Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-11-15
Horrible Holocaust.

while all hands were BleepinG, = fire broke out
in the bake-house in the basement OF the inn
mense poor asylum building at Halifax, N: 3.
Exactly how it originated is not now clear, but
the smoke OF smouldering wood spread through
the building mt0the d0rmitories and caused
the utmost terror among the 400 or 500 inmates
of the institution. In the west wing old wemen
and children were seen at the windows crying to
be let out, and as they began breaking the
glass it was feared they would throw them
at the door leading fl ON the wing into the yard.
and with few vigorous blows of bis axe
knocked it In. The stairways were crowded,
ind out came procession Of women nursing
infants. old; gray=headed women and feeble old
men. All were screaming, and as they reached
the fresh air without they calculated their
thanks and then began calling for this one and
the meantime the flames swept up through an
elevator shaft and reached the top OF the
main building. The story Just under the caves
in this building was used as q hospital and in it
were about seventy patients, most of them per-
fectly helpless. The fire was now fercely purn-
ing right in the hospital and above It the heat
was so intense that lead poured down from the
everywhere in deadly showers, rendering near
approach to the building almost certain death.
An attempt was made to raise ladders to the
windows, but the ladders were too short, and
after & fireman was knocked down by falling
brick, and it was seen that the ladder would be
swept away in q few minutes, the attempt
ceased. The fire burst through the roof, and
the scene was one never to he forgotten. Far
above the roar of the flames and crack OF the
bursting states were heard the cries of the
wretched patients in the hospital, who were
roasting to death. Most of them, as before
stated, were helpless, and could not leave their
beds, and were perhaps stified by the smoke
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others we're seen to dash themselves against
the windows and cling to sashes till their
strength was exhausted or their hands burned
off and they fell back into the seething caldron
of flames. A woman was seen to drag herself
to corner window, and forcing her body half
out till she could breathe cool air, she remained
ih that position till her head burned off. Sc
far as ascertained thirty -one persons burned te
death-eight men and twenty three women.
Record Of Tragedies.
JoaiahB Smith and wife, of Santa Anna, Cal
iforpia, became insane on religious subjects,
and muldered their young son by cutting hi
by the Lord.
"A fiendish murder was committed near Dixor
Springs, ll., ON the uth inst. William Phelps
while eating dinner with his family, became sc
enraged at 6-year-old child because she
poutedr that he felled her to the floor and thel
trampled her under foot until life was extinct
The fend escaped to the woods. It is reasona
bly certain that if Phelps is captured he vii
be lynched. -!
A.. Kaufman, Texas, Amanda Walls.
neRress, killed little child to revenge diff
| Guilty she had with It's mother. The murderes
| was Jailed, and while in duress gave birth to
child which she killed by crushing its skull.
In saloon row at Lawrence, Mass, Michae
Louhy was fatally stabbed by Thomas Ken
Father j. B. o'Donoghue, of tho Catholi
Church ut Morrow; O., died on the 10th inst.
| from the effects Of blow from . monkey
wrench, administered by Timothy Green,
railroad employe. The priest had denounced
Green from the pulpit as thief.
At Henrietta, Texas, on the lotn inst', u.
Burgess, defeated candidate for count
judge; shot aud killed young man named
bonleyfor having spoken i'll of him during tn
Willie Earl, Detroit boy, was found dead il
. nedghbor's dove cote with pstol-bau in hi
brain. Murder is suspected.
his stepson, at Little Rock, Ark, on the 9Th.
Moses Gibbs, = well-known steamboat man
vas shot dead at New Orleans on the 9Th by
steward, with whom he had difficulty:
Jeremiah 4talvey, Z merchant Of Horr
| County, 8. O., was called from bis res
denoe on the night Of the 9Th to tran
6&Ct. some business I'D u1b bVOlo ScIOeo ~
road. and short time afterward was found
his wife with his skull fractured. He died
! few hours later. Two negroes are suspected
| the murder. 100 t s@E - S#.i
| 1Aparty Of citizens Of Jackson parish, Lou
isiana, took fromthe Jail at Vienna two negroes
charged with robbing an aged white planter
and fiddled them with bullets. ..ssf:o'.g Z
In row ct the polls in New. York city on ele'
ton day, Geo. A. Kelly, fireman was shot IN
killed BY John Flaherty, special policeman.
i i Henry Heisel, an ex-saloon.keeper .t Wes
chester, o., was robbed and killed in his room
His wife came to his defense, but was bad
beaten by the robbers. ,zYz J, ',,.EI 8, 3,
.At Wataseka Bayou, Ark, ON the 6th inst
sam N. Adams had disagreement with
son over some financial matter. The your
man fred three shots at bis father, Whereupe
the latter seized . weapon and shot his &C
dead. The broken-hearted man then went
4 town and surrendered himself. FEsz:a 70,