The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-11

west are all down. Very little additional
to the press report of the NeWhall House
fire is received up to 10. 80. Severe cold
hanpered the firemen AID caused them
great suffering. Three steamers went
from Chicago, at 10 minutes to g. in re-
! sponse to a call from the mayor, Mes.
o, 10 and IA. together with two men, each
from companies, J. 2. and Z, and 10
yards of eX ra hose Ire train bearing
them went over the Chicsgo and North
western. and consisted OF FIVE cars. It
want to Milwaukee, ninety miles in only
little over an hour. II is reported here
that the Minnie Palmer troupe, which
wss at the Newhall House, were lost, but
| this is not confirmed.
A NelOS special hos the following of
the Milwaukee holocaust: The building
was long known as death trap" and
il only required half an hour to COM
p!etely envelope it in fla mes. 1t had Sc
| employees, who mostly lodged on the
sixth story. Eight hundred guests could
be accom- mOdated. The exit by the roof
was impossible on account of the fire,
and for some reason the two stand pipes
and fire ladders were not available. Ben.
Hall, fireman, was crushed under large,
heavy cornice, but was quickly gotten
cut from tina red-hot plates Of galvanized
iron, seriously but not fatally hurt. The
department fought heroically but was
only able to prevent it spreading. The
hook and ladder companies were most
active and saved about twelve people by
well directed efforts. Tho morgue was a
hideous sight; two small biers we're soon
filed with babies tightly packed, and
other bodies, girls women and men, were
laid promiscuously on stone flags, almost
in heap, as the patrol brought in the
bodies three and four at 8 time in the
American Express Office. Allen John
son and wife lay stretched on the hard
floor evidently dying (since dead). They
were forced TO jump from window in
| the third floor. a blanket held to catch
them was too weak and their backs we're
injured so terribly that cries of pain
were wrung from them. Edward roll
lock, of Lancaster, was awakened nearly
as soon as the flames broke out, grabbed
his clothes swung from the balcony on
the fourth to that beneath, where dozsn
others were, and by means Of knoLted
| bedclothes all reached the ground.
The appeals for help we're hideous, and
but littl- could be done. Shortly before
l
| fire department was called TO a small fire
about three miles distant, and before the
department got i'll working order she
hotel was blazing pile. Tom Thumb
got cut by the front entrance. His wife
was taken down the fire escape by a fire.
man. W. q. Compton, Misses Herbert
and Dunlap, and W. A. Lowell, of the
Madison Square Company, were saved
by the fire escape, only partially dressed
Following dispatch received just now;
Board of Trade, Chicago, tender-ouI
sincere sympathy with the people o.
Milwaukee in the great calamity befal
len them. IF We can do anything to IS.
sist you or mitigate suffering. let me
know. Signed, r. W. Durham.
Tee hotel was built By Daniel New.
hall and association, in 1851. The origi
nal cost was $I55, 900.
1t was q scane to see the bride of s
nigh. upon the cold marble. chsrred anC
bruised, snguisbed depicted in her fea.
lures. 1t is said she was Miss Sutton
of Chicago, previous to marrying Gil
bert, who is msddened beyond control
The fire department called for assistance
+ from the Soldiers Home, but Genera
Sharpe refused to send stesmpers, q
which indignation is great. The Chicago
> and Racine relief steamers sre now OF
; the way, but the fire is under control
The fremen made superhuman efforts
! Eleven waiter girls were brought safely
across frsil ladders, stretched over thu
! alley from the sixth story of the hotel Il
the roof adjoining the bank building
-. Jumping on cloth did but little service
, about dozen uniortunstes attempted t.
Jump, but rebounded on the TELEGRAPH
. wires, perfect maze of which surround
2 ed two fronts of the building.
William E. Cramer. of the EOeninl
y Wisconsin, was saved through the heroi
efforts of Charlie Crossing, a Sentine
typo. Chief clerk Tiee, who had nsr
/. row escape, says 10 bosrders aud ninet
employees were in the hotel. So ia
ninety-six are unsccounted for.
Milwaukee special: W. &. Champion
> the sold Rogers" in the "Esmeralds,
of the Madison Square Theatre Com
. pany, together with Miss Herbert, Mi.
Dunlap, and w. a. Saville arrived il
this city by the midnight express from
|. Wsukegsn and went to Newhsll House
: Mr.. Crompton had room $40 and mis-
= Herbe one adjoining. The first b
knew was an indisiinct sense of terri
= Bile noise outside, and before he coul,
. fully realize what was going on he wa
=. startled by the knocks of Miss Herbert q
the folding doors between the rooms
He unlock ed it and she came in at once
, Her apartment was so full of smoke
| was not thought safe for her to return
and both started for the fire escape
Crompton managed to throw on SOM
Of his clothes, but Miss Herber
: had no time to save anything, MI
Orompton carrying her do IN with moth
/. ing on bus her night dress. A hsc
+. passing near was brought down and Mis-
( Herbert scarried to Collins boarding
:. house. Miss Dunlap and Mr.. Savi,i
! escaped in a similar manner, but wer
! more fortunate in both getting PARTIAL
: dressed. From sill that can be learne
i the fire was first discovered on the thir
: floor of the building, about the middl
}, of the Michigan street front Privat
Waterman Richards turned IN theabo
alarm almost instantaneously with th
8 telephone also in from the hotel Office
1 and in few seconds it seems the fame
= had leAped up to the sixth story, carry
J, ing death and destruction in their pre-
: Inns, OF whom Theodore Thomas sAii
!. when last here, He is the BE-
|. trainer of choruses in this country;
!. came here from England about fftee
/ years ago, located first in New York, sn
& besides teaching vocal music was en-
ployed by the Mason s. Ramlin Orea
Q Company to exhibit their organs in COZ
/, certs. Twelve years ago he came to Oh