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v s f / OMAHA DAILY BEE. TWELFTH YJEAH. OMAHA NEB THURSDAY MORNING JANUARY IT 1883 174 CREMATION'S ' CAULDRON. A Furnace cf Fire Filled With Hundreds of Human Beings , Burning of the Newaall Hotel , of Milwaukee , Wednesday Morning. The Sleeping Occupants Awak ened to Find All Avanuea of Escape Olosed , While the Furious Flames Leap From Floor to Floor With Horrible Kapidlty. The Windows of the Building Filled With Frantio People ple Begging for Help , While the Spectators Look on Apalled at the Frlghtfal Work of Death. Dozens Leap For Life to Find Death in the Street Below. Heroic Work of the Firemen , Though Scantily Supplied With Apparatus. X < it of tlio Dead , Wounded and -Five Live * Lost- Complete and Graphic Details of tbo Human Holocaust. Special Dispatch to Tun ERV KIKST UEl'ORT. CHICAGO , January 10 9 A. M. A dispatch from Milwaukee reports that the Nowhall IIOUBO in that city has baon burned and seventy-five lives loat. The great pressure on the wires delaya the particulars. MILWAUKEE , January 10 The Newhall house , a oix story brick build ing , on the corner of Michigan street and Broadway , waa burned to the ground this forenoon. The fire was discovered at 4 a , m. , nnd in Iocs than n half hour the whole building , which haa long baou desig nated as n death trap , wan enveloped in ilimea. Scanea of the utmost terror prevailed. The inmates of the doomed ftuilding were jumping by dozens from the nppor atones , and are covering the stone sidewalks. W1TU LIFELESS noDIES. The ahriokc of unfortunate ! filled the nLr in a heartrending , ancpr ur.d the paoplo below wore unable to ren der any aid. Quito a number of ter rified guests and employe ! of the hotel appeared at the windows , and Beeiui ; the distance to the ground , fell back to porloh in the (1 ( tinea. The em ployes of the hotel , which accommo dated 800 guests , numbered 80 , and mostly lodged in the sixth story. The exit by way of tli3 roof was cut nil by the fire , and two staud-ptpes with fire ladders were not nvallabla for somu reason. Very few were saved by jumping on canvasj. All the stores and offices on the ground floor with their content ? wore destroyed. They were on the Michigan utroot aido. The offices of the Mutual Union Telegraph - graph company , U. J. Bnnmgnrtner'a sign painting shop , Gootz'a barber shop , Burdick & Armitase , job print- era. Oa the Broadway front the Man ufacturers' bank , the Metropolitan PJnto Glass Insurance company , the insurance agencies of Charles Grain , Win. Dunand , J. P. Hewitt , 0 F. Hibbnr'l & Co. , F W Montgomery , 0 B. M. Weil , West & Myers , and L. A. Wheeler and J. H. Wataon , agent of the Canada Southern railway , the office of the Nelson coal yard , and the ciHo of the Merchants' Dlapntch freight line and a number of whalo- ealo establishments on Etet Water street were damaged by the tire ar.d the falling walls of the building. Among them were Wm. Crainur , banker , the Goodvear Rubber Co. , Louis Schadcggr & Co. , wholesale wine , James Morgan , dry gonda , Xunniprumn Bron , , clothing. Wrr. Scandeo , cashier of the Manufiicturera" bank , carried the cash bos of his In stitution coutiiinlng the money nut : papers to the amount of § 000,000 out of the filmed The Insu.ancu ugencier ' and general oflicas on the first flj acarculy saved any papora. Insurance on the hotel ia stated by 0. D. Niiflh , the president nf the Nowhall house association at $25,000 all hold the Cin cinnati agencies. The loss is KOAKCELY TO BE ESTIMATED at thia hour , but it will roaoh § 500- 000. Telegraphic communication ml bo interrupted for traffic north , as about fifty wires are down. There were comparatively fdw guests in thn hotel. The register ia burned and the exact loss of life cannot bo aacortninec at this writing , At 5 o'clock this morning the doomed hotel presented a sight which will never bo forgotten by thosi who behold U. The whole iuaida of the building wna one mass of roaring flitnes , and a perfect shower of sparks and cinders was blown by a tirisL southeast wind over the northern par of the city. Tha sky was lilu niinated AS IJHIOHT AS HAY and the hitaiu.c ; and roaring of the devastating element could bj hoarc for blocks. The large , heavy cnrn'o at the southeast corner of the build intf came down with a fearful craah The tixth , fifth and fonrth H > un broke through at once and carrlm everything with them to the 'grouiu Ibor A hugo balk of fhmos shot u about fifty /cot when the floors cam down , and AN AQOMZINO 8IIOUT from the raaltitudo went up. At th Imo of this writing it cannot be do- ormlnod whether these oatabllshmonts will bo saved From that time the fire had its un- llspatod stray inside the bare walls , , nd toward G o'clock the buildings on ho east side , fronting Water street , > egan to barn. Two steatnors were ont around to East Water street to protect the establishments in that .horoughfaro . At this titno all the lores and officoo under the hotel were inwrapped in lUmes. The heroic fire addioA of the fire deparmt'nt ought the fire bravely , but all they could do was to prevent its spread o the surrounding business blocks. Th heat WAS SO INTENSE hut , the copula of the Chamber of )3tnmorco ) began to amoko as f a fierce fire was raging within. The men and ladder racks of 1 and 2 worked almost like lennna. They had to put ladders , croea the alley from th.o book build- UK to the burning hotel , and then ruwlod across. About five poo- tie were thno saved by the bravo addles. At the uiorguo a horrlblo ight was beheld. The two small > iors were soon filled with bodies , ightly packed , and then the BODIES OF GIRLS , tf women , men and waiter boys were aid promiscuously on the fltono flags Irnost in a heap , as the police patrol irought in the bodies throe nd four at a time. At 0:30 : ' 'clock seventeen bodies were aid down in the place , which was ockod up between the trips of patrol wagonsand therefore no IdentiGcation waa powib'e. ' The floor of the enoral office of the Central po- co otation was turned into a azarot. The pontons fat-vlly hurt were winding themselves 'in ' the " laukets on the floor in excruciating iain. It is estimated that fully 50 people were killed either by jumping from ho windows or punching in the atncs. In the American oxproju otiico , on ho corner of Broadway and Michigan treot , Allen Johnson , of Alfen , "ohnaon & On. , commission mor- hants , room 31 , Chamber of Com- mere ? , and wife were stretched on the ard floor in an evidently DYING CONDITION. 'ho two occupied it room on the tiird floor and both were forced jump from the window , blanket wan hold to atch them , but it proved a weak tiock to the force of the fall. Allen as badly hurt about the back and ewer limb ) , and probably internally , lia cries and groans as ho writhed in nguish woio enough to molb the most ndlfleront heart. Mrn. Johnson was ven more seriously injured , and those rying to administer to her comfort xpected her death at any moment. The loss of life is estimated at from FIFTY TO BIXTY DEAD , ud from twenty to thirty wounded. So far , twenty-three bodies Ho in the morgue , and nine morq In places > near lie rulna. IdontiGcattou coriioa alojly. imoug those known to have been in ho hotel nre 0. W. Brigga , Grand lapida , Mich. ; \Millw , Ripen ; Jeorgo Youngo , Chicago * I. A. Man- ing , Chic&KoV. ; . D. Lewis , Chicago ; 1. N Baker , Now Yonk ; J. T , Mahoney , Hock Island , Us. ; M. J. Hijl , Syracuse , N. T. ; A. B. Hendrir , New Haven /onn. : A J. Gate , Now York ; P. loblor , Chicago ; S. J. Craig , Dea Moinea , ! . ; Charles A. Handy , Mil- vaukee ; tno Tom Thumb party ; Oraago Williams , J. A. Prlnaon and vifo , Shoboggan Kill a ; John 0. Clarke , Vausau ; Mr. Rowell. of Sanford & lowel ) , Medford ; Bon Tice , chief lork ; John U. Antlsdel , clerk ; John \ Antiadul , proprietor ; BIIIJ Misem , oachor , Milwaukee ; D. J , Powers , Hies Brown , Mary Burke , Mary An- leraon. Mary Miller , MaryMcMahou , Mary Conroy , servants. The follow- ng are MISSING. W. J. Darand , insurance agent ; ieorgo G Smith , p < i&Hauger agent ot ho Lake S'loro ' & Michig u Sjuthorn rood ; Miss L. W. BrownMiss Ohollia , drejamskar ; Walter and William Gil- iland. SE1UOUSLV rSJUKEL' . ijOraognVilliutnn , roaidonco un inown ; Bonj. Tico , clerk of the house ; Li. W. Brown , trainmaster Northwont- cm road ; J , B , Elliott , lawyer. l'\i- ' ; ally W , 11. Buesanbach , general atern pataepgor ucont of the Mlchi ; an Central road ; IIso Burns , Mary eiiB , Nanny McLaughlin , Kitty Cunnoru , of Uiy'ceionn ' , hervanto. It n fljifely bj suid that eisty peuplo are dead and THIRTY fihVLUELY WOUNDED , TO.M mayor called u inoetiug of the chamber of coinmorco to organic a 'ilv-j o corps to auatch the rulne. Abaut a wotik ago the secretary of the heal Bunrd ot Under writers wtvs ap plied to to make a rate on the build ing that locil agencies might taku risks. So far as known , the tallowing are dead : Allen Johnson , commission mer chant , Milwaukee , and wife ; Ktttio Bailey and Mary Barns , ser vants ; W. A. Hall , miller , L * Porte ; Bon Van Hoag , fireman , struck by a falling telegraph pole ; L iszlo Kelly , Maggie Owens , Kato Hall , Annioanc Besale Brown , Kato Uauchon , Maggie Sullivan , Augusta Guise , Mary Me- Dado , all servants ; Thos. E. Van Uoon , Albany , N. Y. , J. J. Iliugh , Maroc , III. It was at first believed that Tom Tha Jib and wife , who were quartered in thn Now Hall huuic , pcriahbd in the fhtncs , as both luvo been miaaiag , but it is now definite' ' ) learned that both va-ro saved and that bath ara uninjured. CHICAGO , .Uuuary 10 The Wcat ern Union wires bitwoon here an. Milwaukee are undisturbed , but from Milwaukee to the northwest they ro all down , Voryllttlo additioial pro' report of the Nowhall hoaso fire ha been received hero up to 10:30. : THE HEVEUB COLD has hampered the firemen , aud ha caused them great sull'orlntr. Thro steamers went from Chicago at 5:5 : In response to & call from th mayor. Numberi 5 , 10 and M ogothcr with two men each from companies 1 , 2 , 3 and 9 , and 1,000 rards of extra hoso. The train boar- ng them wont ever the Chicago & Northwestern , and consisted of five can. It wont to Milwaukee , ntnoty nlloa , in only a little over * an hour. it is reported that the Minnie Palmer ronpo , which waa at the Nowhall loose , were lost , but thia is not con Irinod. TUG BOKNEI AT TUB MOHOUK. MILWAUKEE , January 10. In the norguo , where thirty-two bodies are ying in ghastly heaps on the floor in ho Bnif.ll room , are heartrending bo- end humsn power of description. A troug police forcp is necessary to coop the anxiouu inqulrurs in line. Mnotoon bodies have been idontlQod , Clght bodies are beyond recognition. Mrs. John Gilbert's body is positively iontlfiod , The report that Minnie Palmer was burned is unfounded. She did not atop at the Nowhall. The building was considered a loath trap and risks were refused. The Tom Thumb pirty and the Mad- son Square party are all safe no far sislearnod. Mrs. John Gilbert , of tlinnlo Palmer'o company , who was narriod only two days ago , was mrncd to death In sight of the multi- udo. udo.Tho The fire department haa called for issistanco from the Soldiers' Homo , but OEN. SHAUl'E UAS KKFIISKD o aond the atcamor , at which the in- ignatlon ia great. Chicago and Rv ino relief steamers are now on the vay , but the fire ia under control , 'ho firemen have made superhuman fforts and eleven waiter girls were rought safely across the fire ladders trotchod ever the alloy from the sixth tory of the hotel to the adjoining ank building. The jumping cloth id but llttlo aorvico as only about a ozon unfortunates attempted to jump at robonndod to the telegraph wires , perfect maze of. which surrounded ho two fronts of the bnilding. THE APl-BALS OF THE INMATES. The appeals for' aid were piteous , ut llttlo could bo done. Shortly bo- ere the Nowhall house alarm a part f the department waa called to a mall fire about three miles diatant , nd before the department waa n working order the hotel WAS ONE HLAZINQ MASS. ? om Thumb got out the front on- ranco and his wife was taken down ho lire escjpo by a firaman. W. H. 'rompton , Moaara. Herbert Dunlap ndV. . A Lovoll and the Madison quire company arrived on the mid- light oxpreis. The whole party wuro aved by fire iscapo , only partially rcssod. The following dispatch waa ecoivod jest now : "Tho board of trade of Chicago toner - er their aincsro sympathy with the icoplo of Milwaukee in the great c.O. tnlty which haa befallen them. If , wo can do 'any thing to assist you or mitigate the Buffering let mo know. , , R .DUNUAM. " The chief clerk , * who had & narrow scjJ8J-a'vrfl ' ; that itO'boarders aud 90 loardcrjTwornTn UIB bottl , ' and'Ki'IaV C are utrccountcd'for. The hbtol wi > a built by Daniel New- all and the association in 1875 , at an irlginal cost of $155,000. THE SMOKING RUIKS pedal Dispatch to Tun Bur. A hKETC'H OF THE SCENE. MILWAUKEE , January 11. Twenty- our honru have elapsed nlnco the moat terrible caUitropho bofel Mil raukeo and the immensity of the dreadful disaster rceiia to increase rstcad of wane with the fleeting of iiuo , A dread oeetns to creep ever iveryono p seint ; the hngo pile of racking rumu that mark the place where only two days ago the liilitial Nowhall lioJao atood , with ito JOO iutnntos who awoka ycatorday morning from their ulurabora to stand "aco to face with tlio grim reaper , 3now had been falling all night ai- ontly weaving a bhroud for the many how many nobody can ask without a chuddar on beholding wliat is left of ono of the largest hoetelrics in the lorlhwcst. Early in tlio morning , at 3:47 : o'clock , an alarm of firo" wan turned In from box No 439 , U iho corner of Vliet and Ei § eonth'streots. About half un hour later , at 4:05 : a. m , , two omlnoae atrokea of the telegraph alarm called the rest ivf the department not on god at the Vliot atroot fire up again , ana throe minutes later , at 4:08 : a. m. . a'i alarm from box 15 , corner ci Michigan avenue and Broad way , riini cut. Chief Llpport hurried fron Eighteenth street to the scono. Al 1:12 : a. in. the whole department was cilied to the flconc , leaving the chemi cal unuino to bittlo with thublc/.j in a remote part of the city. Theru were but few people on the Eceno the po lice and night roportora and BOUIO belated lated atragglora for home , bat the acuna developing before the horror stricken few was ono which none o the eye witnoiBca will ever forgot In a moment every window of the largo tix story hotel structure wna filled with struggling guests , franti cally and pitlously bpaoeching the few below for aid , which it wan impossible trender. . But few of the unfortu n.ilo inmates gained the front entrance trance on Michigan atreot , althougl many might have been saved if som Immediate attempts to systematic rca cue had been made , The halls of the hotel were A SCENE OK WILD Men women and children rushed up and down the halie in the dense sufl'J rating pmoko , avoiding the blindin fUmcs and roaring bkzo and in thci frantic ill'jrts rushing by stairway and windows , leading to fire eacsp a stumbling over ludica lying uncon i-ciouB ou the cirpotod walks only t join soon many proitrated f jrms whoi kind /a to had touched with the dar wing of that meesouger of death un The fire started apparently on th third 11 > or of the doomed bulldlr , ever the ttido entrance on Michiga street , and before thu dopartmon got the fileamora facing in pcaitio the fl imes had enveloped the whol aouthoast corner of the building , th fierce element lloklng ita w y greedily aud with llghtntnc ; rapidity towarda the northern wing. Some blundering individual Boeing n reflection of the holocaust on the sky turned in an alarm from Box a , corner of East Water and Dlviaiou atroota at 5:40 : n. m , causing a loaa of work of ono ateamor for tea minutes ot precioua time just when the fire WAS nil ita worst and every window In the hugo building LIMED WITH aniUKKINa HUMANITY. The multludo , which by thia tmio had swelled to thousands , stood iu perfect awe , but few having Dolf-posH'talon nnd reaolution enough to lend n help ing hand On the oanvasnca stretched out to receive those of the despairing inmates of the burning pyre who rlakod to leap down to the stone aide- walk , 100 foot below. At first there were only Llout. Rockweed , Datoct- ivoa Rului and MoManuo , Olliuora O'fJrlon and Campbell end n few Sen tinel men atretcnlng the heavy can vas , which required iully thirty strong mon to handle successfully. A poor fellow stood ou the cornlco of the fifth itory corner window for twenty long minutes , not daring the fearful leap , but filially ho became bo * wildored , to judge from hia actiona , or dumbfounded by smoke , and alid off hia perch to the canvas bolow. The few , who hold it could not giro it the 'nocossjiry rcaiatanco and the body fell unhindered by the canvas , with a crash that sent a shud der through every witness. The shattered body waa .carried into thu American express .pffico. All the while hundreds of people bad boon looking on , nobody'roapondtnt , ' to the demands of the offisors for aid. Everybody Boomed to bo spell bound. The . TXB1UDLE BMCTACIB Boomed to have paralyzed every bit of will power. In the lixth atory win * dow , right over this unfortunate , aat the figure of a man , ! crouched upon the windowaill , gazing like ono absentminded sent-minded into the 'fiery abyss be low , motionless , bat from tlmo to time Bonding up a heartrending cry. As the the iliimos encroached upon him ho did not seem to mind it. Thou the ilimes singed nia hair and licked hia night clothca , and with no despairing look at the crowd be low ho tumbled back into the Hen of firo. A man and woman appeared at a window of the third story. They were recognized as Allen Johunon and hia wifo. A canvas was stretched below the windows of their apartment , for merly occupied by Prof. linakins and lady , and a thousand voices celled , beseeching them to jump. Mr Johnson kissed hia wife , then leaped nto the air and shot downward onto bo canvas , bnt hifl weight wan each hat it palled oat of the hands cf the ev ; who hold it , nnd ho alighted on ho ground 'with deathly forco. Bin nfu followed. Her body struck the voraildc'f ' nd foil to iho ground Ufa- ess. M ? . * Allen died'nhortly afterwards - wards in the expreu Hliconnd his load'body was lni $ rfcfcl&of flfhlst bin wife ' * ilichSganitreet front. KAOH LEAr MEANT DXATH or shattered limbs , and not loss than our unfortunates nt ono titno lay up on the ioy sidewalk in trent of the chamber of commerce clad only in night ahirtn , blood nnd braiua oozing rom wounds through which bonoa irotrudod. Somu were carried to the sxpreas office and others to the ground leer of the Mitchell building , where cota hud been haatlly arranged , nnd rom there they were carried off to nlvato houcoa of kind hearted pco- pio. pio.Tho ucono in the alley west ot the mrning building waa uickoning. Aa any na C o'clocit Iho bodies ot fioven unfortunate water girls , onca bloom ug In youth , were alrotuhed upon the snow nnd ice , with broken limbs , nnd writhing tn agony until death ended .heir sufferings. Afcur almost tupor lumen efforts Inddura were atrotchod 'rom the roof of the bank building acrcss the alloy to the oixth atory of the hotel , and the bravo fire luddina carried ten girls ncroaa thu frail aridge , four of thorn dead , TUB MAZE OF TKLEOIuril WIUEH encircling the building on the south and east aides , played havoc with the unfortunate B in their frightful loop for life. Several of the bodies were fairly cut deep into by the wircn , and thei the torn and bleeding forma woulc drop to the ground. Others woulc hit the wires croBsways , rebound am bo hurled to the ground with a dread ful crash. To the poor unfurtunnte waiter girls , all of whom lodged In th < eiith atory and attics , the saddoat lo bad fallen. Of tlio sixty young girl only olcven were heard from nu alive It is feared that the cstitnut of fifty lives lust as formed thle morn ing is far too low and that full ; double that number were burned o smothered to dnath In the blazin pyre. The police patrol soon com menced their dreadful woik of gather ' ii' < 4 the dead nnd wounded. The for mer were taken to the morgue whio was aoon filled , the latter to the Oen tral police elation , where they wer c-irod for by physicians. From o'clock tno interior of the buildln was ONE MAHS OK HLIMEH. The upper floors Boon piving way , nnd carrying the lower floora with them a thundering crash waa hoard for blockd and then the fire shot up fully fifty fcot , Bonding a shower of aparku and cinders ever the whole northern portion of the city carried by it brisk south- weHterly wind. Had it not boon fern n thick coat , of unow on the roofn many buildings north of the hotel would ba a maca of mouldering rulno today. Lone after the Ilimoa had ragtd in the interior , Miis Chellia , head drcusrnubir nt T. A , Chapman & Co.'a , wua aeon at her window on the fourth floor. She wan rocojnizod ; by frlunda below and Implornd to make a lenp upon the canvata , but she re mained standing at the window of her burning room until the FMMK8 BNVELOrEI ) II Ell and aho sank to bo scon no uioro. In three quarters of nn hour after the discovery of the fire the building was a total loss. At S30 ; o'clock the Broadway front - > f the building , un supported by rafters from within , gavu out and came thundering to the pave ment. Shortly after that the tot tering walla of tin southoail corner of the building fol lowed , tearing n heavy telegraph pnloto the ground , which felled Bor Van llsgg , truckman of the hook nnd Udder company No. 2 , beneath Its weight. Poor Bon , n favorite in the department , received fatal injuries. Ho died In a few hours after , faithful to hi * post until death. Chief Lipport had telegraphed to Chicago and Ricino for help , also to the aoldior'u homo for the otoiunor of that institution. Gon. Sliarpe , governor of the soldier's homo , failed to reply. Chicago aud llaoino responded at onco. Three nteamors loft Chicago at 5:50. : At Highland park , about twonty-fivo uillosnorth of Chicngc ' ho rollof train wai counter mandeo y Chief Lipport. Thu fire having 1 lita away in destroying the Nowha toiisu , and being under con trol i\a t as mirroundiue ostabliah- uionts v t-o concerned. The llaolno relief 1 < .ui waa also countermanded. When ! became known among the morchai ,1 gathered In front of the chauiboi of comuiorco that Gen , Sharpe h > d not sent the soldier's homo engines , remarks not exactly in the Lord Chesterfield style could bo hoard on all sides. DEEDS OF 1IEHOISM recorded are worthy of unqualified praise. 0. A , llyonicr and iierman btrauss , of track 1 , appeared on thereof roof of Miu bank building at a critical juncture , directly opposite the ser vants' quarters , ladder tn hand. For a moment the unwieldy thing poised in mid air , and then descended with n crash through a window of the hotel , It formed a brldcro across the alloy , and before it became steady In posi tion the mon had crossed into the ho tel. Then , amid the cheers of the multitude below , they dragged the helpless creatures across the Blonder bridge until fully a dozen werj res cued , all of them in night clothoa. Many were badly frozen before taken to aholtor. A woman in a bead faint , unable to help herself , WAS DKAGOKD AUKOSS IN SAFETY , but at ono time the whole of her body waa hanging ever clear of the ladder , while the bravo man held her by ono of her ankles. The crowd below hold their breath in auapoiiBO , expecting ovcry moment to BOO the ladder turnover ever or break beneath the torrlblu strain. The man , however , waa equal to the emergency , and by n herculean - an effort pulled her upon the slen der bridge , and finally placed her out of danger , while the crowd , which had endured u moat painCul auspcnao for fully ton minutea , burst forth in round after round of applause. Twelve poor waiter glvla were roaouod by thoao bravo mon. The two Clayton brothera rescued four women carrying them out bodily. The police rescued a dozen porcona , ! Fhoro ia loud talk of iucon- dlarliui , | 'n < which the chief concur * ; nlao'tho ' polica , .who .W tqiJi'rBt.onttho . -f - - - - - - - and spreading1 ' fapi4 / vUi t the building waa destroyed in Half au " our. THE ORIOIK OF TUB FIRB. ntiadol auid "Tho night wutchmnn aw the fire firat , but before ho could do anything the flamca shot Up the ilovator , burning ou every floor. 1 nm onlidont that the lira started In the ilovator , but how it originated I can- lot B y. I wan nwakonod by the loiao , aud mailed out to find the juildingfulfd with llnrnea nnd smoke nud the people flying for their lives. Vfter saving my wife I tried to save jthora. I mot father and mother in light o'othoo , and trio'l to got theme , o Icavo the building , whioh waa fast ) ocoming n furnoco of Ihrnea , but athor was appaiontly out of his load. Ho Bald ho was bound to go nto the lUnios to Envo thoau in ho building , but by force I got him .o the street , nnd baing afraid that if [ lot him go ho would ngaln oiitor'tho lamoB , I conducted him by force down Michigan utroot , nnd when near the , lley some/mo from tho'uppor floor foil .o tlio ground , n few foot awy , mid c.iuted him to become frenzied. " A number of the n eouod guoats any the ire NTAUTii : > IN THE HASKMKNT , and wont thrrugh the elevator to nil jarts bofovo the nlnrin could bo given. A man employed in the baking do- urtmont , who arrived on the ncono about 4 o'clock , atatns that at1:150 : ho pasdeu to the third fhor nud nsaiated in rescuing n number of lodgers. It is s'.ated ou food authority that there was no fire in the roar portion of the buildlbg , where there was * a wiJo pslr of slabs by means of which nil those qaartorod on the upper floors could nave made their escape , ilowovor , the pmoko wna douse , and these who were not aullucatod loat prosonoo of mind. THE FI.IUHT OF AOTOHH. W H. Orompton , thn Old Rogers in "Kiraoralda of thoMadiaon Square theater company , together with Miia Herbert , Iiltaa Dunlup nnd A. Lavallo , arrived in the city nt midnight exprcas from Waukegan , and went to the Newhall houao. Mr. Orompton had room 319 , and Mi a Herbert the ono adjoining , The firat ho know was an indistinct cense of the torrlblo noise ontaido. Heforo ho could fully realize what wan olng on , ho was atartlod by knocks of Mies Herbert at thu folding doom bot'.Toeu the two rooms. Ho unlocked it , and ahn caiua in at onso. . Tier apartmoi't wna ao full of atnoke that it V/BI not thought Bdfo for her to return , and both atnrtcd for tUo fire cacnpo Crompton managed to throw on seine of hia clothes , but Mie& lltrbsrt had no timn to BIVO anything , Mr. Oompton carrying h r down with nothing on but her mi t dross. A hack , pasolng near , was brought down nnd Miaa Herbert , carried riod to Oilllu'n boarding houao. Mis * hunlnpand Mr. Livello eaoapetl inn aimllar way , bill wnro nmro fortunate in bith KOttinj } partially dressed. WJIEUK IT HTAUTED. From all that can bo Irarnod the fire waa firat dltisovond on the third floor of the building , about Iho middln of th Michigan atroot front. Ptivat Wntohnmn Richards turned in the box alarm almost siniult nooualy with th tolophouo alarm from the hotel ofh'jo and in n few seconds , it Booms , the flames had loaned up to the aixvh story carrying death and destruction in their progress. AMONG THE LOST Is W. L , Tomlina of whom Theodore The iaa aatd when last here , ' 'Ho la Iho boat trainer of choruses In thia country. " Ho came here from En gland about 15 yoara ago , located firat in Now York , and besldca teaching vocal musio WAB employed by thu Mason it lljinlln organ coiupnny to inhibit their Instruments in concerto. Twolvii years ngo ho oamo to Chicago and hero ncdonipliahod his gro it work Ever siaco ho haa boon identified with the Appnllo club. Ho haa trained all grout choruaea that have appeared horo. Ho prepared the ctiorua for the great May festival in 1880 , and for months paot had in training n children's ohorua of 'JOO voloeo. A few weeks ago , while in Chicago , he heard the chorus and pro- nouucod it the most wonderful exhibi tion ho ever wltncBsed , The deceased proposed to ralao up a chorus of ohil Iron to 1,000 voices. Of Into ho ha od praUo services Sunday evenings in L'rof. Sffing'a church , Chicago. Ho eaves a wife and four children. Ono ot thn most trying Bcouoa Incl dent to the fire waa witncnsed at the morgue. At 6 o'clock fifteen bodies aid upon the marble slabs and floor. The allotted apace waa too small to ncoommodato them all. Ono of the irat bodloa recognized wna that of klra. John Gilbert , wife cf Mr. Gilbert , of the Minnie Palmer corn- > any. They woio married yesterday uornlng in Chicago , and THE IlIUUE OF A NIGHT ay upon the cold marble crushed nnd > ruisod almost beyond recognition. ! t ia said aho waa Miss Sutton , of 3hlcao. The Minnie Palmer com- > any and the Torn Thumb company iavu cancelled unyagomonts at thu opera houao and the academy of music , owing to the death of the members of heir companies. William E Cramer , editor of The 2 roiling Wisconsin , and wife , who lad rooms on thu second floor , received - coivod aerioua but not fatal injuries , and ho is now under medical care at , ho Plankiuton , Mr. Ornmcr waa sadly burned about thn handa nnd lead , Mra. Oramur'a hair wna badly jurnoJ , M vroro also her hands and foot. Among THE KE.sfMlKAIILF. KHUAl'tH to bo recorded ia that of a man whose nruno could not bo learned , who woa cuon swinging hiniHolf from the fifth iloor of the burning' ' building until his feet toushod the window balow. Kicking In the window , ho dropped and grabbed the sash. Thia waa rn- peatcd until ho reached the balcony , from which ho waa roaouod , with hia hands badly cut. It is 'reported on the atroot that there ] woio 330 guests in thohnuiolnit night.If.ithlA bo true , the horrors tht twlll ' " ba ' reTo \ < 5 b > , the rpmoval tomplato..vTh < Nonlialt WM to 07 cry traveler in the nortUweat , and every pcraoii iu Milwaukee who had resided hero for A year or two as A FIKE THAI * of the worst description. Had it boon a smaller establishment and had it been the property ( if leas wealthy and npnrtant persona it would have con condemned. A cltizon's meeting hold to-nipht nd nrr.ingemonU-mado to ) > lnco an di.iimto force of men on the ruins to ecovcr the boil leu. ' Traveling men ooldont nnd nun-resident hold a moat- for the purpose of ndopting luasnroH for the relief of such of the rntornlty on are sufferers from there ro , A terrible obstacle to the aavint ; f llfo wan found in the not work of ologniph wlrcn which hedged the uilding in. Not only did they rovent the firemen from placing adders against the building , but It wua impossible to hold n oanvasa in uch position that the unfortunates .vould not strlko the wires firat. ' ] von the crowd aaw what was ho matter ai'.d n number of rominent business men stood in rout of the chamber of com ncroo building and nnnthemtzod the olrgraph conpanloa until their throats were parched , There were frequent bouts of " ( JUT THE WIUES DOWN , " 'Chop down the pales , " but no move- nontrnii niado to taku them down , L'ho loss of lifo iu uoiiHiderably larger han nt.ticipntod nt first , it in feared it will roaoh 100 , So far the following sixteen ot the twenty- live , ludica found iavo bi-nn ponitivoly Identified : T. K. Van Ij"o , rotirud capitnllat ul Allmny , N V MM . ' h i' . Gilbert , wife of Jrm. Oil ier ' tuu Minnie ] ' . linar cumj any. Alien Johnnuu , coinialsnion merchant u : Milwaukee. Mrd. Allen Johnnon.of Mllwnukoo. MoKcio Sullivan , chuinbcrnmld , pnrcutH live near Kildlor'ri Homo. Mnry Conrny , latrndrofH nf Mllwaukvo , MngRlo Owunx , of Milwaukee , paroats llvu on rioytnth treet , uenr Clybourn , Mary McDado , waiter , purenta lire nt MukwonnRO. Mary McMahon , urnltor , parents llvj nt Lyjen. The body wna forwarded to her parent * . Bemlo Drown , waiter , of Milwaukee , Iinrnnta live in Third ward near the curnur of Jnoknon nnd liulfalo ntreetn. Ottiiio Wnlteradorf. kltcliun pirl , ngud 18 year . Tha body clnlmed liy filond . AUi'UHtn CioiBi1 , kitchen girl , Cathoriiio Munnhan , iiantry waiter , JJrlduet OConnell , hall Klrl , of Du- prairie , Wl . J , J. Huugh , c'Jiuniorclal traveler , o ! ftros , III. fi.Tnltfk ( Juttlo , ocrvnnt. J Walter Hcott , oiuployo of the Wlacounlu Contrut railway , Mary Aiulewon , laundry gill , of Doyle- t , wn. wn.Wnlter OcllohnJ , of Milwaukee , boll boy.Wm. Wm. ( Jellolnnd , of the Milwaukee olovn- tor , multlug 15 dead anil iiihalu ? , THE HAVEI ) . Following is an accurate list of thn inmates of the hotel known to be BtwoB or not fitally injured , on can be obtained at present , the hotel register not being obtainable : W H C'Miiiuton , W H Invalle , MUi Tunl p nml Amelia Herbert , of 110 Million Square cotnimny. x N C Richer , Now York. H OCralg , l > s Moinei. K A Connolly , Chicago. X ' MmVober J i > orteJoJ. , . . , ! ; i FTuckner , Berlin. . tr , - Will Tanner. Berlin. J ? .1 V Mahoncy , Hock Iil&nd. , " ; B A IKxon , Chicago , J T Islington , Milwaukee. Kllzn Starr , Alllwaukm C 0 Clark , Wntwnu , Win. M P Hill , Syracuae , N Y. O W Brlgg * , attorney of the WI con In Central railway anil of the St. I'AU ! road , ( Jrnml KaplJc , Mich. Mr. nmt Mrs. William E. Cramer , Mil. wnukoo. ' Nunc MacV , Rorvtmt. Dora Call , servant , Amelia HiilI , servant , HriJKet O'Neill , servant. Mary O'Js'olll. sorvuut FrnnMfl Kldille , servant. MiWuIti Qiiltni , servant. , ' M ry McOauloy , servant J. V. U'chlc ' , L u | . villc , Ky. ' W. H , Hall , r f Lil'orlo. ( ieotno H. Kooil , ol Muultowoo. 11. ( ionion , of Mllwuukcc. M. Uourke , chambermaid. lilzzlo Ingen. wjlUir , ran from the hullillng badly Inmicil ivbout tbo f.uo anil hands , Nannlo Miller , servant. K. P. IToflf , of the firm of Hotl A Wol- bridge , slight cut on In nil , Bun Ticc , hoiiil clerk , was severely burned while awakening guents. Tom Thumb nnd wife uninjured. T. W. Brown , tr.ilu muster of the Chicago cage it Northwestern rr.ilwiiy , In Mil * oty , 6veroly Injured by jumping from the third ttory window. Kitty Bailey , n Minneapolis chamber maid , rut ivbout thu honil nnd face. W. T. Ucevw , of Wflinlnston , Del. Dora Oole. servant , of Milwaukee. tr. 1) . Klllotc wna taken to the KIrby , Several of hli ribs were broken , lunua badly burned , nml he waa otherwise la- jurerl , II W Uiiscnklrk , vroxttrn traveling Agent of the Michigan Central railway , jumped from the third story , striking tkd wire * feet , Irgj and armi badly bruited , but will recover. H M , Artin , commercial traveler , badly hurt , U Cubes , traveling man , quite Berlouily Injured Ohm Trance , commercial man , not forl ornly hurt. Lltiobam , engineer of Milwaukee , unin jured. Kitty Bailey , of this city. Miss AntUduto , ncwlny girl , bail cut on liouit anil lungs Injured , Ityburna , a rTunt , badly burned nnd head cut nnd bruised , nut Rcilons. .Tno Gilbert , of the Minnie Palmer Co. . bully hurt by jump ug from the third story , will recover. MrnS Bnkor , of the , T m Thumb Co. , biully lujureil. .Tudgj U } T Paul Is at the Klrby house , uninjured. JamcH Ward , of New York , uninjured , Aturlba SchloMner , of Milwaukee , kltr.hrn eorvaut. .Tint link' * , of Oconomowce , servant. Wynuu Fuluier , of Mlhrnukoo , cirvcr. Amelia Uoenler , of Mllwuukeo , fire man. man.Mn Ifillett anil child , nhn occupied room Nn , IG , opposlto Mr nnd Mrs Jolm- tancH , staying temporarily with Ilallett'd brrtbar , aUd otcapod with losa of their fur niture nnd wearing ntipaiel. ,1 , A. I'rinsln , of Sheboygan FalU. J. VanDyvan Dewal , CjJar Grova , Miiw Martha Oyott , of 8heboyg n Faljg. Prof. Tomblmu , who wni reported mlta * Ing , took a room nt tbo Plankinton , TUM- diiy afternoon , nnd roturnoi to Chicago the next morning. U. W > Vuhkfrkt 'rostern traveling gnt . Of tlio > Jiltog } [ u CenlVal'rotf , haiMhljl Chicago bt 11 o'olouV. N. O. Jenkins In at the VUnkintuu. W. F. Hchmldt , of Chicago , escaped irnugh the boiler room ; face nnd handu uily bunwl. ICd Burnham , of Chicago , oicaped with few biirnn. > V , F. Uurnnd , rcparted lost , U alive nd uninjured , It. II Smith , of Kansas City , who came ore rlx week * ago. Hclioonbiicktr , boll hey , con nf Kd chocnbnokcr , utoker on Bteamer No , 5. W. S. llowell , of Frceport. Mra. llaraha and Mr. Hmltb , of Clil- Fioti Bailtcr , of I'eiv.inkoc , bell boy. THE I'KUMNO IX NUW YO11K. NEW YOUK , January 10. The hotel error of Milwnukoo in the thcmo of onvoiaatlon. Puoplo have not boone o deeply moved nlnco the terrible catruction of lifo by the Brooklyn tyntor firo. Wuatorn men here are rly looking for every detail , and gpcciitlly anxious about the names of lia killed , wounded and niisaing , opiii ( ; Btrocgly , however , that the ataco of relatives , friends and ao- uaintnncea may not ba found. The eloyraph offices are hardened with moBnngoa making inquiries , ntid each dition of the papuro are eagerly canned , The peolll Ulapitcli | o Tun llr.K. CIIIOAOO , January 10 , Mr. Fred rick Ooblinrt , of Now York City , nnd Mra. lunctry , of London , Ea - "uid , occupied u box nt Uaverly's heatro luat ovenini ; , nnd witncEood .he porformnnco of "Sha ctoora to cot > quer , " by the Langtry company. Plus nftornoon Mr. Gcbhardt , Mrs. Lingtry nnd Mis % Lingtry had a box tt the grand uponi to BCO Maud Gran ger in "Tho Pianter'a Wile. " The Dublio have ceuuud to bo entertained ay Gobharll rr wn'ch ' hia moliina. The papuia have tcarooly it paragraph about him. Uia card suemod to But- tlo iri'itturs BO far as his further notor iety ia concerned. RiiUUo's Relaxation Special Diapatch to Tim Dm. CHIOAHO , January 10. Hugh Rid dle , president of the Hook laiand road , having obtained leave of absence for aovoral months , left hero laat evening by a special car tor California , to bo absent until spring. During his ab- aonco R. R Cable will act nu presi dent. Iho IrTnrquiB uiid Wifo. SpcclM UUpatcluj tn Tim Ur.n. LAK VHOAH , Jitnuary 10 Princesa Lnulso and the Marquia of ijoruo und Biiiti ) arrived from California this evening by a special trMn. They will leave far the cute via K/uiaan City to morrow Suoiv Stui 111 , Special Plapati.li to Tim HUE. CHICAGO , January 10. Jloporta from nil points south ahow that the BIIOW atorm of Inat ovoalng nod to-day wan very oeyoro. Trains ara delayed in all diroctiona. Richmond , Va. , re- porla the storm aa heavy as that of 1875.
