The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-01-18
Burned to Death.
HOTEL FULL OF GUESTS BURNED AT NIGHT.
4 HUNDRED LIVES PROBABLY lost. PER
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HOTEL II IL OF Gl ESlS BURNED At NIGHT.
i HUNDRED LIVES PROBABLY lost. PER
HtPs MORE.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 10. The NeWhall house
in this city was burned ut an early hour this
morning. and ScVcnty-tiVr persons. principally
guests, Were lost. The Newhall house was
>iN story brick building at the corner of Mich
gan street and Broadway. The fire wa, discov-
cred 1T t H. m. In less than half an hour the
whole building, long designated as a death
trap. was enveloped in flames. Scenes of the
utmost terror prevailed. Inmates jumped by
dozens from the upper stories to the stone side
walk covering it with lifeleSS bodies. The
>hrek> Of the unfortunatcs filled the air. Peo-
pie below We're unable to render any aid.
Quite a number of terrified guests and employ
of the hotel appeared at the windows and
seeing the distance to the ground fell back to
perish in the flames. The employees Of the ho-
Sc, and mostly lodged in the sixth story. Their
exit by way of the roof was cut off by fire, and
two stand pipes with the fire ladders We're not
available for the same reason. \ very few We're
saved by jumping on canvas. The stores and
offices on the ground floor We're entirely destroy
ed. The hotel register i, burned. and no exact
loss of life can be determined, but it will reach
30 or 60 dead and 20 or 30 wounded. 50 far %
bodies have been placed in the morgue, and 8
more are at places near the ruins. Identifica-
ton is slow. 1t may safely be said that 60 per-
sons are dead and 30 seriously injured. The
scenes at the morque, where 81 bodies are "
ing, are hcartrending beyond description and a
strong police force is necessary to keep anxious
enquiries III line.
Nineteen bodies have been Identified, s bodies
are beyond recognition. The Fire Department
called for assistance from tie Soldiers Home,
but Gen Sharp refused to send their steamer
at which the Indignation i, great. The fire
men made superhuman efforts. Eleven waiter
girls We're brought safely across frail ladder
stretched over an alley from the sixth story
of the hotel TO the roof of an adjoining bank
building. About Il dozen attempted to jump
but We're rebounded by telegraph wires, per-
feet mass Of which surrounded the two fronts
Of the BUILDING. Tom Thumb escaped by the
front entrance, and his wife was saved by the
frcmen, through fire escape. well as We're
w. II. Thompson, MessrS. Herbert and Dunlap
W. q. Lavelle and others of Madison Square
Company who arrived at midnight They
We're only partially dressed. Total value of the
Newhall House with furniture $221 900. Wm
f. Cramcr Of the Evening Wisconsin, was
saved, through the heroic efforts of Charles
Crossing. Sentinel typo. Chief clerk True
who had a narrow escape says 10 boarders
and 80 employees We're in the hotel. 50 far SO
are unaccounted for.
THE LATEST DETAILS.
OF 60 Young waiter girls only eleven We're
heard from alive this evening. 1t is feared the
estimate Of fifty lives lost formed this morning
is far too low and that fully double that num-
Der We're burned or smothered to death in the
blazing pyre. Police think the fire was of in
cendiary origin but so far nothing has been dis
covered to substantiate the theory. 1t is re-
ported there We're $50 guests in the house last
night. If this be true the horrors that will be
revealed by the removal of the debris are too
dreadful to contemplate. The Newhall House
was known to every traveller in the northwest
and to the people of Milwaukee as fire trap
of the worst description. and while horror and
sympathy are expressed on all sides at the
dreadful catastrophe wonder also prevails to
great extent that any traveller resident could be
found to take up bis abode within its walls. So
far sixteen of the twenty-five bodies have been
positively identified.
The fallen outside walls are nearly al Jumped
over the partition wall from such an immense
heap of ruins it will be impossible for several
days to begin the search, but nearly Il hundred
is generally accepted as the number of lives
lost. The LIST of wounded as complete as can
be given footS up sixteen names. Forty-tiye
persons are known to be dead or missing.
The Richmond, Va. Whig does not believe
in the Pendleon bill, and is not afraid to speak
its sentiments concerning the civil service rs