| Show TERRIBLE HOLOCAUST TEN PERSONS PERISH IN THE FLAMES OP A MINNESOTA FIRE lie death roll from the cold over one thousand i A I 1 minneapolis jan 19 A special from tower ninety miles north offu luth says that the boarding house and saloon of nelson baraby burned last night many of the inmate jumped from the upper stories and ten perished in the flames two other boarding houses were burned but the mercury was 66 below and absolutely nothing could be done to extinguish the flames st paul jan 21 A tower minnesota special to the pioneer press gives some additional details of the boardinghouse boarding house holocaust there last night the village bucket brigade while worling with a will was able to do little toward subduing tho flavies or rescuing the inmates the lodgers fought desperately in the narrow hall and stairway but becoming bewildered could not get out A young girl who was ill escaped uninjured of thirty people in the house it is thought nine or ten perished the search for the bodies is progressing slowly amid the still smoking sn oking ruins of those who lumped broin the windows Whiteford was so badly injured that hu died a few hours after five bodies have been taken from the ruins so far though badly disfigured four of them are believed to be those of WH Bumes day trump and alex brandt of the men taken from the ruins two were found lying together in one comer of the building in a way that indicated that they had suffocated in bed others are thought to have been caught on the stairs leading from the third floor in their efforts to escape the stairway was a very narrow one and the men probably rushed together and became so involved in the struggle that none got out some of thi men who escaped from the third story saw there were eight or ten men behind them in the hallway the extreme cold at the time the thermometer indicating 40 below made the suffering to those very great od also made it almost impossible to do effective work in suppressing the flames the fire started in the lower story of the boarding house and quickly enveloped the entire structure which was but a light frame building the bodies of all the men taken out are burned to an unrecognizable mass only tho trunks remaining whitford resided in this city and was a well known explorer he was the original proprietor of the lower townsite the other men taken out were woodsman woodsmen woods men but whereas abe ottawa jan 20 the captain of the government steamer newfield lias forwarded to the marine department the following letter picked up near sable island last week NEW nov dear parents 1 come to bid yon farewell forever I 1 will soon be in another world not alone however for we are passengers in terrible di only half an boor to live and then fare woL do take courage and think no more of me at the bottom of the letter is ap latently larent ly a signature which read L ainther Lin ther nicholas the marine department is making inquiries respecting the matter corn iea secour trial springfield mb jan 20 in the second trial of cora lee for complicity in the sarah graham murder today charley grsham testified re barding what ho paw between cora ee and graham abc elgin illinois at washington kansas graham was manager of a paper known as the morning and day of and cora worked in the office bis mother sarah graham managed the household he had seen graham and cora in bed together after sarah had gone domni stairs in the morning saw mrs malloy in bed with graham twice saw all three in bed together at the malloy farm witness then told at some length about going to springfield and mentioned mat cora asked if his mother had come with him when the body was found cora went to the well but did nofa want the children to go he saw cora and etta malloy burning letters written by cora to graham on cross examination witness said when he and eoy were going to the malloy farm graham lold them they must say they saw their mother in st thouis he also told ibm she wis really in pierce that he owned half the malloy farm and that as soon as he could he would own it all he would send for her and send for cora and mrs malloy he also told witness of meeting sarah in springfield when asked why the latter and roy were not taken to seo her said he dik not know he was going to be there other witnesses testified as to actions of cora before and after the murder with minneapolis gaiu 20 A browns valley dmn special says wo have been blockaded for three weeks unless a train comes in with fuel within two days there will be serious suffering here and all about there is no wood or coal in the market there is more suffering as yd in the country than in town tiie ilois ol 01 ftfe st paul jan 20 an evening paper figures the loss of life in the fast weeks blizzard abc A dozen new cases are reported from dormil alion dakota over thirty persons were frozen to death in rjake county and the local authorities are suppressing news this rumor clacks confirmation fir i A janesville neaville Ja wis jan 20 the boiler in george kastner gos grain elevator exploded this morning killing mr kastner and a anon man named kennedy and james brackner the building took fire and at last accounts there was danger of argeneral are conflagration as the water supply was giving out the flames were working towards abe tobacco warehouse and north depot v menn intone int lne 20 A large number and iron policemen are and itis regarded abin indication that the company is bag bmg i ima the working 0 af pf i colliers by massing protection for men the denillo chicago Ghi cago jan 21 A nebraska city special caysi judge kenney agent of the banmon sioux indian reservation arrived here yesterday it took him five days to go thirty miles the thermometer being 40 degrees below most of the time coal on the train ran low the passengers all crowded into one car the men discarded their outer garments and wrapped the women and children up in them two babies perished the judge says the loss of life in dakota is underestimated as the newspapers have tried to cover it up while at a station in county nine frozen bodies were brought into the depot in ono day the loss in the whole country will reach and estimates in yankton yesterday of loss of life throughout the territory figure up over 1000 lives coads from the agency to yankton were lined with dead cattle many farmers losing all they had although a large number of indiana were out hunting during ahe storm none are missing hopta prototype hudson IL Y jan 21 judg edwards today to day re sentenced oscar P Bec kevitt the murderer to be hanged on thursday march ast 1st between the hours of 1 p m and 2 p m the prisoner received his sixth death sentence with the same defiance that he has the five previous and launched into an excited tirade against the courts lawyers and jurors and continued his harangue until checked by the courts in being taken back to his cell he kept up a running invective against everybody any connection with the case cut their san francisco jan 21 tuscon date A star special from san carlos says an apache indian who had been put in the guard house for getting intoxicated asked to see his wife and child when they were taken to him he cut their throats put them in bed set it on fire and rushed for the sergeant of tny guard with a dub and knife but was riddled with bullets and killed newspaper man killed norwich coun jan 21 the jury in the case of aperry for killing whittlesey this morning returned a verdict of murder in the second degree the murder grew out of perrys eccentricities he belf obnoxious to his neighbors and when remonstrated with covered his house wih humorous placards defying the neighbors and ae whole tp the new dag picked it up and published an expose of perry and his habits under the hed of A dogs perry visited the office of the day and deliberately shot whittlesey the business manager whom he held responsible for the article |
