Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-17

Win SandersoL, of Edward Sanderson &
Co., and Tom Dunbar of the Milwaukee
Driving park, and Joe Henders. saloonist.
under the gambling den of Sholes q New
bauer. The feeling is intense but a great
many who know Scheller we'll declare he is
not capable of the deed.
THE SEARCH FOR THE DEAD.
The fifth days search through the ruins
of the burned NewhalI house for the re-
mains of victims of the mighty confagra-
tion ended last night, with the result of
discovering the fragments of eleven bodies
between the hours of and 5 o'clock,
making total of thirty nine found since
the work began last Friday. The labor
is now more than half done
and Captain O'Connor, who has
the matter in charge, thinks
the last inch of debris will have been ex-
amined by Saturday afternoon. The heap
of brick piled over the space known.as
THE OPEN COURT OF THE HOUSE
was penetrated yesterday, but contrary to
the prevailing belief, no bodies were
found. 1t was thought many had en-
deavored to find some avenue of escape by
leaping from the windows of the inside
rooms into the Icourt, only to buried in
the falling walls, and the removal of the
timbers and bricks would reveal whole
sale slaughter. No trace of any body has
yet been found, however, within the con-
fines of this space, and it was not believed
last evening that any now would be. 1t is
at the back of the ruins, adjoining the
alley that
THE CHARRED TRACES
of what were so few days ago human be-
ings, moving with life's warm pulse, are
being unearthed by dozens. Often it is
only tell-tale thread of white ashes in
bold relief against the dusky cinders that
speaks of flesh and bones calcined to
mere sign. Then the veriest shred is up
turned and then again the greater
portion of one of the sacrificed comes out.
Here is where the poor girls employed
about the hotel went down by scores, and
as the cruel wreck is softly lifted such
remnants .of their fair bodies as were not
wholly devoured by the remorseless flames
lie thick and deep. The crisp and black
ened fragments of seven of the female
sex have already been taken from an area
only few feet square at this point.
HUNT HAS ONLY BEGUN.
The principal interest of the afternoon
among most of the spectators and officials
present was the uncoverlng and opening
of the safe of the house. It was freed
from all surrounding bricks dur
ing the forenoon and was
an object of critical attention
during noon hour, as it lay front up where
it had fallen from its place on the Office
floor to the cellar. Just an hour was
passed when labor was resumed at 1
o'clock, in rolling it up to the street, and
twenty minutes were consumed in
BREAKING THE BOLTS,
so that the doors could be opened. It had
been reported and expected that the noted
register and transfer book had
been thrown into the safe when
the fire was discovered, and anxious hearts
were waiting all over the land for the dis
closure of pages the two books could
make.IAs the warped and blistered doors of
the safe were at last swung open disclosing
the interior to the gaze of the little party
crowding around, every breath was hushed.
Next moment an involuntary sigh welled
up from every breast All waited and
watched the locksmith with his chisel and
hammer cut the confning bolts, and as he
pulled the doors open every eye pierced
the dark recess. The contents of
the safe we're badly tumbled and
tossed, but not the least trace of
book or paper of the slightest Importance
in showing who was in the hotel one week
ago last night was there. Teere were
numerous papers and documents and three
blank books, but no register, no transfer
book, no memorandum of guests or en-
ployes.
Nearly a week has elapsed since the
Newhall house went down in ruins and the
agonizing shrieks of the victims, and the
full extent of the disaster remains un
known. The widest reports that spread
over the city and from thence to the ut
most limits of the civilized world on the
day of the disaster are fully
realized, and still the pick and shovel of
the laborers continue to add to the horrors.
Yesterday closed with twenty-eight bodies
recovered and to-day noon the number in
creased to thirty-one. The blackened and
unrecognizable forms of three girls, side
by side in the laundry room, were taken
out just as night enshrouded the ruins with
its shadows. Eight bodies in all have been
recovered along the west foundation wall
of the building, the remains of servant
girls who were struggling to reach the
passage way into the bank building when
cut off by smoke and flames.
The north wall having been torn down,
the workmen began excavating the two
sections that were left untouched on ac
count of the danger that menaced from
the tottering pile of brick and mortar.
They were rewarded with the discovery of
the body of large man at the foot of the
old entrance for ladies, which was closed
when the elevator was placed in the house.
The body was doubled over the foundation
wall, the greater portion of it lying out
upon the sidewalk face down. The IN
fortunate victim had without doubt made
his way to the head of the stairway, found
it to be on fire, and all retreat being cut
off, made tremendous leap through the
sea of flame for the pavement, and struck
over the wall. The mating at the street
entrance was baked and matted into the
flesh of the abdomen, but there was moth
ing on the bodysto lead to identification.
The remains were of a very large man.
! Quite distance has been made into the
court where it was expected large nun
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