Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1883-01-12
A PICTURE SICKENING BE-
YOND DESCRIPTION,
THE LIST OF THE DEAD
NOT YET COMPLETE.
DAVITT SAYS " IRELAND
MUST FIGHT 1T OUT
THIS TIME"
Tie Hotel Horror.

| MILWAUKEE, Jan. 1.-The paper
this morning contain accounts of man,
incidents of yesterdays calamity.
The jumping cloth did little service
About dozen uufortuuases attempted
to jump, but rebounded rom the tele
graph wires. perfect maze Of which
surrounded the two fronts of the build
ing.
Edward Ryemer and Hermann
Strauss, OF truck No. l. appeared or
the roof of the bank building at a crit
icAl iancture directly opposite the serv.
ants quarter, ladder in hand. For a
moment the unwieldy thing was poised
in mid.air, and then descended with a
crash through the window OF the hotel
1t formed a bridge across the alley, and
before it became steady in its position
a man had crossed into the hotel. and
amid the cheers of the multitude below
dragged the helpless creatures across
the slender bridge until fully dozen
were rescued, all Of them in their night
clothes, and many were badly frozen
before taken to shelter. A woman in
a dead faint, uuable to help herself, was
dragged across in safety, but ct one
time her body was hanging over clear
of the ladder while the brave man held
by one of her ankles. The crowd below
held their breath in suspense. expecting
every moment to see the ladder turn
over or break beneath the terrible
strain. Gy herculean effort be pulled
her up on the slender bridge, and final
~ placed her out OF danger, while the
crowd, which endured the most painful
suspense for fully ten minutes, burst
forth in round after round of applause.
\ story of her hair.breadth escape
from q terrible death is related by LIZ.
zie Augland, one of the dining.room
girls. She awOke aud heard the noise
about 4 O'Clock A. NJ, and awakened her
room mate, Mollie Corners. The two
girls hastily dressed and attempted to
descend by the stairway, only TO lind
II emsslves facing a sheet OF fame.
Miss Corners, terribly frightened,
screamed out, Ny God, Lizzie, we
can;s get through there" Lizzie re-
Piled, - We must get through or per-
ish." With this Lizzie ru he'd through
the flames and succeeded in reaching
the office. where she fe!! insensibls, ter.
ribiy burned about the neck, tire lower
portion Of the face, her arms and legs
between the feet and knees Her in
juries, though severe. are not fatal.
Mollie Conaers fell on the stairway and
persisted.
II is reported Cd the street that there
were $50 guests in the house Tuesday
night. Il this be true the horrors that
are to be revealed by the removal Of the
debris are too horrible 70 contemplate.
There is talk of the fire having an ia
eendiary origin, but this is generally
tisc.edited.
FURTHER INCIDENTS OF THE FIRE
CHICAGO, Jan. 1.-The following /
details respecting the Now
hail House fire in Milwaukee have been !:
received |
Police Lieutenant Wood says, in re-
gard to the origin OF the fire aad the !
awful rapidity with which it spread !
g was in my office when the alarm |
sounded, and l reached the building !
before the engines b-gan to play. The
danes were filling the eisvstor-way and .
breaking out on d ferent floors. ! hus. ,
red to the third Story and helped one
ady to make her way down stairs. | !
then turned to so back, but no man
;onld have gone up to that third story
.iien and lived. 1t did not seem more
han a minute from the time | left the
ioor till the time 1 tried to go back, |
put in that time the fire had filled al! |
he building above the second story. |
), far as the origin Of the fire is cou.
;erned. can't see how it could have
started unless somebody liz It.
SO far as now known no. siugie Pa
re. Not Que name from the Far West
peared in the liss Of lost, injured or
'aved. |
Schell-r. proprietor OF the billiard
'oom aud bar of the Newhali House,
says: When l reached the hotel the
ire seemed TO be all in the upper
stories, aud l snppnsed it began tier;
ous from the evidence presented and
rom ali | learn, | now think the ire
started Ia the lower part of the build
ug. near .be elevator. | don Sc. hov:
: could possibly have begun un!ess
set it. The only thing that
makes it impossible Tor me to suppose
: was other than OF inceudiarv origin
y tina. | canno: understand what
motive any body could have had for d.
ng such thing.
TWO HAPLESS WOVEN.
Mrs. L. w. Brow q. wife Of the gen.
.ral yardmaster Of the Chicago and
Northwestern, is dead. Mr.. Brown
made rope of sheets which he tied to
sewing machine. He slid down and
received bus slight injuries. Alter
'eaching a fooshoid be called to his
wife to follow, but she did not, and
ew minutes later she was burned be-
leati mass of falling brick i'll her
'oJm.
Miss .L;bbie Chellis. for ten years in
charge Of the dre.snaking department
# I. A. Chapman's store. occupied
Dom in one OF the upper stories 'front.'
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