The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1883-01-17

1886 and for time resided III Milwaukee.
He represented his County in the Leeisla-
ture &C various times, being member of the
Senate in 1868
Nothing has been developed since the last
report. The identified dead now number
twenty-five and forty-ive are missing.
Three employees, Matilda Tuce, Annie
Mueller and Amelia State, who were re-
ported missing, have turned up this even
ing all right. OF the missing five ladies
were exhumed from the ruins burned be-
yond recognition, and one in view IN the
upper part under pile of bricks Thus, it
Is supposed, that thirty-nine bodies are still
in the ruins. making total loss of life six
ty-seven as far as can be sscertained.
Delving in the Ruins for the Dead-The
Chief Clerks Statement-The Western
Union to the Front.
MILWAUKEE, Jan. 15.-0ne hundred and
fifty men are at work searching for bodies
today. The weather Is somewhat milder
and The work proceeds quicker. Still, the
total result of the f0renOOn's search Is only
two bodies, so badly burned that recognition
is impossible. Thus far twenty little heaps,
pronounced by physicians 10 be human
flesh and bones, have been taken from the
ruins, and so far as can be learned thirtv-
nine IRE still missing.
The report sflOat to the effect that Land
lord Antisdel had disappeared is wholly ur-
true: He was found this morning at Profes-
sOr Haskils residence, still suffering from
the terrible shock, but not dangerous.
What truth is there in the rumor that
the night watchman ct the Newhall was in
structed that in case of fire the office clerk
was 10 be told of it without regard to awak-
ening the guests?" asked the reporter.
Mr.. Antisdel said in an impressive, mel
ancholy way, that there was not one word of
truth in it; that all these stories that were
afloat concerning him and his actions and
intentions were done with view to iDiure
him. At this point the elder son said il was
terrible that people should tell such things;
that il has bad effect, and, moreover, it was
done out of pure msliciousneSs, and it did
no good. While the reporter was formu-
latiDg the next question the son urged his
father to 90 anG finish his breakfast, saying
that he was not well, upon which the old
gentleman disappeared.
Ben Tice, head clerk of the Newhall
House. has made the following statement
bearing on the origin OF the nIe- Somebody
set the building on fire. Down near the
foot Of the stairs, leading from the inside of
the hotel to the barber shop, was a little
closet used for kindling separated by only
wooden partition from the shaft OF the
elevator The fire was set in that closet
OF course it burned through the partition
into the hatchway before it went far enough
in any other direction to be discovered
The Inside Of the hatchway was saturated
with oil from the machinery, especially up
TO the third and fourth stories. The flames
feeding on tins oiled wood rushed right up
the hatchway bursting out on the third and
fourth stories, where it was first seen from
the outside. 1t was this burning of the
oiled wood all the way up the hatchway that
made such dense smoke and terrible heat
Many of those saved were terribly burned
by heat, although they did not come in
contact with the flames. The flames didn't
reach me and yet you can see how l am
fixed. Here Tice held up both arms above
the bed in which he lay. His hands ara so
burned as to be useless for the present, and
are kept wrapped in bandsges and be is ur-
able to feed himself. His nose, cheeks and
ears are badly burned, while his hair was
not singed, showing the correctness of the
theory Tice was asleep in room on the
sixth story when the fire broke out.
John Gilbert, the actor, is reported better.
He imsgines be has been on big spree, and
remarked to his physicians this morning
that This drinking whisky is terrible
thing" 1t is thought that he may not sur
vive the shook of the death of his wife. 1t
will be kept iiom him as long as possible
Christina Hagen, one of the servants re-
wants reported missing is safe. This makes
ninety-six known to have been saved out OF
III. Fifty-one bodies have SO far been re-
covered, twenty-eight of which are burned
beyond recognition. leaving thirty still mis-
sing. 1t is not known, but supposed that
the register is in the safe, which will be
reached by the diggers to-day; also the court
in the center will be reached, where prob
ably most of the bodies will be found. The
excavation reached the west wall to-day,
where five bodies were found in q heap
under the location of the servants quarters.
Correct estimates of the loss of life are i'm
possible to form until the books of the hotel
can be got at The above estimate, giving
fifty -one dead and thirty missing. probe
BILE total loss of life eighty -one, is thought to
be as nearly correct as possible by ali paI-
ties.
The afternoon papers made the following
aggregated statement: Taken from the
Morgue, sixteen; recovered from the ruins,
twenty-one; since died, eight: dead not
taken to the Morgue, five. Total, fifty. This
does not include fragments of bodies found.
About forty people reported missing are yet
unaccounted for, which swells the list TO
ninety. 1t is almost sure thing that over
100 people lost their lives by the calamity.
No official investigation will be made into
the origin and causes leading to the disaster
until the termination of the work at the
ruins. The bodies will all remain at the
temporary morgue until that time unless
positive identifications are made. In such
cases the identified bodies will be given TO
friends.
A Weller. Manager of the Western Union
Telegraph Office here, makes the following
statement: Careful inquiry of those who
witnessed the burning of the Newhall House
from the commencement develops the fact
that the telegraph wires offered no obstruc-
ton to the saving of life, but, on the con-
trary, three or four lives were saved by
jumping upon the wires, thereby breaking
the force of their fall 1t was reported that
Allen Johnson and wife could have been
saved if the wires had not obstructed the
raising of ladders, whereas the highest LAD
der the Department had was raised inside
the wires, bnt was not long enough TO
reach the window, and the inmates had to
jump to the sidewalk and were killed.
There we're two fire escape ladders fastened
to the house, one on Michigan street and
one on Broadway, leading from the top of
the house TO the grounds, passing by the
hall windows of every story, and only three
or four lives were saved by them. Every
avenue of escape was apparently forgotten
in the panic, and some parties jumped
through the skylight of an adjoining build
ing and were seriously injured. while the
fire escapes were within three feet of them.
Reports telegrsphed everywhere that the
telegraph wires were responsible for the loss
of life originated in the brains of few ex-
cited individuals who knew nothing OF the
facts and cared less.
A Governor That Walks.
HARRIsBURG. Jan. 15.-Governor-electP Pat
tison arrived this afternoon He refused an