The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-04-14
A HOTEL HORROR,

HUlEL HUkhUht
Three-story Hotel CoIlnpses, tho Ruins
Catch Fire and Thirteen of the Inmates
are Roasted to Death-Heart-Rending
Appeals of the Victims for Aid.
Granville, TEX, April Z.
This morning our town was Mortified beyond
measure by the most dreadful calamity ever
known In Texas. The Ende Hotel, three
story brick building fell with terrible crash
that fairly shook the earth. As the multitude
of people rushed around II they we're terrified
to hear the shrieks and cries of the inmates,
who were crushed beneath the mass of ruins,
with the mad flames rolling above them and
coming nearer and nearer, till all sounds were
hushed in the sea of Are.
THE KILLED.
Mrs. w. e. Pruitt, proprietress, whose plead
ing for relief from her prison in the ruins
melted the hardest hearts.
George Pruitt, a crippled son of the pro-
prietress, was burned while begging for relief
which no mortal could give.
Louis Albert, jeweler, was burned to death.
F. d. N. Riley, a contractor, was crushed to
DEATH
Frank West, a railroad freight clerk, crushed
to DEATH
II. II. Neal, cotton buyer; manner of death
unknown.
Miss Lou Davis, chambermaid, burned to
death.
j. e. Ford, telegraph line repairer, crushed
to death.
Hill, mattress-maker, manner of death UNI
known, and four negro servants, crushed to
death.
All the above victims were buried beneath
the ruins beyond human aid, some being killed
instantly and others being cremated in the
surging flames. Up to this hour few Jumps
of charred flesh and bones have been removed
from the ruins, representing the remains OF
six human beings, some Just a skull, others
the body, with limbs all burned of, making
horrible sight.
THE INJURED.
The inmates of the house who escaped were:
w. ID. Pruitt son of the proprietress, badly
bruised and mangled.
DR.. L. X. Turner, horribly burned and teri
bly, crushed; he may die.
NJ G. Mars Dangerfeld, badly bruised.
ID. c. Bell, painter.
X. N. Denton, carpenter.
Tom Victors, a butcher.
Lewis Morreys.
Charles Brown.
f. l.. II. r. Conductor.
Percy Cox, of Honey Grove.
w. f. Mcclure, a stranger from Tennessee.
Friend Ende, owner of the building, and his
wife and two daughters.
negro girl an employee.
The stories told by survivors beggars de-
scription. DIR. Turner lay beneath timbers till
they burned in twain, releasing him, but not
until he was badly burned and mangled. Mr..
Denton was imprisoned and would have killed
himself to escape burning to death, but a
second crash of falling walls released him.
One man
CUT HIS THROAT
when he found the flames consuming him. NJ.
ID. Pruitt raved like maniac when he knew
of his mothers horrible death, and it required
several strong men to save him from plung
ing headlong into the flames.
telegrem was sent to Sherman for the fire
engine, which came at the speed of a mile a
minute, arriving at daylight. For six hours it
poured a stream of water into the flames, but
too late to save any lives.
The cause of the calamity is uncertain. 1t ia
thought an explosion of powder in hardware
store, which had caught fire in the first story,
blew out the west wall causing the entire
building to come down with crash of death.
The stores of James Armstead, hardware;
Gee & Wilson and X. L. Lowenstein, agricul-
tural implements, with some minor buildings
were burned; all partially insured. Business
houses are all closed to-day, and a gloom
hangs deep and dark over our city. The ex-
cavations still go on. The railroads acted
nobly in clearing their roads for the train
bearing the fire engines They also offer other
relief. The telegraph offices are flooded with
news going and coming from all sections, and
no thought is entertained and no subject dis
cussed but the terrible visitation of fire and
death