Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 30, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 January 1883 — Page 1

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r v INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1883. WHOLE NO. 1652

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Milwaukee Visited by a Tevrlblo Catastrophe. Tho Newliall House a 3Iass of Smoking Ruins. One Ilandred Persons Eltkcr TJurae4 or Kitted la Indearoriiis to Escape. List of ta Dead act Mlsslnar Tte Lroeses and Ineurwrce Origin e? tbs Fire "lha ewhaU." A HOLOCAUST. Destrmtion of the Newhall Ilonae. Sttwnketone Hundred TerioDS rerMiin the Flames or FatattyTn jared icet Around the Kalo and attbe 51 or sue. Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 10. TwCStj-fOUr boars Lave nearly elapsed tince the most terrible catastro he befell Milwasfce, and the imiaensity of the dread fuldiaaster seer. ja to increase instead of wane with the floating time, and a dread seems to creep oververyone passiitg 'An hupe pile of smoking ruins that mark the place where only two days ago tho partial NewhalJ House lood with :2C0 inmate?, who awoke yesterday morning from their slumbers to stand face to face with the grim reaper. The snow had been falling all night, silently weaving a shroud for many, how maay, nobody can ask without a shudder oa beholding what is left of one of the largest hostelries in the Northwest. Early in the morning at 5:40 o'clock n alarm of fire was turned in from box 4.19, corner of Vleit and Eighteenth street?, and many a good citizen, counting the strokes of the alarm ascertaining the location and casting a look at the black iky banging heavily over the house tops, went to rest again with a relieved feeling that the alarm did not denote a dangerous box, and that Milwaukee's tried Fire Department would do its duty; and about half an hour later, at 4:05 a. m.. the two ominous strokes of a telephone alarm called the rest of the Denot engaged at the Vliet etreet fire up again, and thrje minutes later, at 4:0S, an alarm from 15, corner of Michigan and Broadway, rang out,-and Chief Lippert hurried from Eighteenth street to the scene 3 last 03 his trotter would carry him. And he made such good time that he could turn in a second alarm four minutes later. At 4:12 a. m. the whole Department was called to the scene of action, leaving the Chemical Engine to battle with the hlazj In the remote part of tho city. DISCOVKKT OF HE FIRE. The operators in the Train Dispatcher's Office of tbe Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Eailroad,in the Mitchell Building, had seen from their quarters a light smoke issuing fiom the attic of the Newhall House. It was scarcely noticed until tke general alarm was turned in, when they saw to their horror that almost the entire south part of the New hall House was one sea of flaues. There were but few peoplo on the streets, the police and eight reporters, and some belated traeglers for home, bat the scene developing before the horror stricken few wa one which none of the eye witnesses will ever forget. In a moment every window of tbe large eix-3tory hotel structure was filled wih struggling guests, frantically and piteously beseeching the few below for aid. which it waa IMPOSSIBLE TO IE 5 DEE. Bat few of the unfortunate inmates gained the front entrance on Michigan street, although many might have been saved if an immediate attempt at some systematic effort had been made. The halls of tbe hotel were the scene of the wildest confusion, and men, women and children rushed np and down tbe halls in the dense suffocating smoke, avoiding the blinding flames and roaring blaze, and in their frantic efforts rushing ky the stairways and windows leading to tbe lire escapes, tumbling over bodies lyiag unconscious on the cerpeted walks, only to join e yoa the many .prostrated forms whom a kioet fate had touched with the dark wing of that sneesener of death, unconscioesaess. "The tire started apparently ou the third Coor of the doomed building, ov-er the eide entrance ou Michigan etreet, and bei jre the Department got tbe steamers fairly in position the flames bad enveloped the whole southeast corner of the building, the fiery clement XJC&UCO ITS WAT CBZCDfLT and with llghtsing rapidity toward tbe northern wing, and some blundering individual seeing tbe reflecting of the holocaust on the Kky.turned in an alarm from box 3-1, corner of Last Water and Division streets, at 5:40 a. m., causing the loss of the work of one steamer for ten minutes of preeious time, just when the fire was its worst and every window in the huge building lined with shrink iug humanity. The multitude, which by this time bad welled to thousands, stood in perfect awe, bat few having self-possession and resolution enough to lend a helping hand on the canvases streiched out to receive tbee of the despairing inmates of the burning pyre, who risked the leap down to the stone bidewalk, tV) feet below. At first there were only Lieutenant Rockwocd. Defectives Hiem and McManu, Officers O'BrieVi and Campbell, and a few Sentinel men stretching the heavy c&nvaa, which required fully thirty itronjr. mea to handle

1 successfully. A poor fellow Btood on tbe

cornice of the fifth story corner window for twenty long mintttcs, cot dariirg the fearful leap. Finally be became bewildered, to judge, by his ac ion, or dirafounded by (moke, and sltd oil his perch to the canvass below. The few who held it could not give it the necessary resistance. TUE IODV FEIt, naluderel by tbe canvas, with a crash wl.iK cant -a Kndoi Ihmnch TPrV witI niu. TKj cViatforort hnrfp was rnrried into AW- D UU 'lVfc 7 " v - - - the American Express ofUce. Ali the while hundreds of people had been looking on, nobody responding to the demands of the officers for aid. Everybody seemed to be spellbound. The terrible spectacle seerced to have paralysed every bit ot will power. In the sixth story window, right over the unfortunate, sat the figure of a man crouched upon the window sill, cazing like one absent minded into tha fiery abyss below, motion lef s, but from time to time sending up a heartrending shriek. Steadily tbe fUmes encroached upon him. He did not seem to mind it. The flauies singed his hair, licked his r ight clothes; one despairing look he cave to the crowd below and then tcrubled back into THE SEA Of FIRE. A man and a woman appeared at a window of tbe third Story. They were recognized as Allen Johnson and hi i wife. A canvas waa stretched below the windows vl their apartment, formerly occupied by I'ro-fe-sar Hat-kins ar.d lady, and a thousand voices called to each of tberu to jump. Mr. Johnson kissed bis wife, then leaped into the air and shot dowuward into the canvas, but his weight iwt such tlfat tbe canvas was pulled out of the hands of the f -w who held it, end he aliuhttd ou the ground with deathly fcrce. Jlis wife followed. Her body struck the veranda and fell to the ground lifeless. Mr. Allen died shortly afterward in the Express Office, and his dead body was laid betide thai of his wife uirtil tbev were borne away. About a dozen jumped from the Michigan street front. EACH 1EAP MEANT DEATH, or shattered limb?, and not less than four uriiortuna'es at one time lay upon the icy sidewalk in front cf the Chamber of Commerce, clad only in niphi-shirt, the blood and brains oozirg from i!ie wounds through iflich the bones pro'Mdrd. Some were carried to the Express OlliCP, Others tltJ:C ground Moor of the ilitcheli Uuildinp. where tots had been hastily aranged, and from ti-erc they were earned off to private houses o kind bearted pec pie. Tbe f-cene on the west wing of the burnir; building was sickening. As early as six o'clock the bodies cf st-ven unfortunate waiter-irls, once bloomiupin youth, were Streichtd upon the snow and ice with broken limb?, writhing with agony until death end-d their tutSerings. After almost superhuman efforts ladders were stretched from the roof of the bank building across the alley to the sixth stoty of the hotel. The brave fire laddies carried tea girls across the frail bridge FOCK Or THEM PEAD. The mass of telegraph wiit s encircliDg the b iihiiug on tbe south and cast sides played std havoc with the unfortunates who made the frightful leap for lif Several bodies were fairly cut deep into by the wires, and the torn and bleeding forms would drop to the ground. Others would hit the wires crosv.rays, rebound, and be hurled to the ground with a dreadful crash. The poor, unfortunate waiter girls all lodged in the six'h story and the attics. The saddest lot had fallen to the sixly young girls. Only eleven were heard from as alive as late aj yesterday evening. It is feared thai the estimate of fifty lives lost as formed yesterday morning is far too low, and that full double that number were burned or smothered to death In the blacing pyre. The police patrol soon commenced their dreadful work of gathering the dead and wounded. The former were taken to tho Morgue, which was soon filled; the latter to the Central Police Station, where they were cared for by physicians. From 5 o'clock tbe interior of the building was one mass of flame, tbe upper tlo rs soon giving way and carrying the lower floors with them. A thundering crash was beard far blocks, end then the fire shof up fully fifty feet and sent a shower of sparks and cinders over the whole northern portion of the fity, carried ahead by a brisk southwesterly wind Had it not been for the thick coat of snow on the roofs many a building north of the hotel would be a mass of smoldering ruins tu-day. FACIS DEATH. Long after the tlames had raged in the interior. Miss Chellis head dressmaker at T. A. Chapman & Co., was seen at her window on the fourth floor. She was recognized by her friends from below and implored to make the leap upon the canvas, but she remained standing at the window of her burning room until the flames enveloped her, and she sank to be teen no more on earth. In three-quarters of an hour after the discovery of tbe fire the building was a total loss. At 5:30 o'clock the Broadway front of the building, unsupported by rafters from within, gave out and gave thundering to tbe pavement. Shortly after that the tattering walls of the southeast corner of the buildinsr followed, tearing a heavy telegraph pole to the ground, which felled Ben Van Haag, truckman of the Hook and Ladder Company No. 2, beueath its weight. Poor Ilea, a favorite in the Department, received fa'al i n j uries. He died in a few hours after, fai'hful to Iiis pott until death. ?h'ef Lippert nad telegraphed to Chicago and llacine for help, t!30 to the S ddieis Home for tbe steamer of that institution. (General Sharpe. Governor of the Soldiers Home, failed to reply witn the request Chicago and Hacine respocded at once. Three steamers left Chicago a: 5:50 a.m.', Nos. 5, 10 and 14, together with two men each from Companies 1, 2 and 3, and 1000 yards additional hose. At Highland Point, about twenty-five miles north of Chicago, the relief train was countermanded by Cnief Lippert, the fire having done its sway in dest oying the Newhall House, and being under control as far as surrounding establishments were concerned. The Racine relief train was also countermac ied. When it became known among the merchants gathered in front of the Chamber of Commerce, that Gen Sharpe had not sent the S ddier Home' engines, the remarks not exactly in Lord Ches terfield's language could be heard on al Bides. DEEDS Or HEROISM. Defd3of heroitm are recorded worthy of ntiqualiried praise. Ed Ilyemerand Herman Strauss, of Trnck 1, appeared on the roof of the bank building ata critical juncture, directly opposite tbe servants' quarters, ladder in hand. For a moment the unwieldy thing poised in mid-air, then descended with a crash through the window ot the hoteL It formed a bridge across the alley, and before it became steady in position the men had crossed over into the hotel. Then, amid the cheers of the multitude below, drftped the helpless creatures across the sleuder bridge until a dozen were rescued, all of them In their night clothes. Many were badly frozen before taken to shelter. A woman, in a dead faint, unable to help herself, was dragged across in Ufety, but at one time the wboi of ber body was hanging clear over the ladder, while the brave man held her by one of her ankles. .The crowd below held

I their breath in suspense, expecting every

moment to see the ladder tum over or Dreas beneath the terrible strain. The man, however, equal to th emergency, by herculean effort pulled her upon tho slender bridge and finally olaced her out of danger, while the crowd, which had endured the most painf al suspense for full tea minutes, burst farth in round after round after round of applause. The twelve poor waiter girls wre rescued by these brav men two brothers. Clavton lescued tour women, carrying thera bodily out. The police res cued a dozen persons. Origin of the Fire. There is loud talk of incendiarism in which the Chief concurs; also the police who were the first on the ground. No tangible ground can be given for the theory beyond the breaking out neir foot of the elevator and epreading so rapidly that the buiidii g was destroyed in half an hour. Regarding tho origin of the fire A. N. Thdf) said: "The eight watchman saw the lire first, but before he could do anything the flames shot up the elevator, burning away every door. I am confident it sta: d in the elevator, but how it originated I can not say. I W8i! awakened by noise, rushed oat to find tbe building filled with Uames and smoke, and the people thing for their lives. Atter saving my wife I tried to save others. I met my father and mother in their night clothes and tried to get them to leave the building, which was fast becominga furnace of lUnies, but father W8s apparently out of his bead. He said he was huund to go into the lUmei to save those in tho building, but by force I git him to the rtreet, and being if I left hi;u he would again enUr the building, conducted him by force down Michigan avenue, an.l when near the alley some one fell from the upper floor to the ground a few feet away, and caused him to become frencied. A number of rescued guests say the fire started in the basement, aod went through the elevator before the alarm could be giwn. A man employed in the bakiDg department, who arrived on the scene about 4 o'clock, states that at 3:30 he passed to the third floor and assisted in rescuing a number of lodgers. It is stated on good authority that ther was no fire in the rear portion of the building, where there was a wide part of stairs by means of which all those quartered in the upper floors could have made their escape. However, the smoke was so dense, and those who were not suffocated lost their presence cf raind. The Ruins. The Newhil Hou-e. corner of Broadway and Michigan strt'rls, Milwaukee, In tlie benrt f the city, whs bul'it ia 1V7. it wasr rt-cie-l by Daidtl Newhall and its cost estimated tt ilt'.O 000. bVfre the lirndtnr? was änixhed Mr. Newhall failed, aii'l the work- ot cuicpletint; the rtructnre devolved upon o:hers. The original plans were not followed, however, and, unlike the first story, the remtduiiig tiva were put up In double quick order, hastily nud cheaply, l'üt partitiutis weie built ot wood, mini no precautions taken njsint fire. Ia snort, the Nfw hall House when coratjleted resembled the Wigwam on Maryland street a öret-cla" tinder box, a fact very generally taown. It had a frontepe of 2tK) feet on Broadway, and was a lHtle more thaa one half of that in depth. There were lb) room, an 1 the dispatches say it could accommodate fWJ Kiiests. The oflice wnson the second flaor. A wide hall forming tue lobby ran entirely across the house, from eunei end of which spiral naircacs ipraug extending to the tup fl;org. These staircase., with the exception of ote in the rear corurnutdcatlüg with the dining room, were, with the elevator, the orly mea us of c mmunicatioti between the Uoors of the botel, end the Incomplete and dangerous character of the exits were constantly referred to. The total cert cf the botel, including famishing, was SJTT.CO. npou which there wt a total insurarre of tlCO.lCO. It was first mauaged by Curd Judcn, who conducted the Btcs aouse la early years, and at he time of tho tire by J. F. Autisdel). Immediately across the street ws the Chamber of ommcrce an i the maguiiicent Mitchell block. Opposite were the ruins of the grtat clothing houi-e of tho Frieiida Brother, destroyed by fire three weekH at a los et S303.COO. The lociiou was the very best ps?lble for a hotel In the city. Tlit Xomber of the Dead 'otr Placed at S-ixty-elght Llt of the MUmne Quests Statement of the Mgtit Watch. Milwaukee, Jan. 11. A. force of 125 workmen have been engaged all day at the ruins of the ill-fated Newhall House, searching for bodies, but none were found up to 7 o'clock this evening. The remaining walla were pulled down because they endangered the workmen, but the north wall, which is a partition wall with the adjoining building, which might tumble at any moment. The number of times the Newhall has has been ignited through the instrumenality of malicious persons is frequently referred to. A gentleman who occupied quarters in the house said the building bad been set on fire at least four times during the past two years. Once fire was set on a chair placed in tbe hall in connection with the elevator. On the chair had been piled oiled kindlings. The fire got a pretty good start. The next time the fire was started in a barrel of tinder which stood in the hall on the first floor against the elevator. This time a hole was torn through the plaster in the wall and at the bottom of the elevator a mass of inflammable Stull' was inserted which was firtd and only extinguished with the greatest difficulty, still another time a fire was started near the bar room on the first floor adjacent the west side of the elevator shaft. These all bad un doubtedly incendiary origin. Started at night, also, near the elevator so as to preclude any idea of saving the house, llut each time luck held sway and the blazes were blighted with each recurring fire. The regular boarders would say some one had a spite against the building and wou d yet burn it They would avow their intention of leaving, but as time 'elapsed the ideas would erase only to reoccur with another attempt to burn tbe building This time the fire fiend was successful, as the theory seems to have no doubt of incendiaries. Only a few weeks go fire gnited in C A. Hendry's room from a bad grate and burned considerably before being put out. This was supplemented by another fire ia Hendry's quarters last week, but no special damage was done. Three bodies remain at the Morgue that of Ouellie Wattersdorf, eighteen years old, an employe (she has been fully identified by a brother residing in this city); a young Irish girl, supposed to be Nora Fiannigan, a waiter. She was recognized by Mary Hardy, of the Plankin ton House, but not positively: the body of an elderly woman, apparent! j,' ot Irish nationality, about forty-five years of age. unidentified, medium siz?, dark hair, slightly tinged with ray. On the middle finger of the right hand is a flat band ring. A formal Coroner's inquest will be held next wetk after the recovery of the bodies under the debris. STATEMENT OF THK BIGHT WATCH. William McKenzie, the night watchman of the he'el, makes the following important statement: Oa the nizht of the tire I had made my rounds a usaat, ri.-iting the different landing floors and basemeut rooms. Nothiug unusual was observed. The bar room waa open uutll 2 o'clocc ia tbe moauluz. tieorgu fccheller, the proprietor, waa there for about ihree-qtiarters til art hour after. I had been to the wood room about 2 o'clock, and In opening the door leading to the bar room saw tiat the place waa s'J.l f coupled. At a later hour I had ruu the elevator duwu to the bottom lauding to rake up a gentleman who came from the bar. Nothing like f moke was detected then. At 8:30 In tbe moraine T. H Huiott came ou thu late j train. 1 was la the office, lie atked me if the

elevator was rnrjnlne. I told him that I would take him up, and did to, letting him ont at the third floor. Then I went ud to the top floor, tak

ing a railway conductor up from the third floor to mat. 1 loosed aronua me nana, ana got Into the elevator to bo down. This waa a few minutes past 3:30 o'clock. As I got into tbe elevator I noticed a very little smoke. I immediately started down to see where It came from. By the time 1 reached the office floor the smoke waa so dense that I could zo no further in the elevator. Throwing open the door 1 rufhed out and started for the ataira, shouting to the night clerk that there wa fire down below. I was going to see about iu By the time I reached the bottom of the eievator shaft tbe smoke waa so dense and f tilling that I knew something must be done. I called to the engineer, who was ia the engine room, and told him to call the house servant. Tnen 1 started back to awaken the people, for I knew there was no chaccw to stop the lire alone. By the time I had reached the first floor above the office, and had jelled at Mr. I'ramer'a door, the heat bad cracked the Rlass doors to the elevator, and in a moment ffterwanli tbe flames Coined out. In the meantime I rushed into the ank building to arouse as many lodgers iu that portion aa I could. Afterward I ieudered what help I could la saving people. I hardly know wbat to say about the commencement of the tire, but I know it caught at the bottom of the elevator and was not ou tbe upper floor. There waa notblngauywhere around the elevator that could burn so quickly, and at half-past 3 o'clock there was no smoke In the elevator. Either Klliott or myself would have noticed it. After tbe smoke was observed there was scarcely time to do anything before tho whole thing was all7e. It inltht have caught iu some of the shops in the basement that tack up to the bottom of tbe elevator, but oa the bottom floor of the hotel pnrt there was nothing that could posMtiy burn that way that could have been smouldering throughout tne day. Thi I shown by tbe fact thai so many were around till such a short time before ihe actual bifida occurred. I don't know that the f) tu wAi lnceudiary, but there is a very queer look to It. The Lous til Lives "Sow Over Seventy-Ad-dittonal Particular. Milwaukee. Jan. 12 W. A. Hall, of La porte, Ind., partner cf M. Weber in the milling busihess, died this morning at Dr. Barkeit's office. He made a jump from the fifth s'ory, and broke both la-s, the bcres protruding through the flesh. His where abouts only became known late last night. Five others were buried this morning. D. G. Bowers, Mary Conroy, Bessie Brown and Annie Lanahan, from St, John's Cathedral, and Maggie Sullivan, fro-u St. Paul's. The attendance of the people at tbe impressive funeral services was very large. Shortly after noon two more bodies, charred beyond all identification, and part of a human trunk, were found. It is now sf tiled beyond allperadventmo that the loss of life was not less than seven ly. In addition to the bodies two coats were found; in the peckets of one, a letter and papers addressed to William D. Howell, of Frteport. 111. Mr. Howell escaped without his clothing. A man who met Howell in Kreepen yesterday was seen this morring. There was nothing to tell to whom the other coat belonged. In the southwest corner o the ruins was found a photograph of a young, smooth, full faced man, apparently about five feet ten inches hib, and weighing perhaps 173 pounds. On the back of the picture wa written the came of Mrs. E. Leland. The photograph was taken in Jfew York. A memorandum book and large bundle of buMhcss papers were also unearthed. The workmen have now dug iu about sixteen feet from the sidewalk. Some are standing in water afoot deep, and consequently can make little headway. After tc-day they can get along mach faster, for the reason that the debris may be thrown into the hole now being made. Tbe Coroner has called an Inquest for tomorrow. The District Attorney will conduct the examination. John Gilbert, the actor, is still unconscious, but the physicians do not give up hope. Mrs. Sylvester Bleeker, wife of the manager of the Tom Thumb company, passed a quiet night, but Is very low, and probably will not live. James McAlpine, Milwaukee, commission man, does not improve and grave doubts are felt for him. The doctors will hold a conference over his case this afternoon. Andrew Hardy is improving. Mr. and Mrs. Cramer are out of danger. All the servant girla have been taken to their homes except Minnie Matk and Dora Cole, both of whom are doing well. Up till this evening five bodies if five little beans of charred human fiesh may be called bodies were found in tbe ruins of the Newhall House. At noon the remains of a man were found at the north end of the ruins lying on a mattress, showing that the victim was smothered. The body was burned beyond recognition, although the skull remained intact, showing a set of wellpreserved teeth. As the workmen began to raise the body the head fell off, aud the brains oozed out, the odors that were sent forth being sullicient to dtive them from the scene. Others came forward and tbe body crumbled into a confused, blackened ma-s, from which bones protruded. It was taken to tbe Morgue, where it occupies a place in the corner, still smouldering, filling the room with a stench that is unendurable. As tbe men work into and open up the ruins, odors of burning flesh become more and more apparent, and there is scarcely room to doubt that by to-morrow night a scene will be presented before which the stoutest heart will quail in horror. A human foot has also been found partially burned, with no traces of the body to which it belongs anywhere near it. Two little heaps of remains found near - were personal effects recognized as belotging to Robert Howie and David II. Mastely, of Wisconsin. The Central conductors Jea'.e little doubt that both perished. Toward evening two more heaps of remains were found, making five in all. The remains were all discovered near the sidewalk ot the Broadway front A body, identified in the Motgue, was not Mi?s Chellis, but Mrs. L. W. Brown, of Al1 gheny, Pa., whoe husband is iu the eml loy of tbe Chicago and Northwestern Road. The last body recognized waa that of Emma Hager, a domestic, leaving five little heaps of burned flesh and bones, William R Wylie, formerly cf Michigan, passenger agent of the Michigan Central Railroad, recently appointed the Milwaukee passenger agent for ' the sam (Join piny, arrived on Tuesday, and registered at Newhall. He went to his room shortly before midnight and has not been seen since. His home is in Detroit. A most thorough investigation into cause of Newhall fire and the condition, has been determined upon by the authorities. The District Attorney will conduct theexamination oi the witnesses. Tbe Jury Jmpanneled by the Coroner is not satisfactory, as they have already been sworn in; however, they will bear evidence tc-morrow as to the cause of tbe death ot persons taken to the Morgue, but this will require but little time, and then the great question as to tbe cause of the fire aüd responsibility for tbe slaughter of so many-people will be taken up. The District Attorney is determined to push the investigation to the bitter end. Governor Rusk will send In a special message by tbe first ot next week advising a revision of the hotel laws. In connection with the subject of legislation, the Lieutenant Governor expressed tbe belief that the Legislature would revise the statutes to a considerable extent. There will be no doubt, he thought, tbat tbe Legislature would act upon the suggestions of the Governor, and enact laws compelling hotels to afford better facilities for escape dunrg fires. James IL Earnest, of Shullsburg, Lafay ette County, whose came appears among

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u j.uiisiu, nuviD lie cugcru ill lIlILilig and farming. He was a native cf Ken tucky, born in ISl'J, being in his sixtyfourth year. He came to Wisconsin in 183G and for a time resided in Milwankpe. He repref ented his County in the Legislature at various times, bting a memberof the Senate in 1S63. Nothing has been developed since the last report. The identified dead now no m ber twenty-two and forty-5ve are missing. Three employes, Matilda Tuce, Annie MLeller aud Amelia State, who were reported missing, have turced up this evening all right. Of the missing live ladies were exhumed from the ruins burned beyond recognition, and one in view m the upper part under a pile cf brick-. Thus, it is supposed, that thirty-nine bodies are still in the ruins, making a total loss of life sixty-seven as far as can be ascertained. Delving la the Bulns for the Dead Tbe Chief Clerk's Statement The Wtatern Vnlou to tbe Front. Milwaukee, Jan. 15. One hundred and fifty men ere at work searching for bodies to-day. The weather is somewhat milder and the work proceeds quicker. Still, the tofal result of the forenoon's search is only two bodies, so badly burned that recognition is impossible. Thus far twenty little heaps, pronoanced by physicians tö be humaa tlesh and bones, have been (nken from the ruins, and so far as caa be leaa-ned thirtynine tre still missing. The report afloat to Ihe effect that Landlord Antisdel had disappeared is wholly untrue. He was found this mornirg at Profespor HaskiTß re'ideuce, still sutiering from the terrible shock, but not dangerous. 'What truth is there in the rumor that We nicht watchman at the Newhall was in structed that in case of lire thecfiice clerk was to be tcld of it without regard to awak ening tne guests; asked the reporter. Mr. Anthdelsaid in an impressive, mel ancholy way, that there was not one word of trutb in it; tbat all these stones that were afloat concerning him and his actions and intentions were done with a view to injure him. At this point the elder son said it :as terrible that people should tell such thints: that it has bad effect, and, moreover, it was done out of pure maliciousness, and It did no good. While tbe reporter was formulating the next question the son urged his father to po arjc finish his brcakfist, savin that he was not well, upon which the old fct-ntlemnn disappeared. Den Tice, head clerk of the Newhall HoueJ has made the following statement bearing on the origin of the rire. Somebody set the building on fire. Down near the foot cf the stairs, leading from theissiie of the hotel to the barber shop, was a little closet used for kiudling separated by only a wooden partition from the 6haft of the elevator.' The fire was set in that clofet. Of course it burned through the partition into the haichway before it went far enough in any other direction to be discovered. The inside cf the hatchway was saturated with cil from the machinery, especially up to the third and fourth stories. Th flames feeding on this oiled wood rushed right up the hatchway bursting out oa the third and fourth stories, where it was first seen from the outside. It was this burning of tbe oiled wood all the way up the hatchway that made mich a dense smoke and terrible heat Many of these saved were terribly burned by heat, although they did not come in contact with the flames. The flames didn't reach me and yet you can see how I f.m fixed. Here Tice held up both arms alove the bd in wh'.ch he lay. His hands arj bo burned as to be useless for the present, and arc kept wrapped in bandages and he is unable to feed himself. His nose, cheeks and ears are badly burned, while his hair waa cot singed, showing the ccrrectneis of the theory. Tice was as!eepin a room on the sixth story when tne fire broke out. John Gilbert, the actor, is reported better. He Imagines be has been on a big spree, and remarked to his physicians this morning tbat "This drinking whisky is a teriible thing." It is thought that he may not survive the shotlr of the deatn of his wife. It will be kept T:om him as long as passible Christina Hägen, one of tbe servants revants reported missing, is safe. This makes ninety -six known to bave been saved out of 117. Fifty-one bodies bave so far been recovered, twenty-sight of which are burned beyond recognition, leaving thirty still missing. It is not known, but supposed that the registei is in tbe safe, which will be reached by tbe diggers to-day; also the court in the center will be reached, where probably most of the bodies will be found. Tbe excavation reached the west wall to-day, where five bodies were found in a heap under the location cf the servants' quarters. Correct estimates of the loss of life 'are impossible to form until the books of the hotel can be grtat. The above estimate, giving fifty -one dead and thirty missine, a probable total loss of life eighty -one, is thought to be as nearly correct as possible by all p.ntie. " The afternoon papers made the following aggregated statement: Taken from the Morgue, sixteen; recovered from the ruins, twenty-one; since died, eight; dead not taken to the Morgae, five. Total, fifty. This does not include fragments of bodies found. About forty people reported missing are yet unaccounted for, which swells the list to ninety. It is almost a sore thing that over 100 people lost their lives by the calamity. No official investigation will be made into the origin and causes leading to the disaster until the termination of the work at the ruins. The bodies will all remain at the temporary morgue until that time unless positive identifications are made. In such cases the identified bedies will be given to friend. A. Weiler. Manager of the Western Union Telegraph office here, makes the following statement: "Careful inquiry ot those who witnessed the burning of the Newhall llou.-e from the commencement develops the fact that the telegraph wires offered no obstruction to the saving of life, but, on the contrary, three cr four lives were saved by jumping upon the wires, thereby breaking ihe force of their fall. It wa reported that Allen Johnson and wife could have been saved if the wires had not obstructed the raising of ladders, whereas the highest ladder the Department had was raised insid the wires, but was not long enough to reach the window, and the inmates had to jamp to the sidewalk and were killed. There were two fire escape ladders fastened to the house, one on Michigan street and one on Broadway, leading from tbe top of tbe house to the grounds, passing by the ball windows of every story, and only three or four lives were saved by them. Every avenue of escape was apparently forgotten in tbe panic, and some parties jumped through the skylight of an adjoining building and were seriously injured, while the fireescares were within three feet of them. Reports telegraphed very where that the telegraph wires were responsible for the loss of life originated in the brains of a few excited individuals who knew nothing of the facta and cared lss. A Governor That Walks. Habeisbcrg. Jan. 15. Governor-elect Tattison arrived this afterneon. He refused an escort, and proceeded on foot to the residence of Francis Wyeth. To-night Pattison and Governor H'jytewere tendered a serenade by the Harrisburg Club, and both responded in short speeches. Many Clubs have arrived to participate in the iaargural ceremonies to-morrow. . ...

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Tiirco Hundred Peoplo llurncd in Poland. The Planter.' House, St. I.ouls, Pan tially Destroyed, With a Loss of Three Human Lives. Tin: circus noKRoir. The Victims of the Fire Estimated at Four Hundred Fall Particulars. St. Phterseübo, Jan. 11. During the performance yesterday ai a circus, in Ber diched, Ruisian Poland, Government of Kied, a fire broke oat. and before the spec tators could escape the whole structure was ablaze. Sr. FETEttsBCRo, Jan. 15. The loss of life by the burning of the Circus in Dordichev Saturday was not so great as at first re ported, but it is is believed over 150 persons perished. The fire broke out toward the end of ihe performance and way caued hv the careless hsndliug of fire works o:i tbe stage. The enrtaia bfcarot ignited and the flames .uicldv spread to the walls and roof. Mmibefs of the ochestra were all victims. Ttieau diercj, numberirs SCO persons, iu'Iied tj the front door, but it opened inward arid as tho crowd pressed forward it could net he opened. The rush was then made to the side doors of the ciren, both 'of which were nailed up, th:s compelling the people to tike to th windows from which many sprang into the street witn their clothes a sh et of tlsroe. The fire brigade arrived within halt cn hour, but it was impossible lo exiii-cui.-h the flames, as the water in the tanks were froe::. The fire lasted two hours. Eye witness s'ate when the doors were finally oper e.! a ma'-s of burning persons was vitilde within. The horses and properties of tho circus were all destroyed. lie ice brote while the fire brigade wa? crossing the river, thus preventing their reschit g the tire more promptly. It is e timated, however, that 1-0 women and children lost their lives. The victims include the Colonel Folice and Nico "resident of the Berdichev Bouiz. The audience consisted raaialy of Jews. Another account says that the tire wascoused by a groom having thrown & lighted cigsr on tne straw in tho stables, setting in on fire. Another that agrocm Iried to ttarap out the fire, but the etro.-tg draft fanned the flimei and caused the eparks. Yesterday a man, whose wife cdo th-ee children were amoDg the victims, stabbed the senior member of the Merchants' juild iu tbe street, and then tried to cut hiv own throat. It is turprsed the murdered mau abandoned tbe atuilant's wife and children in order to e fleet his own eicnpe from the burning building. It was a wooden structure. Thf hor-ses running about wildly increased the confusion. It is stated now -i00 persors were suffocated, crushed or burned to dca'.h. AJi OTHER IIOTKL riKK. The Servants' Apartment of the Planters' Ttoaie, St. Ionls, Ilu-ned Timely Kscapc of the Guests Three Lives Lost. St. Louis, Jan. 14. It was just ten minutes past 4 o'clock this morning when tbe fireman in the engine-room of the Planters' House discovered live coals dropping on the paved alley just outside of the window. Going out, he found the alley so densely filled with smoke it was impossible to distinguish the locality ot the fire which caused it. The coals, however, evidenlly came from the store-room of the hotel, which is a part of a frame structure extending out across the alley at the second iioor, and abutting on the large furniture ware'rooma of the auction house of Block, Tyler fc Co. The fireman ran to the end of the alley, where high gates enclose it, making with the frame structure a long, narrow room, in which the smoke had accumulated. He succeeded in getting the gates open, thus creating a current which carried off some of the smoke end then returned to extinguish the fire. He found, however, that it had a strong bold on the store room and in the kitchen, which is immediately over tho boiler room where he was at work. He gave an aiarm, and in three minutes the hotel was a bedlam. Nearly 300 people, filled with horrible recollections of the Milwaukee holocaust, were dashing hither and thither through the main corridors and down the several stairways into the office and street. The hotel employes acted with good sense aid promptness, rapping long and on eveay dour in the house and five minutes later making a second trip to insure that everybody was cp and advised of the danger. Very few waited to dres, as the smoke from the rear building, where the fire was located, had already invaded tbe corridois and was makitg its way slowly into the rooms, stopping enly to grab a few articles of clothing. Men, wcmen and children lied in dismay, and would not halt even in the commodious main oflice, where there was light, comfort and little smoke. As the engines, tne first of which arrived within fifty crjnda of the bounding of the alarm, dashed up to the hotel the stream of fiightcued fugitives began to pour from its dcors. There were men in naught but their underclothes, wcmen with but a night dress and possibly a shawl or cloak over their shoulders, and little children hastily bundled iu blankets or other wraps, a few with shoes and a great many in their bare feet. The lights of the Republican and Glfbe-Demccrat offices and of a gambling hnnu 11 of whioh wpra xcitlnn distanCf ! of a block led the half-crazed people to tem porary refuge of warmth, wheiioe carnages in a few momenta removed them to other hotels. Some of the scenes iceident to this hegira were quite thrilling, their effect being intensified by the rattl, clang and shriek of the engines and shouts of the firemen. Soon the main body of the hotel was clear of guests and the building was in possession ot the firemen, who, within twenty minutes, as the re ult of a second alarm, had thirteen engines at work. Meantime events in the rear of the building were of a far more ugly character. The hotel, which is six storien in height, fronts on the west eide of Fourth street, from Chestnut to rine, while a wing runs back on both Chestnut and Tine streets to departments, a half block. Thus the main buildipg forms three sides of a rectar.gle. The fourth side is formed by a four story building forty years old, midway oa which on the ground Hour is the boiler room above referred to, and tbe kitchen on the floor above it. The two upper floors are occupied by the help of the house, some seventy-five in number. Alongside the boiler room a narrow stairway rises and win'ls to the roof. The fire, which started very close to thia stairway, was carried u to thereof by the draft in the Etairtrtl

and thus not only cut off escape by that that means, but also farmed a barner which prevented the meu sleeping in the south half of the building from reaching anothrr stairway at the rortht end. Hence there unf .rtuur tes, aimoft smothered by smoke, were con:;eHed to climb out on tbe roof of a frarre strecter which abutted over the alle.', tud Ihenc either to jump or lower themselves bj means of a pul.ey r;g?rd there for hc.:?tinß supplies. One poor fellov wss cen to start down the stairway before the lire r-sched the third floor, and an benr later his crisp corpse was found in the kitchen iicar tbe foot of the staiis. Anotler cmploje who. although answering to a call, seems' t ) have been too much etuieSed bysrmke to pet up. for two hoars afterward his desd body was found on the sckin? mattress cf his bed. The female help ah escaped by t' e stairway at the north end, save ne who broke her enkle in iumpiMg to the roof. The firemen r.tde a grand fihr, and th norzles were carried ihrcugh ihe walls oi smoke right to wLer the fiime wrro rag

ing, and, notwithsaudir.g tho j.-Mi: uiabia uatuieof the building, they succeeded in preventing the f:re from cxte.vjirst: 1 r-jond the distance of twe-nty feet frcta' the point of its origin, but i:i that spice it burned through to tbe roof, destroin. flort-ten rccms. TLe balance of the n tr buildlrgwas mai'e uhinbabitfible by water, but the hotel proper did not sulfur to the extent of a dolkr. The fire, however, cr. v-ic-.i the alley to the furniture warvroopj, v,!;:.-.? th firemen had another fierce bat short f;;ht The damage to the hotfl prnprt-- is bbov i lO.yOO.aud to the suction firm Bb.'utS;20 u! 0; all covered by insurance. This evening ibe worku.en er jrvT-fi i Clecring away the debris fonr.d the chrre boiyof amaaanid ihe broken tinibvfsat the foot of the stairway on the basement il jor. It proved to be'llenry Ignt-y. ara employe over sixty vearsoM, who as a boy staved as chore hoy in th ho'el. -II e other two dead zer. Bre Carlo IU bi.le, a scullion, and Dennis Repute, a cirver. The hotel it a very substantial structure, well provided with fire e-?a; s f-nd tairways remote from each oti:r-. 3rr1 even hail fire invaded it tt.e prvre."-' would have been .-lor.-. There are two natcLnu-n in the ctaia building. The oriein cf the iVo 13 tinkLown. J. J. Gerardi, pro;rietor, wh two j ears ego remodelled the M:::cn:r.? st g'eat expense, atim unces that tl lw kiic'jen will be in wcrkititr onter Iv T-.nsiir morn ing, and that lac .Vatioral F urr ü "en's Convention and banquet, to U' e t !f re there on Wednesday, will not be t'.ifc..iiihr.,led The Planters' House was for a qu -trier of a century the best known hotel i 1 11 West, a'jd its fame was rxtei'ed br Ca-.r'ej Dickens in his "Atneric.-.:! rtes." INUNDATED TU'.VNS. Terrible Tale nf SufTerin j and I.o of Prop erty by tfce 1'Ittuda in riuiary. Vienna, Jan. 10. The towu cf Ilaab, Hungary, and adjacent villager, were ocly savc-d from the 11 jod thus far by the frost. V.'hen the thaw ccrunienced the water suddenly rose all over the dkiiict, At 3 o'clock yes terday the inhabitants were arou-ei by alarm bells and commenced . ripid flight. Large numbers of fupitives crowded into th solidly built Tceater, which stau J ca an islaud In the midst of the p..rk.lut here 3 tew panic arose, the water gradually risirjj as far of the first gallery. Mt&nwhile, abound Raab, the dykes breaking admitted a delude which scon reached the inner town, containing 0,000 fugitives, besides tbe ordinary inhabitants. A considerabla number of lives were lost, but fortunately the fi jo-l ".id not reach some higher parts of the town, aud ceased to rise at noon. The city ot Grau, on the Danube, the seal of the Hungarian Primate, is also covernl by floods. The inundations in the ceighborbood of the town Komorn, at the coaSuenc of the Waag with the Danube, is a'.so particularly extensive. ' The inhabitants of Raab have abandoned the town. The floods rose so quietly that many persons trying to e cape lell tfcrouga. the ice and were drowned. Pekth. Jxtj. 10. Iu the Hungsnan Diet the Minister cf the Interior s'aUd he had sanctioned the pay ment of money itq aired to relieve the wants of sufferers by the inundation at Raab, and private chsrity hnd also corameuced tbe worn of relief. His officially reported 10,000 persona are rocllesa. and between Cü'J and 400 houses inundated and partly destroyed. The Hungarian Government Introdcced n bill authorizing an exhibition at lth If 1SS5. to which the SlaU; will contributa 400, 000 florins. Uate'a Ionacural. Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 15. General Wll liam B. Bate was inaugurated Governor at noon toiay with imposing ceremoiiies rntS tiring of cannon. The inaugarit addres referred approvingly to the em baric expression of the popular will at the ballotbox to pay that which the State acknowledges she justly owes, kr.owa as tbe Stats debt proper, but that part of the debt known as the contingent or railruud indebtedness bei Dg in dispute and the liabilities for it q'sestionf d by a larje portion of tfae intelligent voters and tax-puyers who claim equities as a juit and houorab.'e offset, tbe Stale by decided vote author!.:-? in a spirit cf compromise a tender of terms o settlement to the Cs?diiors of cue-half ot the principal at:d Interest which it is hoped and believed will be met ia the spirt with which tendered, and a fill, finil 'nnl satisfactory settlement raay be ejected. After the inaoguratiicrj a live cazle was set at liberty from the Capitol Hill bfwiEg a medal on which was inscribed, i -r lYesidenf, Cleveland cf New York, aud for Vice President, Fate of Tenressee. Ilung on False Testimony. CoFCOBD, N. H., Jan. 14 Charles Cook, committed to the State Prison in 1S7S for the mnrder of Sasan Harsoo, diod on the 9th. Oa the confession cf Cook, Joscpts Buswell was banged for hirir.g Cook id shoot Miss Hanson, after a noted contest be fore tbe Supreme Court and Leaislatnrew Cook left a confession whica admits of tb shooting and also tbat he testified falsely concerning Buswell betntr p'f'ent when tbo deed was committed. He says after Buswell got to Wolfborough oatedayof the murder he relented and drove back at breakneck speed toBrookfie'.J to irreren! Cock from dooing the killing, but anivei twenty minute too late. Coop, having killed tbe woman and gone to bed, t-j Bunnell had directed. Eighteen Thousajitl tollara Short. Special to the Sentlael: Mcncik, Ind., Jan. 10. In tbo care of exCounty Treasurer Gibson, for d-?.ciency. claimed to be over ?14,000, J. W. Mry, of. Winchester, appointed by tho Cjarfc as referee, made hi report to-day, shoins;. deficiency of nearly $13,00C. Thi bonds men are preparing to meet tbe demand. Gibson will be tried in Criminal Ci tri Thecase creates considerable excitement, owing to the fact that Gibsou ha been a p-omi-nent leader of what in rjiV.A ih f1?nn ring, in ibis city, aud has the sutbyoS