Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-01-07

urging the counted Ia members to stand for
their right, aud not DO bulldcxed.
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION.
A New York Hotel Barns and Several
rersens Lose their Lives.
New York. jan. GA fire broke out
this morniug in tho basement of the Turner
hotel, Fest Fourth alree.. occupied BY Wn.
Wrinkle % . ball room. aud when the
fiames were extinguished, VIM. Geib, 10
vears old; Louis Schmit, aged 80; Henry
Gehweiler, rs. aud Theresa Edhsrdt we're
found on the top floor dead. Wrinkle and
vito were badly burned and were sent to
the hospital. Annie Bauer received inter-
nal injuries by Jumping from . fourth story
window and was badly burned about the
hands and faoo. The progress OF the fire
utes after the frst engine COMPANY arrived
before tho entire inside OF the premises
seemed to DO alive with flames, the tongues
Of which ran up the wood work with the
speed which put to naught the first efforts
of the flremen. Premises No. &C end 6
wero occupied by the town bal. proper and
in the upper stories of "a Wm. Wrinkle,
the proprietor. resided With his family ald
several other parties. As soon as the fire.
men could reach the roof they cut holes In
it and broke skylixht, but the fire had al
ready done its fearful. work on the several,
victims, surrounded as they were by the
flames and cut off from ull access to safe,y
below BY the burning staircase. Several
persons sustained severe Injuries BY leap
ing from the highest stories 10 the build.
log. One man, while crying for aiG to the
fireman beneath. was all the while pushing
. woman. who seemed to be resiatipg,
from the fourth story window. She final
ly leaped and struck the ground
on her feet with q scken.
ing crash, breaking both legs aud
arms and almost crushing her to death. OF
twelve or fifteen persons sleeping in No. g.
four burned to death and i've we're injured.
The little boy vas burned to q crisp. The
others were either dead when taken from
the burning building or died before they
reached the station house. The actual loss
of the fire is unknown. The examinations
showed a mass of debris in and around
where the winding stairway emerged from
the basement.
There were no fire escapes attached to the
building. It was not until the humping of
The 6remen's axes on the boards and tin
over their heads echoed through the house
that the men and women underneath were
reused to learn OF their danger. Thick
smoke filled their roomsa and the fire shone
through the chinks of the doors and walls.
With q cry Of alarm, Mrs. Winckle, rousing
her husband, ran to the door of the bed.
o where slept her sister and the child.
A cry from within answered her and told
her that they, too, we're awake. Cropping
through the smoke the blinded woman and
has ,NshAM or.s,~ht IL oe.-.u h.. 5000
met BY q rush Of fire against which they in
clothes caught fire and death seemed Ger.
leading to the roof. As they reached it the
6remen's axes broke through the ceiling
overhead and willing hands helped them
cut. more or less terribly burned.
The women and men, partly carried,
crept ON the roof. Streams of water were
now directed into the building and the fire.
mems work began to tell, but their attention
was demanded in another quarter.
From elevated portions of the central part
of the building cries of agony and shouts
,or help we're heard and the fire.
men cut through the roof and sides until
obtained entrance to the garret
filled with smoke and charred by the fame
thst leaped from rafter to rafter. Here in
the rooms on the east side had slept George
Muller, Ernst and Herman Ruhl, Louis
Meyer and Henry Gehmeiler and Louis
Schmidt, walters. In the west side bed.
rooms were Teresa Erhardt, Annie Bauer
and Rose, servant girls. The q ,or was a
yea of flames in which the terrified men
and women ran wildly about, gaping for
air and shouting for help.
Gaoruo Mn11op and Ernof .o.l uo,~..
Ruhl made their way to the front and
the roof more than half suAocated
and burned. Louis Meyer sprane from a
window into the yard below ofNo. l9 Third
street, . distance of sixty feet or more, and
picked up nearly dead. Louis Schmidt
was found after the filemen had ventured in
crouching in the corner whence he had
been unable to escape, dead and burned to a
crisp. Henry Gehweiler, unabl. to follow
bis more unfortunate comrades to the front. |
from . window into q yard of a
Third street house and 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 was found burned to death, her features
blackened almost beyond recognition. An
uAS O0ue1S oksAA'6 sAVW SAC WA0OOW I6tueE
Ihan die in the FIRE and was found in the
gard on the west side Of the building. She
vas horribly burned and with the Injuries
caused by her fall cannot live.
The dead are Louis Schmidt, 80 years old,
burned to q crisp in the sleeping
room. Henry Gehweiler, 20 years old,
waiter. jumped from the fourth story rear
; died in Fifth street police station.
VIM. Geib, 10 years old, taken out on the
roof Of Al adjoining building ; died before
be could be placed in the ambulance. Teresa
Erhardt, Is years old, servant, burned to
10 her room. The injured, VIM. Winckle,
40 years old, lessee Of the hall, severely
barned .abont the hands, face and arms,
Josephine Winckle,40 years old, wife of the
lesse, terribly dis6gured by burns and body
badly blistered. There is but little chance
Of her recovery. Annie Bauer. 80 years
Did, . servant jumped from the window and
internally injured ; will probably die also
badly burned. Rose, servant, about 20
years old, jumped from the window; both
les and arms broken. Louis Meyer. waiter. !