Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-01-11

But the man was equal to the occasion
and finally placed the woman on the orpo-
site roof, while the crowd below again
burst out with round after round Of ap-
plause. Meanwhile the whole building
had become enveioped in flames and the
piercing shIieks of the inmates became
fewer and fewer as each Que chose his
manner of death, for. Al! melEs Of escape
having been cut off, it was only Il choice
between death in the street or death in
the flames.
\ Bride of Two Days
One of the saddest facts in connection
with this awful catastrophe is the fate o..
Mr. and Mis-. John Gilbert. NJ. Gilbert
was connected with Minnie P,lmer's :" My
the Gambler, while under studying to ill!
the roll of Tong. Just before leaving
Chicago fur Milwaukee last Monday Mr..
Gilbert was married to a young laly to
whom he had been drvotediy attached for
some time past. On Monday morning this
happy couple bound their lives together :;
lay IL the morgue dead while at
the PIankinton housr. writhing in agony,
lies the husband, hut step from
N'S'N'A- ~ NSNA. ~ 10 iASt ti-'tSut PNcSio4S
that he can be saved Last night the
happy young coupe, in company with
| others. sat i'll Manager Marsh's office ;st
the OPERA house until midnight talking
about the Eurcp an trip they were to
take III May With the Company and Of the
happiness bt;oIe them. The horrible
change of he /, " hours ii seemed impossi-
BE to lcal;l.. Mr.. Gilbert's mother ar
rived in the fist train from Chicago, and
Las not leii lhe bedside of her dying son
She is a'.nn~t craZcd with grief and her
! crisS u the Lad to save his life are pit
couS. Giib>lt's light name was John
| Demn.iis, while that of his young wife
was Sutton General Tom Thumb ard
his wife were saved By an officer, whC
carried them down stairs in his arms. \
colored attendant Was burned to death.
but the rest of the company escaped un,
injured
W. II. Crpmptrn, the Old Rogers in
" EsmereId. of the Madison Square
theatre company, Miss Herbert, Mrs
Dunlap and W. ~ Lavelle arrived Oh tbs
| midi iglt express from Waukegan, ant
went TO the hotel. Mr.. CromptOa was
aroused by an lndistinct sense of a terrible
noise "utsIde. Before he realized wha;
Was gning OH he Was startled by the knock:
of Miss Herbert at the door adjoining his
Hc unlocked the door and she came in
Her apartment was SO full of smoke thai
i: they could not return through, and they
+, STATED for the fire escape. Mr.. Crompton
! managed to throw on some clothes, bu
! Miss Herbert had 10 time to save any
thing.
MIS-. Dunlap and Mr.. Lovelle escaped il
a similar way, but were more fortunate il
both getting partly dressed. The Minnie
Palmer company and tho Tom Thumb
company have cancelled their engagement
at the opera house and the Academy 0
Music owing to the deaths Of members o
their companies.
John F. Antisdel, principal proprietor
has gone crazy over the terrible affair
lie ran m and down Michigan stree
moaning and crying ooh, OH! My God
who set that atirev' Over his head was &;
black cloth When he came to the man
g!ed body of one Of his guests, his rawlings
were pitiiui in the extreme all efforts t.
soothe him failed. His son and partner
James Ant is.i.l, stood on the street silcn
and undenonstrative during III: fire, a
if paralyzed by the horror.
l.. \. Brown, OF Philadelphia. is .snowi
to have been in the building.