Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — DIED IN THE FLAMES. [ARTICLE]

DIED IN THE FLAMES.

AWFUL HORROtyIN A BALTIMORE —— residence. Inmates Suffocated Before They Could Escape Dea th of 31 ra. Marshall Field—“ Bill” Nye Culled to His Long Home—Booth Declares Independence Baltimore Fire Horror. As the result of a fire which started in the cellar of the fbur-stbry .marble front residence of Jajpes IL. imore, at . o’clock" seven persofistire dead, one is fatally and four others are slightly injured and a fino dwelling Is complerelywrecked. Thi most astonishing circumstances about' tl e disaster is that although the fire broie ouX at an hour when miiny persons were on the streets, and hardly five minutes elaps~ed~before the v lirem<ji_forced their way into the house, the ssven inentioned were past rescue. No moi e v flagra 111 ill ustrat.iou of house construction could have been furnished. -Not more than eighteen inches from the fiufitfce was a wood partition. This.was ignited and with great rapidity the flames leaped up a stairway in the center of the dwelling to the roof. Hangings'and woodwork furnished abun<Jant fuel, and in the dense smoke the members of the household, some of whom had not yet arisen and none of whom had left their apartments, lost thejr way, grop--ed about wildly, sunk down, sitffoeated and perished. Number of Dead Is Increasing. The latest estimates place the number of deaths from the explosion of twenty tons of dynamite on a switch at Viedendorp, near JojianiLeslH)rg, on Wednesday evening, at 120 and about 400 persons were more or less seriously injured. A number of the wounded have succumbed to their injuries. The white victims we’ffe chiefly of lower class of Boers. Whole -families of white people were wiped out. President Kruger has been chosen president of tlhe relief committee, and he is dithe ground at Viedendbrp and sheltering the thousands of pi-pple who have been rendered homeless. The popular subscription rais--ed in behalf of the. distressed people already amounts to over SSW,<MM). Nyc Breathes His Last. Edgar Wilson Nye, the humorist, died at his home, “Buckslm-.tis,” eight miles from Asheville. N. C.. at noon Saturday, a[faptexy'. I'te’hafadaiu in a helpless and hopeless condition since he was stricken on Tuesday night, not having spoken to or recognized any one. Mr. Nye's brother, a prominent attorney of Minneapolis. Minn., arrived about three hours after his brother’s death. Ilis daughters arrived from Washington city, and were at the bedside until the end. ' Now in Open Revolt. * Commander and Mrs. Ballington Booth are out at New Y’ork in a published statejment saying that under no conditions whatever can they accept further proposals from-Jaindoii nor enter again under the authority or government of Salvation Army international headquarters in England. This is looked upon by the faithful as open rebellion. It is, however, greeted with quidt approval by all who have yet spoken upon the subject.