Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-05-23
Another FrigltfQl and Fatal CataS-
trophG in Cincinnati.
TEN WORKING GIRLS SUO0UMB
TO THE FLAMES.
A Desperate Shooting and Lynchins
Affair in Ohio.
PREsBYTERIANS At CINCINNATI MAKE A
THRUST AT CATHOLICISM.
The Cause Of B~x-Secretary Freling-
huysen's Death.
A PECULIAR AND FATAL DIS
EASE NEAR PiTTSBuRc.
ESPECIAL TO THE sENTINEL.I
Another FrightfnI Catastrophe In
Cincinnati.

Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, May 22.-At 1870 O'Clock
this afternoon J. A. Green, city editor OF
the Times-Star, upon going up a stairway
to his Office, saw dense clouds OF smoke
issuing from the rear window Of the build
ing, Nos. 10 and 81 West Sixth street, and
he Immediately telegraphed the fire depart
ment. The alarm brought the engines
almost instantly to the scene, and as the
fremen could reach the building from the
front and rear it was not fifteen minutes
until the fire was so much under control
that Chief Engineer Wisely was able to
reach the top of the floor, but he was too
late to rescue the girls employed there, and
to his horror he found ten dead bodies
with their hands to their faces, which were
blackened and disoolored in death. The
Chief said, in speaking of it: "The house
was not burned out in fact. The fire was
chiefly in the fifth story. I counted ten
girls lying upon benches, tables and other
things, and some on the floor. Their
clothing was not burned, but the skin IN
the back of their hands was scorched. II
was q terrible sight--the worst l ever saw
in my experience. The girls lay where
they had fallen in their wild and hopeless
despair"
1t has now been ascertained that the fire
started from q can OF benzine on the SEQ
ond floor near the elevator shaft. A boy
on that hoor says he heard shouts, and in
stantly Q fire leaped to the elevator shaft
and darted up it. The shaft reaches to the
top Of the building, and from the third
story to the fifth it was encircled by Q
wooden stairway, which was the only
means Of access to those floors. The ele-
vator shaft, to add to it's combustibility,
was encased with thin wooden lattice work.
The second floor, where the fire started,
was q press room, the third a composing
room. the fourth a storage and waste room
and the fifth was q folding room.
The scenes at Habig's undertaking es-
adjustment where the bodies were taken,
and where the friends and relatives came
TO identify them, were Of the most painful
character. In n case a policeman of
Covington, Ky, identified his sisters Lizzie
and Dollie Handel, who were twins. Mrs.
Meyer found the body Of her daughter and
had to be led away from the terrible sight.
Mrs. Lebanan had the awful experience Of
finding her three daughters among the
dead. The fatal list as now made up is:
Anna Bell, aged 40, wife of P. Bell, of
No. 26 Jock street; Dollie and Lizzie
Handel. twin sisters, OF No. 713 Scott
street, C%ovington, 20 years Of age; Fannie
Jones, % years, corner Of Liberty and
Freeman streets; Della, Katie and Mary
Lebanan, sisters, aged %, IA and 16, Of
No. % Sixth street; Katie Lowery, 20
years. of Newport. KY; Lizzie Meyer, 16
years, No. 345 Broadway; Annie McIn-
tyre, 90 years, No. 80 East Sixth street;
Fannie Morton, "a years, and Katie and
Mary Putnam, sisters, aged % and 10;
John Sullivan, % years, No. 1896 Broad
way; Lille Wynn. 20 years, No. sS East
Fifth street. The injured are: Will Bishop,
bruised and burned; will probably die.
Josie Hawkes., broken leg. Emma Pencil
back, unconscious; will probably die.
Mamie Shepherd, head badly cut. AL
ready preparations are in progress for the
relief of the families OF the victims, most
OF whom were the support OF dependent
parents.
Shooting, Then Lynching.
COLUMBUS, o., May 22.-Marshal Henry
Amer. Of New StraitsvilIe, o., in q quarrel
with Albert Guest ct that place to-day. was
shot by the latter several times in different
parts of the body, and he cannot recover.
One shot missed Amer and hit a boy aged
II years fifty yards away, passing through
his body and injuring his spine. Guest
loaded his revolver and endeavored to fire
on some Pinkerton men who followed him,
but they compelled him to surrender. and
he was locked in Jail. Strong threats OF
lynching are INDUCED in, and trouble 10
feared before morning. Reports concern
ing the trouble are complicating, one being
that Amer was about to serve q warrant for
the arrest of Guest, and another that they
were talking over some trouble they had
had in the country on the evening pre-
vious.
LATEB-The State Journal News Straits
vile special says that 200 masked men
broke into the Jail at 10 o'clock tonight
aud compelled the Constable at the point
Of revolvers to give up the keys. They se-
cured and took Guest out near the Plem-
Der Hill mine, where they hung him to a
and then riddled his body with bull
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