Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-01-17
THE MILWAUKEE HORROR.
ADDITIONAL BODIES RECovERED-THE SUP
POSED INCENDIARY ARRESTED.

FUSED tNCENOlAhr ARhESTED.
MILWAUKEE, January 16.-Nearly a week
has elapsed since the Newhall House went
down amid the agonizing shrieks of the VIC
Tins, and the full extent of the disaster re-
mains unknown. The widest reports that
spread over the city, and thence to the ut
most limits of the civilized world on the day
of the disaster are fully realized, and still
the pick and shovel of the laborer continues
to add horrors. Yesterday closed with
twenty Eight bodies recovered, and at noon
to-day the number Increases to thirty-one.
The blsckened and unacceptable forms OF
these girls, side by side in the laundry room,
were taken out Just as night enshrouded the
ruins with its shadows like pail of gloom.
Eight bodies in all have been recovered
along the west foundation wall OF the build
ing, the remains of che servant girls, who
were undoubtedly struggling to reach the
passage way into the bank building, when
they were cut off by the smoke and flames.
The north wall having been torn down, the
workmen began excavating the two sections
that were left. untouched on account oil the
danger that menaced from the to,tering pile
of brick and mortar, and were rewarded 10
their work with the discovery of the body OF
large man at the foot OF the old entrance
for ladies, which was closed when the eieva-
tor was placed In the house. The body was
doubled over the foundation wall, the greater
portion of it lying out upon the sidewalk,
face down. The unfortunate victim had
without doubt made his way TO the head of
the stairway, found it TO be on fire, and all
retreat being cut off, made tremendous
leap through the sea of flame for the pave.
ment and struck over the walls. The mat
ting at the street entrance was baked aud
matted into the flesh of the abdomen, but
there was nothing on the body to lead
to its Identification. 1t was the remains
OF very large man. Quite dis
lance has been made into the court
where 1t was expected that large number
of bodies would be found, without revealing
any new victims, and the opinion now pre-
walls that the inmates of the house were
aroused by the roar of the flmes and made
their way to Michigan and Broadway fronts,
and that the worst features of the terrible
disaster are now known, and that very few
bodies remain in the ruins. The crowd of
people that stand about the pavements out
side the Gordon was as large to-day as it vas
at the beginning of the search, the moditca.
ton in the weather having added recruits te
the watchers. The first impression created
by the awful calamity, however, has worn
of, and the appearance OF the patrol wagon
to convey its horrible freightage 10 the dead
house is often greeted with coarse jests and
laughter by the hard hearted wretches who
coneregate in groups about the premises.
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George Scheller, lessee of the bar-room ci
the Newhall House, has been arrested this
afternoon on suspicion of having set fire 10
the hotel. Scheller says that he closed his
saloon at / 80 o'clock s.m., but in company
with Will Sanderson and Tom Barre, he re-
turned TO the saloon after o'clock am
Ini>rNScbsIler il confined in the conntv
;.;I wh;ch !. nrotscted hv strong sr,r.
I'D 90 ,bsr. "a tsIL Of lvncb;rg bi9 Tbs
Evidence il strong AGAINST Scbeller. The
sheriff ia nrepared To defend him To the last
Fires at American Hotels.
Tb. Nsw YORK World nnbl;sbed the fol
=, oonaao,;on LII ~ N.wb Al
M"rse d;s.s,ar. IT, f,;ahtfrI o.,astronh.
.t MiIwanLse vasterd.v involving the Ios
| - a. n.ny i've and he des,rnci;on Of ,
Ia,aI Ill Inown n ,r.vslsr. in ths Wss
~ - a. p,anI;n,on vas hr;i. n,aH rn.L,
~ ;n,.rss, .ons notes On the snbiect If re
oant So a, Amsr;can bo,eIs On fbs aotI
If March 1887 the old LindelI House wa
Surnsd At 81 Tnnis Itva. one of the lsrees
n1.e.' ~ a. I eno 100 ~, - AZ. aoe nn.S,s :,
ioIs y. - 80; ~, ora ;n;,s.J
,h he no &C. " lin s,roroIv contr,stsd !,
- 80, iii rot .f The Sno,t;svooJ
p;aLni ". ~, -. hsfor.
uouse at S:n, -, Sseo ~
C Enes us 49,, was oon.rDoa - =,
.Ao s O.as - ~ ,ha Shasn,an H., ~
en1 o1e' VI Oo'o1' on.I ' -s NNAL
syracuse on '1s ootn S o. Losem 1e5i :,
.ne sIea, nle - onaSaso, 0 1870
sSS -, P,;ga M.,,;.o,
Me,ei;..' as.o;t Piohso,J 49,
Dc ,.irtaS 60; D,
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GncIin IaS', very Ii.'ie Az :ne enAP1
no'eisi was Iels, except me miIn'gah ave
nue. on Inc Sousn oioe anu tne E1gle on 1o IN
Me11I In me S boston n.e, Nosem h . iea-
son,s on s,1 go. si,. v 49," ~ - WI,
bonses. and ON me 1Ish If Dscsmhsr +
Fifth avenue m this city narrowIy sscans
destr,ct;on tan ssrxsnt a;rIs be;no nnhs !,
niIv snffoc,,sd in The SorIoi,or;e s1a74 II
Grand Hotel at Ssratooa wss burned On m
lst of O,tohsr In 1S75 there were rsnor,e
nesrIv a dom 6rss at hotels the n,dst ;s-
por,ant bniId;nez desiroved beine Conere.
Hall at Saratoes. burned in September. an
the Gibson Honss ar Cbarlss,ov,
w V. Sas,ro,ad On the 4tb
that month On the lii
April. 1877 the Southern Hotel at 81 Loui
was burned. with q loss of $4,000 to 81
OOO.O 600. Fifteen persons persisted in m
flames, local rumor having at first set dow