The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-01-07

rooms, and fire shone through the chinks of
sne doors and walls. With cry Of alarm,
slept. her slsier and the child. A
her that they, too, were awake. Cropping
through the smoke the blinded woman and
husband sought the stairway, but were met by
rush of fire, against which they fnefSectu-
ally sought 10 shut the door. Their clothes
caught hre, and death seemed certain as they
turned toward a door leading to the roof AS
they reached it the tremens axes broke
through the ceiling overhead, and willing
hands helped them out, more OK less terribly
burned The women and men were partly
carried and partly crept on the roof. Streams
OF water were now directed into the building.
and the hremen's work began to tell: (:
in another quarter. From elevated
portions OF the central part of the building
cries OF agony and shouts for help were heard,
and the fremen cut through the roof and
sides until they obtained an entrance 10 the
earret, filled with smoke and chared by flames
that leaped from rafter to rafter Here in
rooms in the east side had slept George Null
Ter, Ernest and Herman Ruhl, Lewis Meyer
Henry Gerhwieler and Lewis Schmidt,
walters. In the. west side bed room were
LoiuS Everhard, Annie Baur. Rose, serv an,
girls. The floor was a sea OF flame, In which
the terrified men and women ran about, Wild
Muller and Ernest and Herman Ruhl maze
their way toward the front and reached
and burned here and there. Lewis
Meyer sprang from the window into the yard
below of No. IS Third street, distance Of 90
feet or more, and was picked up nearly dead.
Louis Schmidt was found, after the firemen
veptured in, crouching In a corner, whence
he had been unable to escape, dead and burned
to a crisp. Henry Geherwiler, unable to fol-
low his more fortunate comrades TO the front,
jumped from window into the yard of
Third street house. He was found there anu
taken to the Fifth street station house, where
he died. Every bone in his body was broken
Louisa Earhardt never left the room. She
blackened almost beyond recognition. Annie
Bauer sprang from a window, rather than
die in the fire, and was found in yard on
was horribly burned, and, with the
injuries caused by her fall can not live Rose,
shs dst o. an Ine er6y m & sPrSag OF out & sS g a5a
Fourth street in her descent, broke both legs,
both arms, aud received internal injuries. Geo.
Muller, one OF the walters VINO escaped, stood
In the ruins of his old room this forenoon,
with moist eyes, surrounded by fsiends con-
graduating him on his lucky escape. ''I don't
aroused by noise and heat; l found the room,
the whole floor, full OF smoke and could not
see my way. On every side I heard cries.
gained the TOof-how, don't know; but fer
Nently thank God for IT,"
- THE DEAD.
Louis Schmidt. 30 years old, waiter burned
To a crisp in his sleeping room; Henry 9erh-
wleler, p years, waiter, Jumped from the
Fifth Street police station; William Gieb, 10
years taken out on the roof OF an adjoining
OuuQlnSs ulSQ ceIOfe ne could be p'ssceu IN an
ambulance; Louisa Earhardt, % years, servant,
burned TO death in her room.
INJURED.
William Wrinkle. 40 years, lessee OF hall, Sc
verely burned about hands, face and arms;
Josephine Wrinkle, 40 years, wife of lessee, faee-
terribly disfigured by burns and body badly
blistered. There is bot little chance of her re-
covery. Annie Boyer, % years, servant,
jumped from a window and is internally in
jured; will probably die. she is also badly
burned. Rose, servant, about % years old,
jumped from a window, and both legs and
arms were broken; Louis Meyer waiter, sprang
from a window; limbs broken, and internally
injured: Margaret Gieb, aged 30 sister of Mrs.
Wrinkle, face and feet severely burned.