Connecticut western news., 1884-12-31
EIGHT PEOPLE ROASTED ALIVE.

Fatal Fire in Dallas-Three Lives Lost. Rainwater & Karns big grain elevator was burned at Dallas, Texas, on Friday, and three lives were lost in the flames. Immediately after the fire started it was reported that two men were in the building, and immediately afterward a hat was thrown from window in the top story. This was conclusive proof that there was at least one man in the building and that he asked for assistance. The excitement accordingly became intense.
 MT David Rainwater offered $2, 900 reward for the rescue of each of the men supposed to be in the building. Nothing, however, could be done to rescue the men.
 When the fire had about half consumed the
 building the floor fell and the grain commenced pouring through the doors. The charred re-
 mains of two men came with 1t. The bodies
 removed were charred beyond all recognition. The feet 10 the knees and the hands to the elbows were burned off and there was not a
 vcstige of skin by which to tell whether the
 man had been white or black.
 The two men in the elevator were John Keller and George Evans. Keller was an un- married white man, twenty-two years of age,
 and had been in the employ of the elevator for years.
 A boy about twelve years of age. named also burned up, as he was generally about the elevator and was in the building g short time
 before it caught fire.
 An Aged Matron Burned to Death. Bartholemy Dufresne, French Canadian farmer, lived at St. Elias, parish of St Martin, Canada, with his wife, who was about seventy years old. and large family. Early on Christ mas morning the family were awakened to find \ their home in flames. One after another es- | ctped out of doors and windows It was, how I ever, out of the fire into severe snowstorm, the temperature being thirty degrees below | zero. A loud shriek was heard coming from I the burning house, and then the elder Du- l fresne knew that his wife was hemmed in by | tie fire. He made dash. after dash for the en- trance, and his son followed to save his mother but the flames as often drove them back, while | th3 screams of the poor woman and of the | affrightened and freezing children intensified | tho horror of the occasion. It was nearly a mile to the nearest house and shelter. The family were for the most part bareheaded and barefooted Being unable to save the un- fortunate wife and mother, they made their way for some distance through snowdrifts and ! over fences. At length the youngest boy fell,
 with both feet badly frozen. The broken hearted father carried him the rest of the dis tance, and finally reached safety more or less
 frozen and greatly exhausted.
 Discovered Roasting Alive. Oscar Wise, who was employed on 8 farm near Litiz, Pa., was found lying in Miller's Woods, not far from that place, about o'clock
 Friday morning, with both legs in fire. The | flesh was burned off from the hips to the knees. He was removed to the County Hos ! pital and is not expected to live His story is ! that while on his way home Thursday evening ! he was overcome by the cold and built fire but was so benumbed that he fell into the
 flames and was unable to crawl away Little Girl Fatally Burned. The five-year-old daughter of w. E. Plumb Jr., of Birmingham, Conn.,, was fatally burned
 Friday morning. Her mother left her playing with her Christmas toys while she stepped out
 to neighbours. Soon after the poor little thing was found standing in the yard with her flesh burned to crisp, her clothing being completely burned of. The clothing of the
 child is supposed to have caught fire from the
 stove, the door of which was open. Terrible Fate of a Young Lady. Maggie Ankson, eighteen years old, daugh- ter of Thomas Ankson, & farmer, living on
 Porter Greek, Clay county, W. Va, was burned
 10 deatn on Thursday evening. The young wo-
 mans clothing caught fire from an open grate From Sleep to a Fiery Death. During & fire in the Catiin block. Bay City Mich., at one o'clock Friday morning Edward Tierney, one of the occupants, who wag
 asleep, was burned to death. His body wss found after the fire was extlnguished
 His Duty Sent Him to JmtI.
 John T. Lee, a clerk in the mercantile
 agency of R. G. Dun 6 Co.,, at Montgomery,
 Ala., was sent to jail by Judge of the United
 States Court because he would not give up the
 name hnd the original communication of
 correspondent of the agency. The agency
 took the ground that the communication was
 privileged, and under instruction, Lee went tc
 prison rather than reveal the source of the
 agsncy's information.