Morning journal and courier., 1880-01-06
THE FIRE RECORD.

Burned tO Death-Rushtmg From Sleep i to Death-Hopeless Struggles to Es- 1 cape-Frightful Injuries of Survivors A Sad Catastrophe
 1 NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-Shortly before six o'clock this morning fire was discovered is-
 suing from the window of the building on East Fourth street known as Turner Hall,
 which was occupied by William Winckel as
 ball room. Last night social entertainment
 was given in the hall, the festivities being kept up until two o'clock this morning, after
 which the building lapsed into it's usual quiet
 MT. Winckel and wife slept in front room on the fourth floor. In a room opening upon theirs Mrs. Winckers sister and little adopted child, William Geib, aged ten years, slept. They had been in their beds since midnight, and it was four hours afterward when Mr closed and secured for the night. Soon after an alarm of fire was rung, and all WAS excite ment and confusion. The inmates slept on, all unconscious of the fearful death that threatened them. It was not until the thump- ing of the fremens axes on the boards and tin over their heads echoed through the house that the men and women underneath were reused to their danger. Thick smoke filled their rooms, and fire shone through the chinks of the doors and walls. With cry of alarm Mrs. Winckel, rousing her husband, ran to the door of the bedroom where slept her sister and the child. A cry from within an- swered her and told her that they too were awake. Cropping through the smoke the blinded woman and the husband sought the stairway, but were met by @ rush of fire, against which they Intellectually sought to shut the door. Their clothes caught fre, and death seemed certain as they turned toward the door leading to the roof As they reached it the fremen's axes broke through the ceiling overhead, and willing hands helped them out more or less terribly burned. The women and the men were partly carried, partly crept on the roof, but before the child could be res cued he was burned almost to crisp. From the elevated portions of the central part of tbe building cries of agony and fremen cut through the roof and sides until they obtained entrance to the garret. Here had slept George Muller Ernst and Her. man Ruhl, Louis Meyer, and Henry Lahrwei- Ter and Louis Schmidt, walters. In the west bedrooms were Teresa Erhardt, Annie Bauer of flames in which the terrified men and wo- men ran wildly about, gasping for air and shouting for help. George Muller, Ernst and Herman Ruhl made their way toward the front, and reached the roof more than half suffocated, and burned here and there. Louis Meyer sprang from 8 window into the yard below of No. 19 Third street, distance of sixty feet or more, and was picked up nearly dead. Louis Schmidt was found, after the fire men ventured in, crouched in corner, whence he had been unable to escape, dead and burned to crisp. Henry Gehrweiler, unable front, jumped from window into 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 was found there burned to milton. Annie Bauer sprang from the win dow 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, cannot live. Rose, the last of the servants, sprang out also, and, striking an arbor in her descent, broke both legs, both arms, and re- eeived internal injuries. The work of death over, the flames were soon subdued.
 The dead and injured were removed In ann balances, the former to the morgue and the latter to the Bellevue Hospital. The list of killed will probably be increased by the death of some of those who have suffered injuries. The loss is estimated at $14, ,0OO, covered by insurance. The Etna Company, of Hartford, have $3, 900 insurance. Fred. Pierce died at 10 o'clock this evening at St. Barnabas Hos pital. The last victim of the flames removed, search was made for the cause of the fire That it had sprung up in the basement or in a little library above was clear, but by what agency is unknown. The heater in the cellar that heats the ballroom is given as one cause, 8 gas flame left unextinguished in the library as another. The Fire Marshal's investigation will reveal what the fremen were unable to decide. Fire in n IiIl-Panic Among the Em.
 plOyes-Othcr Fires.
 PHnADELPHIA, Jan. 5.-About Il o'clock this morning fire broke out in the mill occu- pied by Pollock $ Wolzenraft, yarn manufac- turers. When the fire was first discovered there were in the building over three hundred hands, including men, women and girls. When the alarm was given great consternation prevailed, especially among the latter, but they all escaped without sustaining any dam age. It is estimated that the loss is between SIS, ,00O and $20, ,000, which is fully covered by insurance.
 BOSTON, Jan. 5.-The Braid Mill at South Carver, Mass, was burned yesterday. Loss, from $6O, 900 to $7O, 900 insurance, $40, ,OOO, divided among fifteen companies.
 NEW YORK, Jan. 5.-At six o'clock this even- ing fire broke out on the first floor of the three story building in East Seventh street,