People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — FIVE FIREMEN DEAD. [ARTICLE]

FIVE FIREMEN DEAD.

BURIED UNDER FALLING WALLS AT ST. LOUIS. Their Comrades Work Hard to Save a Sixth Man from Death —City of Boaton Sends Aid to Cambridge, Magg.—Other Fires. St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 22. —Five firemen were buried in the ruins and one is dead at Mercy hospital as the result of a fire which broke out at 10:30 last night in Aloe & Co.’s building at 415 Broadway. Four of the men in the ruins are thought to be dead. Owney Hines, foreman of truck No. 6, who was taken from the burning building soon after the fire started, badly suffocated, died while being taken to Mercy hospital in an ambulance. Those dead and in the ruins are: K OWNEY HINES, foreman of truck No. 6; died on the way to Mercy hospital. CAPT. JOHN GRANVILLE, of Salvage corps No. 2; still in the ruins. JAMES RODDY, of Salvage corps No. 2; still in the ruins. P. M. R. KERBY,of Salvage corps No. 1; still in the ruins. CAPT. STAUNTON, of chemical engine No. 2; still in the ruins. REINHART MILLER, of Salvage corps No. 2; still in the ruins. Aloe & Co. are dealers in optical, surgical and electrical instruments. The firm has been in business here for the past forty years, and also carried an extensive stock of fine painting materials. The fire was finally gotten under control and practically subdued, when the top floor caved in and fell through to the first floor, pinning down five firemen at work there. The firemen worked incessantly to rescue their entombed comrades, but were unable to reach them up to 1 o’clock, when it was thought four of them were surely dead. The fifth, Reinhart Miller, was pinned down on top of a shelf, and could be heard by his comrades, but they could not reach him. The total loss by fire and water is estimated at $200,000; fairly insured. Aloe & Co. place their loss at about $150,000, and it is thought that the loss on the building will amount to $50,000. Several thousand dollars damage was done to the stock of Jordan & Co., a cutlery firm at 417 Broadway. *■ GOT AID FROM BOSTON. Fierce Blaze In a Lumber Yard at Cambridge, Magg. Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 22. —A furious blaze in the lumber yard of George W. Gale lumber company last night compelled a three-alarm response of the fire department here and near by Boston companies. The fire consumed two lumber sheds and one drying shed in the yard. In the former were seventeen railroad freight cars, each ready to be or partly unloaded. These were also fuel for the flames. An official of the company said the yard and builtfings were well stocked with lumber, and estimated the burning buildings to be worth $25,000, and their contents, with the stock in the yard, at fully $75,000. Of this amount the company has sustained a loss of fully $50,000. Elevator Granaries B irned. Avoca, lowa, Jan. 22.—The elevator granaries and farm buildings of J. Q. McPherrin, three miles west of Oakland, lowa, were destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss $12,000; practically no insurance. Lumber Company’s Plant Destroyed. Helena, Mont., Jan. 22.—Shortly after 9 o’clock last evening the Montana Lumber company’s plant and lumber yards were destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of SIOO,OOO, partly covered by insurance.