Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1880-01-06
CREMATED ALIVE.
BURNING Of A TURNER HAIL IN
wv Y0sN ClTf.
-four Persons Burned to Death and Several
Badly Injured 8 ,hIful Scenes and
Affecting luct It's herolsm
OF the fremcn.


Turner IIliI on g. tUuh street, occu-
ptsl bN Nm. Wink as a ball room.
aud When the llam,-Nrrr eXtingnished
VIM. Grtb. asyI au years, Louis
Schmidt. aged thirl.. Henry Gahwrllcr,
asv,l twenty-five. o. Theresa Erharit,
AGED TWENTY-FIVE. W.c lOund on the top
noor. d,ad. Mr.. Nukle aud wife were
baily burned and .i to bc scut to tho
hospital. Annie bauer received inter
nal injuries by Jumping from a fourth
story window, aud aas badly burned
aIEut thr hands au lace. IN mkuown
woman hal both brr legs broken by
humping from the tup floor. The dam
AZ, tp the hu,l,llus ,ui stock IL sl2,WO
Tur prugrvSs ui ,lr Tire MAS So great
thlt "a Wls hardly lrr minutes alter the
Gr.t engine arrived uriorc the entire IN
Huir ct the ptymI,, -rvmed
Auvc Wl,b Flames
T4rrrrmi,rs No r6 aud GS were oc.
ruplrd rs thr Turner HALL proper, and
iu IIu, upper stuTt,s ut M. bl William
Wuklc. the proprietor, resided with hlS
lamiIy aul cmpluy,s As -puu ~ the
lirrmcu could reach the ROOF they cut u
hole iu u aud broke IU the skylght, but
tho tine hal already druc it, fearful work
uu several victims. .yrrouudvd As they
H., the uamrs sud cut oil from all
ar.v4, o. safety uyiuH 10y the burning
HlIir.av'.
several persons 81. tanned severe in
iurlyS by
Ioaping from "a llighcst Stories
uI tTr butllng. OUr uau, while crying
lrutlrtily iur lli Was all the while
pu,hm. q woman. NhO SEEMED tu be
p.fsiIu.. uum a .uuIth story window.
~h,, finally ivapri Jul struck the ground
uu hrr tyt. hryJsrus both legs aud
arm, AMI almost cushing her To- death,
OF twelve or liltryu PERSONS sleeping IN
y. o. tour we're banned t. death and
live injured 4 htur boy was burned
tpa crIsp. other, we're either dead
Whom taken irpm tie building nr died
h,iprc they rrurhyI the station house.
Tho actual cause 90, thc IRE ~ unknown.
Further Particulars
There wrrr ur lire escapes at
tlrIrd Ia tht hJildiug. II was not
uuul the humping ol the ire
mems axes uu the boards and tin over
their heads echoed through the house
that the men aud women underneath
wrr, ruuscd Ia learn oi their danger.
Thick smoke Gllci their rooms AMI the
iirr shuuc through the chunks OF the
doors and walls With CTy Ol alarm
Mry Wmekei. ruu,lng her husband. ran
10 the door ut the room where slept
her sister and the child \ cry FROM
within answered her aud told
her that they too were AWAKE.
Cropping through the smoke the
blinded women aud husband sought
the stairway, but wCrr met by rush ul
fnr. agiinst which they Intellectually
sought tu shut the door. Their clothes
caught lire. aud death seemed certain a.
they TUNED toward the door leading tu
thy ruui. rs they reached it, the fire
mems axes broke through the ceiling
overhead. Iud willing hands helped
them ont more ur less, terribly burned.
The uIau Jud women were partly car
url aud paItly CTrpt un the rOOL
Streams ut water we're nov directed into
the huiliiug. aud the hTcmcu's work
BEGAN o. tell bat their attention was
demanded in another quarter. trum
the elevated position ui tho central part
ui The bmluuE Ctlvs Oi agony
and shouts iur help We're heard. and
the tirruru cut through the ruOf AMI
rilD. until they obtained au entrance tu
thr slrryt. tilIcd with sWukr and charrrd
hy tur lLmrs that lyIpcd from raiter to
uurJ Within the rooms uu the east
gtIr hal slept Gyousr Muller, Ernest
anil Herman EuM, Tours Meyer aud
Henry GrhrWcil,r AMI Louis SchmIdt,
WATERS, lu the west sIdc bcd rooms
Wcrr Teresa Erparlt. Anne Bauer and
Rose servant girls The ilOur WAS
q sea ul tlamcs iu which terrified men
aui women ran Wildly about, gisplug
Ipraii aui shouting iur help GcorSC
Muller. Enrst and Herman Ruhl made
thrrwuy toward the front AMI reached
tho rrui more than hall sulloyatcd and
burned here uud there. i.uuiS Meyer
spraug from window into the ySrl be-
low ut NJ. lg Ihiri street, distance ul
SIXTY tCvt uT more and MAS picked up
nearly dead Louis schmidt Was found
alter thr hrrmcn yeuturrd iu, CropChing
iu the corner whence he had been nm
Jhlr o. escape dead aul burned To a
,rl,p Henry GChrWrilCr unable tO tot
l'A bis more fortunate cumralcs tO the
lruut Jumped from the window into the
ward ul the Third street house.
H. was rnuud there AMI taken to
the Fuh street station house,
whore hc dirl. Every bone iu his body
va, broken. Teresa Erharlt never lett
E.r ruum. She WAS burned To death,
Lrr features being hlaCkencd beyond
IryuSuiuuu AuuuiV BLuCT sprang irOm
aWluduw rather than lie in the fire, and
vs found in the yarl at the west side
ui the building She was horribly
burned, aud with the injuries CIuScd
hy her tall. cannot live. Rose. The last
ui the servants, sprang out also, and
shrinking on the urhOr oi No 6I,
East Fourth street In her descent she
broke both legs, bath arms. aud received
internal injuries, tcorSr Muller, one
ul the Walters escaped. stoud IN the
RUNS ul his old TuOm this morning With
moist eyes, surrounded 10y friends con
gatulating him ON ms lucky escape.
81 don't know about II, hc sand IN Ger
mIu. II Was aruutyd by the noise and
heat. found the ruom iull OF smoke,
aui could not SEE my way cut. On
every sijc hearl cries gained the
rnot, how, don't know but ticryrntly
thank Gud ior it
The Dead.
Louis schmidt, 30 years oh. waitcr.
burned 10 a crisp in his slccPing-roOm.
Henry Gehrweilcr, - wears, waiter,
jumped from the lourth story window.
diet in the Filth street police station,
William Gcib. 10 years, MAS taken out
on the roui ul an adjoining building and
died before he could bc placed in an
ambulance; Teresa EThardt, ~ years,
servant, burned to death In her room.
Injured.
Mm. WmCkcl, 90 years, lessee OF the
hall, severely burned about the hands.
lace and arms. Josephine winckel.
- years, wife Oi the lessee,
Lace terribly disfgurcd by burns;
and body badly bhsivr,,l There Is
but little chance Ut her recovery.
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