Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1883-01-12

was so dense could go no further IN the
elevator. Throwing open the door l
rushed out and started for the stairs
! shouting to the night clerk that
there was fire below and was going to
see about it, BY the the time reached
the bottom of the elevator shaft the smoke
was so dense and sitting knew somc-
| thing must he zone and called tO the en-
glnecr IN the engine room and told him
to rouse the servants. Then l started
back to wakcn people for knew there
was no chance to stop the fire alone and
by the time reached the first floor above
the office and had raped at Mr.. Cramcr's
door the heat cracked the glass doors to
the elevator, and in moment flames
poured out. In meantime l rushed into
the bank building and aroused as many
dodgers in that portion as could. After
wards rendered what help could in
saving people. hardly know what to
say about the commencement of the fire
but know it caught at the bottom of
the elevator ana not on the upper floors;
There was nothing anywhere around the
elevator that could burn so quickly, and
at half past three O'Clock there was no
smoke in the elevator or either Elliott or
myself would have noticed 1t. After the
smoke was observed there was scarcely
time to do anything before the whole
thing was ablaze. 1t might have caught
in some of the shops in the basement that
back up to the bottom of the elevator, but
on the bottom floor of the hotel was
nothing that could possibly burn that way
and that could have been smoulderlng
throughout the night. This is shown by
the fact that 80 many were around until
such short tine before the actual blaze
occurred. don't know that the fire was
incendiary but there is a very queer
look to it.
John Gilbert, comedian, condition more
favorable to-day although consciousness
is not recovered. Among the lost is Capt.
James p. Noze, of U. S. Engineer corps,
Five railroad men killed. l.. X. Smith,
Kansas City, employed at St. Paul road.
Walter Scott, Dubuqe, H., also St. Paul
road; Dan Martclle and r. How're, Wis
consln Central and Geo. G. Smith, local
agent Lake Shore s. Michigan Southern.
Following persons registered their names
to-day at place designated for the pnr-
pose. VIM. A. Demese, Wilmington,
Geo. T. Lee, Chicago, Charles Fromel,
Chicago, w. A. Busenback, Chicago, w.
IL. Compton, w. A. Lavelle' Miss Amelia
Herbert, Miss Matte Dunlap, Madison
Square Co., j. s. Kellogg, Racine. A. J..
Casserny, Orange Williams, .Janesvllle,
J. NJ. CIahin, Chicago, J. Q. Roberts
Troy n. Y, Mike Moran, Beloit. f..
Erickson, Palmyra, Wallace D. Elder
and Emil Fish, N. Y, Mrs. H. Bradshaw,
Oshkosh, Edward Mead, second porter.
TO- night all dark aud dreary at scene of
the holocaust. Authorities have not pro .
vided electric light despite popular clam
or. Not single body found yet. Pieces
of flesh discovered exami. ed again by
Physicians and pronouncea not from hu
man body. Chief of fire department ear
ly in forenoon had their reu work with
a large quantity Of heavy ropes and tackle
pulling down the Jagged walls which IN
three instances lowered hundred feet
skyward and quivered with the breeze,
placing the workmen IN imminent peri
of being crushed to death. Several excit !
ing scenes ensued but the walls were
downed with reverberatiug crash with
out the slightest injury to q soul. When
the bricks fell they covered the ropes 80
densely as to require the combined efforts
of a hundred men with the advantage of
levers to dislodge them and then only
with the great exertion. Citizens freely
gave aid and volunteers for anything
were forthcoming at slightest appeal.
"a body" "a Lody," shouted an ex-
cited workman at about 9 O'Clock this
evening, thrilled the thousands present
with tumultuous feeling, and wild
rush was made for the source of the cry.
The police repelled the onslaught as best
they could, but hundreds pressed by and
surrounded corps of workmen, waiting
with breathless and undated anxiety
while the men carefully and tenderly re-
moved the sticks, bricks and charred
pieces from cindered petticoat The gar.
ment was finally uncovered and drawn
out only to find 1t encased nothing of a
human form, and the crowd breathed .
welcome relief.
The same exciting scene occurred
when ladies' fine leather satchel was diss
inferred. 1t contained wallet, but no
one was allowed to touch or examine it,
so to whom it belonged is yet unknown
Then tic crowd rushed forward as work
man delicately removed an infants garb.
1t contained no remains and was placed
with other discoveries. and the three form
ed little mounds on marble slab, which
was the object of thousands Of curious
and sympathetic glances.
A Beastly Affair.
CLEVELAND, O., Jan. IA Youngs-
town special to the Leader reports that
last night man named Maloney, who
keeps place with bad reputation,
threw Molllc Dewitt out doors with great
violence. 1t afterwards proved that her
skull was broken. As she lay on the
ground unconscious man named Law
sou, supposlng her drunk, ravIshcd her.