Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-16
Suffering. Murders. g.

Suffering, Murders, Ec.
One of the most thrilling and painful little
incidents of the cOntiagration on the North
Side was mentioned to us this morning.
couple of families, the heads of which were
teamsters, living near the lake shore not far
from the Water Works, stuck to their homes
till the last moment, in the hope of saving a
portion Of their effects. They were cut off by
the flames however and compelled to fee as
they could but the only direction in which they
conld 20 was into the lake. The men succeed
ed in getting their teams hitched up and hasti-
y putting themselves and families on the truck
wagons they drove into the lake as far As posi-
bic without drowning. This was at o'clock on
Monday morning. There they were obliged to
remain through that live long day scorched
by the heat almost beyond the power of endur
ance, and obliged to dive into the water
at frequent intervals TO keep from
being consumed. At 6 o'clock in the
evening, a small tug approached the group of
sufferers and took away the women and chill
dren but could not take the men. The hus-
bands and fathers were left there for twelve
hours longer, and finally, on Tuesday morning
were rescued by another boat. All of the party
found each other at last at the houses of friends
on the West Side, but the suffering and expo
sure Of the weaker ones may yet terminate ia
tally.
Soon after the murder Of the man Reddy bv
the saloon keeper Periere, Van Buren, and
Hasted streets, Monday night, crowd OF Irish
men gathered about the premises and rushed
into the building in search of the murderer. but
he had fed. more nturiated mob was never
gathered up in this city, aud could they have
got hold OF the Italian wretch, they would have
hanged him to the nearest lamp post, in spite of
all efforts on the part of the two or three police
men present.
Casualties.
A man named Patrick Foley, who lived at $50
Burnside street while passing along Purple,
near Grove, was shot down and killed last night
having refused 10 halt when commanded to do
so by two citizens. This morning man named
Joseph Rearden, residing on Fourteenth street.
appeared at the Twenty second Street Police
Court, and stated that the deceased just prior
to being shot, fred a shot. gun at him which he
had seized from another man.
Henry J. Ullman, OF the firm Of Wrenn I'LL
man q Co., persisted in the flames. His body
was found last night on the corner Of Madison
and Clark streets.
man, from 80 to 80 years of age, fell from
the railway at the northwest corner of Madison
and Canal at / o'clock yesterday afternoon, and
was seriously, If not MORALLY. injured.
Our reporters visited No. 81 Michigan avenue,
where all dead bodies not Identified have been
taken, last evening, and were kindly helped to
all possible information by Coroner Stephens.
They found forty c0rpses in all, and the scene
presented by them is horrible in the fullest
meaning With one or two exceptions the
deaths occurred from burning-nothing but .
skull and a blackened mass remaining of some OF
them. while few were suffpcated. The large
proportion, however, are disfgured, and their
limbs are nearly burned from their bodies. The
scene Of forty corpses, all but two without a
vestige Of clothing, with the exception of an
occasional boot, was sckening beyond deserip-
ton, and one never to be forgotten.
There we're strong men who lost their lives in
vain attempts 10 save loved ones; delicate
women, who were unable, in the confusion, to es-
cape the flames, or would net leave their of