Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-04-19
: A HOTEL HORROR!

/ sA@ezz74 SIS "A HVILL HVHAsO"s
| A g,,,,ce. Sterv Hotel ColIapses, the Ruins
| Catch Fire and Thirteen of the Inmates
are Roasted to observation-disclosures
| Appeals of the Victims for Aid.
| GREENvILLE, Ten. 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 a terrible crash
| that fairly shook the earth. As the multitude
/ OF people rushed around it they were termed
! to hear the shrieks and cries of the lnmates'
| who were crushed beneath the mass OF ruins,
| with the mad flames rolling above them ana
| coming nearer and nearer, till all SOUNDS were
hushed in the sea of fire.
The KILLED. II
Mrs. w. E. Pruitt, proprietress, whose plead
~iag for relief from her prison in sthe-ruins
melted the hardest hearts.
! George Pruitt, crippled son Of the pro
prictress, was burned while bsgginS for relief
h which nomortal could giveJ
r Louis Albert, jeweler, was burned to death.
Ed. N. Riley, a contractor, was crushed to
death. iEHt4fgfFbt l,fi 7
Frank West, railroad freight clerk, crushed
to death. .F-Ffyt.& its i.s.ts.
R.R. Neal, cotton buyer; manner of death
unknown. ~ sIf'.f s5tf
Miss Lou Davis, chambermaid, burned to
death.
j. E. Ford, telegraph line repairer, crushed
to death. e.. .g..t..s-...
HILL a mattress-maker, manner OF death I'M
known, and four negro servants, crushed TO
death.
All the above victims We're buried beneath
the ruins hey ond human aid, some being Killed
instantly and others being cremated in the
slrgipg flames. Up to this hour a few Jumps
. of charred flesh and bones have been removed
from the ruins. representing tho, remains OF
six human beings, some just skull, others
the body, with, limbs all burned Of. making q
horrible sight.
O.. THE INJURED. ,-5,..f,
The inmates Oft the house who escaped were:
W. D. Pruitt, son of tho proprietress. badly
bruised and ,mangled. : ,.,,-t a.,.s.t....A
DIR. T. K. Turner. horribly burned and teri
bly, crushed; he may die. s,saI.
NJ G. Mars Dangerfied badly bruised.
d. G. Bell, a painter. ..sK.
= KIN. Denton, Il carpenter.
+, Tom Yictors, butcher r7,..,.uaE
; Lewis Morreys.
Charles Brown. .-..t,5r ,t..-,g
E.. L, r. X. Conductor. ~ -..
Percy Cox, of Honey Grove. al
". F. Mcclure, a stranger from Tennessee.
Friend Ende owner of the building, and his
wife and two daughters.
A negro girl, an employee. trast -
The stories told by survivors beggars de.
scription. DIR. Turner lay beneath timbers till
they burned in twain. releasing him, but not
until he was badly burned and mangled. Mr..
Denton was imprisoned and would have killed
himself to escape, burning to- death, but
second crash of falling walls released him.
One man s-i., ..s..e t.tia itgrs .ss.rF t.st l.s.
..- : z, CUT HIS THROAT rt -t4- ~
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 pung-
ing headlOng into the flames. az
\ telegTenl was sent to Sherman for the fire
engine, which came at the speed of "A mile Il
minute, arriving ;ft daylight For six hours it,
poured a stream of water into the flames, but
too late to save any lives. u ~ 30
The cause of the calamity is uncertain. 1t is
thought an explosion OF powder in a hardware.
store, whichshad caught fire itthe first story,
blew out the west wall causing the entire
building to come down with erash pfadeath.
b The stores of James s1ifnrsteada hardware;
Gee & Wilson and X. H. Lowensteint agricul-
tural implements, with some nrinor buildings,
were burned; all partially insured. Business
houses are all closed to-day. and gloom
hangs deep and dark over our city, The ey-
cayations still go on. The railroads acted
nobly in clearing their roads for the strain
bearing the fire engines. They also offer other
reliff.s Thetelagraph Offices arc flooded with
news going and coming from all sections, and
no thoughts Is ertertained andIno' subject dis
cussed but the terrible visitation Uf fire and
death. e - : - . "A Ff@saB