Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1876-03-08
LATE TeLEsRAMs.
EAarERN.

bovoosoem Ohu Non nurM~u ~
shsir Bsds asd Thirty Missing.
NV YoRx. March THE Home for
Aged People. conducted by the Catholic
community, known asthe Little Sisters Of
the Poor. and located In the eastern dis.
trict OF Brooklyn. wa completely burned
this morning. The house comprised q
four story building and had one hun
dred and eiahty.fvs inmates. When
these we're made aware Of the fro q
panic seized them, and the Sisters losing
control, they ran through the building.
some escaping TO the street, but others
sinking down exhausted, overcome by
fright, smoke and pain. Tho hrsmsn
rescued all these. but . number who
could not get to the lower floors by rea-
son Of the smoke and flames. ran for
the roof. All who reached there were
rescued. but some inmates, too feeble to
run or Chamber. were burned to death,
whilo two or three who threw them
selves from upper windows were fatally
injured. Five bodies have been taken
from the ruins. Loss ON building aud
furniture, sac. 900; insurance. $4,000.
A later report from the fire in the
Homo for the INDECENT under the care
Of the Little Sisters Of tho poor makes II
more disastrous in results than at first
noted. II seems that the fire was dis
covered In the south wing occupied by
the male portion OF the inmates, which
contained ssventy-two persons. whose
ages varied from So to los years. Tho
fire was discovered by a person on the
street, who gave tho alarm by ringing
the bell Of the institution. awakening
the Sisters and the aged inmates. When
tho fremen arrived tho flames were
sweeping through the south wing In
every direction, and II was not until
about 0 o'clock. when the fire had been
reduced to smouljering embers in the
basement. that iremen were enabled by
ladders to examine tho upper stories Of
the burned wing. when they found
seventeen old men burned In their beds
In the upper story. The bedsteads wero
made OF iron aud rested on charred
bsams, which had remained In their
places. The bodies were burned to a
crisp. rendering them totally unrecog-
nizable.
Il Is said thirty Of the inmates are
missing, and Il Ii feared that the burned
bodies OF some may DO found among the
debris Of the FIRE. In the basement. Tho
nremen succeeded IN saving the o.
building and the soutn wing' which IN
occupied ny about SHY OLD women.
In n OF the ooms Of the third story
on The second tisr. . horrible night pre-
ssnted itself TO the gaze oil the hremen
who were first able TO make their way
through tho smoke and flames. There.
stretched upon pallets, were the corpses
OF nine unfortunate creatures. some Of
whom were paralytics. n all Of whom
we're unable TO leave their beds. Few oil
them were burned. and The hair upon
their sad was unsinged; ou al, DOUBT
less died from sunocat,on, caused ny 'ne
smoke on the second noor; one ola
man was iounu seateu IN enair, ueau.
de Also died asphyaia, AND was 10 IN
nrm that he was unable to leave his
seat. A trying duty awaited h hremen
In tho ruins, as u was certain that the
bodies OF many who had persisted IN tho
most terrible manner would DO found;
but what number Il was impossible to
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an tp svsit tbs ARRIVAL Of tbs Coroner.
Most Of the missing have boon accounted
sor ana nm. n h belis,ed comprises tbe
fatal Iist Of The burned.
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