People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1895 — WORK OF THE FLAMES. [ARTICLE]

WORK OF THE FLAMES.

THREE FIREMEN MEET DEATH <T LYNN, MASS. Powder Explodes, Causing a Wall to Collapse—Two Mei Mlasfug and .» • Number Mora Injured—Loss Kstlmatcd at Over # 100,000—Other 1 Irus. Lynn. Mars., Feb. 14.—Three men were killed outright and several injured beyond the hope of recovery by an explosion attending a lire in this city last night. The tire started at S:10 in the hardware . tore of William Henry Hutchinson in Monroe street, and second and third alarms fallowed. The flames spread rapidly and had soon jumped to an adjoining building, a portlon of the < state of Charles G. Clark. Stored i th * hardware was a const lerable amount of powder, which exploded shortly after the firemen got to word, causing colapse of the wall, against which the tr.-n were working on their ladders, and several were burled in the debris. When the ruins could be gotten at. three bodies were taken out, being those of: CONLIN, JOHN F.. steamer 3. MURRAY. THOMAS, steamer .1. SKINNER, HENRY, captain, chemical engine 1. Missing. Butteck, George, fireman. Kimball, a clerk, supposed to be In the building when the fire broke out. The injured. Following is the list: Lorenzo Alley, Charles Carson, (ho. Canter, William Hunt, George Middleton. Willi m Minton. Leo Miller, A. C. Moody. Nlc'-olas Webber. Besides t!i» dead Severn! firemen wore tfi! ■ n from th- rr.i.is. all badly Injured ami r.oi-'o pro! a’dy fatally. Tt • ' vnr un<. ,■ < -a i r.fl I■> Kt o'clock, and the I >SS V. 11l hoi ! cd s<)S,t»oO. Wisconsin laundry Burns. Ripon, Wis., Fob. 14. At noon yesterday fln* broke out in W E. S"h efer's foundry,-cruised by the overturning of a pot of molten iron. W. E. Soule, jvho was at work In the.foundry, was badly burned about the face and hands before he could escape fr > n t j building. Load, $10,000; insurance, 000. Knit Lake City Visited. Salt Lake, Utah, Feb. 14. Fire last night destroyed the clothing store < f Lipman & Wallerstein, the Kentucl y Liquor coinpan’s store, Smith’s drug store, and Samuel Levy’s tobacco and cigar store. Loss, $75,000; Insured. Methodist Church Destroyed. London, (nt., Feb. 14. —The Dundi Street A'.otl.odist church was destroyed by fire yesterday. Fire Chief Roe and Fireman McDonald and Riddell were seriously, if not fatally, hurt by falling walls. Loss $30,000. Flour MUI Gosa Up. Rochester, Ind., Feb. 14.—Letter A Peterson e dour mil' ’-urned yesterday morning. Loss, $"5,000. Insurance, tn National Millers', $5,000; Alton, $5,000.