Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-01-09

One of the +. r. VS. q Defaulter to the
state--Miscel laneous, Crime. and Casualty
Record. -. .. ia .,.,;s i
-, HUMAN HOLOCAUST.
d :3..1, FATAL FIRE IN NEW YORK. "A
NEW YORK. Jan. "a fire broke out this
in the basement of Turner hail. East
Fourth street, occupied by Vim. Wrinkle as
BALL room, an when the flames were extin-
,uished Vim. Geib, 20 years, Lewis Schmidt,
30, Henry Gehweiter, rs, and Teresa Ethard
we're found on the top floor dead. Wrinkle and |
wife were badly burned and sent tt'the hospi-
tal. i? Annie Banr 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 1912 900.
" QUICK WORK.
The progress of the fire was SO great that it
was hardly five minutes after. the first 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 q
speed which put to naught the first efforts of
the fremen. The premises No. 66 and GO were
occupied by the Turner Hall proper and in the
etor, resided with his family and several en-
ployes:: As soon as the fremen could reach
the roof they cut holes IN it and broke in the
skylight, but the fire had already done its,
FEARFUL WORK ON SEVERAL VICTIMS,
surrounded as, they were by flames and cut off
from all access to safety by the burning stair
case. severalpersons sustained severe inju-
ries by leaping from the higher stories of the
building. One man, while crying frantically
for aid to the firemen beneath was all the
while pushing a woman, who seemed to be re-
sisting, from the fourth story window. She
finally leaped and struck the ground on her
feet,
-, WITH "A s1oKEN1Na 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
dead when taken from the burning building
or died before they reached the station house.
The actual cause of the fire is unknown. Ex-
animation showed mass of debris and around
where the winding stairway emerged from the
basement into the lower hall, and a look
showed the flames had every possible adj
vantage, and must have shot up from the
known to haze 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 filed their
rooms and the fire shot through the chinks
of the doors and wall. With a'cry of alarm
Mrs. Winckle, rousing her husband, ran to
the door of the bedroom where slept her sis
ter and the child. A cry from within answered
Cropping through the smoke the blinded wo-
man and her husband sought The stair
way, but were met by rush
of fire, against which they Intellectually sought
to shut the door. Their clothes caught fire,
and death seemed certain as they turned toward
! the do. r leading to the roof As they reached
it firemen's hands helped them out more or less
partly carried partly crept on the roof.
Streams of water we're now directed into
the buildings, and the frenen'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 garnet, which was
filled with smoke and charred by the flames
that leaped from ratter to rafter. There in
the rooms on the east side bad slept Geo. Null
Ter, Ernst and Herman Ruhl Louis Meyer,
Henry Gehrweiler and Louis Schmidt, walters.
Annie Bauer and Rose Stewart, servant girls.
The floors were
SEA or FLAMES,
on which the terrified men and women ran
wildly about, gasping for air and shou ting for
Ruhl made their way toward the front and
reached the roof, more than half suffocated
and burned here and there. Louis Meyer
sprang from q window into the yard below
of No. 10 Third street, a distance of
sixty feet or more, and was licked up
nearly dead. Louis Schmidt was found,
orsuohed the 8honee hs
had been unable to escape dead and burned to
q crisp. Henry Gehrweiler, unable to follow
his more fortunate comrades to the 'front.'
jumped from q 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 was
found burned to death, her features biackened
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.
GA East Fourth street in her descent, broke both
legs, both arms and received internal INJURIES.
FERvENT THANK GOD"
George Muller, one of the walters who es-
| capped, stood in the ruins of his old room this
morning with moist eyes, surrounded by
friends congratulating him on his lucky es-
cape. Il don't know about it, he said in
German. II was aroused by noise and heat.
I found the room, the whole floor full Of
smoke and could not see my way. On every
side heard cries. 1 gained the rooi how I
don't know, but fervently thank God for it,"
THE DEAD.
Louis Schmidt 80 years old, waiter. was
burned to a crisp in his sleeping room.
Henry Gehrweiler, Is years, waiter. jumped
from the fourth story rear window, died in
the Fifth street police station.
VIM. Geib, 10 years, taken out on the roof
of the adjoining building, died before he could
be placed ia an ambulance.
Teresa Erhardt, Is years, servant, burned to
death in her room:
VIM. Winckel, 40 years, lessee of the hall,
severely burned about the hands, face and
arms.
Josephine Winckel, 40 years, wife of the
lessee, face terribly disfguIed by burns and
body badly blistered. There is bnt little
chance of her recovery.
Annie Baur, so years, servant, jumped from
the window and internally injured. Will prob
ably die. Also badly burned.
Rose, servant, about 26 years, jumped from
the window. Both legs aud arms broken.
Louis Meyer, waiter, sprang from the VIM
dow. Limbs broken and internally injured.
Margaret Gieb, aged 80, sister of Mrs.
Winckel, face and, feet severely burned.
The girl Rose who jumped from the fourth
story window of Turner hall, died tonight.
OTHER ITEMS.
Boston, Jan. 5.-The Jenkins Manufacturing
company's braid mill at South Carver Mass. :,
was burned. Loss $780, 900 to 10000; insur-
ance 81, 900.
NEW York, Jan. 5.-The planning mill of Ira E.
Doyings, 19l and 1893 East Seventy sixth street,
burned this morning. Loss, 1856, 900; partially
insured. - - i
=: CELLULOID EXPLOSION.
THREE MEN KILLED, TWO INJURED.
NEWARK. N. j. Jan. 5.-A fearful explosion
took place about IL o'clock in the converting
room Of the Celluloid Manufacturing COM
pany. Ferry and Ashbridge streets, by which
three men we're inatantlv killed and two Others