The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-12-28

some OF tnem TWO OF three plOckS away, anu III
stantly extinguished every gaslight burning
within an equal radius. The rattle OF win.
dow sash and the crash of broken glass was
accompanied by shock like that Of an
earthquake. This was followed by the
crash Of falling building, and the people |
on Barclay street saw almost the whole inside |
of the fve-story building, No. 63 Barclay |
street, torn out and shot up into the air with |
almost Undesirable violence. The fountain |
OF debris, according to the testimony Of eye
witnesses, rose fully thirty feet above the
roof and before it had fallen the shell of
the building, with such Of its inner
framework AZ was not torn away, was envel-
oped in flames. Thousands of people at once
gathered, and in five minutes the engines
were on the ground. The spectators were
startled minute after by seeing man emerge
from the flames and appear on the rafters that
supported the second floor. He was horrible
sight. His hair and beard were burned OFF,
his head blackened and smeared with blood,
and his clothes on fire. He stood for mo-
ment as If irresolute, and the crowd yelled,
Jump Jump He glanced back once,
and seeing certain death behind leaped to the
ground. He was badly injured but still
alive when the ambulance took him to the
hospital. A ladder was shortly placed against
the broken front, when out of the burning
| interior came three men and two boys, their
clothes on fire and their wounds bleeding.
They made their way down the ladder and were
carried off for treatment. Two or three only
escaped from the Barclay street door. One boy
was dug out by the firemen before the flames
had entirely swallowed up the approach. Officer
Dunlap of the Twenty-seventh precinct, was
the first man to Chamber up the ladder. AT the
second story he found young womrn, one of
the employees in the confectionery establish
ment. He caught her just as she was falling
back, she having probably inhaled smoke or
flames, and, telling her to cling around his neck,
he swung her on his back and descended the
adder. Reaching the ground, the officer car
red her to store near by, but she was dead
when he arrived there. Meantime the flames
spread through the entire store, and burst out
at the doors and windows of the College place
front. Barclay street, College place, Park place,
and Greenwich street were occupied by the en-
gines. Three more alarms were rung, and soon
nearly twenty engines were deluging the burn
ing building with water. Notwithstanding all
efforts, the flames gained rapidly. Within an
hour the great candy store was a heap Of
ruins The interest from the first had cen
tered in the probable loss of life. So few were
known to have escaped, and so many were
known to be in the building at the time of the
explosion that the most alarming rumors were
set afloat. 1t was learned, however, before
the fire was over that many persons, how
many was uncertain, had escaped by the Col
ege place entrance. Some were also known
to have escaped through the back
yards and over the roofs of the neigh
boring buildings to the west, so that
reasonable hope existed that the most had
been saved. The curious desire to gaze upon
suffering and death was felt by many, and the
police, who were present in large numbers, had
all they could do to keep an avenue open from
the store doors where the injured lay to the
ambulances as they drove rapidly up. Every
ambulance in the city had been ordered to the
scene, and as fast as possible the sufferers
were taken to the hospital.
Henry Van Dyke was hanged at Canton,
n. Y. last week, for the murder of his wife, in
July last. The criminal passed his last night
on earth singing comic songs, clog-dancing
and smoking. He told the Sheriff he wanted
to be hanged at II o'clock, so as to be in hell
for dinner. When some clergymen who had
visited him started to leave, he turned a
couple of handsprings and, bringing up with
a circus pose, shouted after them, "What do
you soy?"
grand reception was rendered President
Hayes by the Union League Club, ON the occa-
sion of his visit to New York last week.
The success of the underground railway in
London has proved so great as to induce a
number of English capitalists to enter upon a
similar undertaking in New York. 1t is ex-
pected that the cost of the proposed road will
be about 5s,OOO,OO0
Efforts to bring to justice gang of forgers
who last spring endeavored to negotiate
5000, 900 in forged bonds of Quincy county, ILL.,,
and st. Louis county, Mo-, have eliminated in
the arrest of three New York brokers, Joel N.
ayes, Ferdinand Hertog and VIM. Muir.
West.
The California Legislature have elected J..
> T. Farley Democrat, to succeed Mr.. Sargent
in the United States Senate
II. w. Wetherell, wholesale millinery and
, fancy-goods merchant, of Chicago, has failed.
The failure of Kelley, Morley e. Co., heavy
coal dealers in Chicago is also announced.
Dispatches from Helena, Montana, report
that Sitting Bull has .recrossed the line, and is
: now camped in the Bear Paw mountains, with
, large force of Sioux and Nez Perces Indians.
They have summary way of dealing with
horse-thieves out on the Pacific coast. Five of
the gentry were taken from the Jail in Baker,
field, Kern county, Cal, the other night, by a
I body of indignant citizens carried into the
I District Court room, tried before regularly
, impaneled jury, convicted and hung. The
| Coroner's jury soou afterward brought in a
I verdict of "Hung by parties unknown"
Dexter Park, Chicago's famous racing course,
, is to be turned into undergrad.
south.
} Affairs in FL Paso county, Tex, were brought
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