Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-01-11
HORRIBLE HOLOCAUST.
Sixty Lives Lest by the Burning
OF a Hotel.
The NewhaII House of Milwaukee Consumed,
and Many Persons Burned TO Death
Others Leap for Life and
Are Killed.
SlcKENlNG SCENES AT THE MORGUE.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, January l0.-The New
hall House, a six-story brick building, at
the corner of Michigan street and Broad
way, was burned to the ground this fore
noon. The fire was discovered at A. NJ In
less than half an hour the whole build
ing, which has long been designated as
death trap, was enveloped 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 unfortunate
filed the air in heartrending manner, the
people below being unable to render any
aid. A number Of terrified guests and em-
ployes of the hotel appeared at the win
dows, and seeing the distance to the ground,
fell back to perish in the flames. The EN-.
ployes of the hotel, which accommodated
500 guests, numbered eighty-six, 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 jumping on the canvas,
All the stores and offices OH the ground
floor, with the contents,
We're Destroyed.
They were on the Michigan street side.
The offices of the Mutual UriOn Telegraph
Company, II. ]. Baumgartner, sign paint
ing shop; Goetz's barber shop, Burdock
Armitage, Job printers, on Broadway front;
Manufacturers Bank, Metropolitan Plate
Glass Insurance Company, Insurance
Agencies Of Chas. f. Grain, w. T. Durand,
G. T. Hewitt, c. F. Hibard 4 Co., F. W.
Montgomery & Co., b. NJ. We'll, West Il
Myers and L. A. Wheeler and J. II.
Watson, agent of the Canadian
Southern Railway, the Office OF
Nelson's coal yard, and the Office of the
Merchants Dispatch Freight Line. A num-
ber of wholesale establishments on East
Water street wer damaged by the fire and
falling walls Of the buildings. Among
them were William Cramer, banker; Good
year Rubber Company; Louis Schalegg &
Co., wholesale wine dealers; James Nor
gan, dry goods; Zimmerman Bros. cloth
ing. William 8. Candee, cashier OF the
Manufacturers Bank, carried the cash box
of the institution. containing money and
papers to che amount OF 100000, out OF the
flames. The insurance agencies and gen.
eral offices on the first floor scarcely saved
any papers.
There was comparatively few guests in
the hotel.
The Register Was burned.
and the exact loss of life is not determin-
able. 1t will reach fifty or sixty dead, and
twenty to thirty wounded. 1dentitications
come in slowly. Among those known to
have been in the hotel are 6. w. Briggs,
Grand Rapids Mich; Y. Miller, Ripon;
Geo. Youngs, Chicago; J.. A. Manning,
m.
Baker, New York; J. Y. Mahoney, Rock
Island, ILL.,. U. J. Hill, Syracuse, N. y;
A b. Hendry, New Haven, Conn; 4. ].
Case, New York; P. Hobler, Chicago; S. J.
Craig. DesMoines, Ia. Chas. \ Handy, Mil
waukee; the Tom Thumb party, Orange
Williams, J. A. Pringen and wife, Sheboy-
gan Falls; John c. Clarke, Warsaw Mr..
ROwell. OF Sanford and Rowell, OF Med.
ford Ben Tice, chief clerk; John II. Ants
del, clerk; John F. AntisdeI, proprietor.
and Ben Mason, teacher, of Milwaukee.
The Loss of Life.
As far as known the following are dead
Allen johnson, commission merchant, of
Milwaukee, and wife; Kitty Baily, servant;
Mary Besrns, servant; w. \, Hail. Miller
Laporte and Ben Vantage, tiremen, struck
by falling telegraph pole; Lizzie Kelly,
Brown, Kate Stanshan, Maggie Sullivan,
servants; Thomas f. Vauhorn and
Mrs. J. J. Haugh, Marco, His.
ID. G. Powers, Mrs. Brown, Mary Burke,
Mary Anderson, Mary Miller, Mary Nc
Mahon, Mary Conroy, all servants. The
following are the missing: W: L. Durand,
insurance agent; Geo. G. Smith, passenger
agent of the Lake Shore and Michigan
Soutfern railroad; Mrs. L. w. Brown, Miss
Chellis, dress maker; Walter and VIM.
Gillette Seriously injured: Orange Will
liams, residence unknown; Ben !. Rice'
clerk of the house; L. w. Brown, train
master of Northwestern road; I. b.
Elliott, lawyer, fatally; w. B Busen-
bach, general western passenger agent
Cf the Michigan Central railroad;
Il. Burns, Mary Owens, Mamie McLaugh-
lin, Kitty Conners, Doylestown, servants:
The following guests are known as saved
or only slightly hurt: Edward Pollock.
Lancaster, Wisconsin; Rowell Sanford and
Rowell Medford, Wisconsin. Carl Briggs,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. John c. Clark,
Wausau J. r. Duval, Agent OF the Great
Western Dispatch and South Shore line.
Geo. J. Lee, Northwestern Travelling Pas,
senger Agent OF the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific J. W. Maxwell, Cincinnati.
X. Cohn, New York. NJ. Weber, Laporte.
Jas. S. Wardrob, New York.
A Touching Scene
was 10 see the bride OF night upon the
cold marble. Charred vnd burned, anguish
depicted In the delicate features. She was
Miss Sutton, of Chicago, previous to marry
ing Gilbert, who is maddened beyond con-
troll. The Fire Department called for as
sistance from the Soldiers Home, but Gen
eral Sharpe refused to send the steamer, at
which the indignation is great.
The firemen made superhuman efforts.
Eleven waiter girls were brought safely
across frail ladders stretched over the alley
| from the sixth story OF the hotel to the
roof adjoining the bank building. The
| humping cloth did little service. About
! dozen unfortunates attempted to jump, but
rebounded on telegraph wires, perfect
maze of which surrounded the two fronts
Of the building. The appeals for aid were
| piteous. but little could be done.
shortly before the Newhall House alarm,
| part of the department were called to
! small fire about three miles distant, and
| before the department was in working or
| der the hotel was one blazing fire.
Tom Thumb Got Out
Of the front entrance, and his wife was
| taken down fire escape by Fireman 3. w.
! Cramnton. Misses Herbert and Dunlap
and II a. Layelle, of the Madison Square
| Company, arrived on the midnight ex-
| press. The whole party were saved by the
! ire escape, only partially dressed.
| ItIs impossible to account for the lire
and for some reason the two stand pipes
and fire ladders were not available. Ben
Hall, a fireman, was crushed under large
heavy cornice, but was quickly. gotten out
| from beneath red hot plates OF galvanized
iron. seriously, but not fatally hurt. The
Jepsrfment fought heroically, but were
oniy able to prevent the fire from spread
! ing. The hook and ladder companies were
most active, and saved about twelve people
! hy we'll directed efforts
The Morxue WINS q Hideous sight.
Two small biers were soon filled with
bodies tightly packed and the bodies OF
| Girls. women and men were laid promiscu-
ously on the stone flags almost in Q heap,
as the patrol brought in bodies three or four
| at a time. In the American Express office
Allen Johnson and wife lay stretched on
the hard floor evidently dying-tsince
dead They were forced to Jump from a
| window on the third floor. The blanket