The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-01-11
EstrA BLIsHED AUGUST "a. 1852.
ton. Mrs. John Gilbert's body has been
positiYelY identified.

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positively identified.
A touching scene was to see the bride o
night upon the cold marble, charret
and burned, anguish depicted In the deli
cate features. She was Miss Sutton, o
Chicago, previous to marrying Gilbert
who Is maddened beyond control. The
Fire Department called for assistance from
the Soldiers Home, but General Sharp re
fused to send the steamer, at which the In
dignation Is great. The Chicago and Ra
cine relief steamers are now on their way
but the fire is under control.
The fremen made superhuman efforts
Eleven waiter girls were brought safely
across irail ladders stretched over the alley
from the sixth story Of the hotel tothe roo
adjoining the bank building. The Jump
ing cloth did little service. Abouta dozen
unfortunates attempted to Jump, but re
bounded on telegraph wires. a perfect mazt
OF which surrounded the two fronts OF the
building. The appeals for aid were pite
ous, but little could be done.
Shortly before the Newhall House alarm
part Of the department were called to q
small fire about three miles distant, and
before the department was in working or
der the hotel was one blazing fire. Tom
Thumb got out at the front entrance, and
his wife was taken down fire escape by
fireman s. W. Champion. Misses Herbert
and Dunlap and W. A. Lavelle, OF the
Madison Square Company, arrived on the
midnight express. The whole party were
saved by the fire escape, only partially
dressed.
A DEATH TRAP.
The following dispatch was received just
now:
BOARD OF TRADE, CHICAGO, Jan. 10.
ave tender our sincere sympathy to the
people Of Milwaukee in the great calamity
that has beiallen them. II we can dc
anything to assist you or Mitigate the
suffering, let 1t be known.
R. W. DuNnAM."
The hotel was built by Daniel Newhal
and his associate in 1857. The original cosI
was Sl55,OOO. Total cost, including fur
nishing, S277000. VIM. E. Cramer, Of the
Evening Wisconsin, was saved through the
heroic efforts Of Charlie Crossing, a iSentine
typo. Chief Clerk Tice, who had narrow
escape, says that ITO boarders and ninety
employees were in the hotel; 80 far flity.six
are unaccounted for.
CHICAGO, January 10.-A Neus special
has the following OF the Milwaukee holo
caust: The building had long been known
as a death trap, and it only required hall
an hour to completely envelop it in flames
1t had eighty.six employees, mostly lodged
in the sixth story. Eight hundred guests
could be Accommodated.
II is impossible to account for the fire
and for some reason the two stand pipes
and fire ladders were not available. Ben
Hall, fireman, was crushed under large
cornice, but was quickly gotten out from
beneath red hot plates OF galvanized iron,
seriously, but not fatally hurt. The de-
partment fought heroically, but were only
able to prevent the fire from spreading
The hook and ladder companies were
most active, and saved about twelve people
by well directed efforts.
A uIDEous SIGHT.
Tho morgue was a hideous sight. Two
small biers. were soon filled with bodies
tightly packed and the bodies OF girls
women aud men were laid promiscuously
on the stone flags almost in a heap, as the
patrol brought in bodies three or four at O
time. In the American Express office AL.
len johnson and wife lay stretched on
the hard floor evidently dying-[sinct
dead They were forced to jump from o
window on the third floor. The blanket
held TO catch them was too weak, and theii
backs were injured SO seriously that cries
OF pain were wrung from them. Edward
Pittock, OF Lancaster, was awakened nearly
as soon as the flames broke out. He gath
cred up his clothes and swung from q
balcony on the fourth floor to that beneath
where dozen others were, and by means
OF knotted bed clothes they all reached the
ground.
CHICAGO, January 10.-The Western
Union wires between here and Milwaukee
are undisturbed, but from Milwaukee tc
the Nowthwest are all down. The Mutua
Union wires between here and Milwaukee
are down. Very little in addition to the
press report OF the Newhall House firt
has been received here up to 1880. A
severe cold hampered the firemen an6
caused them great suffering. Three steam
ers went from Chicago at 10 minutes L
0 o'clock, in response to call from tht
Mayor, Nos. 5, 10 and II, together witt
two men each, from companys !, 9, 8 ant
0, and 1000 yards OF extra hose. The
train bearing them went over the Chicago
& Northwestern, and consisted OF five cars
II went to Milwaukee, distance Of 9(
miles, in only little over an hour.
1t Is reported here that the Minnie Pal
mer troupe, which was at the Newhal
House, were lost, but it is not confirmed