Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-02-18

 list of the missing, but the hotel had about all the guests it could accommo- date. The following is a list of the en- ployes who were rescued none of, whom are seriously injured and several of them escaping unhurt
 William Sweeney, porter.
 E. J. Robinson, head porter.
 Mary Cahill.
 Mary Mccarthy and son.
 Mary Sullivan.
 Stewart Allen.
 George Gaines.
 Solomon Moody.
 The following are those who occupied rooms in the hotel and are buried under the debris of bricks, rafters and iron.
 Louis A. Bronson of the Hartford stove and plumbing company and his wife.
 M. Galodey, editor of the German Herald of Hartford.
 Andrew F. Whitney, secretary of the Hartford Life and Annuity Life and h. surance Go, and wife.
 Dwight H. Buel, jeweler, 329 Main street one of Hartford's most prominent citizens. Body now at the morgue.
 Wellington Ketchum, proprietor of the hotel, Mrs Ketchum, his wife and their son Eddie.
 George Engler, clerk in Merrick's drug store and member of Colts band.
 George $. Ketchum, brother of the proprietor.
 The Rev Dr Perrin and wife, secretary of the Congregational Tract society.
 William Tillotson, New York con- mercial traveller.
 MT Stiff1es, safe agent.
 Charles M Webster, of Webster 6 Moore insurance agents of this city.
 MT Pond of Indiana, who was demo- cratic speaker in this state during the last campaign.
 Jack Turpin, colored, a waiter, had an almost miraculous escape from ln- stant death. He slept in the fourth story of the annex, building adjoining the eastern end of the hotel. He was found on the cellar bottom unconscious, both arms broken and several severe gashes on his head. He is now at the hospital and will probably recover.
 Eddie Boyle, an employe of the hotel.
 Miss Helen LaPoint of Hartford.
 Toney Edinger, wife and child, of the Hoodman Blind company which is billed to play at the opera house this week.
 MT Carney and wife of Unionville.
 Michael McGee, wife and little girl, residence unknown.
 Frank J. Meehan, a guest at the hotel was in the bathroom when the explo- sion took place. He was thrown twenty feet in the air and landed on his back on the roof of the annex building. He was unconcious when found by the lad der men and brought safely down seem- ingly uninjured.
 The buildings in the vicinity were greatly shaken up, and the occupants in several instances frightened into hys- terics.
 The shock of the explosion blew every window on the south side of the Earl house, which is just north of the Park Central, into fragments.
 Women terrified with blanched faces and strong men pale with fright, rushed headlong into the street in their night clothes. There they were met by rising cloud of dust and flying bricks and all enveloped in smoke and flames.
 The most heart-rending and piteous cries came forth from the big smouldering pile, telling of the number of poor unfortunate crea- lures buried beneath.
 Mayor Root and Governor Bulkeley were early at the scene offering sugges- tions and doing all in their power to help eXtricate the men and women buried be- heath.
 By s:3O the fire was under control. The news had fled with the rapidity of
 
 the other, and by 10 o'clock there was a crowd of at least eight thousand curious people gathered about the ruins. They pushed and crowded so that the police were unable to do anything with them. The mayor then ordered out the City Guard of the First Regiment and the mob was held under control. All the laborers in the city have been pressed in to service and the work of removing the debris goes rapidly on. Written words can not describe the horrible scenes about the ruins. One of the most pitious was the death of man, woman and child supposed to have been Tony Edinger, wife and child of the Hoodman Blind Go. In the center of the spot where the building stood were man his wife and a little girl The | flames were leaping up about them and | no human power could save them from its devouring fury. The child was crying and her golden hair caught fire and she fell back into the flames but the man and woman never uttered word they seemed to realize the posi- tion they were in and died lovingly en- braced in each others arms. On the second floor of the annex build ing young girl in her night clothes was seen to run wildly backwards and l forwards from window to window holding out her arms in mute appeal to those below. Suddenly the look of ter TOT left her face and with smile almost of angelic sweetness leaped into the seething mass of red hot bricks below. The girl was evidently terrified into in- sanity.
 It supposed by some that the boilers did not burst until the walls had fallen. For the past three months there has been crack in the north side of the building, extending from the sidewalk to the roof.
 People who had heard the noise say that there was roaring, swish and a smothered groan and then the terrific l laynloSion