Pike County Democrat, Volume 25, Number 25, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 November 1894 — Page 6

€ht fike County democrat >. Mc0..8T00PS, Editor ud Fnprlttor. PETERSBURG. • - - INDIANA. ——I.IIW. ■ MHP Ex-President Harrison left Indian* mpolis, Ind., for New York, on the 23d, on private business., ■ f Rutherford B. Hayes, Jr., son of the late ex-President Hayes, w^s married to his second pousin, Miss Lucy Platt, of Columbus, O., on the 24th. The steam whaler Norwhal arrived at San Francisco, on the 22d, from the Arctic ocean and reported a catch of sixty-nine whales, • valued at nearly half a million dollars. The first meeting of the cabinetsince the Wilson bill became a law occurred at the White House, on the 26th, all the members attending except the secretary of agriculture, who is in Europe. ° ■ ■! The convention of the waif-saving associations of America, of which Gen. Russel A. Alger is president, is to be held in Pittsburgh, Pa., November 8, and promises to be a noteworthy gathering. ; ' The Farmers’ national bank of Malvern, la., was wrecked and looted by robbers about 3 o’clock on the morning of the 26th, who are said to have gotten away with between $10,000 and $20,000. F. H. IIegwer, Gov. Waite’s state inspector of boilers, was bound over to the district court at Pueblo, Col., on the 22d, for issuing a certificate of inspection of a boiler he had not examined at all. IT is claimed that the British government has given a pledge that the bill for the| disestablishment of the church in Wales shall be the first measure considered at the coming session of parliament.

Pkof. Wylie Melettr. son of exGov. Melette and instructor in the mechanical department of the Agricultural college in Brooklyn, S. D., cut his throat with a razor in an outhouse on the night of the 24th. The war department has instructed Gen. McCook to take whatever steps he considers necessary to suppress the outbreak of the Moqui Indians in Arizona, who seem to be opposed to the education of their children by the government. The train wreckers who had been cutting and burning bridges and pushing cars from sidinsrs on the Soo line for weeki| were arrested on the 23d. They had kept the trainmen and traveling public in a state of terror for some time. _ ' Two hundred members of the Women’s Christian Temperance union at Anderson, Ind., passed resolutions, bn the 26th, to go to the polls in1 November and attempt to vote in orjler to aid in testing the constitutionality of Indiana’s state law. _ It was reported in Shanghai, on the 25th, that the Chinese had evacuated Port Arthur. A report was current that the Japanese had effected a landing at Talien Wan bay, on the Corean side of the Kwang Tung peninsula, not I far from Port Arthur. The Paris Figaro, asserts that Routuania has joined the triple alliance composed of Austria, Italy and Germany, and declares that t\ie visit of the king of Servia to Vienna and Berlin was in contemplation of a still further change in the dreibund. (/ It was reported, on the 25th, that the mediating powers had submitted further and more definite proposals for peace to China and Japan, and that Japan had rejected them. ‘ .China was ready to conclude an armistice or peace on reasonable conditions. The Lexow committee in New York suddenly adjourned its morning session on the 24th. Mr. Goff’s detectives and an important witness named Matilda Heron, whom they were taking from Chicago, were arrested in Jersey City. Mr. Goff clainfs it was a police conspiracy. , News has been received at the Vatican of the destruction of several Catholic mission stations in China. The inmates, it is said, were killed, and other Christians were menaced. The Vatican will appeal to the powers for the protection of its missions and missionaries in China.

A cablegram received at the navy department, on the 24th, announced the arrival of the cruiser Columbia at Kingston, Jamaica, where she would remain about a week, and then probably make a cruise in the West Indies, visiting Havana, where an American naval vessel has not been seen for over a year. _ The Beaver Valley (Pa.) presbytery of the United Presbyterian church passed resolutions, on the 26th. urging members to oppose by voice and vote the candidacy of Walter Lyon for lieu-tenant-governor of Pennsylvania, and W. D. Wallace for law judge of Lawrence county, “in the interest of good morals.” Gexerals Yeh Chi Chao and Wei Yu Kwk, formerly commanding in Corea, have been handed over to the proper Chinese board for punishment. They will probably lose their heads. The former is charged with cowardice and responsibility for the murder of French Missionary Joshua. Gen. Wei is accused of extortion and cowardice. There was a gratifying increase in the treasury gold on the 24th. The net gold amounted to $60,022,026, nearly £1,500,000 more than was on hand the day before. The New York subtreasury received about $209,000 in gold for retiring circulation, while Philadelphia received about $100,000 in exchange for notes The treasury balance was $111,407.SSL

CURRENT TOPICS THE HEWS 15 BRIEF. PERSONA! AND GENERAL. A fivk-stoby brick building at 436 Wells street, Chicago, in process of construction, collapsed, on the 23d, burying several workmen in the ruins. Investigation showed that all of the workmen escaped from the building with the exception of Michael Rose, a carpenter, and an Italian named Caroni They were badly hurt. While unloading a circular saw and frame on his farm near Romney, Ind., on the 23d, Joseph Madden was caught under the falling machine. 11 is arms and several ribs were broken, and he received internal injuries which are likely to cause his death. In the report just made by Adjt.Gen. Ruggles, one of the most gratify* ing statements is that desertions from the army have fallen off from 1,682, the year previous, to 1,073 for the current year. While crossing the railroad tracks in a carriage near Jamestown, N. Y., on the night of the 2Sd, Alonzo Eddy, his wife and two children were struck by a train. All were killed. The horses were dashed to pieces. A dispatch from Tien-Tsin says that the Chinese officials report that a battle occurred near Yi-Chow, on the 22d, and that the Japanese were repulsed with a loss of 3,000 men on each side. On the 23d Chief Harris of the Cherokee nation offered a reward of 3500 for the arrest of Hill Cook and his safe delivery to Cherokee authorities. The Big Four railway shops at Wabash, Ind., caught fire just after midnight on the 23d, and were completely destroyed. The loss is over 3100,000. News was received in London, on the 24th, of the destruction of the schooner Helen (supposed to be a Danish vessel) in the North sea, by the explosion of her cargo of gunpowder. The entire crew of the schooner perished. The big asbestos plant of the Philip Carey Manufacturing Co. in Cincinnati was completely destroyed by fire-on the 24tli. Loss, $50,000; insurance, about $38,000. Seventy-five employes were thrown out of work. A sensation was created in Cincinnati, on the 24 th, by the arrest of W. W.‘ and B. W. Bozeman, the largest cigar makers in that city, for violation of the revenue laws. They were held under $5,000 bond each.

The finance committee of the Span* ish corteg has decided to establish a gold standard of currency for Porto Rico. The Mexican dollar will hereafter be u3ed only as a basis of weight for the value of silver. A dispatch from Livadia, on the 25th, confirmed the report that Princess Alix steadfastly refused to anathematize her former faith in obedience to the rites of the orthodox Greek church, which requires such renunciation as a prerequisite to baptism. Even the efforts of the czar had not been successful in changing her determination. * The Hotel de Normandie, at 64 St. Gabriel street, Montreal, Can., was gutted by lire early on the morning of the 25th. The guests had to be rescued by firemen by way of ladder^. Twenty people were taken out in a half-uncon-scious condition. •1 acob Schi.oss, a New York photographer, has begun suit in the United States circuit court against the W. D. Boyce Co., publishers of the Chicago Blade, for $275,000 damages. The Blade, in a recent issue, published a portrait on which Schloss has a copyright, and the suit is for infringement On the 25th Mr. Justice Jackson, of the United States supreme court, accompanied by his family, left Washington for Thomasville, Ga., where he will pass the cold weather. Judge Jackson’s health has been in a serious condition for some time. Five of a band organized to kidnap President Crespo of Venezuela were killed in a riot at Maracaibo, aad seven were captured. The latter divulged a plan to proclaim a provisional government, with Gen. Pinango at its head. W. S. Somers, of Charleston. W. Va., a government inspector, dropped dead at the works of the Variety Iron Co. in Cleveland, O., on the 23d, of heart disease. Victor Ochoa, the Mexican revolutionist, was captured at Toyah station, on the Texas & Pacific road, on the night of the 2Sd, by Deputy Sheriff Leavel and State Ranger Smith. The new treatment by inoculation for diphtheria and croup, as practiced in France, is the subject of a special report to the state department by United States Consul C. W. Chancellor at Havre. He says that by this method of treatment only one out of four diphtheretic patients succumbs.

For several months the statistician of the United States department of agriculture has been conducting an investigation regarding the acreage and product of cotton for the year 1893. His estimates are as follows: Acres planted in 1893, 19,525,000: number of bales harvested, 7,493,000. The Venezuelan cabinet, feeling that it is impossible to sustain President Crespo, will resign. A BOND INVESTMENT COMPANY, doing business at Toledo, O., has been debarred the use of the mails on the ground that the company is conducted on the same basis as a lottery. Prairie fires, which started in Thomas county, Neb., on the 23d, were swept by a fierce gale into Cherry, Grant, Hooker and Sheridan counties. Up to the 25th lour lives were known to have been lost, and thousands of cattle, driven from the southern part of the state for better grazing, were caught by the on-sweeping flames and destroyed. * Dr. H. T. Uelmbold, of extract ol buchu fame, died suddenly of apoplexy in the New Jersey asylum for the insane, in Trenton, on the 24th. He was 57 years of age and had been an inmate of the institution about three years. Dr. Helmbold became insane, supposedly,through excesses, about fifteen vears ago.

A statement prepared at the treasury department shows that during the period between March 1893, and Octobea 1, 1894. the amount of gold transported between subtreasuries, mints and banks at government expense, in consequence of exportations of gold, was $147,807,500. The cost of transporting this amount was $95,490. % The various furnishings for the wedding of the czarowitzand Princess Alix arrived at Livadia at the same time with the mourning coaches, garments of woe, etc., in anticipatoin of the czar’s funeral. Edward Mat, 22 years old, a clerk in the employ of Bernheimer & Bro., New York City, was shooting at a mark on a brick wall on the fifth floor of his place of employment on the 25th. A bullet rebounded and struck him on the forehead. He died fifteen minutes later. Assistant Attornky-Gknerai, Rucker of the interior department was taken with a pronounced case of smallpox, on the 25th, and is in the pesthouse, and three employes of the patent office are also victims of well-de-veloped cases. The fright extending throughout the interior department is extreme, and all connected with the department have been ordered vaccinated. Commodore William Evltn Hopkins died in San Francisco, on the 25th, aged 73 years. He was appointed to the naval academy from Virginia. His last command was the receiving ship Independence, stationed at Mare island. Mrs. Mary A. Woodbrtdok, corresponding secretary of the national and world’s W. C. T. U., died in Chicago on the evening of the 25th. She was stricken with apoplexy two days before. Mrs. Cleveland has consented tc christen the steamship St. Lonis of the International Navigation Co., which will be launched from Cramp’s ship, yard in Philadelphia, November 21. The post office at Roaring Springs, Pa., was robbed, on the night of the 25th, of stamps, money orders and cash amounting to $453. The same night Thomas Reiplogle’s jewelry store was robbed of a large number oi watches. The north half of the mammoth brick warehouse belonging to the Wm. Deering harvester works at Chicago was destroyed by lire on the 26th. Loss, nearly $200,000; partly insured. The employes of the New York A Pennsylvania railroad have decided tc sue the company for a restoration ol the JO per cent, cut in wages which was made in April last. Charles Newbold Pine, a native of Camden, N. J., and for many years prominent in Philadelphia journalism, died in Port Javis, N. Y., on the 26th, aged 71 years. The leading plank in the platform ol the American union party of Hawaii declares annexation to be the foremost mission of the party. White screwmen working on the cotton ships at New Orleans struck, on the 26th, because negroes were being employed. Apvice8 from Cabul, under date oi the 20th, state that the ameer was able at that time to transact business. i The report that Chancellor von Ca* privi had handed his resignation to the emperor was confirmed on the 26th. Count Zu Eulenberg, president of the ministerial council, also resigned. Dr. Miquel, Prussian finance minister, has been appointed president of the council, and Prince von Hohenlohe-Shil-lingsfurst, governor of Alsace-Loraine, was offered the chancellorship.

LATE NEWS ITEMS. The work of rescuing the entombed miners from the Pewabic mine at Iron Mountain,Mich., was accomplished, between 6 and 7 o’clock on the morning of the 37th, and they were hoisted to the surface as sound as a dollar and without a mark, after having been entombed for more than forty-three hours. There was great rejoicing in the community. The city of Seattle, Wash., was visited, on the 27th, by a holocaust, caused by the burning of the West Street hotel, by which at least sixteen persons met death in its most horrible form. The structure is described as a veritable fire-trap from which the victims had but little chance of escape after the rapidly-spreading fire once broke Out. Unknown miscreants blew up an Hungarian boarding house on the Lehigh Valley railroad near Wilkesbarre, Pa., early on the morning of the 39th, containing between fifty and sixty inmates, three of whom were instantly killed and a large number seriously injured. The victims were laborers engaged upon the railroad. The unexpected resignation of Chancellor von Caprivi and Count zu Eulenberg has created a greater public sensation Berlin than any event since the retirement of Prince Bismarck. All of the newspapers pay high tribute to the personal qualities of the retiring chancellor.

I he weekly statement of tne J\ew York associated banks shows the following changes: Reserve, increase, 81,851,235; loans, decrease, 81,079,800; specie, decrease, 811,300; legal tenders, increase, 81,359,400; deposits, decrease, 8111,700; circulation, decrease, 8103,300 Fire destroyed the Southern railway’s freight warehouse at Asheville, N. CL, on the 27th, together with two loaded cars and four shanties. All the freight in the building and all the records were totally destroyed. Loss, 880,000; insured. Thk Paris press agree that despite the coincidence of the czar’s illness, the mihisterial crisis in Germany does not imply a change in the foreign policy, which is under the effective and absolute direction of Emperor William. The contract for constructing the approaches of the Detroit government building was awarded, on the 27th, to Benjamin Hyde, of Chicago, at 828,438. On the 27th the associated banks of New York held 863,864,900 in excess of the requirements of the 25-per-cent rule.

HOOSIER HAPPENINGS. News Briefly Told from Various Towns in Indiana. right Over > Corpse. Muncie, Ind., Oct 25.—David V. Buchanan, acred 63 years, who for a number of years was one of the best* known men in Mnncie, died at the Delaware county poor farm. A few years ago, when he was prosperous, he was a candidate for sheriff. The day before election his wife died, the next day he was defeated, and later he be came financially embarrassed. He then became blind and was paralyzed on one side. Four years ago he married Mrs. Elizabeth Harter, much to the objections of his six children. She sent him to Indianapapolis, where his blindness was cared, but last July she was compelled to send him to the poor farm. None of the six children offered any assistance. Tuesday morning, when the undertaker brought the remains to the city, - Mrs. Buchauan ordered that they be taken to her home, but Simon Marshall, her son-in-law, said they should go to his home, os the six children wanted them. The remains were finally taken to the undertaker’s, where they remained over night, and the funeral occurred at the M. E. church Wednesday. _ Fire at New Carlisle. South Bend, Ind., Oct 25.—The most disastrous fire in the history of New Carlisle, this county, occurred early Wednesday morning. Half a block of buildings in the heart of the town is in ashes and the loss will reach $15,000. The following buildings were stroyed: The Hughes building, occupied by Abel Rod-~ gers as a saloon; the Parnell double store building, occupied by C. Tyler as a jewelry store and the Postal Telegraph company on one side, and by P. Philips with millinery and notions on the other; two-story furniture building ot S. A. Argabrlte and his residence on Main and Filbert streets; the G. H. Service, the S. C. Lancaster and the Trowbridge buildings, occupied by J. Martin’s jewelry store. Most of the contents of the buildings were removed.

Woman's Relief Corps. Hammond, Ind., Oct. ‘25. — The Womau’s Relief corps of the First disr trict held its fourth annual convention Wednesday in this city. Delegates were in attendance from lodges of eight counties in northwestern Indiana. The meeting was presided over by Mrs. Dr. Mary Jackson, president of the local corps, who delivered the address of welcome, which was responded to by Mrs. John W. Elam, of Valparaiso. Considerable business was transacted, and it was decided to hold the next meeting at Michigan City in 1895. _ Fatal explosion of Natural Gas. Makion, Ind., Oct. 25. — Larrimer Bros.’ photograph gallery in this city was wrecked Wednesday evening by an explosion of natural gas. Miss Grace Speakman, a retoucher, whose home is in Newcastle, received fatal injuries. She was hurled beneath the debris and when found was unconscious, with her skull fractured and chest crushed. Ben Larrimer, the proprietor of the gallery, and Alfred Greenman, an employe, were seriously burned and bruised. The property loss was about $5,000. South Bond Ml^kionury Society. Sotrm Bend, Ind., Oct. 25.—The annual session of the South Bend District Women’s Foreign Missionary society which has been in progress here closed Wednesday night Officers were elected as follows: President, Mrs. Julia Clearwater, New Carlisle; first vice president, Mrs. Julia Ogden, South Bend; second vice president, Mrs. Ella Smith, Plymouth; third vice president, Mrs. John Martin, Laporte; recording secretary, Mrs. Wilbert Ward, South Bend; corresponding secretary* Mrs. S. A. Gould, Argos; treasxrer, Miss Flora Yantis, Lucern. Ruled Off at Terre Haute. Terre Haute, Ind., Oct 25.—The bicyclists and the horsemen in charge of the local race track came to an open split Wednesday morning, which resulted in the cyclists being ruled off. The cyclists had come here to make a combined attack next week on world’s records, but they could not come to terms with the horsemen. In consequence they left m a body for Hecatur. _ Body Identified. Indianapolis, Ind., Oct 95.—An unknown body found in the canal near this city a few days ago has been positively identified as that Of Charles Henckson, of Peoria, 111. He was in-j terested in a large estate in Germapy, from which he frequently received money. _ A Boy Preuclter. Muncie, Ind., Oct. 25.—The ministerial department of the joint convention of tne Muncie district of the M. E. church closed Wednesday night with a sermon by Rev. Mr. Stanton, the 16-year-old boy preacher from Fairmount.

Choked HU Adversary to Heath. Hartford City, Ind., Oct. 25.--In a fight at Montpelier early Wednesday morning Ross Shields, a horse trader, choked the life; out of James Young, a bartender. Young was a small man, weakened by sickness, and Shields narrowly escaped lynching. He is in jail. _ Sandbagged and Robbed. Carbon, Ind., Oct 25.—R. P. Jackson, llig Four agent here, was sandbagged and robbed. The highwaymen overlooked several hundred dollars of the company’s money Jackson had in his pocket May Move Its Offices. - Brazil, Ind., Oct 25.- A prominent official of the Chicago «fc Eastern Illinois railroad said that the company had determined to move the train dispatcher’s and superintendent’s offices to Momence, 111. Death of a Veteran. MiiNbiE, Ind., Oct 25.—Samnel Dowe, aged 73 years, died in this city. He was an old soldier and a member of Williams post No. 78. G. A. R., of Muncie

V A DIABOLICAL CRIME. _S Alabonn' HoardingHouoe Containing Fifty Inmnton Blown Into Fragment* by Dynamite- Three Person* Killed Outright and a Large Number Seriously Wounded—The Survivor* Abandon the Sufferer* to Their Fate. Wilkksbarre, Pa., Oct. 29.—A dastardly r outrage was perpetrated at 5 a. m. yesterday wherein it was premeditated by the scoundrels to sacrifice fifty or sixty lives by sending them into eternity with a force of dynamite. The motive was undoubtedly robbery and it resulted in the instant death of three Hungarians, while a large number were injured, eight of whom are in a serious condition. The dead are: Frank Novako, aged 23; single. Mike Collet?., aged 40; wife and four children in Hungary. George Silotzski, aged 28; wife and two children in Bohemia. Among the injured are: John Collet*, brother of Mike, aged 30, married, back broken, will die. Mike Koshitz, aged 27, seriously injured around head and face. Kasha Grattarick, aged 19, leg broken and other injuries. Mike Uritz, aged 80, pelvis fractured and skull crushed. Blazak Croll, aged 38 years, arm broken, side hurt. Fahrkotzask, aged 32, breast torn and shoufder broken. Anthony Tucklich, aged 32, crushed in back and breast; considered fatal. Uritz Misko, ‘ aged 25, injured internally, cannot recover. McDonald «fe Sayre, railroad contractors are building a second track of seven miles on the Lehigh Valiev cut

off, and at a point one mile from Fairview in the wilds of Wilkesbarre mountain, a Hungarian camp *was located which was presided over by Mike Urklowitz and wife. The camp consisted of a rough building thirty feet square constructed in the midst of a thicket of scrub oaks beside the track. During the night as is always the custom, three of the sixty Hungarians, men and women, sat up on watch and were whiling away the time playing cards. Some time during the night a party of desperadoes secured a battery and brought it .to the railroad track in front of the camp and connected it with a wire completing a circuit to each corner of the camping house. A tool chest standing near by was broken open from which were taken a number of dynamite sticks which were distributed beneathPthe building. The circuit completed, it was but a moment's wotk to turn on the battery setting off t1ie dynamite. However, in the haste with which the miscreants worked they made a faulty connection at the battery, and when it was turned on but one, and certainly not more than two of the dynamite sticks exploded. Frank Novoiko, one of the party playing cards on the first floor, was instantly killed, both legs being blown off at the knee. The building totally collapsed, and was shivered into slivers excepting onehalf of the roof, which sank in, partially covering the debris. The two other men at the card table were scarcely injured at all, while the others killed and imured met their fate from the collapse of the building. The force of the explosion was so great that the earth was torn up about the site of the camp, and their effects in the way of baggage, cooking utensils, etc., were scattered in every direction. As is the custom of the Hungarians, those who were uninjured, at daybreak, commenced collecting their shattered goods and chattels, and by noon a large number of thes men had prepared to take their departure, having no concern and paying no attention to their dead and injured countrymen. The Lehigh valley Railroad Co. sent out a wrecking force, with physicians, detectives and the coroner. Upon its arrival the injured men were cared for by the physicians, placed on the train and brought to the hospital here, and the bodies of the dead were also brought here and prepared for burial. The detectives have arrested Mike Urklowitz, the boarding boss, as a witness. They profess to believe that he can give evidence that may lead to the detection of the men who committed the outrage. COSTLY FLAMES.

A Half-Million->Do!lar Fire Visits East St. Louis—A Freight Warehouse and Taro Hundred Loaded and Empty Cars Burned. St. Louis, Oct. 29.—At 11 o’clock last night fire started in the warehouse of the Bridge & Terminal railway in East St. Louis. The fire spread to the mass of freight cars on both sides of the warehouse and burned itself out for want of material. The scene of the fire was half a mile north of the Relay depot and in the center of a maze of tracks filled with cars. The warehouse, 750 feet long, was filled with hay, cotton and grain. The local fire department and engines from this city hurried to the fire, but found no water, as there is not a plug within a fourth of a mile of the scene. Over 200 loaded an<^ empty cars were burned. Prom the time the alarm was sounded freight engines and crews were busy hauling cars into safety. This alone prevented a much heavier loss. The estimates of the loss range from $500,000 to $750,00a The freight in the warehouse was mostly consigned to the Jacksonville & Southeastern railway. The cause of the lire is unknown. GEN. AMOS BECKWITH. The Well-Known Retired Army Officer Dies in St. Louis. St. Louis, Oct. 28.—Gen. Amos Beckwith died at his rooms in this city Friday night, aged 69 years. He was taken ill with pneumonia last August, and, though better at times, never recovered from the attack. His brother, John Beckwith, who occupied adjoining rooms, was with him throughout his illness. The deceased was a bachelor, and since his retirement from the army, in 1889. had lived with his brothe- . •

AN AWFUL HOLOCAUST. 8txt«en Persons Cremated la a Seattle Hotel—The House a Veritable Firetrap, from 1 which the Victims Had Little Chance of K«cape After the Fire was Once Started— Saved Her Babe—Horrible Scenes. Seattle, Wash., Oct. 38.—The -people of this city were horrified yesterday by a hotel holocaust which over* shado $ s in its fatalities the great fire of 1889, when the greater portion of the city was laid in ashes. In the destruction of the West-street, hotel by fire at least sixteen inmates lost their lives, amid , all the agonies and horrors of cremation under '* such surroundings. The victims identified so far by shreds of unburned clothing are as follows; F. Boltman. » Angus McDonald. C. Wilson Anderson. „ Mrs. J. W. Huffman and two daughters. . Andrew Otteson. - Mrs. Andrew Otteson. The building was a two-story structure of corrugated iron, occupying an entire square on the water front. It was a fire trap with a maze of passages which would confuse any person in the absence of light. The impossibility of escape from such a death-pen when flames were licking up everything within reach and suffocating smoke filled the heated air was apparent to the firemen and horrified spectators on the street below. When the department responded to the alarm the building was a mass of flames. The news quickly spread that there were half a hundred guests in the blazing trap,, twenty of whom were transients. It was half an hour after midnight when the fire apparatus came rushing to the scene of death, but the fire broke out so suddenly and with such ferocity did the flames spread to every part of the structure that a terrible panic prevailed among the inmates. Clad only in their ni{;ht clothing, men and women jumped from the windows without waiting to see if the firemen could rescue them. Most of those who jumped from the second-story windows sustained no injury of a serious character. Three of those who escaped being burned alive or suffocated to death were injured by jumping, one man breaking a leg in his fall. A frantic mother threw her baby of 1 year into the street, where a policeman caught it withou1 harm. W. C. R. News dropped twenty feet to the ground and picked himself up unhurt. Joseph A. May tied the sheets and used them as a rope to let himself down in safety.

C. B. Glass waited at the window of his room until his hair was burned off. Then he jumped* his head striking the ground. He was taken with the other injured to a hospital. The gallant firemen came upon a victim whose Identity is not known, near the top of the West-street stairway. He was trapped by the rush of the flames and overcome by heat and smoke. The firemen fought hard to keep the flames back, but they were ^ J soon driven away. E. E. Bryant, a police officer, who was the first to see the flames, turned in the alarm and then bravely rushed back to save human lives. He found Susan Allen and her little child at a window on the Westrstreet side. The woman was crying pitifully for some one to save her child. Bryant shouted for her to drop it, which she did. The officer caught the descending bit of humanity in his arms and then set a a plank against the window by which the mother slid down in safety. The proprietor of the fire box, H. F. Butler, was in bed when the flames burst into view from the street and had a narrow escape from death. r His son, S. F. Butler, who was night clerk, says the fire originated from the explosion of a kerosene lamp in the kitchen, which was located on the second floor near the lower hall. The sound of the explosion was clearly heard on the street. Butler raised the cry of fire, which aroused the guests to their danger, and to their death in many cases. Many of the victims awoke and rushing into the narrow, winding passages found themselves face to face with flames, smoke and death. Some of the dead were suffocated or buraed to death in their beds, . .& parts of their charred bodies being found in that way. Escape by the narrow stairways was cut off to those who got that far, and all rushed to the only avenue of safety, the windows overlooking the street. The body of the first victim was found in a room, with ^one leg in his trousers and his shoe partly laced. The head was covered .with bedclothes under the bed. It was too much burned to be identified. Not a person in the building escaped with anything except the clothes they had on them. After two hours’ hard work the fire- " men had the flames under control. Only the gutted hull of the hotel was left. The woodwork of the interior was almost entirely consumed, but the corrugated iron walls were left standing.

As soon as the work of searching for the dead was considered safe, thirteen bodies were quickly found in the rooms and passages, the postures and bpd covering of many showing they had died in awful agony after a desperate fight againsytflarae and smoke. Close togmnh^FTn the bed of one room were fdund jttie blackened bodies of a man, his wife and child. \ In the corner of another chamber of death were the bodies of a man and woman sitting erect. All the flesh had been burned off. The skulls were blackened and grinning. The stumps of *the man’s arms were closed over his head as if he had„ died fighting the flaming foe. The arms of the woman were clasped around his waist. In the charred hand of a woman’s body, found twisted and contorted in a hallway, was a bunch of hair torn from her head in the agony of suffocation. In all parts of the trap were picked up skulls and bones of those who had been living gueBts a few hour* before. / I - :