Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-06-22
TWENTY PERISH BY FIRE.
EIGHT CORPSEs FOUND AND
TWELVE STILL MISSING.

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Boston's Former Exhibition Building
the Sceue of Heart-Rending Catas-
trOphs - One of the Unfortunatsa
Roasted Awe Before the Eyes OF q
Crowd OF Helpless Spectators.
BOsToN, June 2t.-The New England
Institute Far building was burned this
afternoon. Four workmen were killed.
The building was occupied as a car shop
ny the Metropolitan Horse Railway Cons
pany. The loss OF S250,000 10 fully COW
cred by Insurance.
The building was built by the New Eng-,
land Manufacturers and Mechanics Insti-
tute for exhibition purposes, at a cost OF
nearly 100000 Last winter 1t was purs
chased by the Metropolitan Street Com-
pauy for $4,000 The fire was first dis
covered by a man working half a mile
away, and before he could give an alarm
the tire had gained rapid headway. The
workmen sought to save their tools, and
many were badly burned before they
could get out OF the building, while others
were unable to escape. Within the build-
ing were about four hundred box cars,
only one OF which was saved. As soon as
il was learned that lives had been lost in
10 the rear OF the structure and the ire4
men bravely forced their way into the
blazing ruins to rescue the bodies. The
flames refused to surrender until they
burned every thing cOmbustible within the,
building, and the work of rescue was at,
tended with great danger. The charredl
remains OF two men were brought out and
are thought TO be those OF William Taylor
and man named Frost, both earpentersI
1t Is believed that other bodies are
buried in the debris, as several workmen
are missing.
TWELVE LIVES BELIEVED TO BE LOST
There were many men inside when the
hre broke out, and all rushed for the reaE9
windows. Most of them were helped out,
but while rush was being made to On0
OF the windows, at which a scorched and
bleeding Iace was seen, the person who
had been looking ont fell back into the
seethIng mass and was past all help. Al
colored man. whose name is unknown,
went back into the burning building to
save some property, and was not seen TO
come out again. Chester l.. Hazeltina
and Il. l.. Farren had plenty Of oppOr=
tunity to escape, but endeaVOred 20 pull
out some OF the cars and were frighaully
burned. While thousands OF spectators
were viewing from neighboring roofs the
magnificent spectacle, horrible tragedy
was being enacted within, and all out OF
sight and unknown to the thrOng. After
the flames had been sufficiently extin-
guished, a search was begun among the
ruins for possible victims, and up to o
O'Clock tonight eight dead bodies had
been removed, most OF them burned be-.
yOnd recognition. 1t is believed there are
four moro bodies In the ruins. The total
| pecuniarylO loss is 100000.
HEARrRKNDING INCIDENT.
1t was at the east end Of the building
! in the carpenter shop that the most
heartrending Incident occurred. A man,
whose name Is not yet known, was driven
out Of a window OF the second story BY
the names. He was about 20 leap and
had put one leg over the window sill when
the roof fell In and pinned him last
20 the spot where he was. No LADDER
company had arrived and the crowd out
| side were p0werless 10 render assistance.
| Planes followed almost instantly and
the imprisoned man underwent agnnizingl
torture before the h0rrified eyes of
his friends below. Two OF his
fellow workmeD, John McNulty
and J. f. Fallen, were terribly burned
while trying TO scale the wall TO reach
theirdying comrade. His su1erIngs were
mercifully short. The awful furnace OF
flame soon wrapped him about with ire
and smoke, hiding him during his last
moments from the gaze Of the spectators.
Not long after the wall itself gave way
and nothing more was seen.
THE LAST MAN OUT.
MIR. E. l.. Fallen was tie last to leave
the wo0dworker's shop alive. At the first,
cry OF fire be ran, but turned back at thel
door TO see II he had time to gather up hisl
tools. The moments hesitation nearly
cost him his life. He hardly got out OF
the building before II was a mass OF
flames from end TO end. Four or i've OF
his fellow workmen, Be says, turned
back as he did. They were left
behind and were certainly burned TO
death. or the bodies removed from the
ruins three are 30 badly charred and dis-
figured that Identification is impOssible-
| The names OF the others are believed TO ba
William Taylor, 10 years old; Oliver Frost.
81 years; Patrick Lyons, 80 years, and
Alexander Campbell 20 years.
The body Of "A negro known 10 have been
burned has not been recovered. This
makes eightfatalities known TO have been
caused BY the ire. The foreman OF the re-
pair shop states that all the eighty y-eikht
wOrkmen In the building when the
fire broke out are accounted for.
with the exception OF the four named
above, and the other four unfortunatesl
we're probably strangers who entered the
building 70 assist in removing cars. The
following persons are seriously burneds
Joseph Whiddon, a car builder, Chester
l.. Hazeltine and Il. l.. Farren. The two
latter were employed IN the car shops.
Several others had their hair singed, but
escaped serious injuries.
STILL MISSING.
BOsToN, June -, / A. M.-At O'Clock.
eight bodies had been recovered, and no
fewer tban sixteen persons are missing
The ruins are still burning.
A BREWERY BURNED.
ALBANY, N. y, June H.--Iaylor's Al
bany brewery, enc OF the landmarks 0f
the city, was almost completely destroyed
by fire Tonight. The loss 10 Sl50,000 and
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