Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 92, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1899 — 'MID FLAMES AND DEBRIS. [ARTICLE]

'MID FLAMES AND DEBRIS.

Burning Hotel Collapses, Hurling Firemen Into the Ruins. While Milwaukee firemen were swarming up the walls and over the roof of the burning Hotel Grace, the structure suddenly collapsed and twenty firemen were precipitated into the ruins. Of this number one is dead, eleven are in hospitals and several are so badly injured there is little chtfnce for their recovery. Abont twenty other firemen narrowly escaped being carried down, but saved themselves by jumping from the south wall to an ad« joining building.