The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1872-12-13
Another Fire in Galva.
The Horse Disease in st.
Louis.
Other Items, Etc.

New YORK, Dec I2-Mary Ann Pagan, |
victim of the Fifth Avenue Hotel fire. !
died in great agony at Bellevue Hospital
yesterday
The fire originated, according to the evi-
denee of the fire marshal, in the servants
rooms on the third floor. One of the pro
prietors says, however. that the origin Of
the fire is not at all known. Another pro-
prietor says he ordered an alarm to be
given after the fire was discovered. Both
are Of the opinion that the girls met their
death from Sutfocati0n. The loss on the
building is only $4,000. The furniture is
damaged to the extent of $4,000.
An eye witness says there is no doubt
that if an alarm had been sounded on the
discovery of the fire the girls would have
been rescued. The general impression is
that the hotel proprietors, in their anxiety
to save furniture and carpets, wanted to
put the fire out themselves.
The foreman of one of the fire compa-
nies says that on his first arriving at the
hotel he was refused admittance with the
excuse that they did not wish a panic
among the guests He finally insisted on
entering. The Fire Marshal says nothing
4 like sufficient precaution had been taken to
guard against loss of life in the event of a
( fire at the hotel, and that he finds no efforts
were made by the people in the hotel to
rescue the girls He thinks the authori-
ties were so concerned about the baggage
of the gut sts that human lives were for
gotten, and the employees of the hotel
We're looking after the baggage instead Of
attempting TO rescue endangered people.
An employee says he Intellectually endeay-
cred to tear off the screens Of the windows
where the girls were confined.
Over %, 900 persons went to the morgue
yesterday The sights there were of the
ghastliest character. The press of the
city calls for thorough investigation
The Herald heads its leading editorial
The Fifth Avenue Holocaust-It was
Crimiual-Was it Murder ?" and then pro
ceeds in a lengthy article to strongly con
denim the authorities Of the hotel for thei1
conduct Six bodies are yet unrecognized
and three Of these cannot be identified
= At sale in the Brooklyn Navy Yard
to-day, the condemned United States wa
r vessels Guerriere and Albany were sold
The former brought SO, 600 and the latte
> $4S. 900.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec I2-Edwin For
rest, the tragedian, fell dead this morning
f while dressing at his residence on Mort
: Broad street
e LATER.-Forres IS servants repaired t
: his room before ten O clock this morning
as it was later than his usual hour for con
l. ing down, and found him lying on the be
G apparently suffering from apoplexy II
n had been exercising with dumb-bells an
had evidently nearly completed dressin.
having been adjusting his neck-tie whe
, overpowered. He died in about half a
: hour after being discovered. He leav,
y no immediate relatives, his only sister ha
n ing died several years ago.
: GALvA, Ill, Dec I2-The brick bull,
ing on Exchange street, owned by Elan
u burg 4 Mack, and occupied by Thomi
t, Nyburg' saloon and Anderson & Enstral
l. boot and shoe dealers, was burned tn
morning. Loss $1,000; no insurance.
& ST. Louis, Dec. l2.-The epizo0ty is d
- creasing gradually, but the number
deaths to-day has been forty. Dissecti
ot by physicians shows that the deaths a
nd caused by pneumonia. Fatal cases a
t confined almost entirely to old and severe
worked horses.