Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-03-23

Lake CITY, who, with his wife, occupied
| the suite of rooms Nos. 61 and 6I4 on the
top floor, thus graphically described their
| narrow escape from their apartments
1--WE were in our room, he sand, when
heard cry of fire. | opened the door
leading into the hall, but was instantly
compelled to close it on account OF the
smoke and flames that filled the corridor,
and which rushed into the room with such
| intensity that | was blinded and nearly
suffocated. As soon as | could Withdraw
fastened to the window and threw II up,
but here as at the door, the smoke was so
dense and poured in at the open easement
in such volumes that before l could lower
the sash the room was filled. MY Wile
threw her arms about me and soDped II
is certain death So thought; but tried
to calm her, though felt certain that death
was but a few moments distant. But my
wife suddenly tore herself from me, and said
there was a bottle of chlorofOrm IN the
room. and that we should both take it to
make death more easy. L was reasoning
with her against this when | heard sounds
at the window, which | could not see, and
in a moment more firemen sprang through
the easement, and taking my wife in their
arms bore her down the ladder in safety.
| followed, and thank God we are I'M
harmed. unless the terror of the experience
I
delicate condition" He was telling the
story at the Clifton House, where he had
| taken apartments my wife's and my
| own wardrobe" he continued, (which |
could not replace for 81, 900, is lost, and also
lost 81, 200 in currency. We escaped with
only what we had on"
FATHER AND DAUGHTER.
| J. w. Nye and his daughter, of San
| Francisco were assisted from their room on
the fourth floor to the sidewalk by the fire
men, Miss Nye had to be carried bodily
down the ladder by couple of fire laddies
and her father. The father and daughter
| took up their quarters in the Palmer House.
minus all their effects. Mr.. Nye's first sus-
picion of the fire came through smoke get
| ting into his room. He RAJ. to the door,
| leading his daughter by the hand, thinking
to escape from the building by the stair
way The hall was filled wi 1 smoke but
the flames were leaping up the elevator
shaft and circling round the stairway He
thought it would be folly to attempt an es-
cape by such route, and he turned
| to the window, which he raised. He
stepped on the easement with Miss Nye
and waited patiently for the fremen to get q
ladder up to the window. 1t seemed an
age before they got that ladder in position"
said Miss Nye last night, with shudder
and yet ii was only few minutes. We
! had scarcely put one foot over the window
easement when our transom was burst by
the heat and the room was filled with
smoke. We could hear the cracking of the
! flames in the Railways and IS they APP
preached near the door of ourrom the heat
| became terribly oppressive and almost I'M
! bearable Oh how | watched tlle firemen
as they worked to get the ladders up; how
| prayed that they would haStelL Even as
the top of the ladder touched the building
the flames burst through tie door and
leaped toward US so fiercely and rapidly
that we thought we would be burned alive.
When the firemen came we descended to
| the street. 1t was an awful ordeal.
AN AGED COUPLE SAVED By HERoIsM.
Mr. and Mrs. +. Hoole, an aged and in
| firm couple, who occupied rooms on the
fourth floor, were saved by the pluck of
| c. D. Martindale The latter is employed
as bookkeeper by the firm of Heole Il Sny-
der. at No. 161 Monroe street. and he was
in Mr.. Hoole's room, comforting with him
| about business matter, when the fire be-
gan to spread through the building. On
account of their infirmities neither of the
couple was able to make an effort to get
out. Mr.. Martindale had to grasp them
and drag them out of the room to the hall,
and thence toward the elevator. Mr.. Hoole
! kept crying out " Let me perish and save
my wife, and Mr.. Martindale lad to fairly
carry him to the elevator. N ot realizing
the danger of an attempt to descend by this
means, he kicked open the door and drew
the elevator car up to the fourth floor, and
then he put his charges aboard and started
to descend. Some one at the bottom cried
out, "For Gods take go back, or you will be
! burned alive" The next instant the flames
| leaped up, surrounding the descending car,
and the air became so hot that had the trio
been less excited they would have tainted
away. Mr.. Martindale reversed the eleva-
| tor and assembled to the third floor, and
| again he had TO kick open the door to get
| the old couple out of the burning car He
! dragged them to the stairs which lead to the
| dining room, and thence through the
smoke down stairs to the street When
! Mr. Ho0le reached the street he tainted
away, and had to be carried bodily to the
| MattersOn House, where he and his wife
were given a suite of rooms.
LOSS OF LIFE AND PHYSICAL INJURIES
CHICAGO. March 22d.-The fire which de-
stroyed the Langham Hotel last night
| proved much more dreadful in loss Of life
and physical injuries entailed than was
| supposed until an early hour this morning.
| Ii is now known that at least five persons
were killed and four injured. Just before
| the south wall of the hotel fell upon the
| Eaton building. q number of persons, be-
sides those Of the fire insurance patrol,
| We're inside the latter building assisting to
save the goods, as no immediate danger
was apprehended There is no means of
| knowing just how many of these
volunteer helpers were in the structure
at the time, but excavations have
proceeded to an extent which iustifes the
| hope that all the dead have been found
! As far as known, those at work in the
| EaXon building when it was crushed by the
| falling hotel walls were the following
Captain Edward Shepard, James Boyd,
kauts THINE, Patrick Mullins John Walsh
| and Frederick Jones-ail Of the fire insur-
ance patrol William Bean piano tuner
and John Hennessy, clerk, both employed
| in the building. Mullins and Thine. being
{ near the rear of the building were forced
out through one of the windows by the
rush of air as the building fell. and were
not dangerously hurt. Captain Shepard
and Boyd were pinned down by the fallen
timbers, and were rescued alive about mid
night. Both are seriously hurt, bat it is
| believed win recover Walsh and Jones
| were taken out this morning, but crushed
| to death. Bean was alive when found, and
WAS taken 70 the County Hospital, where
he died at o'clock this morning. The
y
! o'clock Tonight Soon after the walls fell
the wreck took fire, and the fremen turned
several streams on the blazing mass to save
their comrades from being roasted to death,
though at an imminent risk of drowning
them. The water, icy cold, drenched the
poor imprisoned fellows chilling them to
the marrow Mrs. c. V. Bclknap, who was
killed by jumping from an upper window,
was the widow OF Colonel Belknap, who
died some years ago at New Orleans. She
has many friends in Cincinnati Her re-
mains are still at the Morgue
a Deadly Cutting ARRAY.
LOUISVILLE (Ky.), March 22d.-A cutting
affair occurred here this evening, in which
two men were fatally injured. William
Dobson, a iaborer, separated from his wife
a short while ago, leaving the children
with her This evening he went TO the
house on Preston Main street to get child.
Since their separation the wife has been
living with Pat. Murphy a laborer The
two men got into quarrel over the affair,
when Dobson drew knife and cut Murphy
in the head and abdomen. The wife then
gave Murphy a Ratchet and he began
hacking Dobson over the head knocking
him insensible, and chopping his head al
most TO pieces When found by the officers
both men were nearly dead from their
I wounds and takpn 10 thc hOspital Both