The Foss Enterprise. (Foss, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, March 13, 1914 Page: 3 of 8
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THE FOSS ENTERPRISE
ELEVEN BODIES ARE RECOVERED
FROM RUINS OF MISSOURI
ATHLETIC CLUB.
TWENTY MEN ARE STILL MISSIN6
Sealed f
Sleepers Trapped By Blaze Which
Started On Third Flo&r.—Lost
One-Half a Million
Dollars.
St. Louis, Mo.—That from thirty to
thirty-five guests of the Missouri Ath-
letic club perished in the flames that
destroyed the building is the belief
of officers of the club.
Eleven bodies have been recovered
and from twenty-three to twenty-nine
occupants of the structure are still
unaccounted for.
Though a committee, shortly after
the fire, opened headquarters at the
Press club, and asked all who were
guests of the Missouri Athletic club
Sunday night to report, thirty to
thirty-five did not register and hourly
the feeling has settled" that all these
are lost.
While the search continued seven-
teen persons Injured in the fire were
under treatment at public and private
hospitals. There was much difficulty
in identifying recovered bodies of the
dead and some were identified under
two or three different names.
Worst In City's History.
The blaze was the most serious as
to fatalities of any fire in the city's
history. It completely wrecked a
seven-story building .occupied jointly
by the Missouri Athletic club and by
the Boatmen's Bank, caused a prop-
erty loss estimated at $466,000, and
forced the abandonment of the Inter-
collegiate track meet to have been
held in St. Louis, under the auspices
of the club, this week.
The cause of the fire still is a mys-
tery. Reports that the blaze was ac-
companied by a terrific explosion indi-
cating that the fire was due to efforts
of bank robbers to dynamite the Boat-
man's bank were unconfirmed. Re-
ports of explosions were denied by the
night watchman of the bank.
In the vaults of the Boatman's bank,
which occupied part of the first floor
of the building, were more than $1,300,-
000 in currency. The vaults were un-
harmed, the bank officials reported.
The number of guests who had
rooms In the club house either perma-
nently or for the night was about one
hundred. Many escaped, some
checked out before the flre, others,
it is thought, were not there when
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CHEW IT AFTER
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The Contrary Cause.
Mrs. Capron saw old Uncle Timothy
starting away on a fishing expedition,
and knowing how hard his wife
worked, thought it a Hood time to re-
prove him for his laziness.
"Timothy," she said, "do you think
it's right to leave your wife at the
washtub while you pass your time
m mere 4>fishlnKr'
the flames broke out; some were in- ..Yassum mi88 replied the old col-
ored man, 'it's all right: Mah wife
jured in leaving the club house and
the ijest are listed among the dead or
missing.
The fire was discovered by a woman
who was waiting in the club lobby for
her escort. She saw the reflection of
the flames in the plate glass windows
across the street.
Many Dramatic Escapes.
Thirty-eight guests on the fifth floor
were awakened by Mr and Mrs. Rob-
ert Magill, who refused to leave until
they had given the alarm to all within
reach. Mr. Magill was house manager
of the club. Mrs. Magill was badly
burned.
Dramatic escapes were numerous.
One eft- the most spectacular was that
of twelve or thirteen men who de-
scended from the fifth floor window to
the roof of an adjoining building by
means of sheets. One guest escaped
by leaping over a chasm ten feet wide
to the roof of an adjoining building.
SERIOUS FIRE T KIEFER, OKU'
Twenty-Three Buildings snd 50,000
Barrel Oil Tank Burned.
Kiefer.—For the second time within
a year flre swept through the busi-
ness district of Kiefer, destroying
twenty-three business buildings, sev-
eral residences and one B0,000 barrel
oil tank of the Prairie Oil and Gas
Co., causing a total loss estimated at
$150,000. All save ojie block in the
business district Is a~mass of ruins.
The flre. of unknown origin, start-
ed in a tailor shop. It soon spread to
what has been known aB the "Mad-
house," a joint adjoining, and then
swept through eight buildings belong-
ing to Syrian merchants.
One of the Prairie tanks, capacity
60.000 barrels, caught flre and was
burned. The gasoline plant of D. W.
Franchit nearby was endangered, but
saved.
The high wind and lack of flre
equipment prevented effectual flre
fighting. Nearly all the buildings
were of wood construction. The Iosb
of the oil company 1b fully Insured,
there was little insurance on the other
buildings burned.
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Try as you will, after an application
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trace of dandruff or falling hair and
your scalp will not itch, but what will
please you most, will be after a few
weeks' use, when you see new hair,
fine and downy at first—yes—but real-
ly new hair—growing all over the
scalp.
A little Danderine immediately dou-
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ence how dull, faded, brittle and
scraggy. Just moisten a cloth with
Danderine and carefully draw it
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mediate and amazing—your hair will
be light. flufTy and wavy, and have an
appearance of abundance; an incom-
parable luster, softness and luxuri-
ance, the beauty and shimmer of true
hair health.
Get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's
Danderine from any store and prove
that your hair is as pretty and soft
as any—that it has been neglected or
Injured by careless treatment—that's
all. Adv.
Tolled and Ringed.
"How does she know she is a belle?"
"A number of people have told her."
"But no one haB yet succeeded in
ringing her."
REMAINED DEEP IN SLUMBER
Porter Simply Associated Confusion
of Wreck With the Usual Noise
of Coupling.
The limited express tore madly
along through the midnight darkness.
Suddenly the alert engineer sprang
to the lever and set the brakes. The
sparks flew from the rails as the
locked wheels slid along as with a
cry of pain. The lights were extin-
guished as car after car toppled from
the rails. Then came a shuddering
silence more terrible than the harsh
grating of iron on steel.
Some passengers made torches from
fragments of wreckage and searched
for dead and injured. A Bound singu-
larly like a snore issued from a pile
of debris. Hastily removing several
pieces of twisted iron, they dragged
forth a slumbering porter.
"Great heavens!" they exclaimed.
"Didn't you know there had been a
wreck?"
"Well, gemmun, I sho' felt some-
thin', but I done thought we was
couplin' on de dinin' cah at Jackson."
—Youth's Companion.
Kids and Goats.
A newspaper man of Chicago Is fond
of greeting his children at night with
the Balutation: "Hello, kids." For
some time past the girl, half past five,
has felt that this ttas too informal to
comport with her dignity.
"Daddy," she said, a few nights ago,
"were're not kids. Kids are young
goats."
The father passed this off without
comment. Next evening ho made his
usual greeting. The young lady had
worked out the deduction by that time.
"Daddy," she said, if we're kids,
you must be a goat. Are you?"
He agreed that he was.
Easy.
"BjoneB has an easy life."
"Why, I heard him say he had his
work cut out for him."
"So he has. But he's a sculptor.'
It does not take much pressure to
move a man who can be driven to
drink.
Liquid biu« lk a wni solution. AtoM
It. Buy Red C'rou Ball Blue, ilia blue that's
til blue. Adv.
Flexible Tongue.
It sometimes takes an Irishman with
bis bull to bring out some of the flex-
ible qualities of the English language.
This was shown In the case of a son
of Erin recently reported, who, upon
being reproached by a former acquaint-
ance with no longer knowing him, re-
torted :
"Know yez? No, oi don't know yez,
an' if whin oi did know yez oi'd known
yez as well as ol know yez now, whin
1 don't know yez at all. I'd niver have
known yez!"
Merely a Rehearsal.
"Charley proposed to mo last night
and I accepted him."
,'Why, he proposed to me yester-
day."
"Indeed? Well, he did It so prettily
that i was sure he had rehearsed sev-
eral times."
The truest self-respect is not to
think of self.—Beecher.
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Martin, C. P. The Foss Enterprise. (Foss, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, March 13, 1914, newspaper, March 13, 1914; Foss, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metapth349925/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 22, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.