Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-01-12

heap on the floor Of the small room, are
hear,rcnding and beyond human power Of
description. A small police force is ne.
ccssary to keep the anxious inqn,rcrs in
line. Nineteen no lies are identified and
eight are beyond recognition. Mrs. John
Gilber,'s body IS positively identified. 1t
is a touching scene to see the bride of a
night upon the cold marble charred and
bruised with anguish depicted in the deli
cate features. 1t is said she was Miss
Sutton, Of Chicago, previous to marrying
Gilbert, who is ma.idened beyond control
The fire d parlment called for assistance
from the Soldiers Home, but Gen. Sharpe
refused to send a steamer, at which the
indignation is great.
The Chicago and Racine relief stemers
are now on the way, but the fire Is under
control. The firelnen made superhuman
efforts and eleven waiter girls were
brought safely across frail ladder
over the alley from the sixth
story of the hotel to the roof of the ad-
joining bank building. The jumping
cloth did little service. About dozen of
the unfortunates attempted to jump, but
rebounded from telegraph wires, a perfect
maze Of which surrounded two fronts Of
the building. The appeals for aid were
piteous, but little could be done.
VIM. E. Cramcr, of the Evening Wis
consin, was saved through the heroic ef-
forts of Charlie Gessing, Sentinel typo.
Chief Clerk 'rice, who had a narrow es-
cape, says there were ll0 boarders and 80
employees IN the hotel. So far fifty six are
unaccounted for.
So far as known the following arc the
dead:
Allen johnson, commission merchant,
and wife, Milwaukee.
Kitty Bai'ey and Mary Burns, servants
w.. Hall, miller, LaPorte.
Ben Van Hoag, fireman, struck on the
head by a falling telegraph pole.
Lizzie Kelly, Maggie Owens Hall, An
ME and Bessie Brown, Katie Lancl an,
Maggie Sullivan, A. E. Giese, Mary Nc
Dadc, servants.
T. E. vanLoom, Albany, N. Y.
J. Haugh, Marion, III.
d. Y. Powers, Mrs. Brown, Mary
Burk, Mary Anderson, Mary Miller, Mary
and Mary Conroy, servants.
The following are missing; W.T.Darant,
insurance agent. Geo. s. smith, passenger
a gent for L. S. s. NJ. S. road; Mrs. l.. w.
Brown, servant.
Mrs. Chells, dressmaker; Walter and
William Gill.nd arc seriously injured.
Orange Williams, druggist, James,
vile; Benz l Tice, clerk Of the
house; L. W. Brown, tram master of the
Northwestern road and r. b. Elliot
Laucr arc fatally injured.
W. Il. Bucrenback, Gcnl Pass. agent of
the Michigan Central road, Rose Burns
Mary Owens, Minnie Mclaughlin, Kittie
Connors, Doyle Town, servants, are seri-
",'sy inj"r.d.
II can safely be said that sixty people
are dead and thirty seriously injured.
The mayor has called meeting of the
of commerce to organize SAL
wage corps to search the ruins. About a
week the secretary of tho local hoard Of
Underwriters was applied to to make q
rate on the hotel that local agencies
might take the risks. The building was
considered death trap and the risks
were refused. ~
The Tom Thumb company and the
Madison Square company are all saved.
So far rs learned Mrs. John Gilbert, of
the Minnie Palmer troupe, married only
two days ago; was burn~d to death.
Twenty-four hours have elapsed since
the most terrible catastrophe befel Mil
waukee and the lmmcnsity OF the dread
ful disaster seems to increase instead of
wane with the floating time. A dread
seems to creep over every one passing the
huge pile of smoking ruins that mark the
place where only two days ago the pala-
tial Newhall house stood with its 200 in
mates who awoke yesterday mornin 6
from their slumbers to stand face to face
with the grim renper. Snow had been
falling all night silently weaving q
shroud for many, how many nobody can
ask without shudder on behold,ng what
is left of one of tho largest hostelries in
the Northwest
Early in ihe morning, at 3:47 O'Clock
the alarm Of fire was turned in from box
439, Mel and 18th streets, and many a
good citizen counting the strokes of the
alarm ascertaining the location and cast
ing look at the black sky hanging bcav-
lily over the house tops went to rest again
with a relic, ed feeling that the alarm
did not denote dangerous box and that
Milwaukee's tried firemen would do their
duty. About half an hour later at 4:O5
q. m., the two ominous strokes of a tele-
phone alarm called the rest of the de-
partment not engaged at the fire up again
and three minutes later an alarm from
Is, corner Michigan and Broadway rang
out. Chief Lippert hurried of from 18th
street as fast as his trotter would carry
and he made such good time that he
could turn in a second alarm four minutes
later. The whole department was called
to the scene leavingi the chem
,cal engine to battle with the flames in
The remote part of the city. The opera
tors in tho train dispatchers office OF the
e. NJ. s. st. r. II. Il. in the Mitchell
building had seen from their quarters a
q light smoke issuing from the attics OF