Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-10
TERRIBLE MILWAUKEE FIRE
Hotel Burnld---F Fifty or Sixty
Lives Lost.
And Many Persons Badly
Injured.
The Property Loss Over Half a
Million Dollars.
Reported Loss Of the Minnie Palmer
Troupe.
HeRrirending scenes of Death
aud Despair.
Henrirending Scenes of DeatI
aud Despair.
Chicago Flrsmen to the a.sOus.

MILWAUKEE, January 10.-The
Newhall House, a six story brick
building, on the corner Of Michisau
street and Broadway, burned to the
ground this forenoon. The fire was
discovered attain. In less than half
an hour the whole building, long
designated as death trap, was enyel-
oped in flames. Scenes OF utmost
terror prevailed. The inmates Of the
doomed building jumped by dozens
from the upper stories, covering the
stone sidewalks with lifeless bodies
while the shrieks Of the unfortunates
filled the uirin aheartrendiGg manner,
the people below being unable to ron
der any aid.
Quite a number Of the terri6, d
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 accommodated
eight hundred guests, numbered
eighty six, mostly lodged iu the sixth
story. Exit by the roof was cut off by
the fire, and two stands Of steps with
fire ladders were not available for the
same reason, Very few we're saved by
jumping on canvass.
All the stores aud offices on the
ground floor, with their eonteI Is, we're
destroyed. Ga the Michigan street
side were the offices of the Mutual
Uniou Telegraph Company, H. j.
Baumgsrtnor's sign painter shop,
Goeiz's barber shop, and Burdick h
Armitage, job printers. Ga Broad.
way front were the Manufacturer s
Bank, the Metropolitan Plate Glas:
Insurance Company, the insurance
agencies Of Charles f. Grain, VIM. T
Durand, G. Y. Hewitt, Q. P. Hubbard
& Co., T. W. Montgomery q Co, B
NJ. We'll, West h Meyers, l.. A.
| Wheeler, and j. H, Watson agent Of
I
the Canada Southern R,ilroad Com
pany; also the Office Of Nelson
COlcard q Go. aud the Office Of tx
MeFchinis' Disratch Freight Line
A number of wholesale establishments
on East Water street were damaged
by fire aud falling walls Of the build.
iags. Among them were William
Oramer, banker, Goodyear Rubber
Company; Louis Schadeg & Co. whole
sale vines james Morgan, dry goods
Zimmerman brothers, cipthipg.
William s. Condee, Cashier Of the
Manufacturers Bank, carried the cash
box Of the institution, containing
money and papers to the AMOUNT o.
5000 out Of the flames. The
insurance agencies and general Offices
on the first floor scarcely saved an,
papers. iE1
The insurance on the hotel is stated
hy G D. Nash. President Of tn,
Newhall House Association, to be a
sl25,010, all held by Cincinnati agen
cies. The loss can scarcely be esti.
mated at this hopr, hut will reacl
s5OG,OOA.
Telegraphic communications vii
be interrupted for traffic North, a
about fifty wires are down. Compare
lively few guests were in tn
hotel the register was burned, aur
exact loss Of life not deteFminable, but
will read fifty or sixty dead an,
twenty to thirty wounded. So fal
twenty. three bodies are in the morgu
and niue more in places near the ruins
Identification comesin slowly. Anon
those known to have been in the hote
are 0. w, Briggs, Grand Rapids
Mich N. Miller, Ripon, Wis; Georg
Young. ]. A. Manning, A. D, Lewis
Chicago R. N. Baker, New York
j. v, MahOuey, Rock Island, Ill A
, r Hill, Syracuse, N. Y, A. B, Hen
dry, New Haven, Conn; A. j. Case
b New York; P. Hobler, Chicago T. j
Craig, Des Moines, Ia; Charles A
? Handy, Milwaukee; the Tom Thum
e party, Orange Williams, G. A. Prem
a zen and wife, Sheborgan Falls job
= A. G. Clarke, Wausaui Mr.. Rowel
t Sanford aud Rowel Medford; Be
0 Tice, chief clerk; John II. Antisdel
e clerk; John +. Antisdel, proprietor
r Benjamin Mason, teacher, Milwaukee
s SO far as known the following al
dead Allen johnson, commi 'siol
) merchant Of Milwaukee, and VIII,
= Kitty Bailey and Mary Burns, sci
4 vants;W. A. Hall, a miller Of Laport
Ben Van Haag, struck by falliu
! telegraph pole Lizzie Kelly, Magg
y y Owens, Annie Hall, Bessie Brow
> Kate Stanchon, Maggie Sullivan
It Augusta Gesesand Mary McDade, a
e servants; Thos. Il. Van Horn, Mr.
II Hough, Marno, Ill D. G. Power
y Mrs. Brown, Mary Pinke, Mary Al
n dcrson, Mary Miller, Mary McMahO
Mary q rney, servants.
" The following are missing W.
,s Durapd, insurance agonii General
Il Smith, Passenger Agent Lake Sho
I'd aud Michigan Southern railroad, Nj
,e L. W. Brown, Miss ohellis, u Dire
ev maker, and Walter aud Villa
Steele,