The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-01-07
HUMAN HOLOCAUST.
FATAL FIRE IN NEW YORK.

Fourth street, occupied by VIM. Wrinkle as
ball room. and when the flames were extin-
guished VIM. Geib, 20 years, Lewis Schmidt,
80, Henry Gehweiter, rs, and Teresa Erhard
were found on the top floor dead Wrinkle and
wife were badly burned and sent t.. the hospi-
tai Annie Baur received severe internal in
juries by jumping from fourth story window,
and was badly burned about the hands and
face. An unknown woman had both legs
broken by jumping from the top floor. The
damage to the building and stock was $4,000.
QUICK WORK.
The progress of the fire was 50 great that it
was hardly five minutes after the nrst engine
company arrived before the entire inside of the
premises seemed to be alive with flames
tongues Of which ran up the wood work with a
speed which put to naught the first efforts of
the fremen The premises No. 66 and 6S were
occupied by the Turner Hall proper and in the
uppero stories of Ga, William Winkle, propri-
etor, resided with his family and several en-
ploves. As the tiremen could reach
the roof they cut holes IN it and broke in the
skylight, but the fire had already done it's ~
FEARFUL WORK ON SEVERAL VICTIMS
surrounded as they were by flames and cut off
from all access to safety by the burning stair
case. Several persons sustained severe inju-
ries by leaping from the higher stories of the
building. One man. while crying frantically
for aid to the fremen beneath, was all the
while pushing woman who seemed to be re-
sisting, from the fourth story window. She
finally leaped and struck the ground on her
feet.
WITH sICKENING CRASH,
breaking both legs and arms and almost
crushing her to death OF twelve or if
teen persons sleeping in No Ga, four were
burned to death and five were injured. One
boy was burned to crisp; others were either
dead when taken from the burning building
or died before they reached the station house.
The actual cause of the fire ia unknown. Ex-
animation showed a mass of debris and around
where the winding stairway emerged from the
basement into the lower hall, aud look
showed the flames had every possible adj
vantage, and must have shot up frcm the
burning basement staircase. All the persons
known to have been in the burning building
have been accounted for. Crowds of people,
mostly of German extraction, were around the
burning building the entire forenoon. -..
HORRIBLE EXPERIENCES.
There were no fire escapes attached to the
building, 1t was not until the humping
of the fremen's axes on the boards and tin
over their heads echoed through the hotel that
the men and women underneath were aroused to
learn their danger. Thick smoke filled their
of the doors and wall. With cry of alarm
Mrs. Winckle rousing her husband, to
the door of the bedroom where slept her sis
ter and the child. A cry from within answered
her and told her that they too were awake.
Cropping through the smoke the blinded wo-
man and her husband sought the stair
of fire, against which they Intellectually sought
10 shut the door. Their clothes caught fire,
and death seemed certain as they turned toward
l. H.
it iremen's hands helped them out more or less
terribly burned. The women and men were
partly carried partly crept on the roof.
Streams of water were directed into
the buildings, and the fireinen's work be-
gan to tell. But their attention was
demanded in another quarter. From the
CRIES OF AGONY
and shouts for help were heard, and the fire
men cut through the roof and sides until they
obtained an entrance to the garrett, which was
filled with smoke and charred by the flames
that leaped from ratter to rafter. There in
the rooms on the east side had slept Geo. Null
Ter, Ernst and Herman Ruhl, Louis Meyer,
Henry Gehrweiler and Louis Schmidt, walters.
In the west side bedrooms were Teresa Erhardt,
Annie Bauer and Rose Stewart servant girls.
The floors were
SEA OF FLAMES.
on which the terrified men and women ran
"AAuAy oOOuS, SooPAA6 AVA GAL ohO oA"u oih6 AOA
help. George Muller and Ernst and Herman
reached the roof, more than half suffocated,
and burned here and there. Louis Meyer
sprang from window into the yard below
of No. - Third street, a distance of
sixty feet or more, and was picked up
nearly dead. Louis Schmidt was found,
after the firemen ventured in
crouched in corner, whence he
had been unable to escape dead and burned to
crisp. Henry Gehrweiler, unable to follow
his more fortunate comrades to the front,
Jumped from window in the yard of the Third
street house. He was found there and taken
to the Fifth street station house. where he
died. Every bone in his body was broken.
Teresa Erhardt never left her room. She
found burned to death, her features blackened
almost beyond recognition. Annie Baur
sprang from the window rather than die in the
fire, and was found in the yard ON the west
side of the building. She was horribly burned,
and, with the injuries caused by her fall can't
live. Rose the last of the servants, sprang out
! also, and, striking an arbor in the yard of No.
81 East Fourth street in her descent. broke both
legs, both arms and receivedHinternal injuries.
FERvENT ''rHANK aoD.'
George Muller. one of the walters who es-
capped, stood in the ruins of his old room this
friends eongratulatiug him on his lucky es-
| cape. Il don't know about it, he said in
German. Il was aroused by noise and heat.
found the room, the whole floor full of
smoke and could not see my way. On every
side heard cries. gained the roof, how l
don't know, but ferventIy thank God for it."
THE DEAD.
Louis Schmidt 80 years old, waiter, was
burned to crisp in his sleeping room.
Henry Gehrweiler. rs years, waiter, jumped
from the fourth story window, died in
the Fifth eet police station. '
VIM. Geib, 10 years, taken on. on the roof
of the adjoining building, died before he could
be placed ia an ambulance. su a.G
Teresa Erhardt, 25 years, servant, burned to
death in her room.
INJURED,
VIM Winckel, 90 years, lessee of the hall,
severely burned about the hands. face and
arms.
Josephine Winckel, 40 years, wife of the
lessee, face terribly disfgured by burns and
body badly blistered. There is bnt little
chance of her recovery s.......