Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-01-13

soon AFTER
Many columns might be filled with de-
tails but the greatest interest centers in the
list of those known to have persisted. There
are many missing who are pc sibly safe.
The following are the dead as far as known:
Allen Johnson, commission man, Mil
waukee.
HRS. Allen johnson, Milwaukee.
d. G. Powers, inventor, Milwaukee.
J. H. Hough, travelling man, Peoria, Ill.
Mrs. John Gilbert, wife of an actor, Chi
Miss Libbie Challis dressmaker Milwau-
Zee.
Mr.. Huff, insurance agent, Iowa.
Mrs. Kelley, servant.
Miss O'Neil, servant.
Bessie Bro gn, chambermaid.
Thomas Z. Van Leon, capitalist, formerly
of Albany, n. Y.
Maggie Owens, Lizzie Kelley, Annie
Brown, Kate Leniham, Maggie Sullivan,
Augusta Gesa, Mary McDade Mitchell
B1ilan, servants, all of Milwaukee.
G. Hawry, conductor, Wisconsin Central
railroad. Milwaukee.
Mary McMann, Milwaukee.
Judge George H. Reed, formerly of Mani
towoc.
Julia Curtin, servant, Madison.
Waiter Scott, employe Wisconsin Central
railroad.
Mary Anderson, laundry girl of Doyles-
town.
Walter Gilleland of Milwaukee, bell-boy.
William Gilleland of Milwaukee, elevator
boy.
Making forty-fve dead and missing.
The idea is gaining ground that there are
many more bodies in the ruins than was
first estimated. The flames spread so rapid
ly that it must have been impossible for
many even to reach the windows.
Orange Williams OF JonesVille. who
escaped from the burning building with Sc
rious injuries, says that while cropping his
way out through the hallway he stumbled
over at least eight bodies, and heard the
death-cry of several other poor creatures be-
yond his reach.
The chief of the fire department estimates
the number of lost at sixty, W. 8. Scott,
clerk in A. H. Carpenters Office, is no doubt
among the victims. He was boarding at
the Newhall house, and was last seen there.
His mother lives in Dubuque, Iowa, and a
brother is in the pay-car service oftheSt. Paul
road.
Two fremen, after endeavoring to raise
the fire escape, carried ladder through the
alley to the building occupied by Simons &
Brooks, and with the assistance of several
citizens raised the ladder to the top of the
building and placed one end in window
occupied by the servant girls in the Newhall
house, and five of the girls crawled unassist-
ed across the ladder and were taken to a
place of safety. Some of them were nearly
naked. One of the firemen then entered the
burning building and attempted to save q
girl that was apparently half crazy. She
resisted the fireman, but finally, after
hard fight, he succeeded in carrying her
across to the opposite building. The brave
fireman then returned to the burning build
ing AMI brought out three dead bodies.
Fireman Strauss, who made the first at
tempt at rescue, carried over very stout
woman, but at one time it was feared she
would throw him from the ladder to the
alley. At one time she held him midway
of the ladder for almost a minute by clutch
ing around and to which she clutched in
absolute frenzy. After this the rescued had
their arms pinioned and were taken across
the ladder without further difficulty.
The Newhall house has been a notorious
death trap for years, and thoughtful people
have slept uneasily under its roof Old, rot
ten, and demonstrated, with long, dark cor
ridors, and central staircase to serve as
has been increased by the neglect of the pro-
prietor to provide suitable fire escapes. If
any means of escape from the upper rooms
OF the house were supplied, they proved
worthless in the emergency. Not one per-
son is reported as saved by means provided
in advance for that purpose.
One of the first bodies recognized was
that of Mrs. John Gilbert wife of Mr..
Gilbert, of the Minnie Palmer company.
They were married recently in Chica-
go, and the bride OF night lay upon the
cold marble, charred and bruised almost
beyond recognition. Among the bodies
were several chambermaids, who jumped
from the upper story into the alley. It is
said by those who held the canvas at that
spot that the scene was perfectly sickening.
The bodies fell around them on every side,
and lay with broken heads and bruised
bodies only half covered with clothing.
Martin Weber, of La Porte, Ind, says
he arrived at che hotel yesterday and was
assigned to room 158, on the fourth floor.
He was accompanied by friend named G..
w. Hall, who occupied a room off from and
opening into his. Webber wrs awakened
by the noise OF the roaring flames. He
sprang from his bed and called to his friend,
who also arose and came in and the two
men dressed themselves. Hall said: "My
G6d! do you think they will ever get to
us?" The next moment he made q run for
the window and cleared it with bound.
Mr.. Weber has not yet been able to find
him either dead or alive, although he has
made diligent search. Weber was driven
from his room by the smoke and climbed
outside and hung from the window sill for
ten minutes, he thinks, when he was res
cued by ladder being placed at the win
dow.
The Newhall house was uilt in 1859 by
Dan Newhall, one of the heaviest wheat
spectators on Lake Michigan. The orig
inal cost Of the building was $25O,6OO, It
stood on the corner of Broadway and Mich
igan streets, one block from Wisconsin
street. tina principal thoroughfare on the