Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1858-03-05

the bserng heat and to search tor ways to reach the
shreks of the terrorstrcken and the groans
of those bound to their by walls Of scOrching fire
the shouts of those who had been called to the spot
from the surrounding neghborhOod- cambering
swaying and Keeling jossthe falling floors with their
loads of heavy furniture and their dear burden of human
ives-al this and more that intensely terrible and
fearful it is not given to pen to adequately describe
The stairs gone the roof and floors inch by inch giving
way and the urid flames shooting up mOmentarly thick
er and hotter many sought to escape the impending haz
ard of being burned to death through the scarcely less
dangerous prospect of jumping to the ground from the
windows Of those who endeavored to their lives
in this way, we saw six at the Sisters Hospital MIR.
III. Hubbard who arrived at St Louis from Boston
about eight weeks since, was occupying with his lady,
room on the third floor. Mrs H. was first aroused and
awakened her husband Hardly had he come to be con-
scous of the of the surrounding confusion before
he saw his wife leap headlOng out of the window on Pop
lar street Seeing other visible means OF saving HIM
self he followed her. and both fell not far apart on the
pavement Mrs. Hubbard had of her legs fractured
in two places and had the knee cap Of the other dso
Gated Besides this, her lower jaw was broken in two
places 1t is not expected she will survive. She has
Since died Mr.. Hubbard had the ankle joint and hip
of his left leg displaced and received severe confusion
the forehead He is not thought to be in danger
GUS condition.
Miss III. Hunter endeavored to leave the building af
ter having been badly burnt, by jumping from the
ond story In the fall one of her legs broken and
and her head was severely cut She was placed in
furniture car, 10 De Ine olSteTS
before arriving there she a corpse.
James F. Geary, local reporter of the Leader of this
city, in attempting to escape with his wife and child fell
to the cellar Besides receiving bad burns the
face head and legs, by some means his right foot was
cut to the bone from about the middle to- the heel
Since dead. - Sharpe, night clerk at the hotel,
awfully burnt in the face head and extremities--
His hair is all snged off, and his face blackened and
blistered 1t is expected that he will recover though
considerably disfgured,
Elihu Hayes has broken thigh, and is very much
injured on the head One of his eyes is burnt and swo
len exceedingly, and he is otherwise hurt When we
saw him he in much pain and laboring under con-
cussion of the BRAIN He was unable to answer ques
tons. AS far ascertain from various sources
he is stranger in the city, from Wisconsin, There is
little or no hopes of his recovery.
Three men seen to jump from the second story of
the back part of the building at the same time
Two of them got off without much injury. The other
was taken plank to fruit store on Sixth street,
below Poplar, where he died at about o'clock The
latter understand to be IT, Hart Strong, lawyer of
this city.
AT Kings Hotel we found the family of Dr. White,
whose escape was indeed miraculous. DR.. W. himself
eaped through the window of his room and jumped to
the ground whence his wife, three children
and nurse they, too followed his example, he breaking
their fall and all reached terra rma in safety, have only
the record of danger perceptble in few skin deep
wounds
The dead bodies recovered as yet, from the ruins so
could not indemnity them by the ordinary MEANS number
SIX which have been taken care of by the coroner All
these, nearly ALL had their clothes Five of them
found piece of floor in the second story next
the front of the hotel They appeared to have been all
sleeping in the room, and literally roasted in
their beds
The only means of identification of these bodies will
be by the papers and other articles found upon Them
On one there letter addressed to Ephraim Doane
at Chicago. Also, a patent right issued to Ephraim
aonIW iIlioO1 Tho CHI hoe
of second was written the name of r. M. Gregg. On
third lot of letters addressed to Evan j. Wat
kins, of which contained OddFellows travelling
pass.
The wife and child of Joseph Jones, of Birchs Minis
tres are among the wounded. They let down out
of window of the third story by Mr. Jones, who enve
oped them in Sheet having first thrown matrass on
to the balcony to break their fall The sheet slipped
and mother and child the latter only eight nine months
DID, striking the edge of the mattrass dropped to the
pavement and were dangerously injured
BODIES FOUND AMONG
On of the bodies so severely burnt to be wholly
unacceptable by features height or clothing or any
other common means Of Identification a silver watch
attached to gold chain and small amount of silver
and gOd were found in the back part of the building
He was grasping small valise
-Four more bodies taken out of the ruins on Sun
day. from among the bricks ashes and other rubbish
All four were horribly mutiated. Legs arms and hands
off, and in nothing was left bearing trace
ed bones lying around it. Another was mere trunk
with part of the neck attached, around which was
found gold chain and string of beads-the re-
mains, doubtless, of woman.
STATEMENT Mr. STRApER-Mr. D. W. Strader
of the essees of the hotel makes the following state
ment:
have dog that has been in the habit of acting as
watch for ME during great number of years He has
when passengers have arrived at night or when any noise
has been made in or about the house. ALWAYS given the
alarm This morning he barked very loud little after
he to the door and continued his noise whereupon
got up and went to what was the matter The
flames were then coming from the back entrance of
the house. up from the drug store, think tried to
get to the epug but seeing that the fire had made too
great Roadway for that to any useful purpose
to the third floor and haooed through there as loud
| as could MIR. Davis, who has been sleeping with me-
also up stairs and assisted to waken the neone
then slpposng must have awakened everybody went
through the dining and got my children out through
the window, which broke through, on the balcony.
L suppose there must be between twenty and thirty
lives lost. A Miss Hunter was sleeping in No II q
room adjoining the corner she jumped out and was killed
William Torrance, young man. badly burned
George Crane, brother of Miss Crane of this civ was
undoubtedly burned to DEATH and Charles Davis and
boy who was with him were burned up They slept in
room No %.
Mary F. Morris had, when about to escape $500 in
money. Her aunt called to her to save a child of
Mr. Lyons, whereupon she dropped the money. Nv
children all were saved but with the loss of everything
The Burning of Pacific Hotel-IIorr,b,e
Suspicious.
ST. LOUIS, Feb 25th.-Charles L. TAYLOR alias Gam
has been arrested on the terrible suspicion of being