Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-19
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Further Details Of tho Boston Cremation
Five Persons Known to Have Persisted
In tho Burning Pile-Miscellaneou Mis-
haps and Deviltries.

haps and Deviltries.
THE BOSTON CREMATION.
BosroN, Sept. l8.-The occupants Of til.
tenement, 10s Gold street. burned last night
were on the first floor. An aged couple, whom
no one in the vicinity seems to have known
and ono Gillespie and wife were on the second
floor. A German family, oonsisting of father
m)ther and three children, named Pfeifer
were on the third floor. Ferdinand Menoth
wife and two children and George Haldred
wife and two children, making fifteen persons,
were asleep in the house when the incendiary
kindled the fire. When the fire was discovered
by policeman it was a quarter to IL. Flames
were bresking out, the front floor having burned
through the stairs, making them impossible.
The smoke was rolling up the narrow stair
cases and awakened the inmates, and before
the fremen could arrive with their ladders,
they had either leaped from the windows, gone
to the roof in the hope of safety or dropped
suffocated in the halls. The list of the dead
comprises five, which number may be increased
to or s. The old couple on the first floor
during the night. The Gillespie family es-
capped. with the exception of the wife and
mother. The latter, 80 years old, who might
have escaped by walking only about six feet,
became bewildered and swooned in her room.
She was found by the firemen in an apparently
dying condition, and was taken to the station
with other victims of the fire. Her injuries are
terrible, the burns being external and internal.
Rose Pfeifer, aged %, was found in the hall of
the second floor. Mrs. Pfeiffer and two chill.
dren jumped from the window, and were but
eighty hurt, but Pfeiffer, father, was lost.
Mr.. Meroth, on the third foor lifted his son
Charles, aged IA, out of the window and allow
ed him to drop to the ground, distance Of forty
feet; then instructed his wife and daughter
Rosie to jump, which they did. Last Of all, he
himself jumped to the ground, and in falling
met with instant death. Mrs. Meroth is at the
city hospital, with fractures of both logs and
one arm and her face bruised beyond all re.
cognition. The daughter, Rosie, sustained no
serious injury, but Charles is badly hurt. Hol-
breed to- his wife to the roof, then went
down stairs, where he was caught by the flames
and burned, probably fatally. Mrs. Holdreed's
body, oharred beyond recognition, was found
on the roof. Ohas. ,Holdreed's son is a. the
hospital, internally injured from jumping to
the ground, and with his arm broken.
ANOTHER BODY
Another body was found early this morning
at the scene of the Gold street horror, that Of
Rosie Meroth, age 18, found in one of the up.
per rooms. She died from suffocation. It il
reported three other bodies have since been
found, making nine persons known to- have
been killed.
UNDER THE CARS.
DODGE CRY, Kan, Sept. 18Th. G. Page,
representing Longworthy & Co., Kansas Clty,
while attempting to board a train in motion,
this forenoon, fell under the sleeper aud was
killed.
CHARGED WITH POISONING.
CARLISLE, Pa, Sept. 1S.-Yesterday, W. H.
Wynkoop and Mrs. Oatharine Zell were arrest.
ed, charged with administering poison to Mrs.
Mary Kheil, an aged lady Of this place, who
died suddenly last May. The body was ex-
humed and abundant evidence of arsenic
found to-day. On application of Mrs. Zell's
counsel a hearing in her case was heard and she
was remanded to jail. A writ Of habeas cor
pus has been issued out in both cases and the
matter will be heard by the court Saturday.