The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-20

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tho Ruins
Denver, Coz, August ia portion
Ol the Gumry Hotel, the scene Of last
nights irightiul disaster. which is de-
tailed below, is still standing, GAuut and
sinister, constantly threatening to
crash down upon those delvinG in the
ruins at any moment The search for
victims has been carried on to the Ut
mos. energy constantly with the aid Of
twenty arc lIghtS. Flames broke out
aire.h in the wreckaGs tonight and the
ere engines are again pouring forth
water, still further impeding the work
Of rescue.
The list Of dead and missing now
numbers twenty-five, making the dis
R,tsr the worst that ever occurred In
The city. Up to $3.50 tonight, only
,syen bodies had been recoVered-bolng
those OF Manager Grelner and his wife,
cuped in each others arms; Gore Burt,
A Rock Island railroad conductor; Mrs.
George r. Wolfe and daughter, Fred
Hobbold and win Richards, tho eleVa'
Ior operator Of the hotel.
Among the missing Is now included
Elmer Pierce, the night engineer, who
/, said to have re.entered the hotel
int before the explosion occurred. II
|, 10 this mans caTeleSHnels that the
diIGster 10 attributed.
The bodies Of Peter Gumry aud Gen.
eral Adams arc stil in tine ruins. Judge
James Glynn, who was at first supposed
ohaye been In his room ut the hotel,
turns out TO be at Holyoke, Colorado,
where be was spending Sunday with
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A vast throng surrounds the building
on every side, pressing forward rs far as
the fire ropeS will allow. The police arc
constantly guarding against anyone
slipping through the lines, on account
Of the great danger that the front ot
the building may iall. 1-
THE DlsAsrER
The accident occurred at ten minutes
puttWelys (mIdnightl last night, and
was caused by the explosion Of the
boiler, wreeklug the hotel and burying
in the ruins many guests aud employees
Of the hotel, whose bodies must have
been wholly or partly cremEted.
Out Of forty or more people who were
certainly in the hotel when the explo-
sion occurred, score were got out
salelv, three were rescued with more or
less serious injuries aud the others were
uuuueslionably killed beneath the masa
Of bricks and shattered beams and
twisted iron at the rear Of the ruined
building. The firemen labored with
energy at the work Of excavation, but II
will be perhaps days before the uncer.
tain horrors Of the heap Of destruction
can be fully told.
The dOath list will include the owner
Of the hotel, Peter Gumry, the mana
ger, Robert U. Greiner, aud his vile,
who acted ne day clerk. They were In
the rear Of tue building and could not
possibly escape.
Before lire added TO the horrors Of the
explosion, the Htemen were appealed to
piteouSly by men and women whose
lives we're being crushed out In
the ruins. Then the Gre broke out aud
that ended it.
A. L. Irwin. ths night clerk. who,
with the bArkeeper, William Rub6e,
had a miraculous escape, went over the
register for the last few days this morn
ing and endsavofed TO call TO mind the
occupants oil the different rooms. lie
says there wero between fifty and fifty
five people and sixteen we're occupying
back rooms, where II was more difficult
to escape. How many oi them were
saved It is impossible TO slate, but II is
known that several who were In the
back portion Of the building managed
to escape in some manner
Tho explosion awoks tho gueats IN tho
front part OF the house. and by tho
lms tho liremen reached tho scene they
we're ready to bo taken from tho win,
dsws. The hromen, with torch ana
l'ntcrn, entered all parls ot the hotel
Firt to demand tho attention oil tho
ambulance corpl was Michnol o. Bur
gc's, who Was walking along Lawrence
street on tho opposite sidO from tho
hoDc when tho explosion occurred.
lha flying glass cut him about the head
and iagO In a irIglltiuI manner. liis
Injuries ars very serious, though not
n-amsarily fatal. Ho iSa painter from
Cn''ot City, s. d.
ElI hopkins, a bartender At tho
humfy, was found on tho gronnd lloor
II tho hOtsl unconscious aud bleeding
from many cuts. iliH injuries are not
'eugui Many terrible scenoi WUro
Witnessed during tho work oil rescue
DnUNKRS ESOISERn.
fbcO /. no doubt tho disaster was
snfed by u boiler explosion. Elmer
Inrco, tho engineer, II IL said, was
intoxicated, aud niicr turning q largo
qumllly Of cold water into tho not
bplcr' lrit tho building ton minutes
boi1fo tho explosion occurred.
Il l.. Irwin, tho night clerk, says that
I6tCo, who was only seventeen yoafo
old. wM drunk WlSn hO went on duty
ard that hs was IN tho habit oi neglect
lng ha duty. Irwin was plnnOu Dg'
n'hth soma lOavy llmbgra Al Ills desk
hy TIM EXPLOSION aud va, rescued by
'rman. lls has scalp wounds anu Ih'
lsinhI injuries but will recover.
Inc Gnmry was n 1vO.Stoty build ing
H'luoi at $4,000, aud lad bsen u1uh M
'hoIrI sinoo 1850, whom II was rebuilt
: a,n having destroyed H. Ia which ono
II.n was loat
General CHARLES Adams. whose body
i believed to bO 1l the flliha 0l Ihq
holsl was vol known In mining anI
political ciTGIoa In Colorado. lilo hau