The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-01-06
The FIRE FIEND.
The eickentBg Account of 4,
Terrible Fire in Now V0.T

Terrible Fire in New York,
New York. 5.-The progress of the
lire IN Turner Hall was 30 great that it
was hardly five minutes after Abe frat
engine company arrived before the
entire inside of the premises seemed
to be alive with flames, long tongues
OF which ran up the wood work With
a speed which put to raught
the first efforts of the firemep.
One man, while crying frauticalIy for
aid TO the fremen beneath, was all
the while pushing a woman, who
seemed to be resisting. from the
fourth story widow. She finally
lesped end struck the ground on
her feet With sickening crash, break
ing both legs and arms and almost
crushing Der to death. OF the twelve
or fifteen persons sleeping in sixty
four, four were burned to death and
five injured. The little boy was
burned to crisp. Others we're either
dead when taken from the burning
tuilding or died before they reached
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of the fire is unknown.
There were no fire escapes attached
to the building. 1t was not until the
humping of the fTemen's axes on
the boards and tin over their heads
re-echoed through the house, that
the men and women underneath
were reused to learn their danger.
Streams OF water were now directed
into the building, and the fremen's
work began to tell, but their stten-
ton was demanded IL another quay
ter. From elevated portions oil
he central part oil the building
cries of agony and shouts
for help were heard, and the fremeu
cut through the roof and sides til
they gained an entrance to the garnet
Here, in rooms on the eas: side, had
slept six walters; in the west side
bed rooms we're three servant girls
The floor was sea Of hAmes, il
which the terrified men and Womer
ran wildly about, gasping for all
and shouting for help. George
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Ruhl made their way toward the from
and reached the root more than hal
eufocated and burned here and there
Louis Meyer sprang from a window
into the yard below, distance Of s'XtI
feet or more, and was picked VI
nearly dead. Louis Schmidt wa
found, after the fremen veutured in
crouohing 10 q corner where he bat
been unabls to escape, dead ADJ
burned to a crisp. Henry Gerweihler
unable to follow his more 10 tunat
comrades, jumped from q window int
the yard aud died from tn
effects of his leap, every boa
in his body being broker. Teres
Erhardt never left her room. She wa
found burned to death, her feature
blackened almost beyond recognition
Annie Bauer sprang from the wiudoH
rather than die in the fire, end va
found in The yard on the west eide c
the building. She was totribl
burned and. with the injuries cause
by her her fall, cannot live
Rose, the last Of the servants, spran
out also, and striking an arbor in tn
yard. in her descent, broke bota legs
both arms and received interna
Injuries. The dead-Louis Schmid
100 years old, a Ha;tsr, was burneI
to crisp in a sleeping loom; Henri
IGerWeihler, % years, waiter, jumpe
from q fourth story rear window an
died; William Geib, 10 years old
taken out on the Ioof the adjoinIn
building, died before he could b
placed in the ambulance; Teres
Erhardt, % years, servant, burned t
death in her room. Injured
William Winckel, 40 ytars, lessee {
the Hall, severely burned about ID
hands, face and arms; Josephin
Winckel, 40 years. wife {
lessee, face terrible disfgured b
burns and the body badly blistered
little chance of recovery; Ami
Bauer, 80 yearg, servant, jumped frCr
window and internally injured, bsdl
burned. probably die; Rose, servant
about 20 years, jumped from th
window; both legs and arms broken
and internally injured; Margsre
Geib. aged 80, sister to Mrs. Winckel
face and feet severely burned.