Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-11


at the Newhall. He was sixty-two years of
age, and was very wealthy.
Mr.. Linehan, an engineer, whose sister
was head Iaundress in the Newhall, went to
the upper stories and succeeded in helping
number of persons into the bank build
ing, thus saving their lives, but his
sister he did not save, as she jumped into
the alley between the bank and hotel
building and was killed, her body being
literally broken in twain. Linehan worked
with rare bravery and presence of mind,
and deserves honorable mention in what
ever records of noble deeds are kept here
or elsewhere.
John Mcdonald was one of the first at
the fire. He says that a small boy was the
first he saw jump into the alley in the rear
of the hotel. He and others stopped to
pick the little fellow up, when, with&a
shrieking thud, woman struck the pave
ment few feet to the right of him, and in
second later another struck to
the left of him. Both
were crushed and instantly killed.
The little boy, whose name no one there
present knew, gasped once or twice,
stretched out feebly and expired. Mr..
Mcdonald says these terrible scenes were
more than most of the men could bear
and fairly made him
SICK AT HEART.
A servant named Kate Linehan. died in
Mr.. Dodsworth's rooms almost from sheer
fright, and he thinks he could have saved
her if he had had any stimulants.
1t having been roughly estimated that
there were 100 people burned in the build
ing, Chief Lippert said he did not think
it would reach that number by any means,
but there must have been great
many who were suffocated. some in
bed and some in the halls. number died
of sheer fright and nervous exhaustion.
One girl
TURNED MANIAC,
and when Fireman Reimer sought to res
cue her she fought him with frenzy, but he
succeeded in carrying her out. W. H.
Crompton, W. A. Lavelle, Miss Herbert,
Miss Dunlap and Miss Temple, of the
''Esmeralda" company, arrived in the
night, took rooms at the Newhall, and
barely escaped down the fire escape in
their night clothes. Judge D. j. Paul has
been an invalid for several years, a cripple,
but he was saved. Two men dragged
him down the stairs as they would a
bag of meat. Mr.. W. II. Hall, a
travelling man of Laporte, Ind, is at Dr.,
Bartlett's with broken back and eyes
| burned out,
THE CORONER
is hard at work, but does not know when he
can hold an inquest. Naturally there are
many conflicting statements concerning
the origin of this terrible fire. 1t is clear,
however, that the reports published and
otherwise circulated that it began on the
third floor are erroneous. Those who were
first on the ground from the outside say
the elevator from top to bottom was one
roaring iue of flames, and that fire burning
was moderately in the rear of W. T. Du-
and's insurance Office, which abutted
on the hallway leading to : the
lower entrance of the elevator. The fire
might, if of incendiary origin, have been
started at the foot of the elevator outside
of Durand's Office, but few moments
being required for it to eat through into
his room where flames were seen, or it
might have burned from his room to the
elevator. That the flames first came from
below, using the elevator for their terrific
progress upward, is corroborated by Mrs.
VIM. E. Cramer. Chief Lippert says he
has no doubt that the fire was
OF INCENDIARY ORIGIN,
and thinks it was started in the back
part of the barber shop as near the
foot of the elevator as possible,
soIthe flames might take advantage of that
conductor to spread to all parts of the
building. The detectives, Reimer and
McManus, Roundsman Sullivan, Lieut..
lockwood and Officers O'Brien and Paik-
owski, who were present from the first, en-
tertain the same opinion. Others believe
it was set in the engine room of Burdick &
Armitage's printing Office, also in the base
ment, among waste paper and combusti-
BILE accumulations. If either supposition
is true, it corroborates the story of those
above who were the first to escape, as it
would require but few moments for the
flames to reach the elevator from either of
these places. Several times heretofore fires
have been set at the vent of the elevator
and put out, showing a determined at
tempt to destroy the building and leading
people generally to believe that the last
and successful effort was by the same par
ty.
PROCLAMATION.
] The mayor issued the following procla-
nation this afternoon:
| Mayors OFFICE, Jan. 10, o'clock a. m.-In
view of the terrible calamity that has befallen
us, and in order to afford relief to the suffering
survivors, to rescue the bodies of the dead from
the debris of the ruined Newhan house, and to
| take such other action as may be deemed neces-
| sary and advisable, hereby call meeting of
the business men Of our city at the chamber Of
! commerce to-day Ut II O'Clock noon.
[Signed] JOHN d. STowIL,
Mayor.
AT THE CHAMBn OF CONNH10H
there was a general understanding that
| no business could be done, except what
was necessary ts. ELL orders. The members
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