Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-12

| IN the morning Z. B. Elliott came in on a
| late train. I was in the Office. He asked
me if the elevator was running. 1 told
! him 1 would take him up, and did so, let
| ting him out on the third floor. Then I
went up to the top floor, taking railroad
conductor up from the third to that. 1
! looked around the halls, and got into the
elevator to go down. This was few min
utes past $3.50 o'clock. As I got into
the elevator I noticed very little
smoke. Immediately started down to see
who're it came from. By the time I
reached the Office floor the smoke was so
dense that could go no further in the
elevator. Throwing open the door rushed
out, started for the stairs, shouting to the
night clerk that there was a fire down
below, and was going to see about it.
BY the time reached the bottom of the
elevator shaft the smoke was SO dense and
sitting [ knew something must be
done. [ called TO the engineer in the en-
gine room and told him to rouse the serv-
ants. Then I started back to awaken the
people, for I knew there was
NO CHANCE TO STOP THE FIRE
alone. By the time I reached the Fl rst floor
above the Office and had raped at Mr..
Cramers door. the heat cracked the glass
doors to the elevator, and in mo-
ment afterwards flames poured out
In the meantime I rushed into of the bank
building, and aroused as many dodgers in
that portion as I could. Afterwards I rem
dered what help could in saving people.
l hardly know what to say about the COM
m encement of the fire, but 1 know it
CAUGHT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE ELEVATOR.
and not on the upper E1foors.
There was othing anywhere around
the elevator thatBcould burn SO quickly,
and at $50 o'clock there was no smoke in
the elevator, for either Elliott or myself
would have noticed it. After the smoke
was observed there was scarcely time to
do anything before the whole thing
was ablaze. It might have caught
in some of the shops in the base
ment,i that back up to5 the botto m of
the elevator, but on the bottom floor Of
the hotel part nothing that could possibly
burn that way could have been
smolldering throughout the night. This is
shown by the fact that so many were
around until such short time before the
actual blaze occurred. 7 don't know that
the fire was incendiary, but there is q
very queer look to it.
THE DEAD AND DYING.
John Gilberts, comedian, condition more
favorable to-day, although consciousness
was not recovered. Among the lost is
Capt. James P. Vose, of the United States
Engineer corps. Five railroad men were
killed: L. K. Smith, of Kansas City, en-
ployed by the St. Paul road; Walter Scott,
Dubuque, Iowa, also of the st. Paul road;
Dan Martelle and R. Howie, of the Wis
consin Central, and Coco. Smith, local
agent of the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern.
REGISTRY OF THzssAvED.
The following persons registered their
names to-day at the place designated for
the pun pose: VIM. A. Dewese, Whining
ton; Geo. F. Lee, Chicago; Charles Fromel,
Chicago; w. R. Busenback, Chicago; W.
H. Crompton, W. A. Layelle, Miss Amelia
Herbert and Miss Matte Dunlap, of the
Madison Square company; j. L. Kellogg,
Racine; A. j. Case, New York;
Orange Williams, Evansville; Mr..
Clafin, Chicago; J. Q. Roberts, Troy, N. Y;
Nick Moran, Beloit; E. Erickson, Palmy-
ra; Wallace D. Elder, Emil Fish, New
York; Mrs. FL. B. Harshaw, Oshkosh;
Edward Mead, second porter.
Towaads evening pieces of flesh were
found under the servants quarters, but in
such a state that the doctors could not
determine whether human trunk.
THE NEWS LAST NIGHT.
Tonight all is dark and dreary at the
scene of the holocaust. The authorities
have not provided the electric light, des-
pite popular clamor. Not single body
has been foundppyet.
The pieces of flesh discovered were ex-
amined again by physicians, and pro-
nounced not from human body. The
chief of the fire department early in the
forenoon had men at work with large
quantity of heavy rope and tackle
PULLING DOWN THE JAGGED WALLS,
which, in three instances, lowered for 100
feet skyward and qUivered with the breeze,
placing the workmen in imminent danger
of being crushe to death. Several ex-
citing scenes ensued, but the walls were
downed with a reverberating crash without
the slightest injury to soul. When the
bricks fell they covered the ropes so dense
ly as to require the combined efforts of
hundred men, with the advantage of lever
age, to dislodge them and
then only with great exertion. The
citizens freely gave aid and volunteers foa
anything was forthcoming at the slightest |
appeal.
"A body, a body" shouted an excited
workman at about o'clock. This thrilled
the thousands present with tumultuous
feeling and wild rush was made for the
source of the cry. The police repelled the
onslaught as best they could, but hundreds
passed by and surrounded corps of work
men waiting with breathless and unabated
anxiety while men carefully and tenderIy
removed the sticks, bricks and charred
fires from cindersd petticoat. The gar
ment was finally uncovered and drawn out
only to find it encased nothing !
of hunan form and f{,a