Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-12
THE WEST.
Wisconsin,

The Milwaukee H0Iocaust-Stekentng
 Sights in The Morgue-ThrtlItnS Es-
 capes From The Burning Building-
 The Rescue of Tom Thumb and His
 Wife-The Actor Gilbert Going to Join
 His BrIde-The List of Victims Not Less
 sened.
 MILWAUKEE, Jan. 1.-The scene of yester- days fire was crowded to day with spectators who gazed with morbid curiosity on the blackened ruins of the old Newhall Hotel The engines were still pouring water on the smouldering debris. There was a large crowd gathered at daylight. The accumula- tions of ice and ashes at every projecting point has made the scene weirdly fantastic, and it seems as if one can see dead body with outstretched arms in every object Crowds surrounded the burned building all night and watched with anxious interest the ghastly sights about the public stations, the express office and morgue. The air this morning was still thick with the sickening odor of burned flesh and upon the telegraph wires dangled bits of flesh from the fallen bodies The people realize that the network of telegraph wires surrounding the building on two sides was almost as much of 8 death trap as the hotel itself. It was rumored at the naorgue this morning that the inquests on the bodies found will probably be held on Friday. The morgue with its white walls and marble floor, ordinarily neat and clean, looked like butcher shop to-day. Men were engaged in washing the half-nude bod ies, and buckets of blood were taken from the place and emptied- Near the door lay the nude form of woman with her head and breast crushed and her body otherwise nangled On her bare breast was only 8 piece of paper with the simple words Mora Flannegan The body of woman 45 years old, still unidentified, lay near it. This body is literally cut in two, having been impaled on telegraph pele and mutilated by the wires in the mad leap from the fifth story of the hotel There was strange scene when Mrs. Glbert's body reached the morgue Her husband was 8 native of Massachusetts. She was formerly, before she became the wife of John Gilbert of the Minnie Palmer company, Miss Gertie Sutton of Bloods de- pot, Steuben county, N. '. When the body was laid on the floor man prefessed to iden- tify it as that of his daughter and began stripping her fingers of the sparkling rings and tearing the jewelry from her ears. At that moment Mrs. Gilbert's mother reached the spot and recognized hs< daughters body. The grief-stricken old lady and the thief con fronted each other, and the painful scene amid the awful surroundings caused the greatest excitement Mrs. Gilbert will be removed to New York at once. Nothing has yet been heard of W. E. Wiley. formerly passenger agent of the Michigan Central road at Detroit, and the fear grows stronger that his burial place is in common with that of the other missing dead. Nothing can be heard of ". G. Lewis, another well known railroad man, formerly agent of the Wabash road at Chicago. In keeping the lines around the burned building all night most of the time the police stood in very heavy snow storm. Work in the ruins is difficult, as everything is covered with ice and snow. During the first half hour quantity of hu- man bones and portions of charred bodies were dug ont and placed in public wagons and taken to the norgue. The story of hairbreadth escape from terrible death was to day related by Lizzie Angland, one of the dining room girls. She awoke and heard a