The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1870-12-29
The SpottsKood 6oteI Burned.

RICHMOND, Va. December 25-Last
night was the coolest for thirteen
years. Tile ground was covered with
SHOW and the thermometer indicated
> al quarter past two O'Clock. This
morning just a. the porter had CUM
meuced waking the passengers Tor the
southern train, the SpUIt-wOOd Hotel
wa- discovered % be Oh fire Oh the
lower floor. An effort was immedi-
dtely made to wake the guests and
the sceue became IudescrIbabie, men
we're rushing about trying to save
their baggage, aud women nearly na-
ked and barefoot ran into tile SHOW in
the streets.
The steam engines were promptly
Oh hand, Uut, tile water being frozen,
IL Was some time before the water
could be thrown Oh the building In
twenty minutes the iafIies spread u
sucl au eXteut that escape by the
stairway was :ut of. Tle guests then
commeuced Ieapiug from tie wind
Uws. z. p. CIaike, OF Philadelphia,
steward Uf the lIutei, leayed from the
tuIr1 story, re- Ing fatal Injuries
/ rue most fearful scene Of the di-aster
was tue appearance OF Mrs. Emily
Keunearly, Of BaiJIm Ire, the house
Keeper, at window IN the fifth story,
win one uT two other lad.e-, screaul-
ing for help. The fire cOmpaules' lad
ders were put up, but failed by two
stories Of reaching the window.
While the firemen were endeavOring
to Iengthen their ladders the crying
women disappeared in the thick
smoke, and were lost, the room bright
ening up a moment after with flame.
Up to noon to-day the only burned
persons, whose names were known,
are Erasmus Ross, clerk of Libby
| Prison during the war; Mrs. Emily
Keunearly, hOuseAeeper; Samuel
W. Robinson. clerk with Enker q
Bro; aud Samuel Hines, clerk with
Miihiser & Co The register of the
motel was consumed, and it IS impOs-
sible to give the names Of tie strang-
ers lost. Several have perished, as
there are about a dozen unclaimed
trunks belonging to persons from New
York aud other Northern cities. The
weather was so intensely cold that
the telegraph wires in front of the
I buildings were covered with ice and
I le fire steamers encased in ice an
Ich thick. Among the remarkable
escapes was that OF {. ScheffteT, al
tached to the office of State Printer,
VINO was in the fourth story, and es-
capped by dropping from window cor
nice to window cOrnice until he reach
ed the ground. Ee was badly burn
ID, however. The correspondent of
the New York Herald had narrow
escape. The guests lost all their cloth
.ug, and the ladies had to walk bare
loot over the snow To places of shell
| ter. The total losses amount to $500,
100. The insurance is mostly in
Northern companies. The business
iOuses were destroyed of Messrs.
/ Branch & Currant's crOckery store,
Adams Express CUmpany's office,
dOwe's machine store, and other
smaller stores.
The following are additional names
IF persons who are known To have
Oeen burned to death: w. H. A.
Thomas, agent for the panorama of
the Pilgrims Progress; w. ii. Pace,
# DAnville, Va, United States Mail
Agent, and ]. B. Faress, Messenger
of the Suuthern Express Company.
The SpoctswUOd Hotel Was valued
at $40, ,OOO, and insured in Northern
companies for S6O,OU0. Messrs. Stub
tell, Lusk & Co., prOprietOrs of the
SpottswOOd House, had the furniture
Insured for S20,O ,OnO, and the wines and
carpets for 81 QUO, in the North British
Company. All the goods ready for
delivery in the cellar of the Southern
Express Cumpauy's Office We're de-
rr,,xr..I Tho antrn no N W. m may gn ft4a
were buried in the ruins.
An incident of the fire was the ap-
pearance of a man at one of the upper
windows, paralyzed with fear, VINO
sat tearing paper into small pieces and
throwing them out of the window, till
Ie fell hack among the flames.
Among those whO had very narrow
escapes were NJ. Maillefert, Of New
York, Engineer of the James river
Instructions; s. A. Pierce, of Col
umb bia, S. c., Private Secretary of
senator Sprague, and Mrs. E. Magill,
proprietress Ofa theater. The Deha-
ven troupe lost their baggage. The
MOTEL register was found tonight, aud
only six strangers not accounted for
we're in it. 1t is probable some of the
citizens have taken some of them to
their houses. The name of the house
keeper burned was Mrs. Emily Ken
nearly. The following are the names
IF the missing strangers; J. II. Will
OK, of Lynehburg; n. Bernstein, Of
WashingtOn; A. Liele, of Pampa,
Florida; George and E. Andrews, of
syracuse, New York; Y. Ii. GrOtte,
# New York, and John Holman, Jr.,
Of Jackson, Tennessee.