The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-11-23
Crimes and Casualties


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Crimes and Casualties.
TERRIBLE FIRE AND APPALLING Loss o
LIFE-No FIRE.EscAPEs, As UsUAL-A sAvIN
To THE EMPLOYERS But DEATH TO THEr
EMPLOYEES.
PROVIDENCE, Il. l., Nov. 2l.-A fire oc
CURED this morning in the Calender build
ing, brick structure, situated betweel
Sabin and Cane streets, which resulted il
serious loss of life. The building, foH
stories high, was occupied mostly by
jewelry shops. The fire originated in the
workshop of Charles l.. Melvin, dyer, ir
the middle of the building on the third
floor. 1t was caused by the igniting of a
ten gallon can of naptha. The room was
filled with light, inhammable clothes and
woodwork, dry as tinder, and next to the
stairway, and before word of warning
could be given escape by the stairway was
cut off by the flames. On the fourth floor,
in the workshop OF William II. Robinson Il
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
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building and panic ensned. Just across
the alley, which was about fifteen feet wide
at the end of the Calender building, was a
two-story woodeR structure. The employees
rushed tor 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. Ihe
persons in, the rear crowded ai
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ofjumping, and many fell short. Others
were mi jared 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 a window and fell on picket
fence. She was terribly injured and cannot
survive; Mary Harlyr Della Gassett, Emma
Mathewson, Mrs. johnson, Mrs. Cuddy, all
these are young women, and all probably
fatally injured. Some were carried to their
homes and others to Rhode Island hospi-
tai. Thomas Mann fell short of
the two-story building. He, bounded
against it and fell to the ground. His in
luries are one arm and one leg broken.
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 had leg broken.
George Clark, employed by James Grant
81 Co., saw the fire and tried in vain to ex-
tinguish the flames, and finally had to run
for his life. One man, name unknown, an
employe of Grant & Co, hung from the
telephone wire until the fire department ar
rived. The ladder raised under him prov
ing five feet too short, a 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.
FRosTBUEG, KY, Nov. 2l.-A murder and
suicide took place yesterday near this place,
the parties being q young man named
Cook and Miss Austin. The latter, lived in
Muhlenburg county, but came to this place
to visit her friends. Geek had been paying
attention to her and spent considerable
time in her company while she was here.
He accompanied her and ner friends on her
way home till they reached Pond river,
where he called Miss Austin aside. AS she
was about to return he deliberately shot
her through the heart. He then shot hinl-
self in the region of the heart, fell, spraDg
no and shot himself twice through the head,
and both were dead within five minutes.
SETTLED BY A SHOTGUN.
MEMPHIS, TENN, Nov. N.-1 esterday
evening at Somerville, Tennessee, James
Barton and ". L. Thorpe, brothers-in-law,
engaged in quarrel over some family mat
ters, which ended by Barton threatening
TO kill Thorpe. Last night while Barton
was in q saloon playing game OF billiards,
Thorpe entered with shotgun and hred
bot. barrels at Barton, killing him in
stantly. The deceased was, until recently, |
a member OF the firm of Fuller, Hampton |
E Co., of this city. Thorpe, who did the
killing, is a professor of female college at
Somerville.
REACHED THE END OF HIS ROPE.
ATLANTA, GA, Nov. 2l.-Thomas B. Nor |
ton, alias j. L. Longshaw, supposed to be
wanted in Memphis for raising checks, and |
committing other otienses, has been ar
rested at this point.
WRECKED.
QUEBEC, Nov. 2l.-A telegram 10 the
marine department reports the steamship
Weymouth, Captain Evans, which lett here
for London Friday, wrecked during the
gale and snow-storm, on North Sand-Oeach,
Magdalene Island, Sunday night. The
vessel broke in four pieces. The crew all
persisted except four. The names OF the
saved are Mccall and Townsend, Martin
and Chief Engineer Hutchinson. The YES
sci and cargo are insured in London.
SUDDEN DEATH, -,
WASHINGTON, pESN., NOV. al..Aloert |
Adams, a young man living with James
McOueeowen, about three miles from Gay
Vile, partook of hearty breakfast this
morning and went out TO the field to busk
corn. While in the act Of pulling down tue
first shock he fell and expired Immediately