A TERRIBLE HOTEL FIRE Possible Loss of Thirty Lives—-Seven Persons Known to be Dead and 41 Five Dying---Seventeen Dangerously Ins Jured, March 18, Hotel, at ie streets, Borraio, N. YX., splendid new Richmor corver of Main and E totally destroye« ing. together with St, James Hall and other adjacent property. The most dis tressing part of the disaster is the loss of several human lives, " iL ae the 1d ag the windows, Others got down the {ire es by the fire department. The shrieks and cries of the poor people in upper stories of the burning structure were heartrending. One man, mad with itil window, ax and was picked up from the stone sidewalk on Main street a man- gled and bleeding corpse. Several who succeeded in making their escape were badly injured and burned, and some of these will probably die, There were 125 persons in the hotel, of whom were {rapsient guests, 8 boarders and the remainder porters, bell boys, the families of the proprietors and clerks, Twenty-two of these rescued from the windows by the nen, are at the hospitals an large imber made their yLher means. The ori JIOWIL 50 were fire- 1 a by 9 “- 3 n escape gin of 108 William H. Alport, t rays: e lire starts the fire is d in cloak room, ‘Th 1 rwav.at 3.500" under the main sta There was nobody up but myself @ n porter, and Plummer, wil-boy. 1 pulled all four of t $1} i fF ’ the different fl . Jo 3 the ie re + 1 alarms on people came flyir night clothes, elevator, and inside of five mi reached the top floor. 1 rushe doors after doing all I could.” Bell-boy Plummer tells his es as follows: “I was dusting when I heard a flames coming up ti basement. Mr, Alp on the hose, under the main we straightened the | turned the valve, but not run. Then we The watchman and I broke in the Eagle the hotel. Then we got t the fire-escape on Ia helped people down The spread of the fl have frightful in their rapidity. The elevator shaft served as a flue for flames, they rushed up it te floor rery few minutes. As 1s¢d and =aw the in they turned t I'hey could be seen or = I i he fire folloy 16 sia stairway, and he water would gave alarm, t a plank and to 0s ut { the d go street entrance ho yl + be ndar he plank under street, and we gle mes is said to been irs itt ana it off t 0 the their and ind of The flames f the hotel fi house, an ng experiences Mann was the head, arms daughter, Jenn The last from burning bui female servants, who from the southern end of by the firemen. Louis New York, a dry hri \# LT ter was burned. person taken ding were were 1 the fifth floo Ze=ndman_ of goods man, had a thrilling experience. His room was on tie fourth flcor. Crawling out of the window, he made his way to Bunnell’s Museum and gained entrance through a window near the stage. Alfred GG. Clay, of Philadelphia, and Louis’ E Smith, of Brooklyn were in adjoining rooms on the fifth floor, and both tell about the same story. They reached the roof of Bunneil's Museum and thus saved their lives They had bare. ly reached Bunnell’s Musenm room, when, on looking back, they saw five girls in a fifth-story window. They bad tied the bed clothing into a rope, which they hung out, but none of them seem to have Lhe courage to start, At last one of the five took hold and swung down to a window ledge, from which she was assisted by Messrs, Clay anl Smith, Three others came down in the same manner, and then the fifth started down. She had gone but a short distance when the rope parted, and down she went four stories Strange to say, she was not killed. Her i the ] back badly injured, and ber face and burns. at the Spencer House begging to be sent home. In front of Dingen ros. store lay a dead man covered by a mat. tress. He had black hair and a full face, which was covered with and could not be recognized. it was thought be was Euperintendent road, but Morford was afterward found. Mark Osborne, day clerk and assist ant manager of the hotel, is missing. He #'ept on the south side, It Is be- lleved he perished, H. M. Johnson, the celebrated sprin- ter, of Pittsburg, says: ‘‘I arrived at room 120, at the Richmond Hotel, 3.90 o'clock this morning the beil boy pounded upon my door. found my room full of smoke. Iressed quickly and rushed out the hallway, and, Oh, my God! what a sight, perfectly wild, and did not know which way to go. Women raved like maniacs, | me room on the third Mr. a young girl from a McGuire said: “It break it in. Finally I was driven away could only Suppose she was a young girl, anywhere from 10 to 15 years old. She was in a room on the third oor ng on Maine street,” ' travelling agent for He was awakened by i and, after arousing several people on the same floor, jumped through a window to the kitchen roof. There evervthing was in flames, After bidding good-bye to several others the same roof he made a rush for Eagle street door, going through the Kitchen skylight and out through red, He left five per the Kitchen roof, and thinks they must all have perished, as they did not attempt to follow him through the flames, Mr. Stafford, pr telis the follow SOU8 on yprietor of the hotel, I story: "as and we dropped fraim building. down to the roof of the My wife wanted to go through the hall, but I locked the door and put the Key into my pocket, Then I jumped and she sprang into my We were awakened by the bells, and if they had not been on promptly there would have been a terrible loss or life. The bells awak ed everybody in the house, the loss of mates 1 have bly not more ti electric turned less than some esti There are proba- persons dead. the Fire number of $ Depart. I't DeODI pi ies were Bin y and elevator wa! We upward on S50 muc the hose, itreams WAS calls for help we called of hose Od S and let giving all seell 1 Ye ted, man the lads up {two on fers on t the main street ' ’ 1 Eagle street. Vem, It was w 4% Lud LO i a horrible 8 ing from every side, Ones were resc wouldn't wait. Henry B. Rumsey was He ran down on stairs and started for the Seeing a iitlle girl the hallway returned, got her an ' in his arms on The ski burned {to see the people 1 all rig} f(T De JUtng e Cool it, but headed on 858. 0rY. he off, and he about the body. F. Michaels, a « had a thrilling } ry vier | PAL US climbing 1 electric al Museu m. Th iow and A\Myirehye Murphy. his b MALCE On neck, holding could regain slid down the 3 0 lad the groun As are Mis i eT servant; ¥ ilson Dunn & Co ; Mar hi ¥ LAL 1 ii, ¢ teh i I" 43 can follows das vant us { MOON, « ell, Kk at the Johuson, a onto railway man; Kate Wolf, of Lock- port, servant, The dying are: Jacob New York; Henry B. York; Maggie Mulrach, Nolan, Buffalo, and Newburg. Those who were dangerously burned | or injured are as follows: i, H. Finch, Scranton: F. K. Moore, Cleveland: W. A. Haren, Helens, Montgomery, C. W, Dubois, Syracuse; W. J, Mann, Buffalo; Mrs. Mann, Buffalo; Jennie | Mann, Buffalo; Mills Barse, Olean: | Mat Shannon, Buffalo; Charles Clinton Bidwell, Baffalo; Minnie Weller, Buf. falo; Mrs, Kate Pierce, Duffalo; Nellie Welch, Buffalo; Nette Harvey, Buf- falo; Perry Davis, New Yo:k, George and YW. J. Kahn, of Rumsey, New Juffalo; Mary Edward Whelan, Mackay, Niagara Falls, A servant girk named Walsh lieved also to be among the dead. walls of the burned menace to life and until they are razed and the ruins eooled, no search bodies can be made, 15 be- The The total loss by the fire will be $400,000, FFALO, N., Y., March 10th. A recapitulation of the joss and probable loss of life by the shows four deaths, four missing (who are doubtless dead), one dying, and 11 i who may be among the dead, the fre remains the same, and and in every direction. was aimost suffocating, I cannot re- member anything about how I got out, I think I came down the stairway.” James McGuire, night engineer at the Post office, got into the hotel soon after the fire broke out, He saved a man who was coming down stairs in his night clothes, and who was prostrated by the flames und smoke, After getting | i } ! for his life, Mary Welsh, servant, last seen by her was all, Minnie Kelly, servant last seen by her companions, who escaped across a plank to toe museum, . Katie Kent, another servant, whom no accounts are given. Burraro, March 20, —Workmen to- day began a search of the ruins of the Richmond Hotel, but it was slowly prosecuted, owing to the dangerous condition ot the walls having greatly of po a ens Atta es NO i —————— increased since yesterday, | were recoved to day. Jennie Mann, the little one of the hotel proprietors, in th resculng of whom H. B. Rumsey, of New York, sustained ipjuries that j caused his death, died this evening. Annie Nolan and Mary Murach, ser- vants, are expected to the | Sisters’ Hospital to-night, ftdward | Whalen, of Newburg, N. Y., it is now | feared, cannot recover, # dis at { vant, had died is untrue, bul she i¢ in # ¢ritical condition. The death Dist remain with the exception of the Jennie Mann. the ud lition of + — a — STATE LEGISLATURE. SENATE In the Senate, on the 16th, bills were finally passed as follows: Authorizing Courts of Common ’leas to decree the sale of real estate held for poor pur- poses and the reinvestment of the pro- authorizing the commis- counties of the discharge from fined in jail with insolvent t ores rd £3 4 orwgagi ceeds thereof; sioners of the several Commonwealth to prison all persons con out proceedings und | laws; providing for the m leaseholds and the preservation Senate bill 159, a 3 the same, tion proposing an a ins 3 11.85% vied 3 ing the poli-tax and re re abolish ery i menamen i fucing 1.81le residence ol na, and evs fn the sn UPON Wie 8 vesse] urkish pirates was w North ( IAL recked . 3 $ v COUNTY, Arciin Immarau- inio sirooat ian 1) suggestion the Le f $ followed] : er as avenging ivilizat the last and safest refuge of the mountains was reached, There proof of this migration that I cover, but the presence of these Pirates on the coast and the vestiges of a Turkish infusion in the mountains are facts too near together net t 3 Avi or, dying y he in i approached, until ion no to be con nectea by the plain suggestion of flight and refuge, -- lor), we know what we are, but we know not what we may be, Money and time are the heaviest It is true in matter of estate, as of which is the is such ss 2 wv " content with As the sun does not wail for prayers and incantations that he may rise, but 80 neither walt thou for applause, and shouts, and eulogies, that thou do well; but be a spontaneous bene- 1 | the sun. The memory should not be like a We and they are bad enough, for they re- tain what onght to be lost, and they lose what they should retain. und greatness of soul in being equal to it. So, the wise beads of the house- hold will not sit down with just their actions accordingly, | thing, 80 soon 4s we reach that point | whence we can look out upon it through | a clear conscience, and a character well { buffeted by experience. The one dif. fuses a pure heavenly light over all the strange and complex mass which meets the eye; the other tones down our en- thusaism without destroying I's vigor, C—O RR UT NEWS OFTHE WEEK | I'he Comptroller of the Currency on | he 16th authorized t People’s Na- ional Bank, of Lancaster, Pennsyly iia, to begin busine #200, 000, he Paxton, a veteran of the Zz of receiving n Lancas- on the 1644. } 1388 William Mexican war, ‘‘despairh hanged | South Carolina, In April, Dr. Mare Bond came the husband of Miss Jennie Hill, in Aurora, Indiana, Ie |! OW brought suit to set aside Lhe marriage ceremony on the ground of dur tle that Miss [ill accuse and that father manded that li INArLY take death. Ile chose marriage, lived with his wife a pension,’ 1 i ‘ 2 “ » ’ HAS it alleges o i } i $ tie. id consequences, $101 the whicl in Excitement continu Christian county, Missouri, over recent as f Charles and William Eden by **Bald Knobbers, Thirteen in have rested, oi Robert ¥ “® the sassination o Green been ar- murder ning while wagon evenin , farmers, were ‘TOR Neal of the 1 sing Lhe raliro: a confi maomelr let wit 1 smashing dows and kiilis wounde OTe aged 16 jeath by three Was Cole years, smaller ored bovs in Charleston, South Carolina, on the 17th. —A boiler in the saw mill of Ramer, near Alloona, burst 17th, wrecking the mill and ously injuring its propr.etor. — A tornado swept through Tampa, Florida, on the evening of the 17th, several houses, Two children were killed and several per- sons were Injured, one fatally. Joseph the danger- on ~Two slight earthquakes were felt at Charleston and Summerfield, in South Carolina, at 9 o'clock on the morning of the 17th. The tremor was sharper in Summerfield than in harleston, but no damage was done, Two shocks of earthquake were felt on the 17th at Quemados, on the Island of Cuba. ~By an explosion of gas in the Conyngham wine, at Wilkesbarre, on two of them William Bloom and Stephen Walter E. Lawton, dealer in phos- phates, and a director of the Delta Azotin Company, disappeared from New York on the afternoon of the 15th. It is said that before going he collected large sums of money. and his lalnlities are estimated at nearly $1,000,000, ~A bull fight was announced at San Rafael, Mexico, on the 16th, and fifty thousand people (according to the re- port) crowded to see it, each perzon ing room. *‘The bulls refused to ght, and, finally, the spectators burst into | attack upon the bulls and the fighters with chairs and other convenient mis. siles. The troops were called upon to were compelled to charge the crowd with drawn sabres before the maddened upon the bull fighters,” Many persons were wounded, and many arrests were made, «During services in the Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity, in Chicago, on the 17th, the wooden steps in front of the church were crowded with persons unable to get in. The platform suddenly gave way, and about | # two hundred men, women and children her husband and bis wife by poisoning were precipitated ten feet to the ground | 80 as to be able to marry. below Twenty-three persons were iujored, two dangerously, iit Two engines ran into ea a rallroad curve at Toledo, the 19th, and one of them pletely wrecked. Four tra a boy were injured, Ul T Utne | evell- | -An earthquake was felt at lle, South Carolina, on the the 18] 0’¢le 16 boy fal ’ th in Baess hilo, bur eon the 18th, the follow. | killing two persons. An , the Stapdard Coal Pleasant, Penna,, or lew the covering off the moult “tule ot 14 shaft and dangerously if two men amed and McGlone, A explo works of the Unit Oil Cot Baltimore, on the same in the killing of Jacob Hoffman ward Ilollison was fatally inju: Peter Conners and Christol were dar injured is boiler i ler ~ 4 n yert, Bl In the Hou ex ils were repos i i of HOXious mals , street, | injured no ground, market n commons, and providing for tatement of the nul ioned by such deposit, and the punish- ! for violation of that act. Also, to establish a State Board Medical Ex- aminers and Licensers. Hayward, a gambler, was Henry Wil 01 A JALCE OCC day, ' Yrssass b £16101 Sra T IRETOURLY ot —— FOOD FOR THOUGH Hobert it dead by ami { Lams, anolher ler, at Port Worth, Texas, on 17th, Hayward won largely aro, and a quarrel arose from his re- end to Williams, Cox, a ttage passenger, A at While impor. m por ’ i i at al Woalever Lhe mayest not sel , pray high a val i noney $1 A - Speak little, would be merit. Men's Ways more Beak 11% 3 4 A 33 Dy Crediton 00K ea pon was I whereupon fe. One of Years OWI. We ought speak tl and a km it t Cre * . mmsurance, $30,000, wd Roger was fatally injured the wil few and of two u i will come soon the hot-air flue the Isabella Furnace at Pittsburg on # morning of the 18th. They had evidently crawled into the flue the night before and been suffocated by the coke as, The bodies were wel nknown tramps of gi0OT 180 in e Happiness consists not in p much, but in being content will we possess. He who wants always enough, If we waited until it was convenient, half the good acti life would not be accomplished, very few of ils successes, There have ever been, and ever wi be, thorns among life's roses, diacords to mar the sweetness of its music, but we need not magnify them, £3 Ld or » ber eet —Two weeks ago, Walter Il 'dgeley, a wealthy farmer living near Tex- arkana, Arkansas, shot and killed two ferrymen, who were (rying force exorbitant charges out of a St. i.ous drummer for putting him across the river, Rudgeley took the drummer's part. The ferrymen insulted him for this and attempted to draw their weapons, when Ridgeley shot them both dead. Upon examination Ridgeley was dis- charged, In revenge, a brother of one of the men killed, uncle to Usad aright, they will give zest and vigor to life, and the roses and music will no less beautiful because of them, In books lies the soul of (ue whole past time, the articulzie, audible voice of the past, when the bodyand materia substance has altogether vanished like a dream, that mankind as thought, done, gained or been is ying | as in magic preservation, in the pages of books, Fag and an of the other, attempted to assassinate Ridgeley as he was returning home on the evening of the 18th, and shot his horse from under him. He fell and they approached, when he shot both of them dead. By the fall ¢f an elevator in North | & Co's shop at New Haven, on the 10th, two men were injured, one dang- | erously. 1 1 THE PROVISIONS Bee! city fam bi. MARKETS, e 81 Ft 1 253 D. N. Bush, Army Paymaster, was robbed of §760u at Antelope Springs, Wyoming, a few days ago. It appears | Prime Mesa, new, Sides smoked oa Shoulders spoked domssit, on. Smoked Beef. .... lard Western bis Lard Joose., ..... FLOU Roe West, and Pa. sup. Pa. Family... Minn UMar, ccoouee Pat. Wat Wat Rye Flour. . GRAIN Wheat No. 1 red... McKinney to pay off the troops there, | and stopped at Antelope Springs to eat Ins dinner, leaving his valise con- stood a few steps from the building and in plain view of the Major and his es- cort, As they sat at the table, during | chen EmaEan BREE RRR ¥ Ours, No, 2 White... Na 3 a An Oat, No. I WHE. covnnens NO, BAO aus sornne | Na, § Mixed, He was pursued, but escaped. | prem. He is known to be a cowboy named | Macgerel, Large I8eurcses Parker, No. 2 § Faerna |. Herring, lab....ooo0. —At Nefllsvile, Wisconsin, on the | * mane... oe on 10th, in Die CASO 8 Dia fillan, deanalated. 1s. charged with the murder of Henry E A Aa saan 3 Wright, the jury returned a verdict ot BAY ARU STRAY. Cerise gullly without specifying the degree, MiXBA. cooesviases versessuese 1} 00 It is bolloved that NO SeNLEnCE CAD DO | Jive Siraweresersssess re ooo sild 50 pronounced on such a verdict, Allen | Wh was convicted on the testimony of Mrs, Wight, who confessed that the pris. oner and herself had conspired to kill when the stage came, ran to the vehi. | cle, seized the valise, jumped on a horse | eet aRE En OE 5: 8 19 «is asssnssn B00. HS wreanes BIBIOE 6 wanes B 1BT6ED canans BiB A ow i“ WOOL Mich ANG BOGOR. oon sovessvpreris BREAN EEERES SERRE Common, unwashed Ala My ah BE
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