The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1876-12-12
THE BROOKLYN FIRE.
Scenes, Incidents and Later Fact

National Associated Press to the Star:
BROOKLYN, Dec. 12..-It is believed by
the authorities that more bodies will be
found. II will take the greater part of
two days to thoroughly examine the re-
mainder OF the ruins. The work of
taking down the walls has been sus-
pended, they being considered safe so
long as there are no high winds.
or the two hundred and ninety-fve
persons who perished in the fire, and Of
whom one hundred and ninety have been
identified, all but torty-two were males.
Eleven of the victims were from New
York City. Fiity-three were from be-
tween fifteen and twenty years OF age,
ffty-one between twenty and twenty
five, twenty between twenty-five and
thirty, fifteen between thirty and thirty
five, aud twelve were over fifty years of
age.
From the Graphic
A touching incident occurred shortly
before O'Clock this morning, which
moved sympathetic chord in the breast
Of those who were present, although
they had been accustomed to sucE
scenes since yesterday. A niiddle-lged
German woman, with tears streaming
down her face, besought an officer at the
station-house door to admit her to tn e
presence OF the Captain. 81 can not al
low you to enter now, madam" he said; !;
''there Is such crowd inside already
that you will have to wait until the Cap
tain gives me orders to admit Others"
"O0, my G0aP' she cried in anguish,
ringing her hands, II must see my poor
dead darling. They won't let me enter
the Morgue without q pass, and know
he is there. Please let me In OIL | shall
go crazy" Finally she was permitted
to enter the sLation-house, where sue
again bewalled the fate OF her son. "Im
u poor widow" she continued, "and live
at No. 20 Orchard street, New York.
My dead son was named William Mey-
ers, and was nineteen years old. One
OF my sons is now lying at the point of
death with consumption, and what am l
to do, now that my oldest boy and main
support is taken from me? She was
gwen pass both to the Morgue and the
City Hail Market, and deparlei bewail-
ing her sons horrible death.
From the inqaestreport.l
"Tha1 is all Know about it," cOntin-
ued Mr. Thorne, "but there is rather u
curious coincidence about this fire. L
was playing at the Varieties Theater, in
New Orleans, in 1870, with Jack Stud
ley. He and l were conversing relative
to the production OF the Three Guards
mem the next day, and how we were
to play our parts together Soon alter
our conversation hre broke.
out ana the theater was
burned. Only last evening Stud
ley and l met together at the theater,
aud between the acts we again intro
duced the subject OF the Three Guards
men, which was to be produced the
week after next in the Brooklyn Thea.
ter. Ga mentioning the subject, Stud
ley said to me, Don't mention the
Three Guardsmen; DO you remember
the Varieties Theater at New Orleans,
which burned down the night previous
to it's productionf did remember it,
and very we'll, too, but l laughed at his
remarks, and then went on the stage.
This morning, and after the terror OF
last night, the conversation came to my
mind, and l think that it is u very Pc
culiar coincidence"
Mr.. Thorne could not describe the ex-
citement in the audience, as he did not
go to the front oil the stage during the
NTH act. 'Poor Burroughs" said he,
must have hurriedly left the stage,
that he would have time to 90
to his dressing-rOOm and secure his
and on returning must have
been suff icated by the dense smoke and
then fell a victim to the flames." The
death of Mr.. Harry Murdoch he also at
tributed to the same cause. MIR. Thorne
regards the escape OF himself and wife,
and in fact of all the others, as almost
but he fully believed that
all the uo ,ors and the audience had es-
capped. The terrible loss of life has
almost unnerved him. His friends
called upon him during the day and con-
graduated him on his escape.