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— 37 Blanchard: Thirty deaths in March 8 fire and 7 deaths on March 17 when a wall fell.

— 48 Moberly Daily Monitor, MO. “Forty-Eight are Dead.” 3-11-1914, p. 1.

— 40 Neosho Times, MO. “Forty Lives Lost in St. Louis Fire. Mo. Athletic Club.” 3-12-1914, 1.

— 40 Poseyville News, IN. “Domestic.” 3-20-1914, p. 6.

— 37 NFPA. “Loss of Life Fires in Apartments and Store Buildings.” Quarterly, 34/3, Jan 1942, p. 263.

— 37 National Fire Protection Association. Key Dates in Fire History. 1996.

— 37 Schaper, F. C. and B. Burnett. Images of America: St. Louis Fire Department. 2003, 88.

— 37 St. Louis Firemen’s Fund. History of the St. Louis Fire Department. 1914, p. 141.[1]

— 34 Webster City Tribune, IA. “Three Persons Killed by Collapse of Wall.” 3-20-1914, p. 2.[2]

— 33 Waterloo Evening Courier, IA. “Find Bodies in St. Louis Ruins.” 3-18-1914, p. 1.[3]

— 32 Moberly Weekly Monitor, MO. “Thirty-Two Dead; Many are Injured.” 3-10-1914, p. 1.

— 31 Logansport Pharos-Reporter, IN. “One Killed in Fall of St. Louis Wall.” 3-17-1914, 1.[4]

— 30 Evening Record, Greenville, PA. “Jury Doesn’t Fix Blame. St. Louis…” 3-24-1914, 3.[5]

— 30 Industrial Com. WI. “Why the State Regulates Buildings,” Safety Engineering, 1914, 284.

–>30 Janesville Daily Gazette, WI. “Call Opera Dancer as First Witness.” 3-13-1914, p. 1.

— 30 Logansport Pharos-Reporter, IN. “Another Body Found…Death List is 30.” 3-16-1914, 1

— 30 NFPA “Missouri Athletic Club Fire.” Quarterly of the [NFPA]. V7, N4, Apr 1914, p. 449.

— 23 Kane Republican, PA. “Three…Bodies Recovered in Club Ruins Today.” 3-13-1914, 1.

— 7 Le Mars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, IA. “One Fatal Disaster Follows Another…” 3-24-1914, 3[6]

Narrative Information

Industrial Commission of Wisconsin: “Missouri Athletic Club Fire, March 8, 1914. Thirty Lives Lost.—

“Seven stories, brick and wood. The following is from a letter received by the Industrial Commission from R. C. Magill, manager of the club, who was the last to escape from the burning building:

Stairs and elevators were in two brick shafts, extending through all floors. The openings to these shafts were originally protected by automatic metal clad fire doors, but the fire doors were removed and replaced with open steel grill doors in 1903 when the occupancy was changed from a wholesale hardware house to its present occupancy.

The alarm was sounded at 1:58. At the arrival of the first fire apparatus which was within one minute of the sounding of the alarm, several companies being located within a few blocks of the building, the flames were leaping out of the third-story windows and in a few moments were shooting half way across Washington avenue and Fourth street. Within a few minutes the entire upper structure above the third floor was in flames, and at 2:15 the east wall down to the second story, part of the west wall and the roof and practically the entire interior, except the bank portion, completely collapsed.

It is generally agreed that either gas had accumulated from leakage, or the fire was being fed by large quantities of gas from a 3-inch pipe, which had extended to the kitchen on the third floor.

Thirty lives were lost directly in the fire, and 14 persons were injured. There were 77 persons asleep when the fire broke out—some of them having returned shortly before the fire started. The engineer and watchman made an attempt to run one of the elevators to the upper floors, but were forced back on the third floor by the inrushing smoke and flames into the open elevator shaft.

The iron ladder fire escape on the Fourth street side was directly in front of windows and immediately was enveloped in flames and became red hot. and those attempting to use it burned their hands and feet and were compelled to turn back. The fire escape on the north end which was enclosed in corrugated metal with wireglass windows was not easy of access, it being necessary to pass through linen rooms on the fifth and sixth floor to reach it, and through rooms with wood doors and glass panels on the other floors. While Mrs. Magill was awakening the guests, I was using every effort to get the men to follow me to this escape, knowing that the others were shut off by the flames, but in the panic and darkness it was a difficult matter to get them to heed. However, I did manage to get down this escape, my wife, Mr. Shields, Mr. Williams, the linen room girl, and as we passed the fire exit on the fourth floor, Mr. Brinkley answered my calls just when he had given up in despair, and stumbling through the smoke from this floor, followed us to safety down this escape.

The main frame stairway in the brick shaft, without cutoffs, acting as a flue, immediately became choked with flames and smoke, and of course offered no opportunity for escape.

A number of people were saved by jumping from the fifth and sixth story windows to the roof of the 4-story building on the west. Some made ropes of bed sheets and lowered themselves to this roof. One man was killed by jumping from his window on the fourth floor to the street. Two were killed by jumping from the sixth floor to the ground as their windows did not overlook the roof of the four-story building, and they could not reach these rooms, as they were unable evidently to pass through the halls..

The building was not what is commonly termed a “fire trap.” It was of substantial construction and well adapted for its original occupancy as a mercantile warehouse, and although its hazards were increased by the alteration made when it was converted into a club house, it could hardly, from an insurance point of view, be considered a bad risk. These alterations were not of a flimsy character. The most serious change was the removal, to improve the appearance, of the fire doors from the elevator and stair shafts. The fact stands out, however, that a building of that height and of combustible construction is not safe for the housing or gathering of a large number of people, and no interior arrangement or protection would be adequate against possible loss of life except perhaps an automatic sprinkler equipment. Regulations should also provide for cut-offs in the gas supply pipes in known locations outside buildings easily accessible to fire departments.

The fire escapes on this building while sufficient in number, were not easily accessible, and the result emphasizes the importance of clear aisles leading directly to the fire escapes. The open outside type of fire escape exposed to smoke and flames from windows, while of some value in a very slow fire, is not safe and reliable for the saving of lives in a rapidly spreading fire.

If the States would spend more for rigid inspection, without fear or favor, and see that buildings are kept free from trash and proper safeguards used, it would reduce losses of both life and property.

“Note the five outstanding points in this vivid description :

Open elevators and stairways are flues, not means of escape….

Fire escapes which pass unprotected windows are often valueless….

Fire escapes not accessible from public corridors are often valueless.

Automatic sprinklers would probably have extinguished this fire at the start.

A gas shut-off valve at the curb would probably have decreased the rapidity with which the fire spread.”

(Industrial Commission of Wisconsin. “Why the State Regulates Buildings,” Safety Engineering, Vol. 28, No’s 1-6, July-December, 1914, pp. 28-285.)

National Fire Protections Assoc. “Loss of Life Fires in Apartments and Store Buildings.”

Missouri Athletic Club, St. Louis, Mo., March 9, 1914. Thirty men lost their lives in an early morning fire which originated in the dining room on the third floor of this seven-story brick bank building and clubhouse. To improve appearances, fire doors originally protecting elevator and stair shafts had been replaced with open steel grill doors. The fire escapes, while sufficient in number, were not easily accessible and heat and flames soon made them unusable. An escape enclosed in metal readily absorbed the heat and proved f even less value. An additional seven persons were killed on the 17^th when the remaining west wall of this building fell outward and crashed into an adjoining building.” (NFPA. “Loss of Life Fires in Apartments and Store Buildings.” Quarterly, 34/3, Jan 1942, p. 263.)

National Fire Protections Association. “Missouri Athletic Club Fire.” Quarterly, 1914: “Another terrible holocaust was added to the many which have taken place in this country when thirty lives were lost in the fire which destroyed the Missouri Athletic Club Building at Washington Avenue and Fourth Street, St. Louis, on March 8, 1914.

“The building, which had an area of 115 by 150 feet, was seven stories in height with brick walls. There was one stairway and three elevators through all floors in brick shafts which were not cut off. One fire escape was attached to the east wall of the building; while the other fire escape, enclosed in metal with metal sash and wired glass windows, was attached to the south wall.

“The Club occupied the entire building except part of the first floor, in which was located the Boatmen’s bank. The Club used the first floor for lobbies and reception rooms, the second floor for pool and billiard rooms, the third floor for dining rooms and kitchens, the fourth floor for dancing rooms and officials’ headquarters, the fifth and sixth floors for sleeping rooms, and the seventh floor for a gymnasium.

“The first alarm was turned in at 1.58 a. m. by the night watchman at the bank, who discovered the flames as he was coming up from the basement. Several explosions took place and increased the rapidity with which the flames spread. These were thought to have been caused by gas. The guests were first awakened by the ringing of the telephones in their rooms and the cries of fire called by the night clerk.

“Some of the guests on the fifth and sixth floors, who had apparently found their way to the fire escape cut off, rushed into sleeping rooms on the west side of the building and leaped from the windows to the adjoining four-story building occupied by the St. Louis Seed Company. Many were injured in this manner. A number of bodies were located close to the windows on the third and fourth floors which showed that they had endeavored to reach the fire escape which was located directly in front of the Club windows in the Washington Avenue side.

“This fire adds one more to the long list where buildings of this character have burned with fatal results which could, unquestionably, have been prevented if a properly maintained automatic sprinkler system had been installed. The open elevators, poor fire escapes and similar features aided in the spread of flames and failed, as usual, in their function of providing a safe means of egress.” (National Fire Protection Association. “Missouri Athletic Club Fire.” Quarterly of the National Fire Protection Association. Vol. 7, No. 4, Apr 1914, p. 449.

Schaper: “The Missouri Athletic Club fire was the worst single-building fire in St. Louis history. It began at 1:45 a.m. on March 8, 1914, in the club dining room on the third floor. When the first engine arrived, the seven-story building was already a fiery furnace. Thirty-seven men, mainly members of the club, died and scores were injured. The Globe-Democrat reported that ‘fire escapes were useless in the seething mass of flame.’….Later in the day the ruins collapsed, killing seven sightseers.” (Schaper, F. C. and B. Burnett. Images of America: St. Louis Fire Department. 2003, p. 88.)

Contemporary Newspapers:

March 9: “St. Louis, Mo. Mar. 9…A fire which is believed to have claimed a death toll of 25 lives occurred at 2:30 this morning when fire broke out in the Missouri Athletic Club building at the corner of Fourth and Washington streets. The flames were discovered breaking through the floors of the club building and within a few minutes they .had swept through the structure and attacked the Boatman’s bank building.

“Of the one hundred and thirty-five roomers at the club not more than twenty were’ accounted for an hour after the alarm was given. The big building, honeycombed with rooms, was a veritable fire-trap.

“The flames burned fiercely after their discovery and at 2:45 this morning the roof of the structure, which occupied one-half of a city block, caved in, carrying down with it several floors. The most conservative estimate places the dead at 25 and the injured at many more. Every available ambulance and patrol wagon was called to the scene….

“The Missouri Athletic Club is one of the finest club buildings in the West. It is located at the corner of Fourth and Washington in the heart of the financial and wholesale business district and covers a half block of ground. It is made of brown granite and was one of the show places of St.. Louis.

“Many of the club members had rooms in the building and slept there. Most of the sleeping rooms are on the third floor. Starting at so early an hour, the fire caught most of the roomers sound asleep and they were trapped long before a chance was had to warn them. Quite a few were caught in the Turkish bath rooms. Some of these escaped….

“The death list probably will be greater than is now estimated. The fire was a holocaust. Men, all of them club members or guests, and most of them well known, were trapped in the burning building and had little or no chance for their lives. A number jumped from the upper stories and were killed; others were burned to death in their rooms. There were about ninety men in the club…” (Moberly Weekly Monitor, MO. “Thirty-Two Dead; Many are Injured. Largest Fire in History of St. Louis Claims Enormous Toll of Life. Athletic Club Burns” 3-10-1914, p. 1.)

March 11: “St. Louis, March 11. — More than one hundred men today began digging away the ruins of the Missouri athletic club, under which lies buried twenty to thirty-five bodies of members who lost their lives in the fire. Ten bodies were found yesterday and the day before.

“Investigations were begun today into the causes of the fire by a coroner’s jury and a joint committee from both branches of the municipal assembly. Fire officials and the building commissioner declare they warned the club management that the building was a fire trap, but that suggested improvements were not made.

“Three searchlights played on the ruins to aid the firemen during the night in their final attempt to extinguish the flames revealed several bodies but these were soon covered by a blanket of snow and the search was abandoned until daybreak.

“Another death resulted from the Missouri athletic club fire here when Mrs. Louis Vogi, twenty-five years old, died while reading newspaper accounts of the fire. Physicians ascribed her death to heart disease, superinduced by the excitement occasioned by the story.” (Daily Reflector, Jeffersonville, IN. “Searching for Victims. One Hundred Men work at Missouri Athletic Club.” 3-13-1914, p. 4.)

March 11: “Missouri Athletic Club officials last night revised and increased their estimates of the number who perished in fire that destroyed the club building at Fourth street and Washington avenue Monday. Their estimate gives a total of forty-eight lives lost. Three more bodies were recovered from the fifth and sixth floors yesterday, increasing the number to 20….” (Moberly Daily Monitor, MO. “Forty-Eight are Dead.” 3-11-1914, p. 1.)

March 12: “….Tuesday’s Republic says 31 persons are known to have perished and yesterday’s papers say the number has been increased to 45….” (Neosho Times, MO. “Forty Lives Lost in St. Louis Fire. Mo. Athletic Club.” 3-12-1914, p. 1.)

March 13: “By International News Assn. St. Louis, March 13. — Three more unidentified bodies were taken from the ruins of the Missouri Athletic club this morning, bringing the total number of bodies recovered up to twenty-three. Of these only twelve have been identified.” (Kane Republican, Pa. “Three Unidentified Bodies Recovered in Club Ruins Today.” 3-13-1914, 1.)

March 14: “St. Louis, Mo., March 14. – The twenty-fourth body, that of a man, tentatively identified as that of Roby Green a merchant of Herrin, Ill., was taken from the ruins of the Missouri Athletic club at 6:30 o’clock this morning and sent to the morgue. This is the last body, the searchers in the wrecked building declare, that will be found above the basement. Other bodies are believed to be in the swimming pool, which is filled with a mass of debris, or at the base of the rear elevator shaft. Lists compiled by officials of the M. A. C. indicate that at least six more bodies will be found in the ruins, but so many fragments of bodies have, been recovered that little hope is held out that these bodies will be found in a condition such as will assure their being identified. The finding of several large fragments of bodies yesterday confused the searchers. Several fragments taken from the ruins were declared to be of such a nature that they must belong to another body, but this opinion has not been adopted officially.

“Charles Schimel of Chicago, one of the men injured in the fire, has brought suit for $25,000 against the Missouri Athletic club and the Boatmen’s National bank, owner of the building.” (Logansport Pharos-Reporter, IN. “Find 24 Victims of St. Louis Fire.” 3-14-1914, p. 1.)

March 16: “St. Louis, Mo., March 16. — The body of W. A. Hunicke, an official of the Missouri Pacific railroad, was found today in the ruins of the Missouri Athletic club.[7] Hunicke apparently had leaped from his room on the sixth floor of the main building, onto the roof of the annex, three stories below, and went through the roof to the basement when the flames destroyed the annex. His body was covered with sacks of flour that had toppled into the basement when the building collapsed. The finding of Hunicke’s body brought the total recovered dead to 30. Of these, seven bodies are still unidentified at the city morgue. Two hundred men were kept at work in the ruins today, although it was believed all of the dead have been removed.” (Logansport Pharos-Reporter, IN. “Another Body Found in Ruins. Body of W. A. Hunicke, Railroad Official, Found in St. Louis Ruins. Death List is 30.” 3-16-1914, p. 1.)

March 17: “St. Louis, Mo., March 17 – The west wall of the burned Missouri Athletic club building, in which thirty men lost their lives, fell at 2:15 p. m. today burying two men and two women. The women and one of the men were rescued. The other man is dead.” (Logansport Pharos-Reporter, IN. “One Killed in Fall of St. Louis Wall.” 3-17-1914, p. 1.)

March 18: “St. Louis, Mo., March 18. – A hundred men toiled all night digging away the ruins of the St. Louis Seed company’s building, in search of additional dead under the debris left yesterday afternoon by the collapse of part of the Missouri Athletic club ruins. The body of a woman was thought to have been buried in the ruins, but none was found. The bodies of three men, who were killed in the collapse, were taken from the ruins last night. Twelve persons, three of them women, were rescued.

“This was the second calamity within ten days to visit the scene of the Missouri Athletic club. The club’s home a few days ago was destroyed by fire with the loss of 30 lives. To prevent a third disaster, the remaining walls are to be torn down. By morning the men had cleared away ruins to the ground floor. A mass of wreckage still filled the basement. It is possible that the woman and six workmen who were in the basement before the collapse and who have not yet been accounted for are buried under this.” (Waterloo Evening Courier, IA. “Find Bodies in St. Louis Ruins.” 3-18-1914, p. 1.)

March 18: “St. Louis, Mo., March 18. — Three persons were killed, fifteen were buried under debris and about ten were injured when the west wall of the Missouri Athletic club building, which was destroyed by fire, and in which thirty-one persons lost their lives a week ago collapsed, yesterday and crashed through a four story building occupied by the St. Louis Seed company. A thirty mile wind caused the collapse of the wall which was seven stories high.

“A few minutes before the collapse Building Commissioner McKelvey who was directing 170 men in the work of exploring the ruins of the club, feared the wall would fall and ordered his men out of the debris. This action probably prevented a heavy loss of life.

“The four story building occupied by the St. Louis Seed company had weakened, apparently during the burning of the Missouri Athletic club building, which adjoined it on the east and when the brick wall crashed on the roof of the four story building, the walls of the latter gave way and all above the second floor crumbled.

“Hours after the accident it was impossible to determine how many had been buried in the ruins. Many doubtless escaped, but last night ten to fourteen were accounted for. In addition six injured had been taken from the ruins, two were known to be dead and several still were in the debris.

“James Cobb, an employe of the seed company, apparently was dangerously hurt, but he directed the work of the rescuers who tried to extricate him from the ruins. Electric lights were strung about the debris that pinioned him, and while the workmen tugged at the heavy timbers, the Rev. Father Kennedy, a Catholic priest, administered to him the last rites of the church. Father Kennedy also administered last rites to another man buried in the debris. Two other priests worked in the ruins giving last rites to the injured. The body of a man was lying across the body of Mr. Cobb when the rescuers reached him. This man had been transfixed by a piece of scantling.

“An aged man was found pinioned in the basement of the seed company’s building. To take him out alive it seemed necessary to release him by amputating his leg. Physicians injected morphine into the pinioned leg and were about to amputate when workmen succeeded in moving the debris, thereby releasing the injured man.

“In the seed company’s building at the time of the accident were ten or twelve customers, three women and five or six men employes and a large number of workmen engaged in repairing the building which had been damaged by the Missouri Athletic club fire. All the customers in the building are believed to have escaped with slight or no injuries. The injured were for the most part office employes of the seed company or workmen repairing the ruins. William Roebling, an office employe of the seed company, grabbed a third floor window sill as the wall crashed down and hung there until firemen released him.” (Webster City Tribune, IA. “Three Persons Killed by Collapse of Wall.” 3-20-1914, p. 2.)

March 20: “E. W. Bornmueller, secretary of the Missouri Athletic club at St. Louis, estimated that forty persons perished in the fire which destroyed the seven-story building of the Missouri Athletic club and the Boatmen’s bank, at Fourth street and Washington avenue. The loss is placed at $600,000.” (Poseyville News, IN. “Domestic.” 3-20-1914, p. 6.)

March 24: “St. Louis, March 24. – A coroner’s jury that investigated the death of thirty persons in the Missouri Athletic club fire two weeks ago did not fix the blame for the disaster. The responsibility could not be fixed, the jury reported, because the city ordinances did not provide for the regulation of buildings used for clubs. Whether the fire started from a cigarette thrown among the draperies of the dining room or from defective electric wiring the jury could not determine.

“The jury reported that the following conditions prevailed at the building: The fire escapes were inadequate; wooden doors led to the enclosed fire escape from various floors; doors at the entrances of elevators had been removed, reducing the efficiency of the elevators in case of fire; the only stairway in the building was of wood; the building was of improper construction for sleeping purposes.” (Evening Record, Greenville, PA. “Jury Doesn’t Fix Blame. St. Louis Fire Disaster Responsibility Not Placed.” 3-24-1914, p. 3.)

March 24: “The building of the St. Louis Feed company of S t Louis was demolished when a portion of a seven-story wall of the burned Missouri Athletic club toppled over on it. At least seven persons were killed in the St. Louis Feed company’s building….” (Le Mars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, IA. “One Fatal Disaster Follows Another in St. Louis.” 3-24-1914, p. 3.)

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[1] Thirty fatalities from the March 8^th fire and 7 fatalities from the March 17^th M.A.C. wall fall.

[2] Noting 31 fire fatalities on the 8^th and three deaths due to wall fall on the 17^th.

[3] Noting 30 fire fatalities on the 8^th and three additional deaths due to wall fall on the 17^th.

[4] Noting 30 fatalities due to the fire on the 8^th and one additional death due to wall fall on the 17^th.

[5] Just fatalities from the March 8 fire.

[6] Missouri Athletic Club wall fall on the 17^th.

[7] Mr. Hunicke lived at the Missouri Athletic Club. (Association of Engineering Societies. “Obituary. William A Hunicke, Member of the Engineers’ Club of St. Louis.” Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies, Vol. 53., No. 2, Aug 1914, p. 58.)

1914 — March 8, Fire/30, Missouri Athletic Club (lodging), wall fall (17th), St. Louis Mo–37