The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-01-06
Four Persons Burned TN Death and
Five Others Badly injured.
Six Others Killed by an Explosion in
q Ce1luloid FaetoEy-Tl1ree
Blown Up in q Stsan nboat
Eleven Injured lsy
Boiler Explosion
Minor Casualties.

oecupiedby Mr.. Wnekle as ball roora. III
building was owned by the Turner Societ
and was damaged to the amount of s7aO
The stock was damaged $4,000. After the I'll
VIM. Setz, aged ten years, LOWS Schmid
thirty years, Henry Gehrweler, twenty-fi,
years, and Teresa Erhard, twenty I've year
were found on the top fIoor, MI dead. Wink
and hs wife were badly burned, an d sent
tue hospital, Annie Bauer reeei we'd iuterns
Injuries by jumping from the fouli b stor
window, and WAS badly burned alb, mt th
hands and face. An unknown woman had bot
| legs broken by jumping from the top flo or.
Il was known that Mr.. Winckle, propr ietol
with his wife aud employees, slept In th
building. aud before the heavy doors etlul
be broken open several Of them appeared d
the upper windows lmploring help; eve
| after the doors had yielded the unfortunate,
| could not be reached, ns the flames swept III
the broad and only stairway. The tlremer
| went TO the roof 0f the adiolning house
| hoping to release the mperiled nsnnle h.
means of a seuttle. but there was no seuttft
| to the building in which they were conIined
| A hole had to he cut through the roof and b,
this means only they were reached. by this
| time four had been burned or sufrucated tt
death. The origin of the fire Is unknown. II
broke out In the basement and swept up the
broad stairway Ske flash Of lightning
During the night there hal been a wedding
celebration In tho building, but the gusts
1 nAI Hll uApafJAu DY q. III. Ihlpp hours
afterwards the fire broke out.
| Surrounded as they were by the Elames and
| cut off frntn all access to safety below by the
| burning staircase, several persons sustained
| severe injuries by leaptBg from the highest
stories OF the building. One man. whose
name is unknown, while crying frautcnlly for
aid to the titemen beneath Vas all the while
pushing IL woman, who seemed 10 he resist
! Ing, out OF tho fourth-story window. She
| finally leaped forth aud struck the " iound on
her feet with sickening crash, breaking both
her legs and arms and almost crushing her
| to death. The Il iints seemed to be drawn up
the staircase as II by the draught Of hugo
chimney, and the sIeepers awnke only In
season TO find their escape cut IF. or twelve
or fifteen persons sleeping In No. GA, four per-
sons were burned ID death and i've persons
injured
Nos 64 and G6 East Fourteenth street, the
scene of the tragedy, is u double house. with
q large number Of lodge and meeting rooms.
There were no iire-rSCapas attached to ths
building. There were two stairways, one
wide and one narrow. The wide stairway
served rs funnel through which the flames.
when the fire broke out, spread to and seiz9d
upon the upper stories. There had been II
meeting of the Turn Society, who had re-
ccived Waiting brethren from Yonkers. also
a wedding party la the building during the
evening, but these had all gone away before
the fire occurred.
Az the head az the wide staircase were the
bedrooms. VIM. Winekel, i4nitor, aud his
wife Josephine slept in une of these beds and
In the room adjoining Mrs. WnekeI's sister
and q little adopted child, VIM. Seitz aged
ten years slept. They had been in bed since
midnight, aud 1t was four hours siuce Mr..
Winekel had turned In when the fire was
discovered. The alarm failed to arouse the
sleeping inmates aud they wefa stupnad
almost 10 Inconsistencies by uoke. Lad
dprs were raised to the FOOT aud the tread OF
the firemen reused the inmates, who EN-
deavored TO make their escape, but they were
met by rush Of lame. Then they made for
the roof and the tremen helped them no,
more or less terribly burned. Before the
child, however. could be saved II was burned
almost to q crisp.
Streams of water were In the meantime
being poured on the burning building. From
the central portion Of the house cries of
agony and shouts for help were heard here
On the east side had slept George Muller,
Ernest and Herm tn Ruht, Louis Meyer
Henry Gehrweiler and Louis Schmidt, wait
ers. and Ill the west bedrooms Teresa Er
hardt, Annie Bauer and Rose servant girls.
women were seen rushing wildly about look
ing for means OF ascape. George Muller and
Ernest and Herman Ruhl reached
the roof half sulfocated and partly
burned. Louis Meyer sprang from
distance Of sixty feet or more, and was picked
10 half killed Louis Schmidt was found
after the tiremen ventured In croucbing In a
corner, whence he had been unable to escape, |
and was burned to u crisp. Henry Gehrweier
jumped from a window into yard and was
found there but died Ia police station. |
Every bone tn his body WAS broken. Teresa |
Erhardtw was burned to death in her room, and
her features were baekened and almost un- |
Annie Bauer Sprang from a
window rather than die in the tire and fell In |
the yard She was terribly burned and sus-
tanned internal Injuries from her fall, and it is
thought she cannot live. Rose the last OF
the servants also jumped from n window, but
struck an arbor in the yard. She broke both
legs and arms and received internal injuries.
SIX MEN KILLED BY AN EXPLOSION IN A CELL
LUL0ID MANUFACroRY.
NEWARK, N. J., Jan. ga fearful explosion
occurred about III u. m. la the converting
room Of the Celluloid Manufacturing Com
pany, by which three men we're Instantly
killed and two others so burned that they can
not recover. The men were in their aecua-
toned places when, from some unknown
cause, d large mass Of celluloid, which Is
highly inf immable substance, suddenly and
without warning exploded, destroying the
brick huilding with its contents.
The body Of VIM. Winter, aged fifteen years,
was found In the ruins. a CHASTITY spectacle |
Under him lay the dtstigured body OF Fred
erick Stiles, of RoSele so charred that is was
Recognizable; John Yates, residence
was also killed; Spencer Atwood
died In ten minutes from conclusion OF the
brain; Elmer Bogart and Frederick Pierce
were also badly burned and were taken to st.
Nicholas Hospital there is no hope of their
Stephen w. Wade was severely but
not dangerously injured. The loss Is esti-
mated at S10000 and Is fully covered by in
surance.
FATAL STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION AT PESsA-
COLA.
PENSACOLA, Jan. 5-The steamer Fisher,
mail boat between here and Freeport. burst
her boiler, killing Capt. Watson and another
person, and mortally scalding the engineer.
SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLAR FIRE AT SOUTH
CARVER, MASS.
BOSTON, Jan. 5.-The Braid Mills, South
Carver. Mass, were burned yesterday. Loss
from S60, ,0e0 to $4,000.
A BOILER EXPLOSION BY WHICH ELEVEN MEN
ARE WOUNDED.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 5.-A boiler exploded In