Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-06
HUMAN HOLOCAUST.
FATAL FIRE IN NEW YORK.


ball room, AMI when the flames were extin
guished VIM. Geib, 90 years, Lewis Schmidt
80 Henry Gehweiter, 25, ard Teresa Erhard
were found on the top floor dead. Wrinkle and
wife were badly burned and sent t. the hospi
tai. Annie Baur received severe internal In
iuries 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 Sl2,euV.
QUICK WORK.
The progress of the fire was SO great that 1t
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 a
speed which put to naught the first efforts OF
the fremen. The premises No. 6b and oS were
occupied by the Turner Hall proper and IN the
upper stories of 81, William Wiukle, prcpri-
etor, resided with his family and several en-
ploves. As soon as the hremen 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. Several persons sustained severe inju-
ries by leaping from the higher stories of the
building. One man, while crying frantlcally
for aid to the fremen beneath, was all the
while pushing a woman, who seemed to be re-
sisting from the fonrth story window she
finally leaped and struck the ground on her
feet,
WITH sICSENfNG CRASH,
breaking both legs and arms and almost
crushing her to death OF twelve or ff-
teen persons sleeping in No "a, four were
burned to death aud five were injured. One
boy was burned to crisp; Others were either
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 look
showed the flames had every possible ad-
vantage, and must have shot up from The
burning basement staircase. All the persons
known to have 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 5thumplng
of the firemen'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 filled their
rooms and the fire shot through the chunks
of the doors and wall. With cry of alarm
Mrs. Winckle rousing her husband, ran to
tho door of the bedroom where slept her SIS
ter and the child. A cry from within answered
her and told her that they too were awake.
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
10 shut the door. Their clothes caught fire,
aud death seemed certain as they turned toward
the do, r leading to the roof. As they reached
it firemens hands helped them out more or less
terribly burned. The women and men were
partly carried partly crept on the roof.
the buildings, and the freinen'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 garrett which was
filled with smoke and charred by the flames
that leaped from ratter to rafter. There III
the rooms on the east side had slept Geo. Null
Ter, Ernst and Herman Ruhl, Louis Meyer,
Henry Gehrweiler and Louis Schmidt, walters.
In the west side bedrooms were Teresa Erhardt,
Annie Bauer and Rose Stewart, servant girls.
The floors were
SEA OF FLAMES,
wildly about, gasping for air and shouting for
help. George Muller and Ernst and Herman
Ruhl made their way toward the front and
reached the roof, more than half suffocatcd,
and burned here and there. Louis Meyer
sprauG from window into the yard below
of No. - Third street, distance of
sixty feet or more, and picked up
nearly dead. Louis Schmidt was found,
after the fremen ventured in,
1aI rbnr.nn ha
had been unable to escape dead and burned to
n crisp. Henry Gehrweiler, unable to follow
his more fortunate comrades to the front,
jumped from a 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 blackened
almost beyond recognition. Annie Baur
sprang from the window rather than die in the
fire, and found in the yard on the west
side of the building. She was horribly burned
and, with the in uries 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, bothar and receivedla internal injuries.
A FERvENT THANK GOD
George Muller, 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 Il was aroused by noise and heat.
I found The room, TIE whole flor full of
smoke and could not see my way. On every
side heard cries. gained the roof how l
don't know, but fervently thank God for it. y
THE DEAD.
Louis Schmidt 80 years old, waiter, was
burned to crisp in his sleeping room.
Henry Gehrweiler, rs years, wsiter, jumped
from the fourth story rear window, died in
the Fifth street police station.
Wm. Geib, 10 years, taken on. on the ROOF
of the adjoining building, died before he could
be placed 10 an ambulance.
Teresa Erhardt, % years, servant, burned te
death in her room.
VIM. Winckel, 40 years, lessee of the hall
severely burned about the hands, face ano
arms.
Josephine Winckel, 40 years, wife of the
lessee, face terribly disfgured by burns and
body badly blistered. There is bnt littls
chance of her recovery.
Annie Baur, 30 years, servant, jumped from
the window and internally injured. Will prob
ably die. Also badly burned
Rose, servant, about 20 years, jumped FROM
the window Both legs and arms broken.