The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-01-25

console MIN, IN MS awful pngnt as Win
nv hands did what could to alleviate
his pain. He recognized my voice and
with his burned and sightless eyes turned
toward me, he managed 10 inform
ms that he was my old friend, James
Murray. In pulling of the sleeve of his
/ coat, the skin of his hand came off like
! glove. l threw dust over him and rolled
him in the dirt. When 1 had extin-
guished the flames little was there in that
/ charred, but breathing mass having any
/ resemblance to James Murray. Others
| hurrying up took him in charge, and
bundling him into . wagon bore him to
his home in Alton.
"Over near the house on the embank-
ment and TO the west Of the scene of the
horror" continued Mr.. Curdy, LAY the
smouldering remains of a boy of fourteen
or fifteen years Of age. 1t is supposed his
name was Hsgerman. l shouted to the
| fleeing ones TO walk not 10 run as running
but famed the flames. Hunying on over
took Willie Mccarthy, a lad of thirteen.
After i had done all could for him, and
with scarcely Bit of clothing on him, he
Law down and in his agony rolled over
and over on the snow. BY this time the
crowd OF helpers had swslled consider
ably. and finding Mr.. Maupin. we jumped
In the rig and whipped up toward Alton
TO secure increased medical attendance. To
every one we met We hastily communi-
Gated the sad intelligence of the second
disaster aud the dreadful plight of the
! victims. Houses were stripped of bed
| clothes, pillows and the like. and a multi
tude of tender and sympathetic care-takers
were SOON in attendance. On the road we
met several doctors urging their steeds to
| the limit OF endurance. In q short time
after our arrival at Alton every available
| physician was speeding on his errand OF
mercy"
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 23.-Three more deaths
this morning at st. Joseph's hospital. AL
ton, increased the death roll of Saturdays
horror to twenty. The additional dead are:
JAMES n. MURRY, Upper Alton. ILL.,,
county assessor. aged forty. be leaves
family.
CHARLES HALLER, farmer, aged twenty
| one.
JOSEPH HERMANN, the little boy, whose
suieriDgs have been heretofore detailed.
OF the injured. il is asserted by the
| physicians, fully twelve more are expected
10 die in few hours. Every physician
within reach is engaged in the work of al
| blackened victims, and eli find their ef-
/ forts all but unavailing. The wounds of
many are too deep for anything but death
| TO relieve. Relatives of the victims from
other points are arriving at Alton to aid
their injured or identity their dead. The
brother OF Edward Maupin from st.
! Charles was this morning shown the
| hlackened mass of his brothers
| body, but. stricken with grief,
| confessed his inability to say that
| it was his brother Identification
was entirely by metallic evidence. Mrs.
| j. w. Montgomery OF Atlanta H.. reached
the hospital only to find that her son
student at Shurtleff college, would in few
| hours be brought home a corpse. Coroner
| kinder's day has been a gruesome, busy
| one. He has concentrated his efforts upon
the inquests made necessary by the terri
| bic disaster, and has not yet completed
HE work. The matter of responsibility
has not yet been decided. but Switchman
Grattan is still missing and is likely TO
continue 90. Ii would hardly be
safe for him TO return in the
present condition OF the minds
of the friends of the victims
of what is believed to be his carelessness.
Funerals of the victims were held in a
number Of instances today. Among them
were the following: Henry Penning. from
the hospital; John Lock. from st. Pat
rick's church Ed Miller, from the morgue !;
William Miller. from his home at Wann;
John Wilkinson, from the cathedral at
A ton Charles UT, from his residence at
Alton; Willie McCarty. from -. Patrick's
church. Matthias Maui will be buried
tomorrow. The body of II. Cornelius. a
student at Shurtlefi college, was this morn
ing shipped to his home In Iowa.
w. +. Richardson, John Burke and
Frank Schulling have surprised the doc
tors by their vital tenancity, but death i.
for them but little way oil. DR.. Fregen-
baum. IN charge. says all the wreck patients
IN the hospital were about equally in
lured and the coming of death will vary
in time only from the physical power OF
the victims. but come it will, surely. The
hospital ia like d dead house. The odor
OF burned flesh is present everywhere,
and to the entering visitors comes like
deaihly chill upon the nerves with its
horrible intensity. One peculiar incident
of the disaster is the fact that so far az
now known not single woman or girl
was burned
II ie now determined that more bodies
will he found at near the scene of the ex-
D osion, thorough search having demon
strated this The people OF Wann have
! CLEANED the particulars OF the disaster and
are satisfied there Ia nothing further TO be
learned. Many OF the less seriously in
/ lnred are being nursad at their homes and
| this makes II sure that the exact number
/ OF the injured will never be known,
I though a walk through the streets shows
/ at nearly every window passed bandaged
head or hand of the lesser burned. Two
more victims viii probably be dead before
this dispatch is printed-Hermaun Val
| entine and Otto Hagerman-who were
announced this afternoon as in a dying
condition. A report that has been pub
| Iished that student of Wyman institute
WAS burned to death and that others are
missing is unfounded
Burned to Death at Pittsburg
| PITTsBURG, Jan. % Mrs. Kate Roster
a widow aged Twenty-Five years, end
/ George Roster, her nephew aged six
! years were burned TO death this morning
/ in a fire which consumed four dwellings
| The cremation took place in the house of
/ John Fetterlein. German aged iitv-five
years, whose house with three others adj
! joining. il situated at the extreme south
/ east corner Of the city. The members Of
/ the Fetterlein family, although painfully
burned, will recover. The loss was ST, 600
/ Origin of the ire IL unknown.
/ six Killed in a CoIliery.