Morning journal and courier., 1883-01-12

noise about o'clock B. m. She awakened
 her roommate, Mollie Connors, and the two
 girls hastily dressed and attempted to descend
 by the stairway, only to find themselves fac
 ing sheet of flame. Miss Connors, terribly frightened, screamed out: ''My God, Lizzie
 We can't get through therel'' Lizzie re- piled: E'We must get through or perish. '
 With this Lizzie rushed through the flames
 and succeeded in reaching the office floor, l where she fell insensib1e. She was ter
 ribly burned about the neck and lower portion of the face and on her arms and legs, but her injuries are not fatal. From Miss AngIand the fate of Mol ] lie Connors is learned. She says that when l she started through the flames she turned to
 see if MoIIie was coming, and she saw her fall on the stairway. This leaves no doubt but that Nellie Connors perished in the burning building. Over one hundred labor CTS are now engaged in digging in the ruins. No entire bodies have been found. All the injured are doing well. The report that the
 fire was the work of an incendiary is gaining ground and is creating the greatest excite ment. Twenty more bodies have been iden- tifed. John P. Sutton, of the Minnie Pal mer troupe, has telegraphed to his wife at 413 Fulton avenue, Brooklyn: 'tAm all right. Stopped at another hotel on the night of the fire"
 The frantic fear with which nearly dozen waiter girls flung themselves from the fifth story of the hotel was the most dramatic feature of the fire. Their bedrooms opened on an alley in the rear. There was one fire escape, but they were too terrified to think of it. One of them, wilder than the others before the flames approached her leaped out into the black space and fell upon the stones beneath. Three of her companions followed her, striking within two feet of each other all of them being killed and shockingly mutt lated. The rescue party attempted to stem &ho 0f f1a 6rz1 beneath, but the girls were hurled down with such terrible force that the cloth was torn from the hands of the strong men, and they were as before dashed to death upon the pavement. Some of the ill fated ones, think- ing that they could in some manner chamber down the side of the building, swung them selves out of the windows only to drop in- stantly to the stone street. At one time nine of these bleeding corpses, some of them blackened and shrivelled by the flames, lay one upon the other in various indescribable shapes in the alley. Similar scenes were en- acted at the upper windows fronting on Main street. Six persons hanging from the sills on the fifth story lost their grip one by one and whirled downward.
 Tom Thumb and wife were rescued from the hotel by Police Officer O'Brien, who took one of the little people under each arm, and carried them down stairs and across the street to the American Express office. The General, immediately upon being placed ir the express office, began mourning the loss of valuable diamonds and other jewelry be- longing to himself and wife. The latter heard him through, and replied leprovingly stWhat if we have lost everything? Just look at those people there," pointing to the mangled forms of twenty dead and dying men and women lying upon the floor. The little woman then bravely began relieving the suferings of those around her by supply ing them with water and the display of other acts of sympathetic kindness.
 The known list of dead, missing and say ed remains unchanged. Even should the bodies in the ruins be recovered it will be impossi- ble to recognize them and the confusion and uncertainty will be intensified. The dead will number one hundred. Twenty bodies have been found in the ruins. The dead as far as known are as follows; George c. Libby Chellis, dressmaker, Milwaukee a child companion of Miss Chellis Bradley Kellogg, Milwaukee; MT. and Mrs. Allen Johnson, Milwaukee W. Scott, Milwaukee F. Vanloon, retired capitalist, Albany, N. Y.; Mrs. John Gilbert, wife of John Gilbert of the Minnie Palmer company Julia Curtain, servant. Madison Richard Goggin, Miiwau- kee, with Bradley Kellogg Maggie Sullivan, chambermaid, Milwaukee Mary Conroy, Milwaukee Maggie Owens, Milwaukee; Mary McDage, waitress, Mukwonowaga; Mary Me Mahon, waitress, London Bessie Brown, WalGre5S, M1lWaukee; Augustd Olese, klscuen girl Milwaukee; Catherine Monahan, pantry girl, Milwaukee; Bridget O'Connell, hall girl, Milwaukee; J. J. Hough. special insur- ance agent, Maroa, Ills. The actor Gil bert, of the Minnie Palmer company, is in the agonies of death. Judge Eli ott's condition is critical. Among the missing are Capt. H. G. Vose, Milwaukee George B. Reed, Manitowac R. Howie, Prof. B. Mason, Mrs. B. Mason, George Lowry, all of Milwaukee; L. A. Brown, Philadelphia Mrs. L. W. Brown, AIlegha- ny; John H: Foley, Milwaukee; Quentius Brown, St. Louis; Charles Kelsey, valet to Tom Thumb; l.. K. Smith, Kansas City W. D. Powell, Freeport, Ill. MT. Smith, Chicago; Mrs. Kelley, Lizzie Kelley, Mary Owens, Mary Anderson, all of Milwaukee James Ernest, Schullsburg, Wis. Julia Fo- garty. Ocenomowoc; Annie Bergman, Mol lie Connor, Augusta Trapp, Jane Dunn, all of Milwaukee Annie Casey, Waukesha :; Kitty Connors, Milwaukee Mary Miller, Milwaukee; Kate Tooms, Milwaukee Wy man Fuller, Milwaukee; Jush Hook, Ocon- omowoc Martin OchIossner, Amee G. Guis ter, Mary Burke, Mrs. Harshaw, Gustav Freiderich, Ernest Schoenbacker, William GiIlen, Walter Gillen, Dan Monahan, Fred. Barker and Ambrose Burns, all of Mil waukee.