by fire. The band of rescuers stopped digging in the ruins after the befly of Charles Edelman, of engine company No. 6, was taken out of the ruins. According to an official statement given out by the department of public safety- in addition, to those killed thirty-one firemen and seven policemen and one civilian were injured some of them dangerously . Most of these were sent to hospitals, but physicians were unable to say yet whether any of them would die One fireman, William Glazier, of engine company Nd. C was’ taken alive from the ruins after he had been im prisoned for fourteen hours There is hone that he may live The fire was in a five-stcry brick building, fifty years old. It was destroyed with a loss of $25,000. Tbe cause of- the fire is still undetermined. Desolation has stalked into the homes of the dead firemen. Mayor Reyburn has called a meeting of the citizens’ permanent relief committee for today and Councilman T J. Ryan presented an ordinance in select council to appropriate whatever sum is deemed sufficient for the relief of the families of the dead and crippled