The Exeter Advocate, 1892-2-18, Page 61018 ana la *1* 1115 lb2fld year,
Box No. 3 Was that of a matt 5 ft..6 in.
ound ( ody No. 11) near the Sixth tweet=
on Hi by'
The hair on
o identificee
n't &mon*,
r, extracted
e or friend
dentify the
woman was
awe to the
y No. 12."
Ind nothing
t °mild be
aborers em.
d the „foot
der a piano.
as stopped
city, who la
08, ie in it
ey House.
d from the
or other
well. This
the ruins a
ordaining a
d Railway,
May, a pazr
e clothing,
mill0 of May
t is thought
who regis-
fied as that
e made to-
hiladelphia,
ass., who
1 on Satur-
one of the
. No more
'clock this
the most
e moat war-
n, a travel-
wholosale
t the hotel
wife. "
' said Mr.
Itt my sleep
the sound
from one of
. I opened'
e stairway
in a blaze.,
ke, and as
s the door
e knowing
et way. I
ened it and
oke on the
ay, for the
that dire°.
d have suf.
taken two
ter. These
f our lungs
hs and nos -
a near our
d 1 thought
got out of
a death to
either that
my wife;
u and then
etter to dia
and mei al -
my pillow-,
y this Ulna
rough thee
the door..
y wife thet
went dowry
ing stopped
jumped out .
h. A rope -
and with
t down an -
ed to the
ed her up,
d, as I was
ai•ed me'I '
and try to
n two fire-
eachecl the.
TER AIL
reimmens,
In Now
Dada ani
rested here'
nd theft in'
ith a pen- ,
n a cell at
'Mesita -
he says :
fatal eon-
opardized,,,
ant in ms,
risonment,..
.ng further
orable satE
ESIMMOnily
Allegheny:
er in the
mony of h
iced jury
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url myself
y wife is,
letter Ulla:A
threw a,
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no of the.,
groaning ;
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mos while
from the.
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:
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ton, was
ng by the
%Route's.
years re-
esterclay"
g aroundl
d a shot
-
d loaded
a •warm
troubling
6 of the
in falling
e weapon,
as
struokz
clogs by
the jaw
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nstantly.
woollen
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travel.
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'TONS OF C4OLD,
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4, Effic itilltNAIITIOD.,
meta oei.eigoNe colvfirkitACk:.
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A HOTEL HORROR,
.
tall, 30 year o old, With hlack onrly heir,.
emo.oth face and gold filled front upper
nit ete stliin tHigeh twsPhrier tblwu 411111biltacdattirr el b4o. rirrg' ,•
white ' linen drawers, white merino
underobirt whtte, senders with 'bleek
t" s ripe and marked Deluvy, Sixth avenue
Ile had 'precipitated himself from a window,
and his brains were scattered ou the side-
walk. , , ,
, In hex No. 4 were the remains of a man 40
yeers of age, 5 feet 8 inches in height, brown
hair, moustache and eyed, and teeth filled
t with gold, He weighed 160 pounds, and
had on a blue and grey striped tennis shirt.
He died of suffooation, , .
At 10.15 o'clock another body was brought
in. It was thaof a largeeable-bodied man
t.
.
and was entirely nude. The face had been
burned beyond recognition and the left arm
was also Nailed to a orisp. His identifica-
tion was soon completed. The finger ring
of gold which he wore wee the meens Of
identification. It was the body of It O.
Levy, ealestuan for the firm of Strauss &
Freeman clothing manufixothrere. Ile was
recognized by Lelia L., Weiss, Levy's
brother, and a number of relatives also iden-
tified the body. ' .
A NewYork despatch says: The sixth
body Wa s found this morniin a room on
- top floor of the thin on the '40th
street side. It was apparently that of •a,
woman but so badl burned as to make
. . a, . 7
Identification well-nigh impossible. The
Lound
seventh body was at 9.20 a. m. It
f d lying' the
was that o a man, an was among 0
cDavis,a
debriss in the (se 11ar. H ow many I lam a
ad m ngled bodies aro still buried
beneath.4 the ruins is a question Of
horrible' uncertainty. . Besides the three
taken out ' this morning five others
• ' d. The bodies of many
had been recovere . , .
f others may. be hidden in the mass of
. .
h k•
steaming wreckage which c o es .up the
beneath the bla,ckened. and dia.'
wide 'Tam . • .:
figured walls. From a careful exaimnation
of the h
hotel register and the journal which .
Was furnished by Night 'C. lerk Underwood,
.the number of'persons m the building when
the five broke out was 152: Of theseeight
'.
e known to be dead. Eighty-one were
rescued by the firemen assisted b citizens,
betore. the walls. collapsed, end by
-are stall missing. Among those who were
rescued from the flamingbuildingaretwenty-.
four who are more or less seriously burned
and bruised. .
At 10 o'clock the eighth body.was found.
It was that of a man. It was lying among
the debris in the cellar of the building'.
Four more bodies have been uncovered by
the Workmen, but 'cannot as yet be taken
out Of the ruins on•accOunt of the heavy
timbers lying over and around them.
Up to9.30 p m nine bodies have been
recoVered, five. men and four women. Of
these only two have been identified, Henry
C. 7 Levy, of Levy Strauss & Freeman,
clothiers,' 707 Broadway, New
York, and ,T. a 0. Townsend, of New
Haven.
At 1 o'clock all the bodies discovered in
the ruins were taken to .the • morgue. 'Nu-
•
erous articles that had been picked un
m • -
were removed to the 30th street station.
Among them was a_ package of letters
marked "Lena Cohn," a hand -bag marked
with the initial "3," a silver thimble
marked "M. A. D.," and two pairs of
scissors. The young woman who was taken
e ewand o
t the N York hospital drefused t
give her name because "it might be em-
:missing,' was _,, l as
b ' ' identified this morning•h
Etta Green, oue of the he p " in the
Sturtevant House. Miss Green is im-
' d '11 b
proving, an will e able to leave the hos-
• 1 • f d Thh
pda in a few days. e workmen on t e
• s have had some narrow ewe. es during
ruin . p g
the day from falling wall .
s. .,
•
IDENTIFYING VICTIMS.
' There was a great ctowd at the morane.
Many came to see if the victims there were
theirfnen seas were carton y
' d buttlmajority" t
seekera. Charles .Blake, an elderly man from
Stamford, Conn., came with a friend to
enquire for his sister, Sarah Blake, 49 years
of age, who registered at the hotel on Battu.-
d H f the ' - . that tl
ay. e was o e opinion= re-
• • .
mains m the box marked No.0 'corresponded
with the body of his sister, but did not posi-
tively . 9 identif-J her. A middle-aged man
.
with tears in •his eyes, came in q.uest of
Mrs. Rogers, oftBrooklyn, who was a friend
of his, and who told hut she had an "en-haracter.
gagement " at the Hotel Royal for Saturday
and Sunday nights. He failed to identify
anyone. • .Among • the visitors was
Police Cant Cross who critical] ' tett
e. • ' • y inspec
the bodies,and was quite sure that
h • cl.f '
e recognized the ace of No. 2. He promised
to send. an Officer that would be likely to
know whether it was the 'person. he • sus.
pected. Whenthe captain left two stylishly
dressed women came and looked at the
bodies. The elder of the two, of handsome'
and somewhat dissipated' a,ppearance, said
that she was the proprietress of an ' eatab-
lishment, thetocality of which she did not
care to disclose. Mr. Levy, who was lost
in the fire, had called at her home on Satur-
day, she said, and took one of the inmates,
Of whom he was fond, to the theatre. She
never returned, and probably went with him
to the hotel. .They could notfind her at the
morgue. ' Samuel Cherley, a bell•boy at the
Hotel Royel, was sure he could identify two
of the bodies Th '
. e one in box No. , I was he
'
thought, that of Mr. Lewis, the book-'
maker's wife.H recognized h h t '
e t es or , curly
hair. He believed No: 4 to be .that of her
husband, as the 'features were similar and
the h' t h like h h t
s ir e wore was one , e ad often
seen Lewis wear. . ,
Miss Mary McCarthy called with Miss
Bridget Begley and was quite certain that
No. 9 was the body of Housekeeper Begley.
The f 1 t th f h d d '
a se ee o t e °cease corresponded,
she thought, with those of Mrs. Begley, and
the went off to bring the dentist to verify
their make.
Thomas White, of Orange, N. J., curie
to look after his brother Charles, also of
Orange. .
.
Mrs. Hattie VanN • df
' ' ' or en, wife o Mr. H.
J. VanNorden, manager of 'the Royal Wor-
caster 0 e t C . •
or e °ninety, was undoubtedly
anion . those who perished. . Her'
g , husband
had.
says she jewels , worth $30,000 in her
possession. ' • .
AMoNG THE DEBRIS.
' At the scene of the holocaust 200 Italians
continued theirwerk upon the ruins through-
out, the afternoon. The south wall and
dining.room still remained standing. The reception
notice had great difficulty in keeping the the.
People beyond the fire lino, The southern boys
Portion of Bryant park wan °leered of pee- the
Pie in the aftermion, but the crowds still exploded.
lingered in the northern part of the park, little
• - . •• .
although they could see little more than the on
tops of the ruined walls, Hour after hour and
Pasted, and each minute the crowds expected seveted.
that news would be sent mit that another To
body had beet found. The heape of debris raffia
grew higher and highet untilFortieth street Crated
*as entirely blocked.
.. . .. stances.
...
Toward hve o'elock a :Steam derrick was
placed on Fortieth street, and a humber of
eleettip lights strung in order that the work beesiuse
could be continued all night.
Noun nonms rMuNn. its
' the
t 5 55 o'clo • ' 't
A . clx the body of a man about i
40 years of age height 5 i 6 10 ' ii . . to
. , ., fee me es, Was
fo lid near the h ' • '
- It , 61 avenue entrance of the he
hotel, The front of the body was burned goods
bedlY, The back wad in fairly good cond. buyer
tion It, was marked body N.
• . o.. 10. generaliy
At 7 o'illtiek the trunk of a Wilniti.n Iwneg kr....
. .
enttente. There. were ne mind
'Mch it could be Identified,
iont:bhebgtclid7osesbiblY" bde tri8oA dtt 8 bfr1(
,A jt. A few teeth were, howeve
in. the hope that some relatt
mieht . eventually be able. to ;
corpse. '
At 8 o'clock the trunk of A
found near the 40th street enti
hotel, It was inarked "Bo
The legs and arms were gone, 8
was , found near it by which
identified.
At 8.25 &cheek the Italian i
',toyed in clearing the ruins fom
Of a human being wedged ia un
Work, et that point, hOweaver, t
temporarily. .
• aneo WAS tea ,2
Mrs. W. F. Lockard, of this
suffering from internal injuri
critical cotdition at the 'God:
All the others who were rescue
hotel, , suffering from burns
injuries, are said to . be doing
afternoon there was found. ix
black alligator hand -satchel,. o
100 -mile ticket on the•Long Isle:
made out in the nameof J. FL
'
of gold -link sleeve buttons, son
and a package of letters, The n
b
is not On thehotel register, bet i
he may nave .been one Of thee
tered under a false name.
Body No. 9 was to -night ident
of Mrs. Begley's. Inquiries wet
night for a Miss Davis of T
and Louis Coulter, of Lowell, :
are said to have been in the hot(
day nig.ht. Mrs. .T. B. Carey,
Missing, has turned up all right
bodies were found up to 1...
morning.
• SAVED exaona na SHO
The test ho robably ha,
' 8 w p
narrow, and at the same time th
vellouseseape was M. L. Hartle
. ling salesman for a St. Lout
grocery house. He registered 0,
on ,
Saturday evening withhis
had o the • th fl or '
Harman, arn,oni" aonnd. was 89t1rX0Lised°fro'l
b 'a loud, rearm noise and b
• 'g '' y
of a whistle, which I think was
the engines on the elevated road
my door and discovered that ti
leading to the lower floors was
The hallway was filled with smc
it poured =to my room as long i
was open, I quickly .closed-- i
Was no
that there ' .eicape • th
then' went to thewindciw and oi
these seemed to be as much se -
outside as there was in the hallv
IT= soon filled with smoke frot
bon. Both my wife and I wou,
located in the room. hid I no'
towels, which T soaked. with we
we used to keep the smoke out C
,
by holding them over our naout
trite I tried to find a fire mei
window, but there was none, an
at one time that we should neve
•
the 'room alive It was certa
jump six stories, and as it was
or burn to death, I said to
"Mattis, I am going to shoot yi
kill myself."
I.concluded that it would be 1
that Way than burn to death, ,
ways sleep with a. revolver uncle'
I hurried to the box to getit I
t e antes were coming up ' t
. fl ' .
cracks in the floor and througl
Just as I was about to shoot n
floor fell with a crash and we •
'
' • ' '
probably stories. The floor
•windowd
opposite a an my wife
and landed on the portico beneat
was hanging out of this . winders
this assistance I. teenaged to g(
but here I sli
other story, b pi
portico beside my wife. I pick
•
but was unable to carry her, an
almost suffocated as the fire in'
a . ' • i
was endeavoring to find a ladder
g
carry her down to thestreet will
e . '
men took her from me. How I:
street I don't know."
a •
Ale Attdeetoes Iteniand fte,000 in Cash. for
leis transmit,
A New York despeich gays ••• A bend a
daring kidnappers have etolen Weed Ferris
Wateebury, the 8.yeer-old son of Charlee
P. Waterbury, a well-to-do farmer of Long
. . .
iRinide,gea'ned7r4e.4owld4iinclig 'licialinetrrb$116c,ON00ewraDYsooniri
en many respects the ase is similar to
the •eamo.00 abduction of Charley Roes, near
Philadelphia in 1874. , •
The child was stolen on Monday, within
en eighth cif a mile of his hone, while on his
way to school. So well planned was the
outrage that practically nb. traee of the kid
flappers; was left behind after they hied gone
a mile and. a half. . It all happened' in a
thickly settled and respectable community,
and the father has received a letter from the
men ,who have hie child threetening that if
he'does not proreply pay the money they
will kill the lad. and tutimating that theY,
will also wreak vengeance on his head.
The demand of the child stealers, who
signed themselves "River Boys,” was that
the money should be paid to them at mid-
night on Tuesday night on a bridge near
Bedford, which is on the dividing line be-
tweet Connecticut and Weatohester county,
ese. y.the
It is far from a railroad station and
out of reach of the telegraph.
The father of the boy started to keep the
appointment 'with 0,000 in his pocket, all
he could raise in such a shorttitne. Deputy
Sheriffs Howard Tugsley and Stephen Hart,
of White . Plains, started for the scene,
haying received word from Mr. Waterbury..
They will protect the father, and if poosible
apprehend the kidnappers. '
, The whole country side is up in arms.
The plan was a most daring ono, and the
Parents of the stolen lad are frantic.
There may be a lynching if the villains are
oaught .
About fifty menopent all Monday
night in scouring the country for the boy
with lanterns. Suapicion exists that Charles
E. Waterbury, who is a nephew of the boy's'
father, knows more about the plot than he
will admit. It was he who bore the note to
Charles P. Waterbury,in which the kidnap-
He
pers made their demand for . $6,000.y
claims to have been out hunting when he
saw three men armed with shotguns stand-
ing beside a phaeton. One.of them had the
child on his back, and threw the note to
Waterbury, telling him to deliver it, while
.the others threatened him away with their
a„ne. .
7--
Charles E. Waterbury is net on good terms
with his nude,' and when he delivered the
note :advised that the ransom demanded be
paid. What may prove significant is that
the father's relatives' are not on good terms
with him; and claim that he took an advan-
tage of them in dividing the estate. . . -
A. later despatch says the kidnappers did
not keep the appointment and at 3 o'clock
on the morning after the father's return the
family were awakened by a ring at the door
and opened it to find their boy had been
returned.
. A Greenwich, Conn., despatch says:
Charles E. Waterbury, who abducted his
cousin, WardWaterbury„ on Monday, , has
been arrested here. Waterbury was walk-
•
mg along the road near his house. He had
.. . . .
a bundle of . clothing in his arms and a big,
revolver, which was cocked. He was look-
ingsuipmiously about him as he sneaked
along. He evidently feared arrest and
started nervously.at every sound. When
Selleck stepped in front of him Waterbury
showed fight, but the deputy sheriff oyer-
powered hint. and told he had better be
quiet, because there were other officers' near
by. Waterbury said he was on his way to
• • •
Greenwich to give himself up. There is no
, a • e o
doubt, however, th t h intended t leavehi'
tow,. e , .
At 12 o'clock yesterday the three pris-
°net's, Waterbury, Sutherland and McCann,.
were arraigned before Judge Hoyt. Ward
Waterbury and his father and' mother were
in court. • '
Ward Waterbury said one of the men who
abducted him had a black beard on. A
false beard was found in the house of
Charles E. Waterbury, where Waid was
Confined during his absence from home. .
' Wird Waterbury told the story of his
abduction practically the same as has been
published. The boy shuddered as he re-
lated the story of how he .was stolen away.
He seemed to stand in • dread of McCann,
and occasionally had .to, be reassured by his
father. McCann was manifestly nervous
while Ward was on the stand. . Nothing
•
could shake Ward's testimony. . ' .
Ward's father, Charles P.' Waterbury,
also testified. He' related how Charles E.
Waterbury had. brought him the note de-
mending $6,000 reason for Ward. . He also
told of his visiting' Miller's Bridge to meet
the.kidnappers, and then descrtbed Ward's
return home. , .. • •
Before McCann's . examination was con-
chided 'Ward Waterbury , positively identi-
fled him as One • of the men whe had
kidnapped him. The little fellow had been
watching McCann' steadfastly all the time.
lilcCarin sought to present Only his full face
to the child, but occasionally he forgot him-
self and turned his head. Finally Ward
exclaimed, '`. That's him; that's the man.»
,be
Judge Hoyt t' d ' d 'Ward
. ques loneWard, an.
said he recognized•McCann by marks On his'
face and the side of his head. Ward said
he was positive McCann Was one of the‘men;
Charles E. Waterbury refused to plead. •
• Sutherland's behaviour was in . marked
contrast to that of Waterbury. He asked
for time to procure counsel. Judge Hoyt
granted this and set down his hearing for
to -morrow morning. ' • •
' Charles E. Waterbury and McCann were
bound over for the Supreme Court, .which
will meet at Bridgeport, February 16th.
They were remanded to jail in default of
$5,000 bonds each. . '
A W,ireep's-0,00txtLYeisfit, 1;Iyoirs• oBb'ivalthtleclete for it
4 cleyop.lia 4,0010‘44tob says; A sensetion,
bee been eaused oy Cant, e, W. IY, loore, one
of the best known .and wealthiest vessel
owners on the .great laltee, beginning suit
ltlf910.04riev.orcH8 eagisaivlsotuhti.860wyjefetirsOldltr ste
about 40. Ho married her tWelve Yeats
ego, when ehe was a widow with two e.hil-
dren, He eharges,ber. with .gros, 0 unfaith.
fulness At ineuY times and. places.. and 'Piths
a number of Mott:noes, A. pretninent livery -
stable keener and one J. Albert 'Wilson are
Mentioned as coleePondents. Capt, Moore
has for a week lived at a hotel and ' his
wife occupies.their handsome house in the
Detroit readYesterday Mrs. Moore sued
Capt. Moore, Capt. WM. S. Mack, Copt
Riehard Neville, A. R. Rumsey, J. Arthur
Wilson, and another whose name is
unknown, for $100,000 damages. She
charges conspiracy. She alleges that Wilson
was introduced to her by Wm. S. Mack as
being a Personal friend of his' family, And
that Wilson,under the plea of taking her
to visit his wife, through the conspiracy of,
the defendants, took her to a house of ill•
repute, She claims that Wilsot compelled
her to remove a pertion of her clothing, and
that when she was in that condition the
door of the room opened and Wm. S. 1V/their,
Richard Neville, A. Rumsey, and another
man, who said he was an officer of, the la w,
entered. The intruders, says, • then
ordered the alleged .officer to arrest her,
which he did. Mrs. Moore claims that it
was a conspiracy to deprive her of her just
share of her husband's estate, and that
Wilson was peed $5,000 for his work.
'
Ei. .
Titgl. Mau-ef4reee MO6 Superigtella the
Iiallailw a the Eider's Specie, '
N , ,
ow York Visited hy Another Ap
. ,
palling Disaster.
'
A PRECIOUS 'CARGO.
A London cable says: The landing of
.
the SPecie carried on t e elder was attended
by elaborate precautions. As much of the
gelid was deetined for the Bank of tigland,
the British Governinent took charge Of the
Rwoott,t wiT.ohii.wals3rusgervolfsedthbey ,iCr:ePt4taicla
Invincible. The .amount landed for ' the
Bank of England was eight and ene•haif
tons, The men engaged in the work all
belonged to the local coast guard. The
labor was not part of their official duty 'and
they were therefore paid at the liberal rate
ef 0. for eaoh trip to and from the wrecked
steamship. The agitherkrd lifeboat was
used in bringing the specie on shore, and
Inspector Gibson, with a • body of con-
stables belonging to the Isle of , Wight,
was on guard on the beach to watch
the treasure on its arrival.. Crowds Of
people witnessed the transfer and. curiously
iooked on as the boxes of gold were lifted
out of the boet. .As soon as each box was
landed it was picked up by. twenty bearers
and carried up the stiff between a double
line of the coast guard and polies. At the
• dto ethe
top of the cliff the boxeswere pile gshe
r"
Coast guardsman with drawn pistol and
cutlass an hand keeping vigilant ward over
the precious pile. . The people who thronged
around 'maintained good order and were
content with gazing at the heap, which
represented wealth greater than any they
had ever dreamed of. At a later hour the
boxes containing the treasure were placed
on waggons and escorted to Newport by the
;thief of the coast guard, Officer Locke,
eccompenied by . a detachment with out-
lasses and revelvers. At NewPort it•sPenial
gain was waiting for the Arrival of . the.
'.,reasitte, which wase,tonceloaded intogoode
waggons, carefully guarded and.conveyed to
Dowes. There the gold was transferred to
1 special steamer alai conveyed across the
Ioleut to the mainland and thence by
medal train from Sotitharapton to London.
Nfter the specie had been saved the' crew of
he lifeboat rested for an hour. At the
iring of a gun they assembled again. The
hgent of the steamship company thanked
;hem for the work they had so successfully
lone and asked them to save the mails at
ate setae rate of pay, £4 a trip. 1'he crew
A once placed itself under orders and was
;old to take 40 bags of mail at a trip,' ehe
whole amount being 400 bags. Ten trips
were therefore necessary and these were,
tccomplished without. accident, captain
Stenekle and 25 of his. crew Were still on
loard the Eider to -night. A great deal of
Dose maize in torn bags, .known to be from
he bottom of the Eider's cargo, was washed
pi shore to -day and 80 bales of the cotton
that had been thrown Overboard when the
teenier struck were hoisted to the top of
, ...
he cliff by derrniks.
.
A MIDNIGHT EIRE ALARM
„.e.,
And the Horrible Awakening ofOver
•
a Hundred Guests.
,
•
M ANY- PEOPLE LOSE THEIR LIVHS.
The Hotel Boyol at 6th avenue , and dOth
street, opposite Bryant park, was corn.
00,4 destroyed by fire and a large num.
ber of people were burned and suffocated in
the rums. •
The Hotel Royal was built more than
25 years ago: The house was the home
of many persons in the theatrical profession
and was patronizedchiefly by transients
'
for the night, that class which keeps late
hours in the upper part of the tenderloin
district. . • .. • .
The fire broke out shortly after three
,
0 ClOCIE this morning„ and spread with fear-
ful rapidity, the flames soon enveloping the
entire building and (Jutting oall means of
escape for the guests meeting in the upper
stories of the building. .• .
The °Digit of the fire is unknown. It
started in the , basement near the elevator
' ''ddl •
shaft; Which was located In the nu e o
•
the building.
The fire departmentarrived. within a kw
minutes after the alarm Was given by an
engineer on the elevated railroad,but mean-
while the, Most heartrending end sickening
scenes were being enacted. .
The horror-stricken crowd that had
quickly .gathered in the streets about the
doomed building saw men and. Weineli, clad
Only in their night clothes, jump from the
upper stories and fall upon • the stone flag
ging of the sidevealks, crushed to death or
seriously injured. '
. Willa EYE -WITNESSES SAW.
Eye -witnesses tell of the appearance at
th e upper windows of terror-stricken men
and women who unable to find escape, fell
back overcome who,
the smoke and flames.
Every window of the building seemed filled
with men women and children, crying out
•
Diteousl ' for those below to save them.
- '
Many of those were certainly burned to
death. .
The fire escapes in the rear of the build-
ing afforded a means of esca e or somewholesale'
firs providedl' • 11the'
whilst the re ropes in a
'
rooms were utilized by many male guests in
reachingthe street.
•
According to the most reliable reports
there were about 150 all told, sleep-
• • . people ete e
ing in the hotel last night. ow many 0
these were lost may not be ascertained for
several da •
ys.
Nearly every room of the 124 rooms
which the hotel had on its five floors was
Occupied last night by guests, both permaia-
t d transient; i fact all rooms save
en an . uo
four had been taken at 1 o'clock lathe morn-
ingwhen Richard Mears, theproprietor,
t to bed.
'wen
At 3.05 o'clock Mears and his wife, who
y ee
occu ied a room on the third floor fort f t
from staircase, were aroused and found
this staircase in flames Mears roped his
• ' - g _
way to a window through blinding. smoke
and escaped andhis wife was subsequently
' '. • •
rescued by firemen in an unconscious con-
dition. .
MANY LEAF TO DEATH.
Just as she reached this ground the body
nowt man who had jumped from
of an unknown .. ,
a, third -story window, struck the pavement
P
and his brains were dashed o .
ut.
Suddenly the walls fell. .
• At the time
nee le could be observed at several win-
e P
.dows•on ithe top floor, crying for help, but
they.fell back and Were soon burned in the
ruins. . a • .
• he
Five burneed, crus d and disnigurea
bodies, two women and three men, were
removed to the morgue. .Orleans
It is feared, however, that a ?Search of
the vast smoking 'pile of debris in the cellar
of the hotel will reveal many ghashly finds.
It was reported at a late hour b� -night that
no less
. than 100 people are still uncounted
for. , .
, DASILED TO DEATH. ,
Before the fire companies arrived one man,
•
whosename is not known; sprang • from a
third . story window, and was dashed t o
death on the ground below. People turned
their faces away, hotrifiedatthesight. This
was on the Sixth avenue side of the building.
A moment later another man leaped from a
,window on the:401h street side, and was
instantly killed. Shortly afterwards two
women jumped from windows on the 614
avenue side, and were dead when picked up
Their dead bodies were taken to the 30th
street . , station -house, and afterwards
identitiedand removed to the morgue.
A THRILLING ESOA ml•
One f the tthrilling
. o e naos escapes of the
night of terrors was thee of a young man
named J. Noonan of Jersey Oft Noo„„„
had b tl ' ,. r ,I. , —
been recen y marne( , an nad, just
returned 'from an extended wedding trip
with his bride. He came to this city yester-
to celebrate the event with his friends,
and after a night of it was taken to the.
Hotel Royal and put to bed by two
, ' ' -
companions on the fourth floor.. Noonan
was awakened by. the shouts of fire and the
for help of men ' and women in the
building. ' ' For a moment he was 'dazed,
but in an instant he collected his scattered
senses. He looked out in the hall but
la ' • • '
there was no esea e there. He looked out
f the ' - - •
o e window, and no ladder was near him,
so he with' the confidence ot an. athlet
' • • e'
awung himself from the windowsill to the
•
window below, and .from one window to
another he descended until he ' reached the
ground. '
. Th. iinmi -ay.....
'— ---- - -"'''''"'
• • •
At 8 o'clock this morning the Hest dead
waggon arrived from the scene of the heir,.
caust, bringing four bodies. They were
marked by numbers one,. two,' three, four.
Number one was that of a woman, who, in
her terror, had jumped out of a window
and over the heed of a pliant 'fireman who
was on his way iiii a ladder to her rescue.
Her Anil was crlished ia. She was evidently
. • , , h . .
a, handsome woman, tad a magnificent
bust and well preserved features. She was
about 30 years of age, with rieh dark hair
and eyes, tpper teeth filled with gold. She
weighed about 140 pound's. , A bleak knie
under -vest was all the clothing she had with
which to identify her, but she wore On her
. . .
a, heayy gold band ring.
.
Box No. 2 elk, Contained the remains of e
Woman of neatly the same age. She, t0o, had
beet a pretty woman, heavily built and
weighing probably 150 pounds. She had
dark broWil hair, brown eyes and wore only
• ' ' - - '
e cloth,undervest, ' She was doubtless suf.
00EL e . e ou e readily i en ie
t d She Sh . Id b -''d t'
' , ' jewelry . he
by the wort by et, he
A pair Of diamond earrings and wore a
finger ring ext two 'earls and tit
. ... ..,.. . . P , . , i -
arquoues eta sapinures, ana one ring w tit
•
emeralds
. .
INMAN PRE-allealiaENAlatANa.
— . , .
Waiting for a Messiah and indulging ilk
' Ghost Eemeing• ,
A Chicago despatch says: - Capt. 'EliIL
Huggins . aide-de-camp, . to Gen. ltliles,
returned this morning from an extensive
trip to the Indian territory. He was sent
there to investigate and report on the
rumors of ghost dancingamong the Indians
there. ' . • . '
• " l'he Arapahoe, Cheyenne, and Osage
Indians still cling to the belief that the
Messiah will some. day appear to save
them," said Captain Higgins, ". and they
are not at . all disappointed in the
failure of the Messiah to Come among
.them last year. They do 'not pretend
•to know the date of His 'coming. The
former frenzy among them.and their excited
danceshave given way to 'a quiet belief,
which has almost become a religion with
them that whites are to be destroyed and
,
the Messiah will come. There is no excite.
.
ment among the whites who live on land
bordering on the reservations, and nit ex-
citement is at all apparent nor outbreak is
feared." • ' . •
Capt. Huggins witnessed the distribution
of "cattle for food for • the Indians at the
, • , . .
Cheyenne and Arapahoe agencies. An in-
vestigation showed that all the Peer and
• .
worthless cattle were given to' the Indians;
the fatter ones being shipped tothe market°.
HE WAS A BAD HUSBAND.
' •
L Woman Wants Divorce from au Alleged.
•
Scoundrelly Husband.
A despatch from Columbus', 0., says.:
ifinerve Conway petitions for divorce from
themes Conway, to .whom she was married
ht Wichita, Kan., on September 23rd; 1887-
ars. Conway lays her husband made de-
•
iberath attempts to assassmate her, but, '
'Ailing in his purpose, skipped' out for Can-
hda. .• She says that soon' after their mar-
nage he became quarrelsome an
' ' d 'abusive ,
Ind was in the habit of swearing
it her, a,nd habitually made false
aid grease charges against her.
3n September 5th, Legg, at .cincinnati.
while she was asleep' in the bed usually oc-
inpied by, herself and husband, he procured
I rope and passed it around her neck, try-
ng to choke her to death. • The landlady,
tearing the noise, broke open the door, and
wevented him from accomplishing his pur-
;ogee 'She would have been hanged but for
his assistance. Shortly, afterward, on the
he same day, hedtursued her with an open
mile and threatened to kill her. Other
:barges are made ofthe most sensational
She has 'since lived separate from
am. 'Defendant's business hilt ;gate nian-
els,/and he can earn from $4 to $5 per day.
When last heard from he was in • Toronto,
;made.' She asks to be restored to her
oaiden name of Minerva Hite.' ' . •
SIR MORRELL DEAD:
'
•--- '
The Emin
Eminent Throat Surgeon Dies ot a
Bronchial Attack.
A London cable:says : Sir Morrell Mac-
kenzie, the distinguished phyeiCian, whose
:serious illness with bronchitis was announced
a few days ago died to -day. Sir Morrell
Mackenzie was born in Leytonstone, 'Essex,
, .
in 1837; and. Was educated at the London
Hospital Medical College and' in Paris and
.
Vienna. Ile was theauthor of numerous
pu ica ion . on aryngo °glee su jec s, an
t' a I I- ' I b' t d
in particular.of a s•yetematic treatise it two
volumes on "Diseases ' of the Throat -nr
Nose," which is acknowledged to be a
standard work. Dr. Mackenzie was also
the author of monograms on diphtheria and
hay fever and of an artiele on" Specialiste in
Medicine,"_ which. appeared in the "Fort-
nightly. Review" in 1885, anclwhich excited
considerable attention. Dr. Mackenzie was
attendance on Frederick M., German
Enaperor, during the latter's last 'illness
and was knighted in 1887. He published in;
1888 "The .fi'aital Illness- of Frederiak the
Noble." At theclose of . that year he re.
signed his connection with the College of
Physicians. In 1889 he contributed' to the
'"Cotitemporory Review" some eseays en-
titled "The Voice in Singing and Speaking."
CHEATED THE GALLOWS Al
•
.....-
The •Breekvillte Mnrderer, Fil
Cuts Ills Throat in Ms' Cel
and Will Die.
- ,.
Fitzsimmons, alias Ambtose Cl.
several other taiiies, who was ex
Tuesday, charged with murder a
Pittsburg; Pa., cut his throat .,
' ' " ' ' ' '
knife at 11 o clock this morning
the Pariah prison. He will die.
mons left a long letter, in which
I have pursued .crtme with it
sequences; my liberty is again ji
and as liberty or death is param
mind, I prefer the latter to hut
disgrace, slow death and dragg:
in the mire the good name of .hot
respected relatives.
"My Wife, Lucy RelaeOca. Fi
was improperly convicted at
County Court House' of mai
seconddegree, through the testi
Perjured . detective •and a preju
and judge, and is still in imp
Knowing that I am about to 1
•
into. eternity 1 solemnly swear :
innocent•'' • .
t z =mons after writing e
' F't s'th
morning jumped into bed and
blanket. over his head and appeal
t ' 1 Hall h
0 s eep.an ourlater c
attendants in the jail heard hit
and ongoing to the bed found Fi
had slashed his throat three ti
under the blanket and was weak
loss 0blood.
1 f *
,
THE LOTTERY GIVES VP.
-- • •
The Louisiana Swindle. WM 'Accept No
More Charters.
A N 0 1 d h' •
New r eats espatc says: Mr.
John A. Morris, of the Louisiana Lottery
• Company, has addressed • a . letter to the
people of Loin:drum in which,. after sub-
mittingthareasons which led the . lottery
company to seek a renewal Of its charter, hs
says.: ' ' As the Supreme Court of the
United States has decided the 'Anti -tottery
Postal law to be 'constitutional, it is my
purpose and that of my -associates to respect
that law and abstain from yiolating it in
anymanner. ..Convineed that the granting
of another lottery charter in the State would
the cause of continued :agitation and
.
discontent • upon the part. of a number of
citizens of Lousiana for the entire period for
t
which a charter might be granted, we would
be unwilling to accept such a charter, even
thengb. it was given thus with_out the pay-
inent of one dollar of license tax.'3
ON THE WAY TO LONDON.
—. .
pureons ' BemainS Removed from Men-
'g
' • tone—Tho Services.
A London cable says : The 'coffin contain-
ag the remains of Rev. Mr. Spurgeon has
Den taken to the Scotch Church. in Men-
one, and to -day impressive services were
.eld over the body. The church. was decor-
ted with palm branches and ..a few floral
rreatha. A kerge.zumber of tharelatives,
riends and admirers of ' the deceased were
resent, ' 'and , the church was notlarge
nongh ;for. all those desirous ofga---la ing
dnussion. • The. services commenced at 10
'dock. After the delivery of the addresses
ad the 'offering of prayers, a telegram of
ondolenee from the Ti.ince of Wales and a
'visage from Mr. Moody; the American
vangelist, quoting the 25th and 261h verses
I the Ilth chapter of Sr. John, were read.
Epon the conclusion ' of the service s the
elf= was conveyed to a hearse beautifully
:worsted with flowers and taken to the
tilway station for conveyance to London.
he hearse was followed. by a number of
wriages containing the mourners and b Y
Lute a, number of persons on foot
,cries
, 'day
A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.
..
A Murderous Wife Slashes a
Iler H Shand
Withit Razor*.
.
- A Milan, Tenn., despatch says: A: hOr-
rible tragedy occurred in Carroll county on
Friday night. Charles, Travis and his wife
have been living •anhappily for some time.
A few days ago the wife • pushed one of the
children into the fireplace, burning it badly.
In le' the husband kicked h'
is anger eis wife
t
ou of doors. She swore to kill him,' and On
Friday night, while her husband was asleep,
Mrs. Travis procured a razor and slashed
his face' and tht - d
oat in a dozen laces.
Travisgrappled with h' 'f d P
Is wi e an aecured
' - '
the razor. He was so weakened by loss of
blood,. however, that he died before hel •
arrived. When the neighbors reacherl.
the home Mts. 'Travis WWI found covered
with blood and in • the , act of . shooting
herself with a revolver, •It is believed she
Was insane through brooding over domestic
troubles.'
ACCIDENTAL SHOOTI,Nt
MILITARY Pl.
—
Boys at Play Knock Down At 4
Fatal Results.
•
. A Teterboro' despatch says
Renton, the 7-year•old son of Mrs
widow of the late'W'll' R
le 1 lam es
instantly killed yesterday morn
•
acmdental discharge. of a gun. M.:
and her two sons, aged 11 and '2
spectively, lived at Antrim. 7
morning the two boys were plaid:
a rot= in the corner of which ate,
gun, whith the elder of theboys hi
with a heavy charge of peas to gia
to a dog 'which had been
household. In their ploy 0
knocked' the gun down, and
hamnier struck a lounge and tl
The entire charge of pc
Alexander, who was sitting
. t . a
the floor, in tee lower nett of
in the neck. The jugular i
The boy died almost i
-day the employees of Antrim
raked $72 and gave it to t
mothet, • with is in poor
Milan. Soldiers Wreck Newspaper Offices
Because of Aneged Insults..
A -Santiago despatch says : The offices of
te Democracy at Santiago and the Qppost%
on at Valparaiso have been cleaned out
base two papers are regarded as unfriendly
) the presett • Government. The former
se attecked by a mob and short work was
lade of the office. In the caseof the letter
. .
i as claimed that Some military officers who
ere passing the office were insulted fx•orn
ie windows, atd then assaulted with iron
ars and pistol shots. They broke into the
Efice, smashed the furniture, pied the typo
i the forms, and otherwise wrecked the
_
Sect Both papers, as well as Mlle La JCS-
atgica, whose office Was eleaned out on
neaday, issued emelt fly -sheets, protesting
, ,., . . , . _
gamst the actionof the mobs as a violation
E the liberty of the press. ,
THE SCAFFOLD FELL,
' ,
........... ..
And Two Men were Killed Outright and
Six Kurt. • . .
' . '
A Birmingham, Ala , despatch says: 'A
horrible accident mum. ed at the Sloss. fur-
'Lade this afternoon, two men being killed
outright and six injured. ' A hot blast stov e
was erected, .and the men were work-
being'
ing on a scaffold in the interior of the wallet
8 feet from the ground. Suddenly the
Scaffolding gem way, and the men wieh all
the!r implements and it forge fell to the
groutd in an indescribable mass. Two men
Were killed end six injured, All the men
except one are setiou ly hurt, and some �f s
thetri may, die. The exceseive weight of the
portable forge and th k f . fd
. ree kegs o rive
caused the aecident . •
. Harris Sentenced to Death.,
, ..._,, . ,.
A New York despatch says: Carlyle W.
Harris„ the medical student who was con-
victed last Tuesday of murdering his young
Wife by morphine poisoning, was to -day
senteneed to death by Recorder Smyth iit
the (joint of General Sesaions. His counsel
gave notice a appeal.,
And the World Moves Agatri,
.A. Berl= cable seys : The Peincees Fred-
rick Leopold a Prussia, havitig declared
,
sr desire JO rear her infant Without the aid
the bottle, the Emperor has paused amid
Ave duties of , State to announce his formal
antent to this important domestic arrange-
MA, which involves the renunciation by
at Princess of all Court festivities for the
!eitent year. . '
- , . .
A Ruillan's Narrow Escape.
A Memphis - Term despatch says •
Four days ago Allen Hines assaulted Rose
Egan, the daughter of Frank Es .`an, and
ran away. He was brought to Memphie
yesterday morning; and the little girl and
her father visited Chief Daheadquarters
to identify trine& , As; soon as the ohm
recognized Itiners ahe drew a pistol from
tinder her apron and quickly handed it to
herf tit1 'II d th ' ' t
a er, who eve e . e weapon a
Hume and was in the Act f h t.
• t - ° ° °° 'xig when
the clitef made a grab for the revolver, He.
then had A hard strUggle with the fethe'
d d h b f . A
an wig ter e ore he Soule. piecure the(
symPPa*
,finAer
4' ...ay;" Said an et-eteloon-keeper as he
gvie'
leaned over' the her of. a more fortunate
„ . , . ...
Purveyor of drinks, "1 cat tell you how
You can 0011 more whiskey if you want to,
know." "01 courte I would," teplied the '
,. , •
other,. "How can ft he done 2" "Put lege
, $0 the f
Water pi, was e reply. .
. . .. fled
' Melons say that an average m
Staid . an or
ei had
154 pourielti Weight has mieugh iron in me ea
euarnoiid
bonatitution be mai= o plowshare, and 4..
hall 1.1` v
etiOtigh phoaphOrne to Make , h mi ion
.„..eay,„,.. • , - three
.
They probably cell the &a bre
it beats the beaks.
I heard a, " Missionary " (that is.
matt) Once day that he would. n
road for a fitin that didn't adve
' • - - ' ' ' '
took tho much valuable time to
A Is '.• t•
every euppotea 'Ayer who eat we
- ' ' -
ewe from and What the meri
Were. He said, moreov er,
• ti
hail ell th' ' ,. t, .
IS informs ion befor
received him eordially, e
kik,- —a k......1 .1.
A dam for irrigation purposea is being
tided at the head of the Chowchillie
high , .
Ivor; Col. It will be 110 feet and
0 feet long on top. Whet completed the'
servoir win. over 1,200 4001 tied bit-
ih water enough to irrigate over 40,600
mho
Tndis, lotto, 10024 who le drawing a pen.
1018 ana la *1* 1115 lb2fld year,
Box No. 3 Was that of a matt 5 ft..6 in.
ound ( ody No. 11) near the Sixth tweet=
on Hi by'
The hair on
o identificee
n't &mon*,
r, extracted
e or friend
dentify the
woman was
awe to the
y No. 12."
Ind nothing
t °mild be
aborers em.
d the „foot
der a piano.
as stopped
city, who la
08, ie in it
ey House.
d from the
or other
well. This
the ruins a
ordaining a
d Railway,
May, a pazr
e clothing,
mill0 of May
t is thought
who regis-
fied as that
e made to-
hiladelphia,
ass., who
1 on Satur-
one of the
. No more
'clock this
the most
e moat war-
n, a travel-
wholosale
t the hotel
wife. "
' said Mr.
Itt my sleep
the sound
from one of
. I opened'
e stairway
in a blaze.,
ke, and as
s the door
e knowing
et way. I
ened it and
oke on the
ay, for the
that dire°.
d have suf.
taken two
ter. These
f our lungs
hs and nos -
a near our
d 1 thought
got out of
a death to
either that
my wife;
u and then
etter to dia
and mei al -
my pillow-,
y this Ulna
rough thee
the door..
y wife thet
went dowry
ing stopped
jumped out .
h. A rope -
and with
t down an -
ed to the
ed her up,
d, as I was
ai•ed me'I '
and try to
n two fire-
eachecl the.
TER AIL
reimmens,
In Now
Dada ani
rested here'
nd theft in'
ith a pen- ,
n a cell at
'Mesita -
he says :
fatal eon-
opardized,,,
ant in ms,
risonment,..
.ng further
orable satE
ESIMMOnily
Allegheny:
er in the
mony of h
iced jury
risonmente
url myself
y wife is,
letter Ulla:A
threw a,
ntly event,
no of the.,
groaning ;
tzsimmons ;
mos while
from the.
tin Vflik
:
Renton,.
ton, was
ng by the
%Route's.
years re-
esterclay"
g aroundl
d a shot
-
d loaded
a •warm
troubling
6 of the
in falling
e weapon,
as
struokz
clogs by
the jaw
ein wag,
nstantly.
woollen
he pros. .
circura-
eheroun
travel.
ot go op
aims for
s, where
s of his
at if the
ehand he
am glad
o or
sotne