Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-01-17
THE NEWHAll RUINS.
Eight More Bodies Exhumed-TheB bar
keeper Arrested on Suspicion.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, January 16.-Nearlya a
week has elapsed since the Newhall House
went down in ruins amid the agonizing
shrieks of the victims, and the full extent
Of the disaster remains unknown. The
wild reports that spread over the city and
thence to the utmost limits OF the civilized
world on the day of the disaster, are fully
realized, and still the pick and the shovel
of the laborer continues to add TO the hor-
rors. Yesterday closed with twenty-eight
bodies discovered, and at noon to-day the
number was increased TO thirty-one. The
blackened and unrecognizable forms OF
three girls side by side in the laundry room
were taken out Just as night enshroued the
ruins with its shadows like the pail OF
gloom. Eight bodies in all have been re.
covered along the west foundation wall OF
the building, the remains OF servant girls
who were undoubtedly struggling to reach
the passage way into the bank building
when they were cut off by the smoke and
flames. ....
The north wall having been torn down,
the workmen began excayating the two
sections that were left untouched on ac-
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from the tottering pile of brick and mortar.
They were rewarded in their work with the
discovery of the body of a large man at the
foot of the old entrance for ladies' which
was closed when the elevator was placed in
the house. The body was doubled over the
foundation wall, the greater portion OF 1t
lying out on the sidewalk, face down. The
unfortunate victim had without doubt
made his way to the head of the stairway,
found tito be on fire, and all retreat being
cut of, made 9 tremendous leap through
the sea of flame for the pavement and
struck over the walls. The mating at the
street entrance was baked and matted into
the flesh Of the abdomen, but there was
nothing on the body that lead to identiti-
cation. 1t was the remains OF very large
man.
Quite an advance has been made into the
court, where il was expected large num-
Der of bodies would be found, without re-
yealing any new victims, and the opinion
now prevails that the
Inmates OF the House
who were aroused by the roar of the flames,
made their way to the Michigan and Broad.
way fronts, and that the worst features OF
the terrible disaster are now known, and
that very few bodies remain in the ruins.
The crowd of people that stand about the
pavement outside was as lage to-day as at
the beginning OF the search, the modera-
ton in the weather having added recruits
to the watchers. The first impression
created by the awful calamity, however,
has worn off, and the appearance OF the
patrol wagon to convey It's horrible freight
to the dead house is often greeted with
coarse jests and laughter by the hard
hearted wIetches who congregate in groups
about the premises.
George Scheller, lesse OF the Newhall
House, was arrested this afternoon on sus.
picion of having set fire to the hotel.
Scheller says that he closed the saloon at
$50 A. NJ, but it was found that, in CON-
pany with Will Sanderson and Tom Dun
bar, he returned to the saloon after 3 A. N.
Great excitement prevails.
Mr.. Scheller did not seem very much sur
prised and made no statement, but looked
pretty badly broken up. He has been
drinking heavily since the fire and his face
shows the effects of the spree. The pris-
oner was locked up on the charge of arson
and was Immediately transferred to the
county JAIL where he was locked up in an
upper cell. He did not speak TO the jailor.
The officers are very reticent about the de-
tails of the arrest. 1t is stated that Schel-
Ter was arrested principally on the state
ment of Linehan and another employe,
who claim they saw Scheller in the wood
room, where Linehan says the fire origi-
mated, and that he was there after three
o'clock the morning of the fire.