Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1883-01-11
A Furnace Of Fire Filled With
Hundreds Of Human Beings.
Burning of the Newnall Hotel,
of Milwaukee, Wednesday
Morning.
The Sleeping Occupants Awak-
ened to Find All Avenues
Of Escape Closed,
While the Furious Flames Leap
From Floor to Floor With
Horrible Rapidity.
The Windows Of the Building
Filled With Frantic Peo-
pie Begging for Help,
While the Spectators Look on
APPALLED, at the Frightfal
Work of Death.
Dozens Leap For Life to Find
Death in the Street
Below.
Heroic Work Of the Firemen,
Though scantily Supplied
With Apparatus.
List Of the Dead, Wounded and
Missing Forty-Fivs Lives Lost.
Complete and Graphic Details OF the
Human Holocaust.
Special Dispatch to TuR BRH
FIRST REPORT.

Special Dispatch to TuR BRR
FIRST REPORT.
CHICAGO, January 100 A. MA
dispatch from Milwaukee reports that
the Newhall house in that city has
been burned and seventy.fve lives
lost. The great pressure on the wires
delays the particulars.
MILWAUKEE, January 10.--The
Newhall house, six story brick build
ing, on the corner of Michigan street
and Broadway, was burned to the
ground this forenoon. The fire
was discovered at 4 a. M,
and in legs than half hour the whole
building, which has long been desig-
mated as death trap, was enveioped
in flames. Scsnes of the utmost
terror prevailed. The inmates of the
doomed building were jumping by
dozsns from tho upper stories, and are
covering the stone sidewalks.
WITH LIFELEss BODIES.
The shrieks of unfortunates filed
the air in hoartreadiug IN slrer. ard
the people below we're unable to rem.
der any aid. Quite a number of ter
ri6ed guests and employees of the hotel
appeared at the windows, and seeing
the distance to the ground, fell back
to perIsh in the fames. The en-
ployes of the hotel, which accommo-
dated 800 guests, numbered Sc, and
mostly lodged in the sixth story. The
exit by way OF the roof was cut off by
fro onl ID NTH Era
ladders we're not available for some
reason. Very fow were saved by
Jumping on canvass. All the stores
and offices on tho ground floor
with their contents were destroyed.
They were on the Michigan street side.
The offices Of the Mutual Union Tele-
graph company, II. j, Baumgsrtner' 5
sign painting shop, Goetz's barber
shop, Burdick & Armitage, job print.
ers. Oa the Broadway front the Man
utacturers bank, the Metropolitan
Plate Glass Insurance company, the
Insurance agencies of Charles Grain,
WIN. Dusand, j. p. Hewitt, c. f.
Hibbard & Co., F W. Montgomery,
G. b. M, We'll, West & Myers, and
l.. A. Wheeler and j. H. Watson,
agent Of the Canada Southern railway,
the office of the Nelson coal yard, and
the ofli;e of the Merchants Dispatch
freight line and a number of whole
sale establishments on East Water
street were damaged by tho tre al d
the falling walls Of the building.
Among them were VIM. Cramer,
banker, the GOODYEAR Rubber Co.,
Louis Schadoggr & Co., wholesale
wine, James Morgan, dry goods,
Zimmerman Bros, clothing. WT.
Scaudee, cashier of the Manufacturers
bank, carried thu cash box Of his In.
stitutiOn containing the money and
papers to the amount of 5000, coo out
of the fl ames The insurance ageDcief
aud general offices on the first fl)or
scarcely saved any papers. Insurance
on the hotel is stated by @. ID, Nssh
the president of the Newhall house
association at $50, coo all held the Gin
cinnaUi agencies. The loss Is
SCARCELY TO BE ESTIMATED
at this hour, but it will reach $500,
coo. Telegraphic communication vii
be interrupted for traffic north, at
about fifty wires are down. There
were comparatively few guests in th'
hotel. The register is burned and the
exact loss of life cannot be ascertaineC
at this writing,
At o'clock this morning thu
doomed hotel presented sigh. which
will never be forgotten by thosa WHIT
beheld 1t. The whole inside of tn,
building WAS one mass of roarins
flames, and perfect shower OF spark
and clnders was blown by brisl
southeast wind over the northern per
of the city The sky was illu
minated
AS BRIGHT AS DAY
aud the hiasing and roaring of tbr
devastating element could b5 heart
for blocks The large, heavy corn'c
at the southeast corner Of the build
ing came down with a fearful crash
The sixth, fifth and fourth floor
broke through at once aud carriet
everything with them TO tho Rrcuut
floor A huge bulk of flames shot Vi
about fifty feet when the floors cam
down, ard
An AGoNIZIN0 SHOUT
from the multitude went up. At III