Milton died at the age of 21 from shock and burns resulting from an accidental fire on Washington Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri
Grave marker is off its base and is lying on the ground face up so the inscription is still legible.
Milton's photo image is from a family group photo taken ca 1903.
Parents:
Nathan Meyer (Germany)
Rosa Rosentreter Meyer
____________________
OBITUARY
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 16, 2011
MILTON MEYER
Entered into rest, suddenly, on Friday, April 14, 1911. Milton Meyer, beloved son of Nathan and Rosa Meyer (nee Rosentreter) and our dear brother, at the age of 21 years. Funeral from family residence, 4322 Delmar Boulevard on Sunday, April 18, at 3p.m. Omit Flowers.
____________________
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 16, 1911
Page A5
FUNERAL OF LONE VICTIM OF BIG FIRE TO BE HELD TODAY
MILTON MEYER BECAME CONFUSED AFTER ALARM AND DIED NEAR CONCRETE STAIRWAY
FACILITIES SAVED LIVES
HUNDREDS OF GIRLS EMPLOYED IN ESSEX BUILDING ESCAPED FLAMES BY THREE WAYS
The funeral of Milton Meyer, who was killed in a fire Friday afternoon in the Essex Building, will take place this afternoon from the home, 4322 Delmar Boulevard. His uncle, Michael Rosentreter, is proprietor of the clothing firm which occupied the fifth floor of the Essex Building, at 817-23 Washington Avenue and Meyer was employed by him.
Meyer became confused after the alarm was turned in, and after, he had entered the enclosed concrete stairway which served as one of the fire escapes which was closed below. He went from the fifth to the seventh floor, entered there and was killed by the fire and smoke. He was 21 years old.
Meyer was a nephew of Rabbi Adolph Rosentreter of the B'nai Amoona Jewish Church. His father worked with him in the Essex Building but left before it caught fire. His mother was not well, and he told her when he left home Friday, he would be back early to talk to her. She was expecting his return when she got the news of his death.
FACILITIES FOR ESCAPE
That more lives were not lost in the fire was due to the excellent facilities for escape in such emergencies. Building Commissioner Smith and Fire Chief Swingley united yesterday in praising it. One hundred girls employed there escaped safely, some down the circular stairway, some by the first escape and many by the elevators.
The origin of the fire has not been determined. A woman who was on the third floor says it started from an explosion there, but William A. F. Busch, manager of the Mississippi Valley Drug Company, which occupies that floor, says it started higher up and denies there where was an explosion.
Capt. Thomas M. Gorman of Salvage Corps No. 3 was struck on the head by falling slate and flying glass, and at first it was thought his skull was fractured but this proved to be in error and it was said last night at the city hospital that he would recover.
RUMORS GIRLS WERE TRAPPED
It may be that the recent disaster in a New York factory (1) that heightened the anxiety and apprehension of the enormous throng which gathered to watch the fire. Rumors that girls were trapped in upper floors flew thick and fast.
About 6:30p.m., when the flames were beginning to subside, firemen chopped a small hole through the firewall separating The Essex Building from the one adjoining. Before the smoke drove them temporarily back, they were confident they could see the bodies of 6 persons, apparently women, in the ruins.
A second time they returned, this time with the Building Commissioner Smith behind them. They told Smith they were certain they had seen a half dozen bodies lying on the floor. Smith went downstairs and reported what they had told him to Police Captain Behoppe. Smith and Behoppe give the firemen's statement to reporters and they were printed in extra editions of the afternoon newspapers, including the Post-Dispatch. Later, from police headquarters, came word to newspaper offices that six and, perhaps, 10 bodies had been seen in the ruins by the firemen.
Captain Behoppe telephones for ambulances, and five of them drew up to the burning building..
What the firemen actually saw, it is believed, were burned bolts of cloth and other debris. END
(1) Multiple newspapers, March 25, 1911. Web Link to full story: Further Accounts of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
____________________
History of the entrance columns explained in the photo caption on the cemetery entrance photo. The cemetery entrance photo is on page 2.
The decedent listed on this page is buried in the Old Section of the B’nai Amoona Cemetery, University City, Missouri. This name has been added to the B’nai Amoona Cemetery – Old Section – Virtual Cemetery along with 100’s of other decedents. This project has been completed by Steve Weinreich, [email protected]
Grave marker is off its base and is lying on the ground face up so the inscription is still legible.
Milton's photo image is from a family group photo taken ca 1903.
Parents:
Nathan Meyer (Germany)
Rosa Rosentreter Meyer
____________________
OBITUARY
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 16, 2011
MILTON MEYER
Entered into rest, suddenly, on Friday, April 14, 1911. Milton Meyer, beloved son of Nathan and Rosa Meyer (nee Rosentreter) and our dear brother, at the age of 21 years. Funeral from family residence, 4322 Delmar Boulevard on Sunday, April 18, at 3p.m. Omit Flowers.
____________________
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 16, 1911
Page A5
FUNERAL OF LONE VICTIM OF BIG FIRE TO BE HELD TODAY
MILTON MEYER BECAME CONFUSED AFTER ALARM AND DIED NEAR CONCRETE STAIRWAY
FACILITIES SAVED LIVES
HUNDREDS OF GIRLS EMPLOYED IN ESSEX BUILDING ESCAPED FLAMES BY THREE WAYS
The funeral of Milton Meyer, who was killed in a fire Friday afternoon in the Essex Building, will take place this afternoon from the home, 4322 Delmar Boulevard. His uncle, Michael Rosentreter, is proprietor of the clothing firm which occupied the fifth floor of the Essex Building, at 817-23 Washington Avenue and Meyer was employed by him.
Meyer became confused after the alarm was turned in, and after, he had entered the enclosed concrete stairway which served as one of the fire escapes which was closed below. He went from the fifth to the seventh floor, entered there and was killed by the fire and smoke. He was 21 years old.
Meyer was a nephew of Rabbi Adolph Rosentreter of the B'nai Amoona Jewish Church. His father worked with him in the Essex Building but left before it caught fire. His mother was not well, and he told her when he left home Friday, he would be back early to talk to her. She was expecting his return when she got the news of his death.
FACILITIES FOR ESCAPE
That more lives were not lost in the fire was due to the excellent facilities for escape in such emergencies. Building Commissioner Smith and Fire Chief Swingley united yesterday in praising it. One hundred girls employed there escaped safely, some down the circular stairway, some by the first escape and many by the elevators.
The origin of the fire has not been determined. A woman who was on the third floor says it started from an explosion there, but William A. F. Busch, manager of the Mississippi Valley Drug Company, which occupies that floor, says it started higher up and denies there where was an explosion.
Capt. Thomas M. Gorman of Salvage Corps No. 3 was struck on the head by falling slate and flying glass, and at first it was thought his skull was fractured but this proved to be in error and it was said last night at the city hospital that he would recover.
RUMORS GIRLS WERE TRAPPED
It may be that the recent disaster in a New York factory (1) that heightened the anxiety and apprehension of the enormous throng which gathered to watch the fire. Rumors that girls were trapped in upper floors flew thick and fast.
About 6:30p.m., when the flames were beginning to subside, firemen chopped a small hole through the firewall separating The Essex Building from the one adjoining. Before the smoke drove them temporarily back, they were confident they could see the bodies of 6 persons, apparently women, in the ruins.
A second time they returned, this time with the Building Commissioner Smith behind them. They told Smith they were certain they had seen a half dozen bodies lying on the floor. Smith went downstairs and reported what they had told him to Police Captain Behoppe. Smith and Behoppe give the firemen's statement to reporters and they were printed in extra editions of the afternoon newspapers, including the Post-Dispatch. Later, from police headquarters, came word to newspaper offices that six and, perhaps, 10 bodies had been seen in the ruins by the firemen.
Captain Behoppe telephones for ambulances, and five of them drew up to the burning building..
What the firemen actually saw, it is believed, were burned bolts of cloth and other debris. END
(1) Multiple newspapers, March 25, 1911. Web Link to full story: Further Accounts of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
____________________
History of the entrance columns explained in the photo caption on the cemetery entrance photo. The cemetery entrance photo is on page 2.
The decedent listed on this page is buried in the Old Section of the B’nai Amoona Cemetery, University City, Missouri. This name has been added to the B’nai Amoona Cemetery – Old Section – Virtual Cemetery along with 100’s of other decedents. This project has been completed by Steve Weinreich, [email protected]
Milton died at the age of 21 from shock and burns resulting from an accidental fire on Washington Avenue, St. Louis, Missouri
Grave marker is off its base and is lying on the ground face up so the inscription is still legible.
Milton's photo image is from a family group photo taken ca 1903.
Parents:
Nathan Meyer (Germany)
Rosa Rosentreter Meyer
____________________
OBITUARY
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 16, 2011
MILTON MEYER
Entered into rest, suddenly, on Friday, April 14, 1911. Milton Meyer, beloved son of Nathan and Rosa Meyer (nee Rosentreter) and our dear brother, at the age of 21 years. Funeral from family residence, 4322 Delmar Boulevard on Sunday, April 18, at 3p.m. Omit Flowers.
____________________
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 16, 1911
Page A5
FUNERAL OF LONE VICTIM OF BIG FIRE TO BE HELD TODAY
MILTON MEYER BECAME CONFUSED AFTER ALARM AND DIED NEAR CONCRETE STAIRWAY
FACILITIES SAVED LIVES
HUNDREDS OF GIRLS EMPLOYED IN ESSEX BUILDING ESCAPED FLAMES BY THREE WAYS
The funeral of Milton Meyer, who was killed in a fire Friday afternoon in the Essex Building, will take place this afternoon from the home, 4322 Delmar Boulevard. His uncle, Michael Rosentreter, is proprietor of the clothing firm which occupied the fifth floor of the Essex Building, at 817-23 Washington Avenue and Meyer was employed by him.
Meyer became confused after the alarm was turned in, and after, he had entered the enclosed concrete stairway which served as one of the fire escapes which was closed below. He went from the fifth to the seventh floor, entered there and was killed by the fire and smoke. He was 21 years old.
Meyer was a nephew of Rabbi Adolph Rosentreter of the B'nai Amoona Jewish Church. His father worked with him in the Essex Building but left before it caught fire. His mother was not well, and he told her when he left home Friday, he would be back early to talk to her. She was expecting his return when she got the news of his death.
FACILITIES FOR ESCAPE
That more lives were not lost in the fire was due to the excellent facilities for escape in such emergencies. Building Commissioner Smith and Fire Chief Swingley united yesterday in praising it. One hundred girls employed there escaped safely, some down the circular stairway, some by the first escape and many by the elevators.
The origin of the fire has not been determined. A woman who was on the third floor says it started from an explosion there, but William A. F. Busch, manager of the Mississippi Valley Drug Company, which occupies that floor, says it started higher up and denies there where was an explosion.
Capt. Thomas M. Gorman of Salvage Corps No. 3 was struck on the head by falling slate and flying glass, and at first it was thought his skull was fractured but this proved to be in error and it was said last night at the city hospital that he would recover.
RUMORS GIRLS WERE TRAPPED
It may be that the recent disaster in a New York factory (1) that heightened the anxiety and apprehension of the enormous throng which gathered to watch the fire. Rumors that girls were trapped in upper floors flew thick and fast.
About 6:30p.m., when the flames were beginning to subside, firemen chopped a small hole through the firewall separating The Essex Building from the one adjoining. Before the smoke drove them temporarily back, they were confident they could see the bodies of 6 persons, apparently women, in the ruins.
A second time they returned, this time with the Building Commissioner Smith behind them. They told Smith they were certain they had seen a half dozen bodies lying on the floor. Smith went downstairs and reported what they had told him to Police Captain Behoppe. Smith and Behoppe give the firemen's statement to reporters and they were printed in extra editions of the afternoon newspapers, including the Post-Dispatch. Later, from police headquarters, came word to newspaper offices that six and, perhaps, 10 bodies had been seen in the ruins by the firemen.
Captain Behoppe telephones for ambulances, and five of them drew up to the burning building..
What the firemen actually saw, it is believed, were burned bolts of cloth and other debris. END
(1) Multiple newspapers, March 25, 1911. Web Link to full story: Further Accounts of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
____________________
History of the entrance columns explained in the photo caption on the cemetery entrance photo. The cemetery entrance photo is on page 2.
The decedent listed on this page is buried in the Old Section of the B’nai Amoona Cemetery, University City, Missouri. This name has been added to the B’nai Amoona Cemetery – Old Section – Virtual Cemetery along with 100’s of other decedents. This project has been completed by Steve Weinreich, [email protected]
Grave marker is off its base and is lying on the ground face up so the inscription is still legible.
Milton's photo image is from a family group photo taken ca 1903.
Parents:
Nathan Meyer (Germany)
Rosa Rosentreter Meyer
____________________
OBITUARY
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 16, 2011
MILTON MEYER
Entered into rest, suddenly, on Friday, April 14, 1911. Milton Meyer, beloved son of Nathan and Rosa Meyer (nee Rosentreter) and our dear brother, at the age of 21 years. Funeral from family residence, 4322 Delmar Boulevard on Sunday, April 18, at 3p.m. Omit Flowers.
____________________
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 16, 1911
Page A5
FUNERAL OF LONE VICTIM OF BIG FIRE TO BE HELD TODAY
MILTON MEYER BECAME CONFUSED AFTER ALARM AND DIED NEAR CONCRETE STAIRWAY
FACILITIES SAVED LIVES
HUNDREDS OF GIRLS EMPLOYED IN ESSEX BUILDING ESCAPED FLAMES BY THREE WAYS
The funeral of Milton Meyer, who was killed in a fire Friday afternoon in the Essex Building, will take place this afternoon from the home, 4322 Delmar Boulevard. His uncle, Michael Rosentreter, is proprietor of the clothing firm which occupied the fifth floor of the Essex Building, at 817-23 Washington Avenue and Meyer was employed by him.
Meyer became confused after the alarm was turned in, and after, he had entered the enclosed concrete stairway which served as one of the fire escapes which was closed below. He went from the fifth to the seventh floor, entered there and was killed by the fire and smoke. He was 21 years old.
Meyer was a nephew of Rabbi Adolph Rosentreter of the B'nai Amoona Jewish Church. His father worked with him in the Essex Building but left before it caught fire. His mother was not well, and he told her when he left home Friday, he would be back early to talk to her. She was expecting his return when she got the news of his death.
FACILITIES FOR ESCAPE
That more lives were not lost in the fire was due to the excellent facilities for escape in such emergencies. Building Commissioner Smith and Fire Chief Swingley united yesterday in praising it. One hundred girls employed there escaped safely, some down the circular stairway, some by the first escape and many by the elevators.
The origin of the fire has not been determined. A woman who was on the third floor says it started from an explosion there, but William A. F. Busch, manager of the Mississippi Valley Drug Company, which occupies that floor, says it started higher up and denies there where was an explosion.
Capt. Thomas M. Gorman of Salvage Corps No. 3 was struck on the head by falling slate and flying glass, and at first it was thought his skull was fractured but this proved to be in error and it was said last night at the city hospital that he would recover.
RUMORS GIRLS WERE TRAPPED
It may be that the recent disaster in a New York factory (1) that heightened the anxiety and apprehension of the enormous throng which gathered to watch the fire. Rumors that girls were trapped in upper floors flew thick and fast.
About 6:30p.m., when the flames were beginning to subside, firemen chopped a small hole through the firewall separating The Essex Building from the one adjoining. Before the smoke drove them temporarily back, they were confident they could see the bodies of 6 persons, apparently women, in the ruins.
A second time they returned, this time with the Building Commissioner Smith behind them. They told Smith they were certain they had seen a half dozen bodies lying on the floor. Smith went downstairs and reported what they had told him to Police Captain Behoppe. Smith and Behoppe give the firemen's statement to reporters and they were printed in extra editions of the afternoon newspapers, including the Post-Dispatch. Later, from police headquarters, came word to newspaper offices that six and, perhaps, 10 bodies had been seen in the ruins by the firemen.
Captain Behoppe telephones for ambulances, and five of them drew up to the burning building..
What the firemen actually saw, it is believed, were burned bolts of cloth and other debris. END
(1) Multiple newspapers, March 25, 1911. Web Link to full story: Further Accounts of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
____________________
History of the entrance columns explained in the photo caption on the cemetery entrance photo. The cemetery entrance photo is on page 2.
The decedent listed on this page is buried in the Old Section of the B’nai Amoona Cemetery, University City, Missouri. This name has been added to the B’nai Amoona Cemetery – Old Section – Virtual Cemetery along with 100’s of other decedents. This project has been completed by Steve Weinreich, [email protected]
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