The herald., 1894-10-28

that all the dodgers had escaped. The
firemen played water through the win
dows and were reinforced by the fire.
boat, the building being only short
distance from the water front.
At 2 :45 o'clock the fire was under con-
troll and the tirsmen were able to enter
the shell OF iron. At the head OF the
stairs ct the West street entrance. they
found the body of man pinned to the
door by the ruins of a bed. He had ap-
psrently just heard the alarm and was
dressing, whom overcome by the smoke
and suffocated, for the only clothing he
had On was his trousers and boots. He
was carried to the foot of the Htaizs by
the fremen and then taken to the North
ern Pacific waiting room, wrapped in a
comforter. The body WAS terribly
burned.
Continuing the search, the fremen
discovered corpse after corpse, until 4
o'clock they had counted 15. Subse-
quently another was found. Most of
the bodies were left where they lay un.
I'll day ylight, in the hope that the pro-
prietor might identify them by locating
the room on the register. for all the
bodies except two were charred beyond
possibility OF recognition of the features.
One poor fellow was caught in the
rush of the confagration near the top
of the West street railway and sank
down overcome with the smoke and
flames. The fireman fought to keep the
Are away from his body, but were
driven back. In one OF the hsllwaye O
body. chsrred black and with not q
vsstige OF clothing, was found.
A little further on in the same
passsgeway was another body, evident.
ly that of a woman, face upward and
hands outstretohed as If fighting for her
life and appealing for assistance, which
never came. There was little left Of the
woman's form. for part ei the body was
charred and the burned bones lay around
it. In Another hall was another body.
II was evi,ently that OF an aged woman.
Her body wSs fearfully contorted; her
face was turnei upward, and the form
presented was tl>at of one who had died
in the most fearful agony. The burned
arns and hands we're uplitsd, and in
one blscksnsd, burned hand was hand.
full OF hair, as If she. in her agony, had
clutched it in despair when the fire de-
mon overlook and overpowered her.
The saddest sight of xll was found in
an inside room off the passageway which
led to West street. There, calmly lying
in q charred and blackened bed, was
evidently an entire family. The father
lay on one side, the wife next to him.
and little burned and blacksned arm,
the flesh falling in shreds from it, the
small fingers clutched, showed that
little child was among the victims.
In an adjoining room wae still
more horrible sight. In o corner OF
small inside room two charred and
naked skeletons met the gaze. The
flesh was burned from each, and the
first, that of a man With blackened
stumps OF arms, seemed to be upright,
and clutehing h's waist WAS the eksle-
ton of woman. The eyes were burned
from the sockets OF each, but even then
one could easily imagine the look OF
horror which psrvadsd the fated couple
az they fought with an unseen foe.
Startled, they had risen from their
couch, the smoke and fame had rubhed
in upon them, and before they realized
their awful danger they were overpow-
cred and died in the most horrible
manner.
In portion OF the hotel whore the
famsa did not destroy the woodwork, tho
poulss u lwo men we're found. One
wss completely dressed and the otuer
wee Z; =, rsshA eSothes. They we're
ssaooatsd by emoks. In some Of TIE