Daily Republican., 1883-01-11
BUnAIka OF a HOTEL.
About sixty Persons Perish IN the
Fla mes.


early hour this morning, and seventy
/, five persons, principally gnests, were
lost. The fire was discovered ut abou
four O'Clock whom oil the guests wer'
sleeping, and In less than half an hour
the whole building, long designated 81
. deatb-trap, was envelOped In flames
Scenes of the utmost terror prevailed
The inmates Of the doomed building
Jumped by dozens from the upper
stories, covering the stone sidewalks
with lifeleas bodies. The shrieks OF
THE unfortunates filled the air in a
hsartrending manner. The people be-
low were unable to render any aid,
IQuite q number of the 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 az
commodated 800 guests, numbered SO,
mostly lodged in the sixth story. EXIT
lby way of The roof was cut off by the
fire, and tho two standpipes with the
fire ladders were not available tor the
pame reason. A very few were saved
by jumping on canvass. The stores
and offices ON the ground floor were en-
tirely destroyed. Those on the Michi-
M utual Union Telegraph Company, II.
j. Baumgartener's sign painting snop.
Goetze's barber shop, and Burdick q
Armitage, job printers. Those on the
Broadway front were the Manufactur-
ers' Bank, Metropolitan Plate Glass IT.
surance Company, the insurance agen-
cies Of Charles f. Lain, William s. Du-
rand, G. P. Hewitt, q. G. Hibbard Il
Co., II. w. Montgomery & Co., h. NJ.
We'll, West & Meyers, anu l.. A
Wheeler, j. II. Watson, Agent OF the
Canada Southern Railway Co., the
Office OF Nelson 8 coal yard and the OF
flee Of the Merchants Despatch Line
A number of wholesale Adjustments
lin Water street were damaged by fire
ard by the falling walls Of the build.
ling. Among them were William Crea-
mer, banker; the Goodyear Rubber
company; Lewis SchodeSg q Co.,
wholesale wine merchants; James Nor
|g4n, dry goods, and Zimmerman Bros.
lclothiLg.
VIM. Caldte, cashier OF the Man
ufacturers' Bank, carried tho cash box
of the institution, containing money
aid papers amounting tCS6OO,OOO, out Of
the flames
The insurance agencies and general
offices on the first floor saved scarcely
any papers.
| The insurance ON the hotel is stated
| by G. ID. Nash, President of the New
hall House Association, at Sl25, GOO, all
held by Cincinnati agencies. The loss
is scarcely to DO estimated at this
hour, but it will reach 100000. Tee.
graph communication will be inter
rupted fer traffic north, as about 80
wires are down
Comparatively few of the guests on
tho hotel register we're burned, and
the exact loss of life Is not dtterIuln-
able, but 1t will reach from fifty to
sixty dead and from twenty to thirty
! wounded.
SO tar twenty. three bodies are in the
morgue and nine more in places near
the rnirs. Identification comes up
slowly. Among those known to have
been in the hotel are:
g. A. Briggs, Of Grand Rapids, Mich;
N. Miller, of kipon George Young,
Chicago; j. A. Manning. Chicago W.
ID. Lewis, Chicago N. n. Baker, New
York j. V. Mahoney, Rock Island,
III. W. j. Hill, Syracuse, n. v; A.
Is. Hendy, New Haven, Conn. A. j.
Case, New York; =. Hobler, Chicago
5. j. Craig, Des Moines, Iowa CAas,
A. III andy, milwaukee, the rom
Thumb party, Orange Williams, d. A
Prince and wife, Sheboyxan Fall4 JnO.
q. Clark. Warsaw Mr.. kowell, OF SAN
ford, and Mr. Roweil, OF Medford Ben
Tice, chief c'erk, John II. Antisde,
clerk ; John 7. Antisdei, proprietor,
and Benjamin Mason, teacher, Mil
waukee.
Three steamers went from Chicago at
Ten minutes 10 SIX, IN response 10 call
them went over the Chicago and North,
western Railroad, and consisted of five
cars. Itvent 10 Milwaukee. a Distance
of ninety mile.. in onlv n little over An
hour T. i. reportei her. that the
Minnis palmer T-onne Which were at
tba Ne. hail H,mse were loaf, INIT tbis
!. M, IN, f;r,nad
40 NV 00'''''
Llsf OF THE DEAD.
q, far az known. tn. following are
dad.
Allan .Johnsan commission merchant
of MilwanLea And x,ifa Kitty Railev
and MARI Rurns servants. W A
Hal, miller NJ I,annrte Reni Van
uaa, Gra,,.n utrmc,r hv f,lling
,aIsnra,h nols .Iizyi. KaIIsv Maog;e
0wsrs 80 Hail ANNA and Rsssie
pro,.n K.,. stannbon Moogis SnlI
van AronSt Giesa and Mar McT,aI,
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Ahho,s ~ " y iIavab ~ Ma-
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No. nnrLo Marv And.rsnr Morn
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THE MISSING.
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