The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-01-23

BODIES have been taken out of the ruins
and have not yet been identified.
1t IS not known how the fire started.
put 1t IS supposed to be spontaneous
mbustion.
Early this morning ghouls began work
JeWeiry and valuables were pilfered by
the thieves. Detectives Gage and Kinney
arrested man who gave his name as
Russell. They found him rummaging
among the debris, and in his pockets
We're money and other articles thought
10 be stolen from the effect of the patients.
Inc loss to the building, furniture, etc.,
aggregates about $40, 000
Thrilling incidents at the fire were, OF
course, innumerable. When the fire.
men first arrived woman was seen at a
WINDOW on the upper floor clutching a
oaDe IN one hand and struggling with the
other to raise the sash. She finally sue
ceeded, and her screams fell upon the
ears OF the thousands of spectators No
ladders were at hand, and nothing could
be done. The flames were closing in
about her, and she looked back into the
furnace of death, then down to the pave
ment below. Suddenly she clasped the
babe to her arms, then tossed it out of
the window and gave her life to the
names within. AS the child left the arms
OF It's mother pipeman O'Brien planted
caught the child, which in a few minutes
was smiling and happy, seemingly I'M
conscious OF the surroundings.
The heroism of Fireman John Loucks
VIII long be remembered. He assembled
an extension ladder to the upper floor,
and, as he reached the window sill was
met by Fireman Robertson, who had
pushed his way through the smoke with
a child in his arms. LouckS grasped the
child and started down, but had descend
ed only few feet when he missed his
feet and fell head foremost. His leg
caught In the rounds of the ladder and
was broken, but he held the child and
grasped the ladder with the other hand.
AS he hung there the spectators below
Obliged TO loosen his grasp and fall. In a
moment. however, two other firemen
reached him and carried the injured man
and child safely to the ground
Fireman Donnelly went to the second
story room, where he found number of
female patients. He took one under each
arm and ordering third to cling about
his neck, landed them safely on the floor
below.
A search Of the rooms after the smoke
was cleared out revealed some horrible
scenes. In one room on the third floor
four victims were found dead kneelinp
IN the attitudes of prayer. The windows
were up, but the unfOrtunateS had ap-
parently made no effort to escape. Some
patients were found in bed dead, others
in the halls where they had tried to work
their way out.
HUSBAND AND FATHERS GRIEF.
PHILADELPHIA, JAN 22.-Samuel Laza-
rus, clothing merchant of Dallas, Texas.
whose wife and child We're among the
victims of the terrible fire at Indianapolis,
is in this city on business. His daughter
Minnie, aged Z, was being treated at the
Institution for disease of the spine, and
his wife was nursing the child. Lazarus
first information of the disaster came
through an Associated Press dispatch
announcing that Mrs. Lazarus was badly
hurt. Nothing was known at that time
of the condition of the child. Upon be-
ing told that his wife was dead, the I'M
fortunate husband tainted, and his con-
dition is now pitiable.
VALUABLE HORSE BUBNED.
GRAND RAPIDS, Jan. 22.-By the burn
ing of Hull's barns here Acmon F..
Eagleburg and gray PAGER, valued at
$4,000, persisted.
GREAT DESTRUCTION OF ANIMALS.
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 22.-The horse
market Of Sparks Brothers was burned
this morning. Over 300 horses and mules
persisted. Loss, S60,000.l