El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-26
CREMATED AT MIDNIGHT.
In Fire Last Night one was Burned
tODeath and two Others Injured.

to be in row of Chinese shantles jus
south of the G.. II. round house. Wnel
the tiremen arrived on the scene tn
fire was under such headwey that
was impossi BILE to extinguish the flames
besides it was found there was no fir
:, plug near enough to be of service; bu
the suction hose of the engine wa
placed in an old cistern that received
the overflow water from the rount
7 house and the water was OF sucf
bad character that the engine
: worked badly.
ground aud then it was found out tina
three Chinamen had been burned, one
fatally and two badly. The Chinamer
were wipers at the round house au6
lived in the sb acks that were burned
They had evidently been "hitt1ug the
pipe" and were under the influence oi
opium when the house caught fire.
probably from one of the pipes they
were smoking.
The Chinaman that was cremated
could not be extrica ed from the burn
ing debris until this morning, but the
two that were injured were cared for by
the company physician of the G. II. rail
way, and were sent by the company to
their friends in Chinatown on Oregon
| street.
The statement of DR.. Turner and
Superintendent Martin are given below
in refutation of the Tins article this
morning, which tried to make the
| Times reporter appear as the hero OF
the nigh and tried to show that the
Times was the only corporation that
| offered assistance to the SuHerin g
| IChinameu.
DR.. Turner, the G. H railway ply
scian was seen this morning and sa d
| that he was called out twice last night
! before the fire, but was in bed when
the bell rang but did not hear it. A
| messenger came after him and told
him he was wanted to attend to the
Cinnamon that had been burned. He
| sent the messenger to the drugstore
for medicine and he followed imme-
diately with other necessary appliances
| for attending to the wounded men. He
looked for hack but could find none
until near the Southern Pacific depot,
where he found Billy Davis w tn his
hack into which he jumped and was
driven promptly to the scene of the
| fire. When he arrived there he did
not see any other doctor and he found
the two burned Cinnamon unattended.
He Immediately began attending to
them and was assisted by Messrs.
| Goodwin Mitchell, Maurice Kelligon
and several of the railroad men from
the shop. After he had bandaged the
wounded MN he asked them if they
wanted to be sent to the cOmpany's
hospital and they answ cred no" He
| then had the two men sent to their
| friends in Chinatown on Oregon street.
| DR.. Turner said he did not see any
other physician about the fire and that
| the Cinnamon had received no medical
attention before he arrived there.
Mr.. Turner said the two Cinnamon
were badly burned, but would recover
| in week or SO and he did not think
hor hn 1u ini1
| their burns. The were burned about
the hands, feet and face.
A reporter of the HERALD found the
two wounded men on Oregon street in
the long brick row extending back to
the alley on the west side of he street.
They were asked bow they felt and an
swered good" They were resting
their brother Cinnamon. hey said
they preferred being there than being
sent to the hospital where they had no
countrymen. They are in the 'joss"
room of the building and are closely
watched by the so-called Chinese
liking" day and night. On the altar of
the loss house candles are kept
burning and Coniusions is continually
importuned to take care and heal his
children.
SUPT. MARTINS STATEMENT.
Supt. w. r Martin of the Southern
Pacific was seen by HERALD reporter
this morning, and he made the follow
ing statement relative to the cOmpany's
position in the matter: [ reached the
scene, suppose twenty minutes afGer
tn. fire broke out, and saw the injured
Chinameu. Tney were taken to the
round house. Mr.. DeYoung, the mas
ter mechanic sent Immediately for DR..
Turner, and the in iured meu received
al the needed atten 5lOn just as soon as
1t was possible to give 1t to them. 1t
was not over for.y minutes before the
doctor got there after the call had been
sent in. Mr.. DsYouog, Mr.. Mum,
foreman of The shops, H. {. M tchell
ard three or four shopmen strippeI the
injured Cinnamon and did all they
could to alleviate their sufferings, aud
in fact every thing posi- ole to be done
was oOne. Mr.. Martin sent for a cab
and would have sent the men to the
Sisters hospital, but they refused to
go. They preferred to be taken to the
Chinese hospital on the south side near
theTrauSfer company'S sta bles in China
town for treatment by their own coun-
trymen. The reason that l spoke
about their Chinese friends taking an
interest in them was this that We have
mad Chinese help injured before, and
they always declined to be taken to the
hospital as they would rather be cared
for at their own hospital down be-
tween Stanton and Ulah streets, and
had no idea of evadipg any obligation
attending the care of them The Times
reporter m sinterpreted my meaning.
Mr.. DeYoung and the shop foreman
remained with the doctor and gave
every assistance possible. The state
ment IN the Times is the most uncalled
for slur [ ever saw. There is no occa-
sion for the Times paying for service
for our men. We VIII take care of that
without aid from the Times office.
The body of the Chinaman who was
burned to death in the fire last night
| was eXtricated from the bottom of tls
cellar of the burning mass of debris
this morning at 9 O'Clock and taken
charge of by Emerson & Berrien, un-
dertakers. The body was burned
very dark brown. The right arm had
been burned off up to the elbow: the
right leg burned off up to the knee and
the bone protruded a1out half IL foot
thrOuUh the burned flesh: the left foot