The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 15, 1882, Page 2

HORROR OF HORROBS. Over Fifty Patients in a Poor Asy—_ lum Burned te Death. Halifax, N. S., November 7. About 12 0’clock last night while all the hands were sleeping, a fire broke out in the bake house, basement ot the poor asylum build- | ing. Exactly how it originated is not very clear, but the smoke of the smouldering wood spread through | the building into the dormitories | and caused the utmost terror among the four or five hundred inmates of } the imstitutien. There was no im-| | mediate danger; so the officials of | the asylum did nottake steps to re- move the inmates. An alarm was sounded, and the stroke of the bell} had scarce commenced when the reels were run out of the engine- | houses, as one or two men happen- ed to be about, and the tew people who had not retired and others in the neighborhood ran to the build ing. ‘hey found smoke issuing | from the windows all over the build- j ing, but no flamésto be seen In | the west wing the OLD WOMEN AND CHILDREN were seen at the windows crying to be jet out, and as they began break- ing the glass it was feared they would throw themselves to the ground. A sturdy axeman dashed at the door leeding from this wing snto the yard and with o few vigor- eus blows of his axe knocked it in. The stairways were crowded, | and out came a procession of women nursing infants, oid gray-headed | graadmas and feeble old men. ALL WERE SCREAMING, and as they reached the fresh air without they ejaculated their thanks, and then began calling for this one and that one until .all was a_ babel ot confusion. When it became Known that those inthe upper wards of that wing were helpless, some of the fireman and Fire Wardens and Alderman, a clergyman, and others who were among the early arrivals, fastened up, and willing hands were soon getting the gblind, halt and lame down the long winding stairs. The work was necessarily slow, but finally the wing was empt- ted. In the meantime the flames in the basement, which the superin- tendent engineer and officials were trying to keep under, spread .to the base of the long air shaft or elevator reaching to the top of main building. The draft here swept the flames upwards with tremendous force, and in atew seconds the heayiest part of the conflagration was in the top of the main building. The story just under the eaves in this building was used as a nospital, and mit were about seventy pa- tients, most of them PERFECTLY HELPIESS. The tre was now fiercely burn- | ing and mght in th: hospital and above it the heat was so intense that | the lead poured down from the roof in streams of brilliant fire, and the | slates flew everywhere im deadly ; showers, near in the i the rendering any proach to the building ALMOST CERTAIN DEATH. | Notwithstanding this there were | hundreds standing outside who | would. willingly have entered the | building if they cuuld have found | their way through the place. In { deed, several did go in, but without | guidance could db: nothirg in the | immense building and had to return | te the yard. An attempt was made | ap- | to raise ladders to the windows, but | the ladders were too short, and, ai- | ter the fireman were knocked down le by falling brick, and it was Seen the ladders even would be swept away, in a few minutes the attempt ceased. | The first burst through the root and i the scene was never to be forgotten. | Far above the roar of the flames and | the crack of the bursting slates, | were heard the cries of the WRETCHED PATIENTS in the hospital, who were roasting | cae] to death. Most ot them, as before | | seventy patients in the hospital, ; and these were all The poor old people and | the | other part of the building were hud- | some little | there } ees : | with an undecided | the floor, | didn’t let on. | of disappointment. | Was about when he | A woman was seen to drag Reece | to the corner window, and, forcing her body half out till she could , | breath the cool air, remained in that | position TILL HER HEAD BURNED OFF. It is known that there were about and as far as could be only half-a-dozen were carried out be- tore the flames cut off all further ap- proach to the place. A medical ascertained man, who is ina position to know, | estimates the loss of life NOT LESS THAN FIFTY, patients hospital. little children rescued from @ed together in a barn distance away, and where packed around with straw and blank- } ets to keep them comfortable till morning morning. The building is still burning fiercely and there is no doubt will be totally destroyed. It is insured. They Don’t Sell Stoves. Detroit Free Press. Four or five weeks ago a woman leok upon her face, entered a Detroit hardware stere, threaded her way for sixty feet among coal stoves of every pattern, and timidly inquired: *‘Do you keep steyes here?’’ **Yes’m.”’ **Coal-stoves ?’” “Yesim.”” She said she had been thinking of getting a coal-stoye tor the winter and the clerk took her nm hard. He showed her how the doors worked and how the dampers were arranged, and the flues situated ; and he talked of double-drafts, great sayings, in- creased cheerfutness, reduction in price and all that, and she said she would thmk it over and drop in again. In about three days the woman reappeared and inquired ot the very same clerk if they sold coal-staves. He rephed that they did sell one now and then, and he cleared his vorce and began the usual thirty-minute lecture on the Michigan, the Detroit and the Peninsular base-burners. The beautiful nickle-plate, the place tor the’ tea-kettle, the ornamental legs—the anti-clinker shaker—all points were touched upon praised and explained, and the wo- man said wouldn’t take one along under her arm just then, but would call again. She called again the same week heard the same _tec- ture trom the same clerk, and started tor the bank to draw the money to pay fora base burner. This was the last seen of her for a week. and she Then she walked softly in and inno- | cently inquired: “I suppose | Stoves.”” “No ma’m.”” “Not any kind?" you keep coal- “Not a one. We used to. but Went out of the business a vear ago,”” There were twenty coal-atoves on but if she She* ed a sigh gl her, and went slowly remark: “Well, buy one, nced around I don’t know but [I thought it wouldn’t do anv harm to look at some latest makes.”’ Secretary Folger knew sed to gn his cabinet office 1e New York nomination The secretary ernor. is evidently a level-headed old gentleman. As we figure which have so far it, on ee y come returns in, twenty- | four out of tairty- eight states ot the in the | saw them she | what he | H if i t out with the ; as.I want to | on receiving | 2 | N Ow is your for Gov- | Union will have Democratic gover- | nors on the first day of next Jan-/ | uary. Geod enongh for an off vear. thank vou. It does our republican friends ; stated, were helpless and could not = of good to call this the “off leave their beds, and perhaps stifled | Se or ae _ - Sait eens by the smoke before the cruel flames | BO"C® that t on ei Oe reached them. But others meet | years has come to stay awhile. seen to dash themselves against the | windows and cling to the sashes till | i their strength§was exhausted or their | hands burned off,-and they fell back | into the seething caidron ot flames. The preadeut 6 of the United States ; actually “PP = election day. walked to the polls and voted the republican ticket. His hallot counted 1. a i /Next Door B. & B. the Bs And tices is honey in the Gum. Se The HIVE can be found at the old stand of PARE BROoS., on the West Side of the Public Sauare —o—— BREWINGTON & BROUGIDS, Is the piace f vou wish the : ten years longer 4 body to running ROCERIES of B. &B.the BD's. Which are pure, fresh and sweet as Honey in the comb. ——o. Queens, Glass and Tinware, Double the largest and nicest stock in the city. — — 0 ——— Country Produce of all kinds kept on handat B. & B. and the two B’s. The handsomest and by far the most accommodating and polite clerk to wait on you is our TOE B. with the two B’s. «_“enpeL Ec ATA EP SSE = , oe s BREWINGTON & BROUGH, $40,000 SLFOCK DRY GOODS Or Clothing and Netions, Have and are arriving daily at time and Cassidy &Pikin's ot "| THEY MUST and WILL be ee Cassidy is the place to get your BED ROCK EC”: AT & Pitkin’s | beat leaenped | has a record of unqualified success. | Something New Under the Sun for 1882. LOUIS HOFFM AN! North Main Street, Hides Furs WOOgt,, Pelts, pays cash tor - Tallow, - Feathers, Rags and old Iron. i SPOT CASH, ‘And Don't You For Get H.V, PEN v ZR DEALER IN FURNITURE, BABY CARRIAGES | all styles and prices, Good Hearse Always on Hand COFFINS Made and turnished on short notice Orders may be left at F. atter night eron Sunday. Lyons & Nolf Main St.) Evans? stable Butler, Mo (North Two Doors South of The POSTOFFICE —Dealers in— Beeswax,, GROCERIES) HARDWARE —AND--~ | i | YQUEENSWARE BUTLER, MO. no FREE! RELIABLE SELF-GURE. A, favorite preseription of on Most noted and euccensfal samtatioes «iene Cee (now a for pecans of Wervow Hatt Manhood, Weakness ai’ Brerey ee mite Address DR. WARD & CO . Loxis:ana. Me. rit poe are sent on 30 Days’ Trial, MEN ONLY, YOUNG OR QLD, THO are ae from Nravovs Depry, ACK OF NEBY® FOuCE AxD Wastirg Wrakyuss t discovery of the Send at once for illustrated 'ars VOLTAIC BELT 69 —THE— ring Trine Binder It was the first made and has been | brought to perfection while Dry Goods and Clothing, | Rever fails to bind evi is the LIGHTEST | MOST DURABLE AND FINISHED A cordial invitation is extended to all to ‘all and see us. to Bates | We will take pleasure | in ed on the streets | showing you goods and giy e low pr ices. county National Bank. | market. | William De ing and imitating machines barton | | this year for the first time. 1 er aah expt. cng, “PRAUGHT, BEST | MACH in the Any one who buys the DEERING BINvER avoids every chance of trou- ble or failure in the harvest. CHICACO. The Dering Light Bea ead per, aad Ware Mowers, and The Leader Reapers. rer a | ike pacific RAILWAY. The Direct FOR ALL POINS IN 'Ransas., Cclorado, Wer Mexico, California and Texas. Route 2 Trains Daily —VIA ST. LOUIs.-- ‘EAST and NORTH Zr TransDaily FAST = SUPERIOR = A. A. TaLmaGe F. Cuanpixn THE G OLD BRICK LIVERY STABLE —OoNn— North Main Street, ——is the place to get— Good Buggies, and Teams. —The new Firm— HILL & WARREN, rere their business and wili spayou ¢ pains to accommodate Their you Customers. FOR CHILLS AND FEVER AND ALL Dismasms WokD BY Malarial Polsoning OF THE BLOop. A Warranted Cure. Price, $1.00 OW vou sate ov aes Devcoiers. gs THE HORNS hagas a 0 c. DENNEY at their well known and popular stand on the East side of the square, are leading the a |; GROCERY TRADE IN sor BUTLER. 1 Their stock 1s composed of ‘eed =Flour. and the best qualiy of Staple’ and Fancy Groceries, Glass, Queensware and Cutiers. THE: ARE AT LESS EXPENSE Vian any house in the rsty, and therefore do wot fear competition ‘They pay liberal prices for Produce They solicit « continuanee of the prot ge of their many enstomers, will gladiy attend to their wist any and all limes. Goods delivered in the city lin promptiy. Chas. Denev.