St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-06
STORIES OF SURVIVORS.
Lodgers Seem to Have Lost Al.
most Everything.

Lodgers Seem to Have Lost Al.
most Everything.
A dozen men we're taken to the GEN.
tral police station in a more or less nude
condition, three of whom were burned
or hurt.
John Stierle is photographer who
was found in the crowd crying like a
child. He said that he had been al
Virginia when the forest fires in the
Iron range burned up that town. He
then went to Duluth and waited for
his goods and came to st. Paul four
days ago and was living at the
Bethel. He had a collection of coins
worth $50 besides SIS in other money,
aud also a duplex watch by which he
set much store. These were all lost in
the fire at the Bethel, besides most OF
his clothing. He was was very much
distressed at the police station and re-
fused to be comforted.
John G. Angus SAID that he is a pro-
feSsional man, but refused to say
whether he is a preacher or a lawyer.
His home is London. England, and he
found himself in such straits. that he
paWned his watch. He lost his diploma,
books worth $50 and his clothes. He
has been at the boat for two weeks.
Patrick Ryan, the janitor of the
Bethel, was severely burned from the
lower eXtremitles to his head, and had
The hair singed off and his nose blistered.
He was taken to the City hospital. lie
lost So i'll cash.
James Shaughnessy jumped from the
top of the boat and struck on the rail of
the lower deck. injuring his back. He
was taken to the city hospital
Ii. E. Thompson was burned about
the legs, and was taken to the city hos
pital. |
ID. Deegan, paperhanger, lost his
clothes and $3.50 in cash. He had been
lodging there couple of days.
i. Moss, who belongs in st. Paul, lost
Sl5 In money and all his clothes except
the shirt oil his back.
William Cook, of Massachusetts,, lost
check on the ST. Paul National bark
signed by Charley Ross. He has been
working on the boat for three weeks at
painting.
A man giving his name ass. P. Jones,
but who said that it was an assumed
name that he had registered by, escaped
In his night clothes carrying his panta-
looms in his hand. He satI the alarm
sounded by the locomotive whistles
boat in flames. He was sleeping in
a cot lu the ''teXas." His
first impulse was to jump from
the top of the cabin to the river, but
seeing that the flames did not shut off
the front stairway. he descended tn EN-
and got ashore. He said that his home
is i'll New York. aud that he was Sleep
ing in the boat for the second night. He
left watch under his pillow and had
neither hat shoes nor stockings.
X. Raney, young man of nineteen,
escaped from the cabin with nothing
but his underclothing, topped by a
necktie and scarf pin.
A man named OlesOn was found q
halr hour after the fire started near the
Merchants hotel crying like a child.
He is man forty-five years old. He
was lamenting the loss of his coat, vest.
hat and shoes, and that he had no place
to sleep. Several persons offered him
comforting words, but ii was an hour
before he was pacitied.
John Mercer, of Chicago, had been
lodging there for few days. His loss
was hat and shoes.
Frank Morgan, of New York, lost a
gold atch that he left under his pillow,
and also part of bis clothing. He
gra bbed pair of pants and coat and
escaped in brief attire.