The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1883-01-13
HORRIBLE HORROR.
Burning sOt a Large Hotel in
Milwaukee.
Between Fifty and One Hundred Lives
Lost-A Great Many Others
Seriously Injured

| MILWAUKEE, WIS.,, January 10.-The
| Newhall House, six story brick build
| ing, at the corner of Michigan street
and Broadway. burned to the ground
this morning. The fire was discovered
at a. IN. In less than half an hour
the whole building, which had long been
designated as death trap, was enVelOp-
ed in flames.
Scenes of the utmost terror prevailed,
the inmates of the doomed building
| jumping by dozens from the upper
stories. covering the stone sidewalks
with their lifeless bodies. The shrieks
of the unfOrtunates filled the air in
heartrending manner, the people below
| being unable to render any aid. A num-
| Der of terrified guests and employees Of
the hotel appeared at the windows, and
| seeing the distance to the ground, fell
back to perish in the flames.
The employees of the hotel, which ac-
| cOmmOdated 800 guests, numbered SO,
mostly lodged in the sixth story. The
| exit by way of the roof was cut off by
the fire, and the two stand pipes with fire
| ladders were not available for the same
reason. Very few were saved by jump
| ing on the canvas.
CHASTITY HEAP.
The scenes at the MOrgue, where thir-
/ ty-twO bodies are lying in a CHASTITY
| heap on the floor of small room, are
heaTtrending beyond human power of
description, and strong police force is
necessary to keep the anxious inquirers
in line. Nineteen bodies have been
identified and eight bodies are.beyOnd
| recognition.
Tom Thumbs party and the Madison
Square Company are all safe, so far as
| known. Mrs. John Gilbert, of the
i DaI nh lxr
two days ago, was burned to death. Her
body has been positively identified. A
touching scene was to see the bride of
night upon the cold marble, charred
and burned, anguish depicted in the de-
| licate features. She was Sutton, Of
Chicago, previous to marrying Gilbert,
who is maddened beyond control.
HIDEOUs SIGHT.
The MOrgue is hideOus sight. Two
small biers were soon filled with bodies
tightly packed and the bodies of girls,
women and men were laid prOmiscuOus-
ly on the stone flags almost in heap,
as the patrol brought in bodies three or
four at a time. In the American Ex-
press office Allen johnson and wife lay
stretched ON the hard floor evidently
dying. [Since dead.l They were forced
| to jump from a window on the third
floor. The blanket held to catch
them was too weak, and their backs
were injured so seriously that cries
Edward PittOck, of Lancaster, Wis, was
awakened nearly as soon as the flames
broke out. He gathered up his clothes
and swung from balcony on the fourth
floor to that beneath, where dozen 9TH
ers were, and by means Of knOtted bed
clothes they all reached the ground.
TOM THUMB ESCAPES.
Tom Thumb got out at the front en-
trance, and his wife was taken down a
fire escape by fireman 8. W. Champion.
Misses Herbert and Dunlap and W. A.
Lavelle, of the Madison Square Com
pany, arrived on the midnight express.
The whole party was saved by the fire
escape, only partially dressed.
The firemen made Superhuman efforts.
Eleven waiter girls were brought safe
ly across fralI ladders stretched over the
alley from the sixth story Of the hotel to
the roof adjoining the bank building.
The jumping cloth did little service.
About a dozen unfOrtunates attempted
to Jump, but rebounded on telegraph
wires, a perfect maze Of which surround
ed the two fronts of the building. The
appeals for aid were piteous, but little
could be done.
THE FIRE A MYSTERY.
1t is impossible to account for the fire
and for some reason the two stand pipes
and fire ladders were not available. Ben
Hall, a fireman, was crushed under a
large heavy cOrnice, but was quickly
gotten out from beneath red hot plates
of galvanized iron, seriously, but not
fatally hurt. The department. fought
herOically, but were only able to pre-
vent the fire from spreading. The hook
and ladder companies were most active,
and saved about twelve people by we'll
directed efforts.
The hotel was built by Daniel Newhall
and his associates in 1857. The origi-
nal cost was $4,000. Total cost, in
cluding furnishing, $277,0O0. VIM. <.
Cramer, of the Evening Wisconsin, was
saved through the heroic efforts of Char
lie Crossing, a Sentinel typo. Chief
Clerk Tice, who had narrow escape,
says that no bOarders and 90 employees
were in the hotel; SO far So are unac-
counted for.
HOTEL GUESTS.
There were comparatively few guests
in the hotel. The register was burned,
minable, 1t will reach fifty or sixty
dead, and JwentyOr thirty wounded. So
far twenty-three bodies are in the NOR
que and nine more In places near the
ruins. IdentificatiOns come In slowly
Among those known to have been in the
nOL6l are y. w. BrlBgS, dranQ RAPIDS
Mich; IN. Miller, RipOn; Geo. YOungs,
Chicago; j. A. Manning, Chicago; W. L.
Lewis, Chicago; r. N. Baker, New York
j. V. Mahoney, Rock Island, H.; U. j.
Hill, Syracuse, N. Y; A. A. Hendry, New
Haven, Conn.,; A. j. Case, .Des Moines,
Ia, Chas. A. Handy, Milwaukee; the Tom
Thumb party, Orange Williams, j. A.
|, Pringen and wife, ShebOygan Falls
John G. Clarke, Warsaw; Mr.. ROwell, OF
SandfOrd 81 ROwell, of MedfOrd; Bell
Tice, Chief Clerk; John II. Antisdel
clerk; John F. Antisdel, proprietor, and
Ben Mason, teacher, Of Milwaukee.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
MILWAUKEE, January 10.-Twenty-
four hours have elapsed since a most
terrible catastrophe befell Milwaukee,
and the immensity of the dreadful dis.
aster seems to increase instead of wane
Early in the morning, at $40 o'clock
an alarm Of fire was turned in from box
439, corner Vleet and Eighteenth streets
The operators in the train dispatcher
Office had seen from their Office light
smoke issuing from the attics of the
INewhall House. 1t was scarcely noticed