Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-11
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Western Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE. Wis, Jan. 10.-Newhall
house, six-story brick building, corner
of Michigan street and Broadway, burned
to the ground this morning. The fire was
discovered at 4 o'clock in the mo rning,
in less than half an hour the whole. build
ing, long designated as a
DEATH TRAP,
was enveloped in flames. Scenes of the
utmost terror prevailed, the inmates of
the doomed building jumping by dozens
from theupper stories, covering the stone
sidewalks with their lifeless bodies. The
shr1eks of the unfortunates filed the air
in heart rending manner, people below
being unable to render any aid. Cutie
number of terrified guests and employees
of the hotel appeared at the windows, and
seeing the distance to the ground, fell
back to perish in the flames. The en-
ployes of the hotel, which. accommodated
800 guests, numbered eighty-six, mostly
lodged in the sixth story. Exit by way of
the roof was cut off by the fire, and two
stand pipes with fire ladders were not
available for the same reason. Very few
were saved by jumping on canvas.
All the stores and offices on the ground
floor with their contents were destroyed.
They were:
On the Michigan street side-The Offices
of the Mutual Union Telegraph company,
a. .Baumgaertner's sign painting shop,
Goetzs barber shop, Burdick & Armitage,
job printers. On the Broadway front
Manufacturers bank, Metropolitan Plate
Glass Insurance company, insurance agen-
cies of Chas. E. Grain, VIM. I. Durand, g..
P. Hewitt, C. f. Hibbard & Co., F. w.
Montgomery & Co.. B. NJ. We'll, West and
Meyers and L. A. Wheeler, and j. H. Wat
son, agent of the Canada Southern road,
the Office of Nelson's Coal yard and the Of
flee of the Merchants, Despatch Freight
line.
A number of wholesale establishments
on East Water street were damaged by
fire and the falling walls of the building
Among them were: William E. Cramer,
banker; Goodyear Rubber company; Louis
Schadegg & Co., wholesale wines; James
Morgan, dry goods; Zimmerman Bros,
IL.
Manufacturers bank, carried the cash box
of the institution, containing money and
papers amounting to 100000, safely out
of the flames. The insurance agencies and
general offices on the first floor scarcely
saved any papers.
THE INSURANCE
on the hotel is stated, by G. D. Nash, presi-
dent of the Newhall House association, at
$125,OOO, all held by Cincinnati agencies.
The loss is scarcely to be estimated at this
hour but will reach $50O,0O0. Telegraphic
communication will be interrupted for
traffic north, as about fifty wires are
down. Comparatively few guests were in
the hotel. The register was burned, and
the exact loss Of life is not determinable.
1t will reach fifty to sixty deaths, and
twenty to thirty wounded. So far twenty
three bodies are in the morgue, and nine
more in places near the ruins.
THE GUESTS.
Identification comes in slowly. Among
those known to have been in the hotel are:
c.. b. Briggs, Grand Rapids, Mich.
N. Millers, Ripon.
George Youngs, Chicago.
]. A. Manning, Chicago.
W. D. Lewis, Chicago.
R. n. Baker, New York.
J.V. Nahoney, Rock Islard, Ill.
o.. j. Hill, Syracuse, N. 7.
A. B. Hendeyf, New Haven, Conn.
A. J. Case, New York.
r. Hobler, Chicago.
J.J. Craig, Des Moines, Iews.
Chas. A. Handy, Milwaukee.
The Tom Thumb party.
Orange Williams.
J. "A. Prinsen and wife, Sheboygan Falls.
John G. Clarke, Wausau.
Mr.. Rovsll, of Sanford & Rowell, Ned
ford.
Ben Tice, chief clerk.
John 81. Antisdel, clerk.
John r. Antisdel, proprietor.
BENZ. Mason, teacher, Milwaukee.
The following guests are known as
SAVED Oh ONLY SLIGHTLY HURT:
Edward Pollock, Lancaster, Wis.
Rowell, Of Sanford & Rowell, Medford,
Wis.
Carl Briggs, Grand Rapids, Mich.
John G. Clark, Wausau.
j. R. Duval, agent Great Western Des-
patch and South Shore line.
Geo. F. Lee, northwestern travelling pas