Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-03-16

| Oound 10 ther rooms by walls of scorching fire -the shouts of those who had been calIed to the spot from he surrounding neiohborhood the cIambering verswayng and reeling ioists- the falHng floors with their load of heavy furni- ture and their dearer burden of human lives all ths and more that was intensely terri ole and fearful, 1t Is not given to our Den to ade | quatey describe.
 The stars gone, the roof and floors inch by | men gVlng way, and the lurid flames sbOotipr \ UP pmomehtaIlly thicker and hotter many sought to escape the impending hazard of being burned to deAth, through the scarcely less dangerous | prospect of jumping to the ground from the ! windows. MT. II. Hubbard, who arrived in St Louis from Boston about eight weeks since. was | occupying with his lady room on the third floor Mrs Il. was first aroused and awakened her husband. Hardly had he come to be con SclouS ol the cause of the surrounding confusion ptIore ne saw ms wife leap headlong out of toe I WihdaW oh Poplar street. Seeing no other visi- bie neans of saving himself he followed her ana oo5A tell, not far apart on the pavement- Mrs. Hubbard had one of her lers fractured in l two places and had the knee cap of the other l d'slotated Besides this, her lower jaw was broken iu two places. l. is not expected she VIII .urv've MT. Hubbard had the ancle joint ana hip oi his lctt a. displaced, and received a severe cohtUslon on the forehead He is not ihou-ht to ba m dang rous condition \ ; mes T. Geary local reporter Of the Lcalcr or tAS ely, m attempting to escape with h's i wife and enid, fell 10 the cellar. Besides re- ca,V-n9 some bad burns on the lace, head and legs, by some means his right foot was cut to the bone from about the middle to the heel. It E ieTed, too, that his lungs are iuiared from hna.ln+ hot ar. He io thought to be in criti ' cal stuation
 Mr. Joseph Jones, called fom the third stor, 'o nose below on Poplar street, to look out fir { iadF, ana threw down amatrrSs begging them t' eaten her upon it. They had lot well adjust ell Ii when Il W is knockel from their ora :n b,- the fall of the lady with an infant in her arm. | Sne struck the inner edge of the mattress. and then thc pavement Sne wa3 sent to the Sjs- ter's hospital amt still survives. Her child was ,4hch to the depot opposite, and shortly died. MI'r Mary iunter, formerly of Kentucky. hav- inI hfSt been baIly burned, jumped from the second story. She Was taken away a corpse.
 Dr. " hlte safely leaped from his window, aud partially received in his arms in succession. hla Wife, three children and nurse. skinfully breaking their fall, so that they are compara- lively uuhamed
 Wm. VI. Smith, young man, member eff the day police, boarded at the hotel, and displayed acredltabIe coolness and ntrepiditv. Adroity | getting from the dining room window to the | porch he saved himself, and a child three wears ot age by tying a sheet to the belcony and de- Scendng upon it.
 The private watchman in the hotel, Sharp, n attempn ing to escape, fell at the head of the stairca~e, and was rescued by one of the mem beT ol hirch'a minstrel troupe Sharp's face head, hand, and feet are sail to be badly burned amt his hair singed off
 The body of II. H. Rochester, of Green coun ", N. Y, has been found. L Is identified by letters, among which is the grant to him of DOW CT of attorney, dateI 26,h October 1857. He WIS last seen with his trunk upon his should 1T end"vor15 to ob-ain e1ress from the house- ' Ine body wa found in the cellar. to which he nal apparently fallen heai tir,t
 Mr. Ephrlm Dotne arrived on Frilav evea- in9 from Chicago. His body is f,und. being re- l co5"ized by letter found uu5urnt beneath his ! person.
 Three men were seen to jump from the second story ot the back part of the building. at the same time. Two of them got off without much \ lJHy The other gas taken on a plank to a lrut store on S.Nassfeet, below Poplar. where ne died at about o'clock. The l4tter we un- aerstahd, to be !. Hart S.rons, a lawyer of this city.
 
 have dog that has been in the habit of acting as watch for me during d great numberof 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. m.- Ihis morning he parked very loud; little after he came to the door and continued his noise I Whereupnn got up and went to see what was the matter. The flames were then coming from the back entrance of the house. up from the drug store, l think. 1 triel to get to the fire plug, bat seeing thlt the fire hal made too great headway for that to serve any useful purpose ran to third floor and hallooed through there as loud as could. Mr. Davis, who had been sleeping with me, also came up stairs and as- sisted me to waken the people. I then, suppos- mg 1 must have awakened everybody. went through the window, which broke through. on to the balcony.
 1 suppose there must be between twenty and thirty lives lost. A Miss Hunter was sleeping in No. H. room adj 'ining the corner; she jumped out and was killed William Torrance young man, was badly burned. George Crane, a brother of Miss Crane, of this city, was un- doubtedly burned to death. and Charles Davis and boy, who wa, with him, were burned up. They slept in room No. 23
 Mary F. Morris had, when about to escape. three hundred'dolars in money Her aunt call ed to her to save child of Mr. Lyens,' where upon shedropped the money.
 NJ family consisted of myself, wife, ss.er.in- law, and three childfen; all were saved. but with the loss of everything"
 The dead bodies recovered, as vet. from the ruins, so charred, blackened and burnt that their nearest relatives could not ndentifv them by the ordinary means, number six which have been taken charge of by the coroner and placed temporarily in Rogers stable on Franklin ave- nue, between Fourth and Fifth. All these, or nearly all, had their cloths on Five of them were found on piece of floor in the second story next the front of the hotel They appeared to have been all sleeping in the same room. and were literally roasted in their beds
 The above contain; the majority of the incl dents which among sn may anxious persons could be coltected The facts as connected with the origin of the fire enveloped in mvs- tery
 According to the clerks statement, the whole number of persons in the house was Fl or 72- Of this number A. escaped unhurt; nine were badly hurt, and Is are supposed to be dead- The bodies of four more persons are believed to be in the ruins This closes the record
 More melancholy spectacles to behold than the charred and broiled remains of those already taken ont, we hope never again to see A life less body Is at any time moufnul sight, though laid out in the most careful manner, and shroud- ed in the most purest habiliments. But to look upon headlesS, limbless trunks, scorched to the bone, crushed, mangled and torn, picked out of heaps of coals, dirt and cinders, poisons sigbt and slckens the most steeled and hardened heart. Death, too, in no form, is more dreadful than to be met in the awful manner in which the unfortunate victims of the Pacific hotel dis aater met 1t. W hat agony they suffered what prayers they offered, or with what resignation they submitted to the general catastrophe, no human mind can know
 more terrific calamity has seldom befallen any community, and we trust that 1t may be long. very long, before it shall become our pain ful duty to record such another.
 The building was three stories high, having