Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-04-19
4 HOTEL HORROR.

A Three-stOry Hotel CoMapses, tho Ruinss
Catch Fire and Thirteen Of the Inmates
are Roasted to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Appeals of the Victims for Aid.
GREENvILLE TEX. April I.
This morning our town was Mortified beyond
measure by the most dreadful calamity ever
known in Texas. The Ende Hotel a three
story brick building, fell with terrible crash
that fairly shook the earth. as the multitude
of people rushed around it they were terrified
to hear the shrieks and tries of the inmates,
who were crushed beneath the mass of ruins
with the mad flames rolling above them and
coming nearer and nearer, till all sounds were
hushed in the sea of fire.
THE KILLED.
Mrs. w. E. Pruitt, proprietress, whose plead
ing for relief from her prison in the ruins.
melted the hardest hearts.
George Pruitt, a crippled son of the pro-
prietress, was burned while begging for relief
which no mortal could give.
Louis Albert, jeweler, was burned TO death
F. D. n. Riley, a contractor, was crushed to-
death.
Frank West, a railroad freight clerk, crushed
20 death.
r. R. Neal, cotton buyer; manner of death
unknown.
Miss Lou Davis, chambermaid, burned to-
death.
J. E. Ford, telegraph line repairer, crushed
20 death.
Hill, mattress-maker, manner of death un--
known, and four negro servants, crushed to-
death.
All the above victims were buried beneath
the ruins beyond human aid some being killed
instantly and others being cremated in the
surging flames. Up to this hour a few humps
of charred flesh and bones have been removed
from the ruins, representing the remains Of
| six human beings, some just a skull, others
! the body, with limbs all burned of, making
! horrible sight.
THE INJURED.
! The inmates of the house who escaped were=
w. d. Pruitt, son of the prOprietress, badly
! bruised and mangled.
| DR.. Il. R. Turner, horribly burned and teri
! lily crushed; he may die.
! NJ. G. Mars Dangerfeld badly bruised.
/ D. G. Bell, a painter.
*. n. Denton, q carpenter.
Tom VictOrs, a butcher.
Lewis MOreys.
Charles Brown.
E. L. II. r. Conductor.
! Percy Cox, of Honey Grove.
w. F. Mcclure, a stranger from Tennessee
Friend Ende, owner of the building, and his,
wife and two daughters.
| A negro girl, an employee.
The stories told by survivors beggnrs de-
! scriptiOn. DIR. Turner lay beneath timbprs till
until he was badly burned and mangled. Mr..
| Denton was imprisoned and would have killed,
himself to escape burning to death, hut u,
second crash of falling walls released him.
One man
CUT HIS THROAT
when he found the flames consuming him. NJ.
D. Pruitt raved like maniac when he knew
of his mothers horrible death, and it required
several strong men to save him from PhIng-
ing headIOng into the flames.
A telegrem was sent to Sherman for the fire
engine, which came at the speed of a mile a.
minute, arriving at daylight. For six hours it
poured stream of water into the flames but.
too late to save any lives.
The cause of the calamity is uncertain. At is
thought an explosion of powder in hardware,
store, which had caught fire in the first story
blew out the west wall, causing the entire'
| building to come down with a crash of DEATH.
The stores of James Armstead, hardware;
| Gee Wilson and X. L. Lowenstein agricul-
| tural implements, with some minor buildings,
were burned; all partially insured. Business
! houses are all closed to-day, and gloom
| hangs deep and dark over our city. The eXf
cavations still go on. The railroads acted
nObly in clearing their roads for the train
bearing the fire engines. They also offer other
relief. The telegraph offices are flooded with
news going and coming from all sections, and
no thought is entertained and no subject dis
cussed but the terrible visitation of fire and.
| death.