Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1872-12-12
Only Two Bodies Recognized cut of
- si 1533s Eleven at the M0rgue, :
The Damage Estimated at Twenty-Five
.el Thousand Dollars. Tt .e
Dissolution Of the French Assembly
ust Prayed For.
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Disabilities Of SOuthereRrS Removed.
HON e NEWS.
Fire at fifth Avenue Hotel.

Fire at t11th Avenue IOteI'
New YORK, Dec. 1.-THE Albany lines
have been suspended on account OF the
ice. F- ~ 8
Dix has resigned the Erie Dictatorship.
Nearly one thousand Italian emlgrants
have arrived within two days.
The Fifth Avenue hotel caught on fire
in the laundry. The loss amounts to S25,-
ZOO. One woman was burned fatally and
two more seriously. There was great ex-
element among the guests.
LATER-The fire broke out in the cock
loft, which was occupied by laundy women
and domestics. Sixteen bodies were found
burned beyond recognition. The bodies
found were near the only window of the
room, which was then barred. The only
means of escape was the stairway which
was in flames. The victims had to wait
for death. 1t is hoped that many died
while asleep. Twenty-Five bodies were
recovered up to two o'clock. The fire
originated in the elevator leading to the
laundry. None of the five hundred guests
are reported injured. The loss by the fire
and water is probably over 100000.
LATER.-The smoke was suffocating.
The water drenched the floors. The halls
were filled with baggage and clothes, and
seventy or eighty servants escaped ruined.
Fully One-fourth of the furniture, valued
from one hundred to one thousand dollars,
was ruined.
OF eleven bodies at the norgue from the
Fifth avenue hotel only two were recog-
nized. All gave signs of terrible suffering.
Mary Heaney, one Of the servants at the
hotel, is at Bellevue hospital having been
injured by falling through the fire while
attempting to escape. She states when
the alarm of fire was given that she ran
and knocked at nearly all the doors of the
servants and bursted opened two of them.
She then tried to get down stairs, but the
smoke and flames drove her back, when,
with Mary, Turney and Bridget Cortes, she
broke open sky-Iight and got on to the
roof, remaining there until the tirenen
rescued them. 1t is now thought only
eleven girls persisted. Greswald, one of
the proprietors, emphatically denies any
delay in sounding the alarm. Upon the
discovery of the fire these servand were
dispatched to wake the girls and prompt
measures taken to alarm the guests.
The government did not buy any bonds
to-day.
The supply of water of Jersey City has
ceased. The supply pipes are choked
with ice and factories and machine shops
are idle.
Thos. Butler, shoemaker, beat his wife
to death.
The motion to quash the Indictment
against VIM. NJ. Tweed was denied by
Judge Ingraham.
Robert Craig, a comedian, is dead.
NORFOLK, Dec. 1.-THE Addie Fuller,
from Baltimore for Savannah, is reporte
ashore. .-.--..- '...---.-
MEMPHIS, Dec. 1.-THE ground is GOV
cred with snow.
The Republicans of Arkansas claim s.
Z26 majority for Baxter and large major
ity on joint BALLOT. ..-. -.
Boston, Dec. 11.-Gaston is elected
Mayor by vote of 8, 294 to S,942. CASTOR
was supported by the Democrats and citi-
zen's party and Pierce by the peoples and
labor reform parties.
ST.. LOUIS, Dec. 1.-THE Commercial
Convention met to-day, when Mayor
Brown delivered brief address. Fifteen
States are represented. More are expected
tomorrow. ..g
NEW ORLEANS, Dec 1.-THE fusion
Legislature is in session, and has a quo
rum in both Houses. Hugh J. Campbell
Is President of the Senate, and J, Monroe,
Speaker of the House. t'..-.'
MONTGOMERY, Dee. 11.-At about one
o'clock to-day while the Capitol Legisla-
ture was in session, Sheriff Stroboch ap-
peared in the Senate and said that he had
warrant from Lewis to take possession of
the Capitol, whereupon the Senate order
ed the Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest the
h0hSA1tA AOA anu ulIn III
custody As hours, dating from noon. The
Sheriff did not resist the arrest but ex-
planned that he was merely acting under
orders and on apologizing to the Senate
was released. For few moments the
excitement was intense, and Federal troops
statloned near the Capitol Were ordered
unoer arms, but nonecessity for appearing
9hey dispersed to their quarters. The
Senate authorized the Sergeant-at-Arms
10 summon sum mo- posse at the Capitol against
The Sheriff appeared before the door of
the House but the Sergeant-at-Arms
refused admittance except to the Federal
forces, and the Sheriff Withdrew.
The Legislature in the Court Room
admitted another person to a seat who was
defeated according to official returns by a
large majority.
AUGUSTA, Dec. 11.-Snow four inches
deep, the heaviest for years.