Connecticut western news., 1895-08-22

Maimed Victims Taken From the Ruins-
 The Engineer Who Is Believed to Have
 Been Responsible For the Calamity Sunl-
 bered Among the Lost
 DENVER Aug. 19.-The Gumry hotel, 1725 to 173S Lawrence street, was wrecked by a terrible explosion at l2:lo a. m. this morning. The rear half of the building, a five story brick and stsne structure, went down with a crash.
 On both sides of Lawrence, from Seven teenth to Eighteenth street. and on Lori mer, directly back of the Gumry, the plate glass windows of the business houses were blown in, and number of pedestrians were injured by falling glass. The fronts of many buildings in the vicinity were nearly wrecked.
 Among the missing is included Elmer Pearce, the night engineer, who Is said to have entered the hotel just before the ex- plosion occurred. It is to this mans care lessness that the disaster is attributed.
 The bodies of Peter Gumry and General Adams are still in the ruins. Judge James Glynn, who was at first supposed to have been in his room at the hotel, turns out to be at Holyoke. Colo, whore he was spending Sunday with friends.
 A vast throng surrounds the building on every side, pushing forward as far as the fire ropes will allow. The police are constantly guarding against any one slip ping through the lines on account of the great danger that the front of the building may fall.
 Onered sIo, 900 to He Rescued
 The socnes surrounding the death of James Murphy, contractor, were heart rending. The firemen engaged at the rear @l 4usw IL from the man that he was burning and asking them to continue to play the wa ter After few hours heroic work the fremen reached him. His two lower limbs were pinioned between two heavy joists After the most heroulean efforts, with dense smoke binding them, the firemen released Murphy's left leg. At this mo- ment a sheet of flame compelled them to withdraw. Murphy then offered his res cuers $10, 900 to get him out and piteously demanded them to chop his leg of. A second later the west wall collapsed and covered Murphy with tons of ruins. MT. Murphy came to Denver from Omaha six years ago.
 Mrs George R. Wolfe, from Lincoln, Neb., visiting Mrs. Sohmittel, was vic- tim of the catastrophe. She was accom- panied by her b-year-old daughter. Mrs. B manufacturer of Lincoln. He had left there for tour of Colorado.
 J. A. Brown and J. L. Kirk of Omaha are among the missing. They registered at the Gumry on Sunday afternoon and have not been seen since the explosion Mrs. Brown telegraphed an inquiry from Omaha, and Chief Goulding answered that there were little hopes of her husband being alive. A suit of clothes was found in the ruins of tho hotel, in the pockets of which was a LOGO mile railroad book bearing the name of A. Stuckey and a let ter add essed to Miss Hallie Layton of Belvidere, Ills.
 A Dairyman's sunerinrx. M E. Letson, dairyman of this city, was in the ruins ten hours before he was rescued. His injuries are a crushed arm, | several contusions and the shock to his | nervous system Mir. Letson said: "I was more incased than pinioned, as only my left leg and my right arm were | held down by weights. You cannot have the slightest idea of my feelings as lay | there in the bottom of the basement with all the ruins on top and around me, hear | ing the excruciating cries of the dying and | those in agony and being almost overcome | by the shock, and also soaked with water and almost drowned and fearing that the next minute would be buried alive" The total loss caused by the explosion and fire is about s75 900. The Gumry ho- | tel was worth about s25, 900 and had ss, 900 worth of furniture. It is a total wreck, but was insured for $25, 900. The McMann block, which stands next to the Gumry, was also heavily damaged The loss on the building Is about ss5, ooo |