New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-11

| of Chicago The Minnie Palmer Company ana
the Tom Thumb Company have cance'ied
their engagements at the Opera House and Academy
| of Music owing to the deaths of members OF their
| companies.
| William E. Cramer Editor of The Eren'n9 b'sooh-
| sin and wife, who had rooms on the second noor'
received serious but not fatal injuries, and he Is
now under medical care at the PlanKihton' MI.
| Crarner was badly burned about the hands and
head. Mrs Cramer's hair was badly Durned' Is
/ were also her hands and feet.
STORIES OF NARROW ESCAPES.
| The story of hairbreadth escape from terrible
death is related by Lizzie Augland, one OF the
dining room girls. She awoke and beard noise
about o'clock a. M. She awakened her room-ina'e,
| Mollie Connors and the two girls hastily dressed
snd attemoted TO descend by the stairway, only TO
| find themselves facing sheet of hame MISS
Connors terribly frightened screamed out,
my God Lizzie We can't get through therei
Lizzie replied, ave must get through or perish"
With this Lizzie rushed through the flames and
succeeded in reaching the Office aoor where she
fell lnsensible She was terribly burned about the
neck and lower portion of the face and on her arms
and legs but her injuries are not fatal. From Miss
Apgland the fate of Mollie COnners is learned She
saws that when she started through the flames she
turned TO if Mollie was coming. and she saw ner
fall on the stairway This leaves no doubt but that
Mollie Conuers perished in the burning building.
Another escape TO be recorded is that of q man
whose name could not be learned, who was seen
swinging himself from the fifth floor of the burning
building until his feet touched the window below;
kicking in the glass, he dropped and grabbed the
sash. This was repeated until he reached the bai-
cony, from which he rescued with his hands
badly cut.
It's reported on the street that there were $50
guests in the house last night If this be true, the
horrors that will be revealed by the removal OF
the debris arc too dreadful to contemplate. The
Newhali House was known TO every traveller IN
the Northwest and to every person in Milwaukee
no had resided here for yea or two, rs " iire-
tap" of the worst description; and while horror
and sympathy are expressed all sides at
the dreadful catastrophe, wonder also
prevails to great an extent that any
traveller or residents could be found to take up
abode within its walls. 1t should have been con-
d .mned long ago. meeting Of citizens has been
held and arrangements have been made to place an
adequate iorce of men at work on the ruins to re-
cover the bodies Travelling men. resident and non
resident, also held a meeting for the purpose OF
adopting measures for the rerT of such of the
fraternity a. are sufferers from the fire.
terrible obs .acle TO the saving of life was found
in the net work Of telegraph wires which bedged
the building in. Not only did they prevent the
firemen from placing ladders against the building.
but they also made it impossible to hold canvas in
such a position that the unfortunates would not
stnbe tho wires first Even the crowd saw what
was the matter. and a number OF prominent
business men stood in front of the
Chamber Of Commerce Building and anathcmatized
the telegraph companies. There were frequent
shouts of "Cut the wires down." "Chop down the
polesr but no movement was made to tako them
down.
TIE loss of life is considerably larger than was
anticipated at rSt and il is fearel will reash ono
hundred. So far the following sixteen sof
the twenty-five bodies found have
been positively identified: I. e. Van Leon,
a retired capitalist of Albany. n. Y; Mrs John
Gilbert wife of John Gilbert OF the Minnie Palmer
Company; Allen johnson, commissi on mer-
chant of Milwaukee; Mrs. Alen-, john
son. of Milwaukee,; Maggie - Sullivan,
chanbermad. parents living near the Soldiers
Home; Mary Conroy. laundry girl Of Milwaukee,
Maggie Owens, of Nil Saukee. parents living on
seventh-s.. near Clybourn; Mary McDade. waitress,
parents living at Mukwonago; Mary Mcmahon,
waifress parents living at Lyndon body
forwarded to parcnts) Bessie Brown, waitress, OF
Milwaukee, parents living in Third Ward, near
corner of Jackson aud BuifalO-sts.; OHillie Wal
tersdorf kitchen girl, ago eighteen years body
claimed by frendsl: Maggie Sullivan chamber
Monahan, pantry yater Bridget OC C'nnell
hall-girl. of Duprair,e. Wis., j. J. Hough
commercial traveller, of Maroa. Ill Among
the missing are: Lizzie Kelly. waitress
Mary Ovens of Milwaukee. table girl. whose sister
Maggie occupied "a with her and was killed by
leapIng from third-story window; II. II. OWE,
of Milwaukee, conductor on the Wisconsin
Central Railroad; Mary Anderson, of Milwaukee
table girl Miss ChellIs, head of the dressmaking
department of L. 4. Chapman q Co, OF Milwaukee,
known TO be in the ruins; Professor b.
Mason. of the German American Academy,
and wife; Julia Fogarty. of Oeonomowoc waitress;
Norah Flanagan, Of Pewaukee. waitress; Captain
George T. Vose United states Civil Engineer, in |
charge of the river and harbor improvements here !
George Lowry, III charge of courtroom, was last
seenin the ball on the third floor L. A. Brown OF
Philadelphia recently engaged as manager OF the
Ranch 10 Company, is known TO have been In the |
build ng; Mrs l.. w. Brown, formerly OF Allegheny
wife of l.. w. Brown. tiainmaster OF the chicago |
and Northwestern road, is known to have been IN |
the building; John H. Foley the cleo
trician, of Milwaukee; Mollie Connor. |
table-girl; Augusta Trapp. Jane Dunn and |
Annie Caro-, pantry-girls; A. ii. Clafin, |
of Chicago, agent for the Wilcox & Gibbs
Sewing Machine Company, aud J. B. Kellogg. |
commission man. making forty deaths toerably |
sure.
The fallen outside walls and the partition walls |
orm such an i'm nsn, heap of ruins that it will be
impossible for several days to begin search, but |
nearly 100 is the accepted number of lives lost.
THE TELEGRAPH WIRE NUISANCE.
AlarQe assemb age of representative business men |
have addressed the following to the Mayor:
Whereas The large number Of telegraph wires sus.
on poles In the central parts OF c nave proved
very serious obstrucuOns TO the nre departments IN
o1e efficient work Of fires OF which the terri
ne coudagrpiion the Newhali house IN this city,
VITA the great of life when might otherwise
have ha.n sayed. IA the latest proof;
fhecfore we the undersigned citizens Of Milwaukee.
most prtiuon Legislature or our state ana
ine rumon CouciI OF our eitY pass laws and or1in
ances compclling tue corporations IN whose hands