Connecticut western news., 1883-01-17

played soon after. Miss Chellis stood by window of the fourth floor in her night clothes, her face pale as death. All around her were tongues of fire, darting in circles from great sheets which waved skyward and she seemed like 8 ghost looking out upon the snow on the adjoining house. tops. Hundreds of men and women looked up through the gyrating sparks, horror stricken at the awful sacrifice about to be offered. It was not long before the fire leaped upon her and shrouding her from view in 8 winding sheet of red, devoured her senseless form. Reason had doubtless fled before the fire reached her.
 GOOD MRS. TOM THUMB.
 Tom Thumb and wife were rescued from the hotel by Police Officer OBrien. They were in their night clothes, and Mrs. Thumb suffered much from the cold air. The General, immediately upon being placed in the express office, began mourning the loss of valuable diamonds and other iewelry belonging to himself and wife, The latter heard him through and replied reprovingly, "What if we have lost everything; just look at those people there, pointing to the mangled forms of twenty dead and dying men and women lying upon the floor. The little woman then bravely began re- ieving the sufferings of those around her by supplying them with water and the display of other acts of sympathetic kindness.
 THE TELEGRAPH WIRES.
 The maze of telegraph wires encircling the building on the south and east sides played sad havoc with the people who made the frightful leap for life Several of the bodies were cut deep into by the wires, and then the torn and bleeding forms would drop to the ground. Others would strike the wires crosswise, re- bound, and be hurled to the ground with a dreadful crash. To the poor waiter girls, all lodged in the sixth story and the attic, the saddest lot had fallen. Of sixty young girls, only eleven were heard from as alive.
 FALL FROM THE CoRNICE.
 One poor fellow stood on cornice of the fifth story window for twenty long minutes, not daring to take the fearful leap. Finally he became bewildered, to judge by his actions, or dumfounded by the smoke, and slid off his perch to the canvas below. The few who held it could not give it the necessary resistance. The body fell, unhindered by the canvas, with crash which sent 8 shudder through every witness The body was carried into the American Express office. All the while hundreds of people had been looking on, nobody responding to the demands of the officers for aid. Every body seemed to be spellbound the ter rible spectacle seemed to have paralyzed every bit of will power in those present, HEROIC DEEDS OF RESCUE.
 A deed of heroism was recorded worthy of unqualified praise. E. Ryemer and Herman Strauss, of Truck No. 1, ap- peared on the roof of the bank building at critical juncture, directly opposite the servants quarter. ladder in hand. For a moment the unwieldly thing was poised in mid-air and then descended with crash through a window of the hotel. It formed a bridge across the al- ley, and before it became steady in posi- ton men had crossed into the hotel. Then, amid the cheers of the multitude below, they dragged helpless creatures across the slender bridge until fully @ dozen were rescued, all in their night clothes, but many were badly frozen before reaching 8 shelter A woman in dead faint was dragged across in safety, but at one time the whole of her body was hanging over, clear of the lad der, while brave man held her by one of her ankles. The crowd below held their breaths in suspense, expecting every moment to see the ladder turn over or break beneath the terrible strain. The man, however, was equal to the emergency. By herculean effort he pulled her upon the slender bridge and finally placed her out of danger, while the crowd, which had endured the most painful suspense for fully ten minutes, burst forth in round after round of ap- plause. Twelve waiter-girls were res cued by these brave men. The two brothers Clayton rescued four women, carrying them out bodily. The police rescued dozen persons.