Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 11, 1883, Page 1

W BLanber! TWELFTH YEAR. CREMATION'S CAULDRON. A Furnace ef Fire Filled With Hundreds of Human Beings. Burning of the Newnall Hotel, of Milwaukee, Wednesday Morning. The Sleeping Occupants Awak- ened to Find All Avenues of Hacape Closed, ‘Whilethe furious Flames Leap From Floor to Flcor With Horrible Rapidity. The Windows of the Building Filled With Frantic Peo- ple Begging for Help, ‘While the Bpectators Look on Apalled at the Frightfal ‘Work of Death, Dozsns Leap For Life to Find Death in the Street Below. Heroic Work of the Firemen, Though Bcantily Bupplied ‘With Apparatus. List of the Dead, Wounded and Missing Forty-Five Lives Lost. Complete and Graphic Details of the Humean Holocaust, Special Dispatch to Tun Ens i FIRST REPORT. Cuicaco, Jpnuary 10—9 A, M, —A diepatch from Milwaukee reports that the Nowhall house in that city has been burned and seventy-five lives loat. The great pressure on the wires delays the particulars. MiLwAvukee, Junuarg 10 —The Newhall house, @ six story brick build- ing, on the corner of Michigan street end Broadway, was burned to the ground this foremoon. The fire was dircovered abh 4. a my and in lees than a half hour the whole building, which has long bsen decig- nated as a desth trap, was enveloped in flames. Scanes of the utmost terror prevailed. The inmates of the doomed building were jumping by dozens from the upper stories, and are «covering the atone sidewsalks. 'WITH LI¥ELESS BODIES, The shrieks of uafortunates filled the aix in a heartresding jnanner, nnd the paople below were unablo to ren- der any aid, Quite a number of ter- rified guests and employes of the hotel appeared at the windows, and seeing the distance to the grouud, fell back to perish in the flames, The em- ployes of the hotel, which accommo- dated 800 guests, numbered 86, and |V, mostly lodged in the eixth story. The exit by way of tha roof was cut off by the fire, and two staud-pipes with fire ladders were not available for some reason. Very fow were saved by jumping on cenvasy. All the stores and offices on the ground floor with their contente were destroyed. They were on the Michigan street side. The offices of the ¥utual Union Tele- graph company, H. J. Baumgsriner's sign painting shop, Goetz's barber shop, Burdick & Armitage, job print- era, 02 the Broadway front the Man- ufacturers’ banlk, the Metropolitan Plate Glass Insurance company, the insuranca agencies of Charles Crain, Wi, Dusand, J. P. Hewitt, C. F. Hibbard & Co., F. W. Moutgomery, C. B. M. Weil, West & Myers, and L. A. Wheeler and J. H. Watzon, agent of the Canada Southern railway, the office of the Nelson coal yard, aud the cflize of the Merchants’ Dispatch freight line and a number of whole- sale establishments on Ewst Water strcot wore damaged by the hre ard the falling walls of the building. Among them were Wm, Crawer, bauker, the Goodvear Rubber Co., Louis Schadeggr & Co., wine, wholesale James Dborgan, dry goods, wan Bron, clothing,” Wor, Lier of the Manufacturers’ °d tho eash box of his lo- tion containing the w papers to the amount of 000, of the flames The lusu aud general oflicas on the scarcely saved any papers. on the hotel is stated by C. D. the president of the Newhall house asgociation at $25,000 sl held the Cin- einuau agencies, The loss is SOAKCELY TO BE ESTIMATED at thia hour, but it will reach $500,- 000. Telegraphic communication will bo interrupted for traffic north, as about fifty wires are down. There were comparatively fow guests in the hotel, The register is burned and the exact loss of life canuot be ascertained at this writing, At b o'clock this morning the doomed hotel presented a sight which will never ba forgotten by thoss wha beheld it. The whole inside of the building was oune msss of roari flames, and a perfect shower of spark and cinders was blown by a br southesst wind over the northern por of the city. The aky was lilu- minated . BRIGHT AS DAY aud the k and roaring of the devastating element could bs heard for blocks. The large, heavy corn '« at the southeast corner of the bmild in e down with a ful crash The sixth, fifth and fonr flors broke through at or carried everything with them tho ‘greund floor A huge balk of flames shot uj about fifty feet when the floors came down, and AN AOONIZING RHOUT from the multitude went up. 0o and At the 1| dead and I'HE OwMAHA DAIlLy BEE OMAHA NEB THURSDAY MORNING JANUARY 11 1883 time of thi riting it cannot will be saved From that time the fire had its un- dispated sway inside the bare walls, and toward 6 2'clock the buildings on the east side, fronting Water sireet, began to burn. Two steamers were sent around to East Water street to protect the establishments in that thoroughfare At this time all the stores and offices under the hotel were in flames. The heroic fire Iaddies of the fire deparment fought the fire bravely, but all they could do was to prevent its spread to the surrounding business blocks. The heat WAS S0 INTENSE that the caopala of the Chamber of Commerce began to smoke as it a fierco firo was raging within. The men and ladder tracks of 1 and 2 worked almost like demons, They had to put ladders serocs the alley trom the book build- ing to the burning hotel, and then crawled across. About five peo- ple were thus saved by the brave laddies. At the morgue a horrible sight was beheld. The two small biers were soon filled with bodies, tightly packed, and then the BODIES OF GIRLS, v women, men and waiter boys were laid promiscuousiy on the stone flags almost in a heap, as the police patrol brought in the bodies three and four at a time. At 6:30 o'clock seventeen bodies were laid down in the place, which was lockod up between the trips of patrol wegons,and therefore no {dentification was possible, The floor of the general oftico of the Central po- lice station was tured into a lazaret. The persons fatally hart were winding themselves in the blankets on the floor in excruciating pain, I: is estimated that fully 50 people were killed either by jumping from the windows or perishing in the flames. 1n the American express oflice, on the corner of Broadway and Michigan atreet, Allen Johnson, of Alfen, Johvson & Con., commission mer- chants, room 34, Chamber of Com- merce, and wife were stretched on the hard floor in an evidentiy DYING CONDITION. The two occupied # room on the third floor aud both were forced to jump from the window, A blanket was held to catch them, but it proved a weak check to the force of the fall. Allen was badly hurt about the back and lower limbs, and probably internally, His cries and groans as he writhed in anguish were enough to melt the most inaifferent heart. s, Johoson was - [ together with two men each from termined whether those establishments even more seriovsly injured, and those trying to administer to her comfort expected her death at any moment. The loss of life is estimated at from FIFTY TO SIXTY DEAD, aud from twenty to thirty wounded. So far, twenty-three bodies lie in the morgue, and nine n in places: near the ruins, Identification cotes slo #ly. Among those known to have been in the hotel are O, . Briggs, Grand Rapids, Mich.; N.,Miller, Ripon; George Younge, Chicago] I. A. Man- ning, Chicago; W. D. Lewls, Ghicago; R. N Baker, New Yonk; J. Mahoney, Rock Island, Tils.; M, J. Hill, Syracuse, N. Y.; A, B. Hendrix, New Haven Conn.: A. J, Cace, New York; P. Hobler, Ohicago; 8. J. Oraig, Des Moiues, Ia,; Charlos A, Handy, Mil. tne Tom Thumb party; iliiams, J. A, Prinsen and ife, Sheboggan Falls; Joho O, Clarke, Wausau; Mr. Rowell, of Sanford & Rowell, Medford; Ben Tice, chief clerk; Joha H. Antisdel, clerk; John F. Antisdel, proprietor; Banj Masen, toacher, Milwaukee; D. J. Powers, Mies Brown, Mary Burke, Mary An- derson, Mary Miller, Mary McMahon, Mary Conroy, servants. The follow- ing are MISSING, W. J. Durand, insurancs agent; Greorge (i Smith, passenger agent of the Lake Snore & Michigan Southern road; Miss L. W. Brown, Mies Chellis, dressmekor; Walter and William Gil- liland. SERIOUSLY INJUREL, #30ravgo Wiiliums, residence un- known; Benj. Tice, clerk of the house; L. W. Brown, trainmaster Northwent. ern road; J. B. Elliott, iawyer, Na- tally—W, R. Buessnbach, general western patsengor agant of the Michi- gau Contral road; Rose Buras, Mary Owens, Nanny McLaughlin, Kitty Connore, of Doyleetown, kervanta, I can eafely bo smd that eixty people are THIRTY SEVELELY WOUNDED, Tao wayor ealled » meouug of the chumber of commerco to organiz2 a|;.. sivage corps to search the rulne, bout a week ago the secretary of the | Board ot Underwriters was ap- d to to mako a rate o the Luild- that loc:! agencies might take 8o far as known, the tollowing aro dead: Allen Johnson, commisston mer- chant, Milwaukee, and wife; Kittie Bailey and Mary Buarns, ser vants; W, A. Hall, miller, La Porte; Ben Van Hoag, fireman, struck by a falling telegraph pole; Lzzle Kelly, Maggie Oweus. Kate Hall, Annioan d Bessie Brown, Kate Hauchon, Maggie Sullivan, Avgusta Ceise, Mary Moc- Dade, all rervavts; Thos. E. Van Hoon, Albany, N. Y., J. J. Hau Maroc, TIl. Tt was at first believed hat Tom Thu.ub and wife, who were quartered in the New Hall house, perished In the flames, as both hive been misaiog, but it is now definitely both were gaved and that both aro uuinjur 5 CHICAGO, Japuary W rn Union wires bt here and ee are undist bat from 1kee to the northwest they aro down, Very little additional pre report of the Nowhall house fire has been received here up to 10:50, THE SEVERE COLD as Lampered the firemen, and caused them great su steamers wont from Chicago at In resporse to & call from companies 1, 2, 3 and 9, and 1,000 ards of extra hose. The train bear- ng them went over the Chicago & Northwestorn, and consisted of five cars, It wentto Milwaukee, ninety miles, In only a little ovef’ an hour. 1t s reported that the Minnle Palmer troupe, which was at the Newhall house, were loat, but thia {s not con- firmed. THE SCENES AT THE MORGUE, MiLwAukee, January 10.—In the morgue, where thirty-two bodies are lying in ghastly heaps on the floor in the smsll room, are heartronding bo- yond humsn power of description, A strong police force is neceasary to keop the anxious inquirers in line. Nineteen bodies have been identifed, Eight bodies are beyond recognition. Mers. John Gilberi's body is positively identified, The report that Minnie Palmer was burned is unfounded. She did not stop at the Newhall, The building was considered a death trap and risks wera refased, The Tom Thamb party and the Mad- ison Square party are all safe so far as islearnod, Mrs. John Gilbert, of Minnie Palmer's company, who was marriod only two days ago, was burned to death tu sight of the multi- tude, The firo department has called for ;uhtnnca trom the Soldiera’ Home, ut GEN. SHARPE HAS REFUSED to send the steamer, at which the in- dignation is great. Chicago and Ra- cine rellef steamers are now on the way, but the fire is under control, The firemen have made superhuman efforts and eleven walter girls were brought safely across the fire ladders stretched over the alley from the sixth llor{ of the hotel to the adjoining bank building. The jumping cloth did but little service as only about a dozen untortunates attempted to jump but rebounded to the telegraph wires, a perfect maze of which ‘surrounded the two fronts of the building. THE APPEALS OF THE INMATES, The appeals for' aid were piteous, but little could be done. Shortly be- fore the Newhall house alarm a part of tho department was called to a small fire about three miles distant, and before the department was in working order the hotel WAS ONE BLAZING MASS, Tom Thumb got out the front en- trance and his wife was taken down the fire eacape by a firaman, W, H. Crompton, Messrs. Herbert Dunlap snd W, A Lovell and the Madieon Square company arrived on the mid- night express. The whols party wure raved by fire cscape, only partially dressed. The following dispatch was received jost now: ““Tha board of trado of Chloago teu- der their sincero sympathy with the people of Milwaukee in the groat eal amity which has befallen them. If and with lightaing rapldity towards the northern wing., Some blundering individual seeing a reflootion of the holocaust on the sky turned in an alarm from Box 8, corner of East Water and Division streets at 5:40 a. m, causing a loss of work of one steamer for ten minutes of precious time just whea the fire was allits worst and every window 1in the huge building LINED WITH SHRIRKING HUMANITY, The multlude, which by this time had awelled to thousands, stood in perfect awe, but fow having self-posseesion and resolution enongh to lend a help. ing hand On the canvasses atretohod out to recelve those of the despairing inmates of the burnlng pyre whe A total loss. At Broadway front of the building, un out and came thundering to the pave. ment, Shortly after that the tot. tering walls of thy southeast corner of the building fol- lowed, tearlng a heavy telegraph poleto the ground, which felled Ben Yan Hagyg, truckman of the hook and Iadder company No. 2, boneath its weight. Poor Ben, a favorite in the department, received fatal injuries. He died ina fow hours after, faithful to his post until death, Chief Lippert had telegraphed to Chicago and Racine for help, also to the soldier's home for the steamer of that institution, Gen, Sharpe, governor of the soldler's home, fierce element lloking its way greedily | discovery of the fire the building was [ f the building, about the middle of the 5:30 o'clock the | Michigan atreet front, Watchman Richards turned in the box supported by rafters from within, gave | alarm almost simultaneously with the telephone alarm from the hotel offiso, and in a fow seconds, it seems, the flamos had louped up to the s x h story, carrying death and destruction in their progress, AMONG THE LOST Is W. L. Tomlins of whom Theodore Thomas sald when last here, “*Ho is country.” He came here from Ka- gland abont 15 years ago, looated first vocal musio was employed by the Mason & Hamlin organ company to oxhibit their instruments in concorts, Twelve yoars ago he came to Ohicago in New York, and besides tonching [ waukee, 174 Mattie Dunlap and Amelis Hertert, of Private [ ¢:0 Madison Squars company, N C Richer, New York, 8 CCraig, Des Moines, R A Connolly, Chicago, M Weber, Laporte, Ind, F Tuokner, Berlin, Will Tanner, Berlin. J'V Mahoney, Rock T § A Dixon, Caicago. Jas T Ludington, Milwankes. Elizs Starr, Milwaukea O C Clark, Wausau, Wis, M P Hill, Syracuse, N Y, and, the best trainer of choruses In this (‘,U v Brigge, attorney of - the Wiconsin ‘entral railway and of the St. Paul road, Grand Rapide, Mich, Me. and Mrs, William E, Cramer, Mil. Nunc \ack, servant, Dora uall, servant, Amelia I servont, Bridget O'Neill, servant. failed to reply. Chicago and Racine responded at onco. Three steamers loft Chicago at 0:50. At Highland park, about twonty-five milesnorth of risked to leap down to the stone side- waik, 100 feet below, At first there were oniy Lieut. Rockwood, Dat ives Rolm and MoManus, Offi 0'Brion and Campbell and o fow Son. | Shicage ‘he relioftraln was counter- tinel men ltuteglng tho hoavy can. | mandeo y Chief Lippert, The fire vas, which required tfully thirty h'lvhlfll lits sway in destroylng the '"(;ng ‘men to handle sucoessfaliy. A Newha ouse, and being under con- poor follow stood on the cornico of | !0l A8 ¢ as wurroundiag establish- ments v ro concerned. The Raclno the fitth story corner window for twonty long minates, not daring tho fearful leap, but flnlily ho became be- wildered, to judge from his actions, or dumbfounded by smoke, aud slid off his perch to the canvas relief t . was also countermanded. When i bscame known among the merchai 4 gathered In front of the chambe of commerce that Gen, Sharpe 1 .d not sent the soldier’s kome 1t could | engines, remarks not exactly in the e e ot raciseond | Lotd Chesterteld style soald e heard and the body fell unhidered by the |00 8llsidca. DEEDS 0F HEROISM recorGed are worthy of unqualified raise. C. A, Ryemer and tierman trauss, of track 1, appeared on the roof of the bauk building at a critical canvas, with a crash that sent a shud- der through every witness. The shattered body was earrled into the Ametican expross pffice. All the while hundreds of ple_bad been |} ¢ ‘dlreot] 5 looking on, nobody tesponding to the [juncturo, directly opposite the ser- demands of the officers for ald, | Yants q“:':;"- l‘dfi; "‘ni‘l‘“d' F:; " | & momen e unwieldy thin, s bEa’nn bod, o seemed to be spell in mid atr, and then duundosd ?v‘i‘l.h a % { crash through a window of the hotel. S| R It formed a bridee acress the alley, seemed to have paralyzed every bit ef | and before it became steady In posi- will power, In the sixth story win- |tion the men had orossed Into tho ho- dow, right over this bnfortunate, sat|tel, Then, amid the cheers of tho the figure of & mau,!crouched upon|muititude below, they dragged the the windowsill, gaziug like one ab-|helpless creatures across the slender sant-minded into the ‘fiery abyss be- | bridge until fully a dozen wero res- low, motienless, but from time to|cued, all of them in night clothus. time sending up a heartrending cry. | Many were badly frozen before taken As the the flames encroached upon |to shelter. A woman in a bead faint, him he did not seém to mind it. [ unable to help herself, Then the flames singed nis hair| was DRAGGED ACROSS IN SAFETY, and licked his night clothes, and with | but at one time the whole of her body eue despairing look at the crowd be: | was hanglng over clear of the ladder, low he tumbled back into thesea of | while the brave man held her by one fire, A man and woman appeared ata | of her ankles, The crowd below held window of the third story, They wore | their breath in suspense, expecting recognized as Allen Johnson and his | gvery moment to sco the ladder turn wife. A oanvas was stretched below | over or break beneath the terrible the windows of their apartment, for: | strain, The man, however, was equal merly vocupied by Prof. Haskins and |t the emergency, and by a hercule- lady, and a thousand voices called, [an effort pulled her upon the slen- heseaching them to jump. Mr |der bridge, and finally placed her out Johuson kissed his wife, then leaped | of danger, while the crowd, which had into tho air and shot downward onto | ¢xdured a most painful suspense for that it palled out of the hands of the | after vound of applause. few who held it, and he alighted ou | waiter givis were rescued by wifn [ollowed, we can do ‘anything to assist you or mitigate the suffericg let me know, R, Du~mam,” The ckief clork, who had a narrow escape; says that 110 boarders snd 90 bourders wera in Uhe hotel, snd 2o 56 are urrccounted for, The hotei was built by Daniel New- hall and the association in 1875, at an original cost of $155,000. THRE SMOKING RUINS Special Dispatch to T Ber, A SKETCH OF THE SCENE, MiLWAUKEE, Junuary 11.—Twenty- four hoors have elapeed siuce the most terrible catastrophe befel Mil- wankee and the immensity of the dreadful disaster reewms to increase ivstead of wane with the fleeting of timo, A dread seems to creep over everyone passiug the huge pile of king ruins that wmark the place o only two days ago the pnlatial Newhall house stood, with its 200 iumates who awoke yesterday mo from thelr slumbers to stand faco to face with tho grlm reaper. Snow had been falling all night si- lently weaving a shroud for the many —-how many nobody can ask without a shudder on beholding what is left of one of the largost hostelries in the northwest. Early in the morning, at 3:47 o'clock, an alarm of fire was tarned in from bhox No 439, at the corner of Vliet and Eigh- teenth strects, About half an hour later, at 4:06 a. m., two ominous strokes of the telegraph alarm called the rest of the department not en- gaged at the Vliev street fire np again, and three minutes later, at 4:08 a, m,, an alarm from box 15, corner cf Michigan avenue and Broadway, rung cus, Chief Lippert burried from Eighteenth streot to the scene. At 4:12 . m. the whole department was cslied to the acene, leaving the chemi- cal enzine vo battle with thebiezsin a part of the city. There wero cople on the ecene—the po ht reporters and sowe be- lated stragglers for home, bat the scene developing bofors the horror stricken few was one which none of the eye witnosses will ever forget. Io a moment every window of the large six estory hotel structure was filled with struggling guests, franti. cally and pittously beseeching the fow below for aid, which it was impossible t+ render, But fow of the unfortn- nate inmates gained the front en- trance on Michigan street, although many might have been saved if some immediate attempts to systematic res- cue had been made, The halls of the hotel were P A BCENE OF WILD UONFUZION, Men women and children rushed up and down the halie in the dense suffa ating pmoke, avoldiug the blinding flames and roaring blaze and in thei irantic cflorts rushing by stairwsys wite ui] hes L5 b the ground with. du&lg foreo. His|brave men. Thotwo Clayton Her ly loss. Mr." Aflen died shortly after- wards in the e dead bod{ persons, Thero is loud talk of incen- , and his | diarlsa, in. which the chief concurs; ¢ 5t hin{ also the polica, whq“ the oanvas, but his weight was such | fuily ten minutes, burst forth in round | loor of tho burning building until his Twelve poor | feet toushed the window below, theso | Kicking in the window, he dropped others [ and grabbed the sash, This was re- struck the | resound four women carrying them out | peated until he reached the balcony, vorad: M Snd f6ll to the ground lifo- | bodily. The police resoued a dozon | from wieh he was rescued, with his and here accomplished his groat work Ever eince he has been identified with tho Appollo olub. Ho has trained wll great choruses that have appeared here, He prepared the chorus for the great May festival in 1880, and for moaths past had in traluoing a children's chorus of 200 voloes. A few weeks ago, whilo in Chicago, he heard the chorus and pro. nounced it the most wonderfal exhibi. tion he ever witnessed. The deceased proposed to ralso up a chorus of ohil- dren to 1,000 voices. Of late ho has led praize servioes Sunday evenings in Prof. Swing's church, Chicago. He leaves a wife and four children. One ot the most trying scenes inci- dent to the fire was witnessed at the morgue. At 6 o'clock fifteen bodiea Iaid upon the marble slabs and floor. The allotted space was too small to accommodate them ali. One of the first bodlea recognized was that of Mrs. John Gilbert, wife «f Mr, Gilbert, of the Minnie Palmer com- any. They were married yesterday morning in Chicago, and THE BRIDE OF A NIGHT lay upon the cold marble crushed and bruised almost Seyond recognition. It is said she was Miss Sutton, of Chicago. The Minnie Palmer com- pany and the Tom Thumb company have oancelled engagements at the opera houee and the academy of musie, owing to the death of the members of their companies, Willlam E. Cramer, editor of The Evening Wisconsin, and wife, who had rooms on the second floor, re- ceived serious but not fatal injuries, and he is now undor medfcal care at the Plankinton. Mr. Cramer was badly burned about the hands and head, Mra. Cramer’s hair was badly burnod, as were also her hunds and feet. Among THE REMARKABLE ESCAPES to be recorded is that of a man whose name could not be learned, who was svon swinging himself from the fifth hands badly cut. It is reported on the street that | there were 330 guests in the house last 5 ground, ; No night. f this be true, the borrors 5 ) ® ioand for vaow - | that will be 1y the removal Michigan iteest front. . |ing ous near tio Sl 15 Cbymui | ot aie usisis [ERapote EAOR LEAT MEANT DEATH and spresding o raplly dbat tomplate. N was knowa or shattered limbs, and not less than | building was desroyed in nalf an four unfortunates at one time lay up- | hear. Regarding on the ioy sidewalk in front of the THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRE. chamber of commerce clad only in| Antiadel snid. ‘‘The night watchman night shirts, blood and braius 00zing | suw the fire fizst, but before he could from wounds through which bones|do anything tho flames shot up the protraded. Some were carriod to the elevator, burning on every floor. 1 am express office and others to the ground | confident that the lice started in the floor of the Mitchell building, where | olcvator, but how it originated I can- cots had been hastlly arranged, and [ not say. I was swakeued by the from there they wero carrled off to|pngise, and rashed out to find the private houres of kind hearied peo- | building filled with flames and smoke po. and the people flying for their lives, The rcone in the alley weat of tho | After saving my wife I triad to save burniog buildivg wes sickening. As [others, I mei father and mother in eariy 20 6 o’clock the bodies of Soven [njght c'othes, and tried to got them unfortunate wator girls, oncs bloom- | to Jyave the building, which was fast ing in youth, wera siretched upon the | hegoriing & furnzce of tlames, but snow and ice, ith brokon limbs, aud | fuher was apparontly out of his writhivg in agony until death ended | hoad, He said he was bouud to go their sufforings. ~ Afser almost euper- | juto the flames to eavo thoss in human efforts ladders wero stretehed | ghe buailding, but by forco 1 got him from the roof of the bank building acrces the alley to the aixth story of the hotel, and the brave fira faddies carried ten girls across the frail bridge, four of them dead. THE MAZE OF TELEGRAPH WIRES encircling the building on the south and east sides, played havoe with the unfortunates in their frightful leap for life, Several of the bodies were fairly cut deep 1nto by the wires, and then the torn aud bleeding forma would drop to the ground. Others would hit tho wires crosswaye, robound and bo hurled to the ground with a drend- fol crash. To the poor unfortunate waiter girls, all of whom ludged in the sixth story and attics, the saddest lot hed fallen. Of the sixty young gi:ls only eleven were heard feom as aiive, It is feared that the eslimate of fifty lives lost as formed thie morn- ing is far too low and that fully double that nomber were burned or smothered to death 1n the blazing The police patrol soon ecom. menced their dreadful work of gather. ing the dead and wounded. The for. mer were taken to the morgue which was soon filled, the latter to the Cun- tral police station, where they were cared for by physiclans, From § to the strect, and baing afraid that if 1 lot him go he would again enter the flamos, I condpeted him by force down Mishigan stroet, and when near the alley some one from the vpper floor fell to the ground, afew fost awy, and caured him to become frenzied.” A number of the rcecned guests say the fire STARTED IN THE BASEMENT, and went thrcugh the elevator to all parts before the alarm conld be glven. A man employed in the baking do partmont, who arrived on the sceno aboat 4 o k, states that at 4:30 he passed to the third floor aud assisted 10 rescuing # number of lodgers. It is siated on good authority that thore wae 1o fire in the roar portion of the buildiug, where thero wasa wile pai of stairs by means of which all those qaartered on the upper floors couid ave mado their escape. Hewever, were not suffocated lost presence of mind. THE FLIOHT OF ACTORS, W. H. Crompton, the 0ld Rogers in “*Kmeralda’ of tho Madison Square theater company, together with Miss Herbert, Miss Dunlap and A, Lavalie, arrivéd in the city at midnight express o'clock the interior of the building was ONE MASS OF FPLAMES, The upper floors soon ng way, and carrying the lower floors with them a thundering crash was heard for blocks and then the fire shot up fully fifty feet, wsending a shower of sparks and cinders over the whole morthern por of the curried by u 1 south- Had it not been for f snow on the roofs erly wind, v thick coa and windows, leading 1o fire escap s, *|stumbling over bodies lying uncon scious ou the carpeted walks only to u many prostr | kind fate had touched wing of that mesgenger of COLAGIOTENOBA The fire started apparently on the third floor of the doomed buildicg over the side entrance on Michigan streat, and before the department got the steamers fa in pesition the flames had enveloped the whole in 8¢ i mayor. Numbers 5, 10 and southeast corner of the building, the sorth of the hotel would be a maes of mouldering raing oday. Loug after the flimea had A fn the interior, Miss Chellis dresam, A, Chapman & '8, was scen at Ler ow on the fourth floor. Sho was puized by frionds bolow and 1mplored Lo make a leap upon the canvass, but she r. ny buildin r mained standing at tho window of her [ similar way, bul were more fortanate | i, buraing room uatil the FLAMES ENVELOFED HER and she sank to be seen o wore, In three quarters of an hour after the |was first discoverad on the third floor from Waukegan, and went to the Newhall house. M:. Crompton had room 319, and Miss Herbert the one adjoiving. The first he know was an indistinet rense of the torrible noise outside. Before he conld fully realize what wan zolng on, he was startled by knocks of Mi«s Herbert at the folding doora be tho two rooms. He u d sha cams in Hi wos 80 full of sm th 1ot thought safe for her to ro h atart for the lire eacape. O naged to throw AL onee, #moko was deuss, and those who 1 to every traveler in the norchweat and every person iu Milwaukee who had resided here for a year or two as A FIRE TRAP of the worst description. Had it been a smaller establishment and had it boen the property of less wealthy and important persons it would have been condemned, A oltizon's meeting hold to-night and arrangements.iaade to place an adcquate foree of men on the ruins to recover the bodiess Traveling men resldent and non-resident held a moet- ing for tho purpose of adopting measures for the relief of such of the fraternity os are suffersrs from the fire, A terrible obstacle to the eaving of lifo was found in the net work of tolograph wires which hedged the building In. Not only did they Irom placing ndders against the building, but it wag impoesible to hold a canvass in such position that tho unfortunates would not strike the wires first. Even the crowd eaw what was the matter aid a number of prominent business men stood in front of the chamber of com- merco buiflding and arathemized the tolegraph co:npanies until their throats wore parched, There were frequont shouts of rru vent tho firemen “OUT THE WIRES DOWN,"" “Chop down the poles,” but no move- ment v made to taks them down, lifo is considerably larger ab first, it 14 feared it 80 far the following mixteen of the twenty-tive bodies found have been ponitively idectified: s ¥ retired capitalist of L, Gl Minnie 1 rt, wife of Jno, Gil. comnj any. ion merchant of Mary Conroy, laundress of Milwaukoe, Maggle Owens, of Milwaukee, parents live on Seyenth atreet, near Clybourn, Mary McDade, waiter, parents live at Mukwonago. Mary McMabon, waiter, parents liva at Lyden, The body was forwarded to her parents, Bessio Brown, waiter, of Milwaukee, of Jaekson and Buffalo streets, Ottilie Waltersdorf, kitchen y The body claimed b wsta Geise, kitchen girl, Catherino Monahan, pantry waiter, Biridget O Connell, hsll girl, of Du Wis, Hough, © M friends, ewploye of the Wisconsiu on 8oL )f his clothes, but Mie { i Herbert had no time to save sundry girl, of Doyle anything, Mr. Cowpton corrying her de 1 nothing on but he 17 nw Walter Gelleland, of Milwaukee, bel dross, A passing near, was brousht down and Mins Herbert car rled to Collin's boarding house, Miss Dunlapand Mr. Lavelle escaped in in both getting partially dressed. WHERE IT KTAKTED, 2 Fromall that can be learned tho fire kee elova and inissing, THE SAVED, of the Milw Following is an accurate list of the amates of the hotel kuown to b saves or not fatally injured, as can be obtaln not being obtainable: W H COrampton, parents live io Third ward near the corner irl, aged fal traveler, of 1at present, tho hotel register [ inall directions, Mary O'Neill, servaut. Frunces Riddle, servant, Mausic Q 1iun, servant. Mary MoCaulby, servant. J. K. Richie, Luotiaville, Ky, W. H. Hall, cf LaPorte, ( ko H. Keed, of Manitowoo, 1 ordon, of Milwauiee. M. Rourke, ohambermaid, Lizzie Tngen, waiter, ran from the building badly burned about the face and handes, Nannio Miller, servant, B, P, Hoff, of the firm of Hoff & Wol- Dridge, slight cus on hand, Bon Tice, head clerk, was severely burned while awakening gueste, T'om Thumb and wife uninjured. T. W. Brown, traia master of the Chi- cago & Northweatern railway, in thia o.ty, severely injured by jamping from the third story window, Kitty Bailoy, a Minneapolis chamber. maid, rut sbout the head and face, W. T, Deeves, of Wilmington, Del. Dora Cole, servant, of Milwaukee, G. B, Elliotc was taken to the Kirby. Several of his ribs were broken, lungs ’htdlg' burnsd, and be was otherwise in- ured, B W Busenkirk, western traveling agent of the Michigan Central railway, jumped from the third story, striking the wires, feet, legs and arms badly bruised, but will recover, N t:‘:'\( Artin, commercial traveler, badly u D Cohen, traveling man, quite seriously injure Chas Trance, commercial man, not seri- only hurt, Lineham, engineer of Milwaukee, unin- jured, Kitty Bailey, of this city, Miss Antisdote, sewing girl, bad cat on heud and lungs injured, Ryburna, servant, badly burned and head cut and bruised, not rerious. Jno Gilbert, of the Minnie Palmer Co, budiy hurt by jumpng from the third story, will recover, Mes! Baker, of the, T m Thumb Co., badly injured. Judgs D J Paul is at the Kirby house, uninjured. James Ward, of New York, uninjured, Murtha Sehleasner, of Milwaukee, kitohen servant, Just Hake, of Oconomowee, servant. Wym:n Fulmer, of Milwaukee, carver, Awelin Geersler, of Milwaukee, fire- nwn. Mrs Hallett and child, who ocoupied room No. (6, opposite Mr and Mra ohn stones, staying temporarily with Halleot's brcther, aleo escaped with loss of their fur- niture and weari) Arlpuul. JOA l’llnuln,?)? Sheboygan Falls, w.:, VanDyvan Dewal, Cidar Grove, Misn Martha Gyett, of Sheboygan Falls, Prof, Tombims, who was reported misa: ing, took & room at the l’llnkrtun, Taes. dny afternoon. and returned to Chicago th;!. navxlt nu:fln{. Y Shes e g e anf ey l;..‘u, m.} ery /}:.7.‘\ M. Clatitn waw o 1 S 5 Eiand miyl to the Plankinton, e loft hj' Chicago at 11 o'olock, N. U, Jenkins is at the Plankinton, W. T. schmidt, of Chicsgn, escaped through the boiler room; face and hands vadly buraed. d Burnham, of Chicage, esoaped with a fow burna, ~. F, Durand, reported lost, is alive and uninjured. L. R Smith, of Kansas City, who came here rix weeks ago. Sehoenbucker, bell boy, son of Schoenbacker, stoker on steamer No, W. 5. Rowell, of Freeport, Mra, Harsha' and Mr, Smith, of Chi- cago. Fred Barker, of Pewankee, hell boy. THE FEELING IN NEW YORK. New York, January 10,—The hotel horror of Milwavkee in the theme of conversation. People have not been #o deeply moved since the terrible destruction of life by the Brooklyn Western men here are engurly looking for every dotail, and especially anxious about the names of the killed, wounded and missing, hoping strovgly, however, that the nawes of relatives, friends and ac- quaintances may not ba found. The telegraph offices are burdened with messages making inquiries, and each edition of the papers are eagerly scauned, theater firo. The Langtry's, Spesial Dispateh 1o Tk Bk, Cuicaco, January 10.—Mr, Fred- erick Gebhart, of New York City, and Mrs, Langtry, of London, Kog- land, ocoupied & box Haverly's theatro last evening, and wirnessed the performance of “She etoops to couquer,” by the Langtry company. This aftorncon Mr, Gobhardt, Mrs, Langtry and Mis: Langtry had a box at the grand upora to kee Maud Gran- gerin “Tho Plauter's Wite.” The publio have ceased to be entertained by Gebharit cr watch his motions, The papers have ecarcely & paragraph about him. His card scemed to sut- tlo matters 5o far as his further notor- iety is concerned. e Riddle’s Spacial Dispateh to Tus CH10AG), Januvary 10.— Hugh Rid- dle, president of the Rock Isiand road, having obtained leave of absence for soveral months, left here last evening by a special car tor California, to be abeent until spring, During his ab- sence R, R Cable will act as presi- dent, The Marquis and Wife Special Dispatchcs to Tus Bux, Las Veaas, January 10 — Princesa Loulse and the Marquis of Lorne and suito arrived from Califoroia this venivg by a special trhin. They will » far the ense via Kansas City to- enog. g Suew Storm, pocial Dispatch to Tun B, Cuieaco, January 10, Reports o | from all points south show that the | enow storm of lust evening avd to-day > | wan very seyere, Trains are delayed Richmord, Va., re- ports the storm as heavy as that of ‘W H Lavalle, Miss | 1875, —~