The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-01-13

| him. II was Of no avail. however, as the
poor fellow had been utterly deprived OF rea-
son. Maxwell tried 10 burst into q room,
but found the door locked. In another
trial he was more Fortunate The door
was slightly ajar, bet the smoke and fire
in the hallway was sitting hot, and 1t
seemed useless 10 take the risk Of escape
by the means thereof. Nevertheless, he
tried and succeeded.
Martin Weber, OF Laporte, Ind, says
he arrived at the hotel on Tuesday and was
assigned to Room No. 15S, on the fourth
floor. lie was accompanied by friend
named w. III. Hall, who occupied room
of and opening into his. Weber was
awakened by the
NOISE or ROARING PLANES.
He sprang from his bed aud called TO his
| friend, who came into his room. and the
two men dressed. Hall then said: "My
God Do you think they will ever get TO
us?" The next moment he made run
for the window and cleared IT with
bound. Mr.. Weber has not yet been able
TO ind him, dead or alive, although he has
made diligent search. Weber was driven
| from his room by the smoke, and climbed
outside and hung from the window-sill for
ten minutes, he thinks, when he was res
cued by q ladder being placed at the win
| dow.
Mr.. J. r. Duval, who occupied room
on the top floor at the northeast corner,
makes this statement: ga little after 4
O'Clock, think. my roommate, Andrew
! Hardy, awoke me, and saw that our room
was filled with smoke. | found James
McAlpine running through the hall TO the
I a 4. "a. ,,1 ot hn
smoke was binding, and we were nearly
suffocated. There was great confusion,
and
SHREK AFTER SHREK
was heard from the servants quarters. |
/ finally reached the north window, broke
through it. and jumped to the roof OF the
adjoining building. Mr.. Hardy and Mr..
McAlpine we've injured, the latter quite
badly. l am all sound. They were sent
to Kirby. | saw no flames."
Henry Cohen, OF New York, arrived
/ from Chicago on the midnight train and
took quarters at the Inflated hotel, being
assigned TO room on the third floor near
/ the elevator. He was awakened by the
noise OF the flames which had already
caught on the transom over the door OF his
room. which was on the Broadway front.
/ He then broke open a window and de-
scended by the firc-escape 10 the second
floor. crawled along the cornice to the
building on the North, entered it through
window, and thus escaped.
A gentleman named Marsh, from Wau-
sau, occupied room on the third floor,
aud was awakened by the roar OF the
fire. but found all means Of exit cut OIL.
lie then returned TO his room, dropped
from the window TO the second story and
caught on the sill, and from thence he
dropped TO n small balcony in front OF the
parIor, near the southeast corner OF the
building. From there he was rescued by
means OF a ladder which was raised TO him,
and though much confused he was able
in q few minutes to relate the story OF his
escape.
Two Thrilling Experiences.
Tue STORIES OF 5. A. DIXON AID MARY GAR
WIN.
The Heraid'S correspondent, who inter
viewed Mr.. ). n. Dixon, guest OF the ho-
tel, and Mary Garvin, one Of the waiter
girls. telegraphs the following:
6. A. Dixon, OF Chicago, who occupied
n room I'm the Michigan-street front, gives
a thrilling account Of the fire. He was
awakened by the crashing OF some glass,
I
The hall was filed with an impenetrable
volume Of smoke. which Immediately filled
his room, forcing HIM to close the door.
He then gathered up his clothes and went
/ into the hail. cropping about until he found
| the way leading TO the bank building. Con-
tinung, he said:
81 looked back upon the Newhall, a
dark-looking mass Of smoke enveloping it,
with now and then lurid CLEANS lighting
up the Opaque cloud. The scene was
frightful one. Aftera moments hesitation
decided TO reGnter the building in the
hope OF saving some poor creature.
SAVING TWO GIRLS.
"The few clothes / had recovered
hastily put on and crawled back. met a
girl, one OF the help, with bundle OF
clothes in her arms. The moment | saw
hershe fell exhausted, aud l carried her out
into the bank building. The rear portion
OF the hotel. where | was, was not then in
flames, but from the other side great sheets
Of fire leaped up whirling and flashing.
| went back a second time, and met
another girl. l do not know her
name, but she was dining-r0om girl, and
waited on the table at which | sat. She
recognized me, but l did not know her.
She was burned very badly. Her hands
were hanging by her side. cut open by fire,
and the flesh hanging loose upon them.
Her arms and her face, too, were Scared
and black with SCOT. Her scanty clothing
had Just caught fire, and rushing into one
OF the rooms | seized q sheet, In which |
enveloped her, and carried her through the
bank TO sleigh, upon which she was
placed and taken TO her sister ut the AXtell
House. by that time The hotel was a mass
Of flame, and entrance to it would have
been death.
THE WHITE FACE AT THE WINDOW.
81 stood by then and watched the hor-
rible incarceration. / saw the five girls leap
to their death down in the alley, but the
most awful view was one displayed soon
after. Miss Chellis stood by window of
the fourth floor i'm her night-clOthes, her
face pale as death. All round her were
tongues Of fire, daIting in circles from
great sheets which waved skyward, and
she seemed like ghost looking out upon
the snow on the adjoining house-tops.
Hundreds Of men and women looked up
through the gyratne sparks horror
stricken at the awful sacrifice about to be
offered. II was not long before the fire
leaped upon her, and, shrouding her from
view in g winding sheet OF red, devoured
her senseless form. Reason had doubtless
fed before the fire reached her."
MApY GARvlN's STORY.
One OF the most thrilling and terrible
stories told Ivy any OF the survivors is that
of Mary Garvin. She is one OF the girls
saved by means Of the ladder reaching
across the alley in the rear of the hotel.
She tells herrible story Of the experience
OF the girls in the rooms allotted to the SER
wants. She says:
AWAKENING TO HORROR.