Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-01-01

One Person Doad, Several Severely Injured
and Nine Still UnaCcounted For-s-lhe
Chiefs Description Of the Firo-

ALBANY, n. Y, December 81. -Four
| ragged walls aud mass Of snou derlng
rutus mark the sight Of the Deiavan
house to-day. Two hundred and nifty
of it's guests, thankful that they es-
caped with only tue clothes on their
backs, are ouartered at the other hotels.
| The list of casualties is as follows:
Dead-Mrs. r. 5. Foxes, formerly
of Day ton, Ohio.
Iniured-Henry f. Foxes, Rochester,
Injured internally aud face and bands
bnrned. will recover; Mrs. Benjamin
f Heilman, Brooklyn, face cut and
internally injured; will! recover; Benja-
min T. Heilman, Brooklyn, ankle in
inred: Edward Walsh, face badly
bprned; Edward Murphy, bad burns;
E. A. Manchester, Auburn;
hands and arms badly burned;
E. w. Arnold, Rochester; bruised by
iump from window. ID. Z. Brockway,
New York; right arm badly cut and
hotb arms burned. James Hennessey,
6ramap. of steamer No. I, struck on
the head by brick when one Of the
walls fell about midnight.
That a number OF corpSes lie beneath
the ruIns seems most probable.
Chef Ouerena Tomagn, who was
on the top floor when the
crv of fire was given, tells horrible
tale Of wnat he saw. II was in my
room, - he SAYS, when some one yelled
,era, The hall was filled with sitting
smoke and the end which led to the
staircase was blocked with mass OF
flames turned to run the other way.
Oo the floor of the corridor lay three
bnman beings, Whether they were
men or women / could not say. They
were shrieking for help.
~ could not stop to save chem. The
flames were leaping along the corridor
and I Was losing my senses from tue
faerfnl smoke that rendered life
IN the place almost impossible. l
nassed over the spot where the unfortu-
nats Law. They grabbed my legs. II
was nv main force that l pulled myself
away and managed TO gain win
dow and lower myself five stories by
means of a rope. l DO not know what
became of the unfortunate beings who
law In that corriior. do not think they
ever escaped
This is a correct list of the missing:
Recond Telesform, fireman in the
kitchen: Bridget Fitzgi0bOns, employed
in the kitchen; Gugenta Sturens, veget-
able cook; Amelia Tomagni, sister OF
the head chef: Thomas COnnor, carpet
sweeper; Simon Myers, copper man;
Mary Fitzgibbons, chambermaid; Kate
Crowley, employed in the Kitchen; Fer
nan do Bonlett, fireman in the kitchen.
Storekeeuer Bronx aud Chief Chef
TomaQni furnished The Associated Press
man with the list of names, and said
that there could be no doubt that all OF
the above and the very least, most Of
wbom. met their doom in the fire. The
Chef, whose sisteris among the missing,
was nearly heart-broken.
Later in the day, Investigation showed
that the number missing is eighteen.
Twenty girls were sleeping in the
attic. and the only exit was narrow
stairway. The most reliable informa-
tiop was given by Kate Monahsn,
who knew all the girls, and
Is unable to find twelve of them,
wbom she is positive are dead. Four
men are also in the ruins, Miss Mona
han saws. She escaped through the
hssament. and she believes the girls
'Ssre lost in the attic. When she reach
"a the last stairway, the six lower steps
~are burned and she had to jump the
,amatning distance II the girls were
n the attic then, it seems impossible for
them to have escaped.