Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1882-02-01

A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN NEW
YORK.
A LARGE NUMBER OF LIVES
LOST.
The Building Crowded With
Employees.
HEROIC WORK BY THE FIRE
MEN.
The Loss Estimated at One Million
. Dollars.
HEROIC WORK BY THE FIRE
MEN.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL.

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occupied by the New York World, in the
same block with the Times building, but
was separated from it by an intervening
building. The fire burned furiously, but
the Times building was saved, though con-
siderably damaged. 1t is stated that four
bodies were recovered in Nassau street of
persons killed by jumping from the win
dows. 1t is feared the loss of life will be
heavier than at first believed. The old
World building was crowded with en-
ployes, and very few could have escaped
by the stairway. An old gray-haired wo-
was seen in the fourth story Of the
building, appealing for help. Her lips
were seen to move, but her voice could not
be heard. ALI who saw her were horror
stricken. The flames ragged about her, ig-
hitting her hair and clothing. She fell
back into the flames and was not seen
again. A young girl. wearing a blue dress,
who was cut off from the stairs, ran to
the fourth story window on the Park Row
side and stood hesitatingly, while the
flames and smoke encircled her. Jump,
jump" shouted the spectators. Casting a
frightened look below, she threw herself
out and fell on the stone pavement. When
picked up life was extinct, her head being
crushed beyond recognition. A few min
utes later q negro woman appeared at the
third-story window on the Park Row side,
and also jumped to the sidewalk. She was
badly injured, and taken to the Chambers
Street Hospital. Several men and women
saved themselves by leaping from win
lows in Nassau street. When the woman
who was killed jumped from the window
there were two men hanging from the viz
dow stills by their finger ends. Ladders
were too short to reach them, and they
were saved by firemen mounting on one
another's shoulders, and the men letting
themselves down by their aid. At the
time when the occupants Of the upper
floors were making their escape, the scenes
were often exciting and touching. Men
could be seen holding the hands of women,
evidently encouraging them to calmness.
Three women ran on the roof and fell
through the skylight Of one of the north
ern buildings, receiving serious injuries.
A bootblack on the corner of Beekman
street and Park Row, seeing some men
.entangled in the telegraph wires adjoining
the burning premises, climbed a pole and
cut the wires, releasing them from their
critical position. Several people descend
ed from the burning building on the Mas
sau-street side by reaching a telegraph
pole. One boy leaped from the fifth story,
and would doubtless have been killed but
for the wires breaking his fall. He was
hurt, but not dangerously. An express
wagon, having a canvas covering, drew
up under the windows, and several men
who were about to leap to the ground were
told by the driver to jump on his wagon,
which they did, and escaped any serious
hurt. One young m stood up on the
window sill Of the fourth story until the
fremen arranged q piece Of canvas, which
they held at the ends and sides. When all
was ready che threw her hands straight
over her head and jumped. She fell upon
the outstretched canvas and escaped in
jury. 1t is almost impossible to estimate
the losses at this writing, but It is believed
that they will exceed 81 .000, 900.
Among the occupants Of the burned
building were the Scientific American,
Scotch American Journal. Turf. Field and
Farm. Thompson's Bank Note and Com
mercial Reporter. and the following adyer-
Using agents: 8. M. Pettingill q Co.,
John F. Phillips & Co., Charles Meyer &
Co., J. Walter Thompson. Nicola Mona
hest, A. r. Thompson. Levi A. Desbrow
and Leander Fl. Croall. The top floors Of
the burned buildings were occupied by
various manufacturers and by weekly
newspapers, which employed women as
competitors. A woman and two men are
said to have been seen at the window on
Nassau street. and then to disappear In
the flames.
A Civtl Government for Southeast.
ern Alaska.
WARRINGTON, Jan. 31.-Representative
George of Oregon yesterday introduced a
bill providing for q civil government for
Southeastern Alaska. 1t proposes to ex-
tend over that section such Of the laws Of
Oregon as are applicable, and to provide
the machinery for administering them and
the United States laws, as follows: Dis. |
trict Attorney. with executive power;
United States District Court, with Judge
and clerks, the latter to perform the du- |
ties OF Land Register and Receiver and
Recorder Of Deeds, and three Court Com |
m~issioners, to reside respectively at Sitka,
Wrangel and lame City, with Jurisdiction
as Justices Of the Peace. The Collector OF |
Customs at Sitka IL to be ex-oficio United |
States Marshal. The bill also provides for
the election Of q delegate to the next Con-
gress, and for the organization OF public
schools and the quieting of land titles.
Cruelty 10 q seven-Yea Old Girl.
STERLING tTll.). Jan. 31.-The village Of
Rock Falls Is in an uproar. because Of a
man and m named Seymour having
starved and otherwise bYutaily
. seven-year old daughter Of Mrs.
Baller, whose husband IL In the insane |
The little girl was working for
the Heymours, but has now been taken
away and IL under q physicians care.
or thirty people last night visited
Seymour for the purpose OF lynching him,
hut he escaped with his wife. and diligent
search failed to discover them. The
methods Of cruelty employed upon the in
nocent child are too diabolical for mention.
4 Bank Cashier Sentenced to Is
Years.
TRENTON IN. ~, Jan. 3l.-Oscar L.
Baldwin, late cashier Of the Mechanics'
National Bank Of Newark. appeared be-
lore the United States Court to-day and
guilty, and was sentenced to Is
Tears in the State Prison.
rhe Chinese Immigration bill Re.
ported Back.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 81.-The House Com.
nittee on Education and Labor yesterday
back the bill to regulate aud aus.
,end the immigration Of Chinese laborers.
u was made the special order for Feb. Z.
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Edna May Bradley eloped with Pearson,