The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-11-22
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.


A TERRIBLE FIRE AND APPALLING LOSS OF
LIFE--So FIRE.EscAPEs, AS UsuAL-A SAVING
To THE EMPLOYERS. HuT DEATH TO THEIR
EMPLOYEES.
PROVIDENCE, Il. L., Nov. 2l.-A fire oc.
Cured this morning in the Calender build
ing u brick structure, situated between
Sabn and Cane streets, which resulted in
serious loss of life. The building, four
stories high, was occupied mostly by
iewelry shops, The fire originated in the
workshop of Charles l.. Melvin, dyer, in
the middle of the building on the third
floor. Ii was caused by the igniting of q
ten gallon can of naptha. The room was
filled with light, inilammable clothes and
woodwork, dry,as finder, and next TO the
stairway, and before word OF warning
could be given escape by the stairway was
cut oil by the flames, On the fourth floor,
in the workshop OF William II. Robinson 81
Co., gold-chain makers, the firm employed
forty operatives, equally divided as TO sex.
When the flames swept up through the
floor the employees made rush for the win
dows. There was no fire. escape in the
building and q panic ensued. Just across
the alley, which was about fifteen feet wide
at the end of the Calender building, was a
two-story wooden structure. The employees
rushed for the end of the building fronting
on the alley, when panic ensued. The
roof of the wooden building was about
twenty feet below the window.sills, where
excited girls were congregated. The
persons in the rear crowded
and pushed those in the act
ofjumping, and many fell short, Others
were injured by being jumped upon after
they had reached the roof. The dead are
Emma Tassett, aged %, and Bessie Copp.
Both these girls struck the ground between
the Two buildings and died in few min
utes. The injured are Mary McSorley She
jumped from window and fell on a picket
fence. She was terribly injured and cannot
survive; Mary Harry, Della Gassett, Emma
Msthewson, Mrs. Johnson, Mrs. Cuddy, all
fatally injured. Some were carried to their
homes and others to Rhode Island hospi-
tai. Thomas Mann fell short OF
the two.story building. lie bounded
against it and fell to the ground. His in
luries are one arm and one leg broken. A
man named Smith tell to the ground and
was badly hurt. Mary Davis jumped from
the fourth floor window to the roof of the
wooden building and llad leg broken.
George Clark, employed by James Grant
& Co., saw the lire and tried in vain to eX-
tingush the flames, and finally had to run
for his life. One man. name unknown an
employee of Grant Il Co., hung from the
telephone wire until the ire department ar.
rived, The ladder raised under him prov
ing five feet too short, u fireman mounted
TO the top and caught the workman in his
arms. The loss on the building and stock
amounts to 100000.
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
FR0sTBuRG, KY, Nov. 2l.-A murder and
suicide took place yesterday near this place
the parties being young man named
Cook and Miss Austin. The latter lived in
Muhenburg county but came to this place
TO visit her friends. Cook had been paying
attention to her and speUt considerable
time in her company while she was here
lie accompanied her and ner friends on heI
way home till they reached Pond river
where he called Miss Austin aside. AS sht
was about to return he deliberately shot
her through the heart. He then shot him
self in the region of the heart, fell, spranp
up and shot himself twice through the head
and both were dead within five minutes.
SETTLED ny A SHOTGUN,
MEMPHIS, TENN, Nov. 2l.--Y esterday
evening, at Somervillc, Tennessee, Jane.
Barton and ". l., Thorpe, brothcrs-m-law
engaged in a quarrel over some family mat.
tiers, which ended by Barton threatening
to Kill Thorpe Last night while Barton
was IN saloon playing game of billiards
Thorpe entered with n shotgun and fired
both barrels ut Barton, killing him in
staully. The deceased was, until recently
u member of the finn of Fuller, Hampton
! 4 Co., Of this city, Thorpe, who did the
| killing is prof sS0r of female college at
Somervillc.
REACHED TuE END oF his ROPE.
ATLANTA, Ca, Nov. 2l.-rhomas u. Nor
ton, alias j. T.. Longshaw, supposed to b,
wanted in Memphis for raising checks, and
committing other oilenses has been ar
rested at this point.
WRECKED.
QUEBEC, Nov. 2l-A telegram 10 tn,
marine department reports the steamship
Weymouth, Captain Evans, which LETT her,
for London Friday, wrecked during the
| gale and snow-sturm, on North Saud.beacb
Mngdalene Island, Sunday night. Tn,
vessel broke IN four pieces Tile crew nj
persisted except tour Tho names of tia,
saved are: Mccall and Townsend, Martir
and Chief Engineer Hutchinson. The YES
sci and cargo are insured in London.
SUDDEN DEATH
| WASHINGTON, Penn, Nov. 2l.-Alber
Adams, Il young man LIVING with jane
McQuceowen, about three mites from Clay
vile, partook of hearty breakfast THU
morning and went out to the tield to busl
corn. While in the act pulling down Tia,
first shock he fell and expired Immediately