The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-03-14

but after searching the ruins very care
fully tho police and nremen discovered
eleven caarred bodies and removed them
to the morguc.
No. 105 Bowery IS one OF the best
known lodging houses on that thorough
fare. It Is called the Bowery Mission
Lodging House and Is conducted by the
Christian Herald. In the basement OF
the building there Is cheap restaurant,
while the ground floor Is used exclusive
ly for mission purposes. gospel services.
having been held there daily for several
years. The four upper floors were fitted
up as cheap lodging house with accom-
modations for 100 males, who paid 10. 20
or 25 cents each, according to the loca-
,ion OF the rooms. Last night almost
every bed was occupied.
At half past / o'clock this morning,
one OF the dodgers discovered flames
coming from 4 wash room on the third
floor, but before he had time to alarm
the house the fire was noticed by q pass
erby on the street. BY this time the
flames had eaten their way to the top Of
the building and were bursting through
the roof.
When the alarm was given and the IN.
mates aroused. wild scene OF excite
ment ensued. Many Of the dodgers be-
came panic-stricken. They rushed Into
the Railways and fell over each other In
their efforts to reach the street. Those
on the lower floors got 10 the street safe-
ly by the stairways. while those on the
upper floors groped their way through
the binding smoke to the metal fire es-
cape in front OF the building. The ma
jority OF them only saved portions ut
were naked. Those VINO made their
were superflcially burned by the excess
sive heat OF the iron ladders. which In
many places had become red hot from
the flames within.
In the meantime three alarms OF fire
had been sent In and In few minutes
the flremen were busy deluglng the
building with torrents Of water. They
finally succeeded IN keeping the fire
within. the limits OF the three upper
stories OF the structure. A; large detail
Of police was quickly summoned to the
scene in charge OF Inspector Cross, and
the reserves were called from the four
teen downtown districts. This force OF
officers had difficult work TO keep the
vast crowds in check as well as helping
to rescue the unfortunate lodgers. Many
of the naked and injured were cared for
by people In the vicinity and about fifty
of them were accommodated at the Ed
ridge street police station. some three
blocks away. Several OF the most deSti-
into were brought TO the station house
in natrol wagons and on their arrival
they were partially clothed by members
81 Abe force and kInd-hearted neigh
bors
After the flre had been ex,tnc,lisbed
erfHcIontI,- e, tbat n search of the nIoce
wos nossible. the police and flremen en-
.arad thn building and tho work of
searching for The victims was begun.
Several bod,os were found near the vim
dnws nm the two MINER floors where they
had bnrn STRICKEN down nv attemntinr
tn make their way TO The fire escanes'
So many bodies were found In the early
s,ares or the search that I. was c,,d.
mailed that over forty persons must have
been Killed, However, the officers for
and eleven bodies in ali were found.
some NJ these were discovered In the
small rooms they had occunied. while
others we're found in the hallways and
on Tho stoirs Of the fourth and flfth
Hoora All Of them were naked and
most of'them we're q,,rned and chorred
hnvond recognition. II "a thought nv ti,n
noiica thot onlv one Of these bodies will
no eventually identified. This one Ia
eeionota,I ns number ten. II was found
IN a rom, on the tlfth f,o3r In tbe same
room, ,harn was a eatchel and Ct 10
tbomrbt t,,,t lie contents NAV lead n
tGe i5entifration OF the body. An soon
nc tho hodia. wcr, carrIed to the s.rest
thcv were Transferred 10 the police sta-
tjon and NV half mast A O'clock this
norning me noIlcc relinouished thcir
snorch Coroner Zuca was summoned
and after IooIdng the bodice IN the sta-
tIon bousn over rave,a hermit for +hcIr
rn,novoI n ,he morruS. - = -''l''
Mnnorer Sardlson. OF thc Christian
rJor.id r.ho baa dircc, CHARGE NJ tbn
mission and lodging house, called at the
I,dr,dss strcrt' station lntnr nnd toId
tbn nGirar In CHARGE that he wouId burv
'te ue"
1o,, ~ 1r,1,rrr s,nor,,,n,do,. =,
!orii y. WsSu' ,,i,i a, ',.s.e.o ;i, u
me boWery MISSION, uiloer whose uireS-
non she lous'ns a'ouse was '' eo''aucteu'
said Today:
"Whcn arrived at thc scene OF the
iirc the iiremen haa II under control and
the police were removing the dead
bodies. started In ut once to ascertain
the cause and the exact place where the |
sassy sa%ss2 y nmans shsd lot ssnPs's ef asr EST"