Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-20
TWENTY-FIVE ARE DEAD
Terrible Scenes at the Gumry
 Hotel Disaster.
A LIST OF THE DEAD AND MISSING.

NTaimed Victims Taken From the Ruins.
 The Engineer Who Is Believed to Have
 Been Responsible For the Calamity Num-
 bered Among the Lost.
 DENVER, Aug. 20.-A portion of Gumry hotel tho scene of tho frightful disaster, is still standing, gaunt and sinister, con stantly threatening to crash down upon those dclVing in the ruins at any moment
 The search for victims has been carried on with tho utmost energy constantly, with the aid of 20 arc lights. Flames broke out afresh in the wreckage last night, and the fro engines again poured water, still fur thcr impeding the work of rescue. Among the missing is included Elmer Pcarce, the night engineer, who is said to have entered the hotel just before the OK plosion occurred. It is to this mans care lessncss that the disaster is attributed. The bodies of Peter Gumry and General Adams are still in tho ruins. Judge James Glynn, who was at first supposed to have been i'll his room at tho hotel, turns out to be at Holyoke, Colo, where ho was spending Sunday with friends. A vast throug surrounds the building on cvory side, pushing forward as far as tho fire ropes will allow. The police are constantly guarding against any one slip ping through the lines oh account of the great danger that the front of the building may fall.
 Offered &10,O0O to Be Rescued. Tho scenes surrounding the death of James Murphy, contractor were heart rcnding. Tho tircmon engaged at the rear of the building heard tho agonizing cries from tho man that he was burning and asking them to continue to play tho wa ter. After few hours heroic work the tlremcn reached him. His two lower limbs were pinionCd between two heavy ioists | AftCr tho most herculcan efforts, with dense smoke binding them, tho 1lremen released Nurphy's left leg. At this mo- l mcnt sheet of tlamo compelled them to withdraw. Murphy then offered his res | cuers Sl0, 900 to get him out and pitcously demanded them to chop his log of A | second later the west wall collapsed and | covered Murphy with tons of ruins. Mr. Murphy came to Denver from Omaha six | years ago.
 Mrs George +. Wolfe from Lincoln, Nrb., visiting Mrs Schmittol, was vic- | tim of tho catastrophe. Shc was accom- panied by her 5-year-old daughter. Mrs Wolfe's husband is n prominent tobacco manufactures of Lincoln. Ho had left | there for a tour of Colorado.
 !. A. Brown and ]. l.. Kirk of Omaha arc among tho missing. They registered
 
 1 have not been seen since tho explosion Mrs, Brown tclegraphcd an inquiry from | Omaha, and Chief Goulding answered that thcro wcro littlohopCs of her husband ! being alive X suit of clothes was found 1 in tho ruins of the hotel, in the pockets of | which was a 1000 milo railroad book | bearing the name of A. Stuckey and a let ter addressed to Miss Hallie Layton of | BclNidCrC, Ills.
 A Dairyman's Sufrerings. NJ. k. Lctson dairyman of this city, | was in tho ruins ten hours before he was rescued. His injuries are a crushed arm l several cuntusons and tho shock to his nervous system. Mir. Lctson said: II was more incaSNd than pinioned, as only my left leg and my right arm wetc | hold down by weights You cannot have tho slightest idea of my feelings as 1 lay | there in tho bottom of the basement with l all tho ruins on top and around mo, hear 1 ing the cxcruciating cries of the dying and those in agony and being almost overcome | by tho shock, and also soaked with water and almost drowned and fearing that the next minute would be buried alive" 1 Tho total loss caused by tho explosion and fro is about S73 GOO, The Gumry ho- tel was worth about S25, 900 and had | SS GOO worth of furnituroA It is a total | wreck but was insured fots< s<25, ,000.
 The McMann block, which stands next to the Gumry. was also heavily damaged. Tho loss on the building is about $25 900.
 Tho Dead and Nssing. | Following are lists (. tho dead and | missing so fur as yet ascCrtaincd: DCad-PCtCr Gumry, owner of the ho- 1 tel; R. (. Grirnrr, manager of tho hotel, son-in-law of Peter Gumry; Mrs. R. C. Gricncr, clerk of the hotel, daughter of 1 Peter Gumry; child of Mir. and Mrs. R. | (. GrirnCr; General Charles Adams. Man itou, Colo; Al Blake, Pueblo, Colo. i; l Myrou E. Hawlcy, Union Pacific railroad clerk, DCuNcr; James Murphy, contractor, | Denver; George Burt, passenger conduct
 or on the Rock Island railroad, Colorado l Springs; Mrs C. R. Wolf and daughter, l Lincoln, Nrh three chambermaids, names unknown; one bellboy, name unknown. | l.. M. Edwards, butcher, Denver, MisSing-Griener, father of R. (. Grien- er manager of the hotel; Bud Burns, Col orado springs; W. J Carson, Pueblo. l Colo; F. French and Bart Larsch both of Central City, Colo; F. F. McCloskey, Canon City, Colo; Judgn Glynn, Lead vile, Colo. Elmer Poarcc, J. A. Brown and l J. l.. Kirk.