The Indianapolis journal., 1883-11-05

nature were carried out of doors under arms
and over shoulders, and lugged off to places
OF safety AS the fire continued to spread it
encroached on the places which were con-
sidered beyond reach of the flames when the
confiagration was in its incipency, and as a
consequence hundreds of instances are re-
corded OF families removing their furniture
four and five consecutive times before event.
ually gaining the exterior of the fire circle
Many of the families were possessed of
chickens and goats, and their devotion to
those pets prompted them in several in
stances to neglect everything else to save
them. The goats and chickens fascinated
by the flames, could not be driven from their
perilous positions, and had to be dragged
and carried away bodily. One aged couple
left most OF their furniture to burn in the
street, but carried four mongrel puppies and
a couple of iron kettles off in a rickety tub.
Hundreds of drays were sent by the leading
wholesale firms of the city, among the first
to inaugurate the movement being Messrs.
Ludden d Bates, to render gratuitous aid in
expediting the removal of furniture. These
locked through every street, and were in
strumental in saving the furniture of count
less families.
About o'clock last night parties search
ing among the ruins of the cotton warehouse
discovered two charred bodies at the gate on
the western side, on Lumber street. The
coroner was notified, and, proceeding to the
spot indicated, examined the remains with
the hope of identification. This work was
rewarded with no satisfactory result as the
bodies were burned beyond Identification.
One body was lying near the center of the
gate, the lock of which was found near by.
The bones of the other bodies were found
close to the wall, about three feet from the
gate, in southerly direction. Among these
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piece of glass; supposed to be ring setting,
and the iron frame of a lady'S purse. The
remains were placed in two boxes and con-
veved to the morgue, where they will be
again examined to-day with view to identi-
fication. Mr. James NJ Cash was a son of
Mr.. Michael Cash, deceased, aud a son-in-law
of Mr.. Patrick OConner the wheelwright
He was about twenty-slx years of aye, and
had been married about eleven months He
leaves a wife and a five weeks-old babe.
colored man named Harvey Bliss who
was employed in the warehouse, stated to a
Morning News reporter that be was assisted
over the wall by Mr.. Cash, and, after he
dropped into Lumber street, he heard the lad
der by which he had partly assembled on the
inside break, and heard Mr. Cash cry for
help Bliss's hands were badly burned.
The remains of the colored woman Green
cotton-picker, were afterwards discovered.
AS the flames were about to cross Orange
ored woman tainted away, with the eXclama-
ton of MY childP 1t was Margaret Coop
er a cook employed in another part of town.
She had left her child in charge of a nurse
when she went out to her work. The nurse
had left the child sleeping in the house.
When the woman tainted her exclamation
caused bystanders to take in the situation,
and her child was rescued
Michael Colson, a colored man. was picked
up on Farm street, in the burnt district,
sick. He stated that before he was burned
out he resided on Mill street. He was
apparently sick, and had lain down in the
ashes, where he was found groaning. He
was directed to report to a police officer for
assistance
Late last night an attache of the News staff
made tour entirely around the burned dis
trict Hundreds of homeless and hungry
negroes were huddled together around small
wood fires trying to keep warm. Surround
ing each group or family was the furniture
and other effects which they had saved from
their burning dwellings. Most of them were
penniless, but very few of them seemed sad
dened by the days experience. One negro
whose curly hair had turned to gray and
whose eyes were dim and failing. regarded
it as a terrible judgment inflicted by heaven.
Another was glad because he had saved his
only effects an extra pair of rather seedy
pants. A short distance further on WAS a
woman who had become a mother only
few days before She was very ill, and was
crying. Her infant was asleep in her lap
Her only protection against the chill air of
the night was a rude tent which her husband
had improvised with some of his bedding
The woman. the man related, was rescued
from her home after it was we'll ablaze, and
narrowly escaped perishing. Several other
similar instances were learned Of Though
most of the refugees were, as already narrated,
almost penniless, there was a noticeable
lack of begging but one woman in all the
hundreds seenby the reporter asking him
for money. -s- .ii