The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-01-18

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cpYeredin ~ tlle eScpyaiipns started unc
/ supposef ether bo'lies VII be iound ne
!. the area back oiihe Office. Alta meefi
] ~ the chamber ol c0mmelcu foiday g,
1 was issutd for volunteers. aud 4 issIpecf,
{ 300 men Will respoud. The GJlj Watches
Howie and Martel have been identiiie,
J leaving 10 doubt that their owners pc
ished,F VI M W NJ
III the course oithe Afternoons work q
| he Seshllll house ruins eight Nttle hesp
aa & ssS sna s'nss SsHy vas bSse sps
4 oat. This rnakes slsi sen exhnmsd boiiel
i.ixzie Green, dinlng.roolA girl die
t,Ms eYeuing fsoa iE'nMsy received d
iuinping frofa mxth-s{ory wsndow. Iln
I iM tine i1entifed AZ 10. Denie
Merrriman, bcll-boy, is among the
missing. Thomas Keary and Pat Conway
bell boys, turned up safe. Taking The chic
eosss statement tSers % guests musa uad sSp0ys
Bodies vet in Tie ruins. Ninety Ave
are known to be- saved, % Identified
dead, and sixteen charrsd beyond ldentifi.
cation. making The totai loss. az , near , as can
be figured eiphty.two. The excavations
are now about twenty. five feet, from the
.Broadw front. as occupants Of the hotel
NJ Ssatgrs,ly s!.y Leave ths rooms, { e. !.
4(4l 9QfudoS IT IS anticipated that
F!heK N3rst features Will never De revealed
t$qtiSA A2G excavation mas been proceeded
fifteen feet further 1t Is predicted that
veal large number Of bodies. as the in
mates of The rooms therein were forced by
the flames to Jump from The windows, and
it is hoped that they may be in
cond tion to De recognized: /:
The servants quarters in the Newhall
house were on the nth floor, and ranged
along the aHey side o. ING punoing, rom =
point about twenty feet north q
Michigan street 70 posnt ABOUT
nuiIding, ana tne rooms were puiit along
the nal, wnicn ran nortn ana SCUM
at each end, and were totally sep
arated from the guests apartments py
heavy, doors. Inc girls say tne nrst
they knew OF the nre was when the en-
gineer ran up ana yeueq ior tnem 70 wake
up and ienoW MIN, snQt5 Hait 70 dress;
he says tnat the naH swarmea
fnil of pAalds. 10 tnougnt
they were f.fcoping and smade his
way down, only 70 nnd that but
one was behind him. II appears
that the rushing air, the moment that the
engineer and one girl got through the sep
arating doors, closed on them, and
that they never opened again:
This also prevented the neat ana
smoke from entering their quarters, so that
those who did not escape met death with
q full realization OF what
was upon them. and were
half dead from suffocation. James H..
Earnest, of Shelbyburg, who was reported
missing, has turned up all ripht.
Owing to belated train, be didn't reach
the city until Wednesday morning. About
$3.50 were realized from two Tom Thumb
Minnie Palmer Opera company will give
an entertainment at Detroit Monday, the
proceeds to be donated to the relief fund.
The coroner's formal inquest has been post
poned until the 10Th, when the exhuma-
tions shall have been completed. The
present Jury will singly view the remains
to admit of burial.
THE HOTEL FIRED BY AN rNcENDrARY.
Muw.rurr Ian 16-Ona hundred and
sf,n ~" r,a,, = ars a. WORK searchinc for bod;as
70 Tau TIE weather ia somewbat. miIder
w "a worL ,roceeds ou;cter stiil the total
.,,. anu ~ - tors,,odd,,,s ssaroh 10 only two
hoa;ns % 90 % hs diu hurnaS that racovnii;on ;s
;,,,,,oss,;sio III Tbns far twentv Iitt1e heans
arnnnoncsj ,r pv,nj bv mhvs,cians 70 he hnman
aash and homes. have been taken from the
rn,,,s w Sa for a. ~ n hs learned th;rtv.nine
ruins; 90 .ar as y 20 iearieo 'n'i' ny y -ii'ns
~ Ren sr'' T,cs Read clerk of the Newhall
4 5S3;t, ~ sfat46ie tit.1
lug on the 6riein OF The me: bofhebody
set the building on hre down near
the foot OF the, stairs. Leading from
inside OF the hotei 70 the Daroer-snop was
q dktle closet used for kindiing, separated
by only wooden parttion from the
shaft of the elevator, and the
fire was set the closet. Of course
it burned through the partition
into the hatchway before going far enough
TO be discovered. The inside of the hatch
way was saturated with oil from
the machinery up TO the
third and fourth stories. The
flames feeding on tho oiled wood r1shed
riyht arrr,Je hatchway bursting out in the
third and fourth stories, where il was first
seen from the outside. 1t was this
burning of wood all the way mp
the hatch that ca used such dense smoke
and terrible heat. Many of those rescued
were terribly burned by the heat. although
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