St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 19, 1895

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om - 2 3 (a AS eee — ss » . go — r N 1 * Nn : - r hoy „ eee * ‘ 1 4 * as 82 >. N A 7" -— ae “iy n W 2 1 > * * * . i * Pe . 7 2 4 - rg “ » 7 ~ 1 . — . . * — * * * * 7 rr a 7 i 8 3 4 oo. 7 ** +4, 5 * 7 nr Je wa e ' * 1 — N 1 2 xg . ‘ 1 * 8 * * ae ae > Frightful Accident to A. O. Sher-| wood at the Jockey Olub. HE LIVED BUT TWO: HOURS. While Visiting With C. C. Maffitt He Tumbled Over the Banisters to the Lower Floor. A frightful accident, resulting in the death of Alex C. Sherwood,“ member of the Demo- cratic State Central Committee, happened at the Fair Grounds Jockey Club at 10:45 o'clock Sunday night. While coming dewn the central stairway he lost his balance and plunged over the low banister from the ‘third’ story ‘to the hard maple floor 30 feet below. He was unconscious when picked up and died two hours later at St. John’s Hospital. How the accident occurred will never be definitely known. Mr. C. C. Maffitt, Chair- man of the State Central Committee and President of the Jockey Club, was with him at the time. They had started down- stairs intending to drive to the Southern Hotel, where Mr. Sherwood was stopping. Mr. Maffitt was slightly in the lead and had reached the second landing when he heard his companion scream, and, turning around, saw him 3 Sage mang through the narrow opening to the first floor. It all occurred so quickly that Mr. Mat- fitt did not realize what had happened un- til it Was over, “When Alex screamed,“ said Mr. Maf- fitt to a Post-Dispatch reporter, “I turned around and instinctively started back up the stairway. I. saw him grab frantically at the railing two or three times, but he had toppled over and it was beyond his reach. 7 think I only took one or two steps when I realized that he was beyond my assistance. His body shot downward like an arrow and in a twinkling struck the hard floor with a sickening noise I shall never forget. “He struck on his back and rolled over r on his side. I heard him groan as was runni down, the stairs to where he lay. Some of the rvants reached him at the same time I did, but he was uncon- scious and for a time I thought he was dead. Dr. Brokaw was at once telephoned for and f partners, | wenty mi ay s left arm was bedly fractured places and his right shoulder was crushed. He had also received internal in- juries which the physicians knew must nec- ly prove fatal. “They telephcned for an ambulance from St. John's ospital and at midnight the dying man was taken from the club-house. In e meantime I had sent my buggy to Vandeventer place for ex-Gov. Francis, who up with his father-in-law, Mr. ty ö * ' found A in two een CR ew oh N * an * a ie hs” lie * 4 . ‘ ye E 5 9 2 1 4 ee . 83 ane bs ‘ * a - 1 5 Pay 4 2 8 thie mee ee ‘ n e oa ** . * r * 4 n sy . 2 „ — Only io Cents a Wen For the ~~ 4 re 2 * ae - By Carrier che Dee | Including Sunday Paper in St. Louis. ORDER IT. * CEC — — PRICE ONE EVT. 7 ä 1 ** 0 9 8 i — “em , P ~~ 8 7 2 7 -_ , LOUIS— AUGUST 19, 1895. 5 id * sf ; ** i. 0 1 SUMED > 5 SY 7 N > 1 N + * * 4 8 at ‘ ) 1 1 1111 . Pa 2 . — — 7 ee * ns * 7 4 4 i * 0 4 5 — ’ 1 * „ or ~ 0 5 * ° * 4 * - —— ee DAYS _ 14 a. 9 >» _ Pal hon gag 5 * * . : 1 5 3 0 ＋ FOR ihc o i > * 5 R > ; . =A 43 ve ws ‘ * f ty is . n re. * - . — - THE FISHERMEN. ‘Sie Nl Uh, my e ‘agents to do the “heavy work” and t — Auditor Seibert at Jeffe up atonce. We caught them at Pacific with another telegram to Mr. Seibert, telling him to break the news to Mrs. Sherw , ey reached here early t morning and were even to the home of friends in the West n Ra City to come Mr. Maffitt said that Mr. Sherwood had not complained of feeling badly, and ap- peared to be in good health. e was not a drinking man, and hag responded to but two invitations from friends at the club during the evening. The remains will be taken to Jefferson City at 8 o'clock this evening for burial. Francis, Chairman Maffitt and will acco Auditor 8 ce. He has office since 1888. He was G years old, and had no children. . Mr. Maffitt does not know whether Mr. Sherwood personally favored free silver or not, but he voted for the convention in or- der to voice the sentiment of a majority of his constituents is the Thirteenth District. He was one of the most popular men con- nected with the State administration, and a III ALEXANDER C. SHERWOOD’S FATAL FALL. As Described by C. C. Maffitt. ery sick. As soon ex-Governor Alex He and and 1 era vy man on, probably pounds, and the rail is so low that it would have a tendency to throw @ r over rather than to prevent one from ng. „Alex came up from Jefferson City Friday night, and Saturday he and some friends attended the races. He wrote me @ note Tuesday asking when he could see me to 1 over the Pertle Spri Convention. wired him to come up ay during the week. turday he went to the Meacham Arms do to bay 0 pamping, outils and told on out as he would not be able to reach . Grounds until later, I met came out. n ~ called for him at the out to the club, lounged around lay . in the we had lunch en we wen — to the third floor and Play down and took on a lounge. I only slept .abou utes, a I don't know whether wh or not. @ talked for 82 started downstal where “Sunday afternoon I and we drove t Ste tte was regarded as the ablest and shrewdest politician in the State Committee. — State Auditor J. W. Seibert, in whose office Mr. Sherwood was chief clerk, came to St. uis on an early morning train onday from Jefferson City, accompanied by Mrs. Sherwood and Secretary of State Lesueur. They were m at the Union Station by some of the dead man’s friends. Col. Tom Connor of Joplin, ex-Treasurer of the Democratic State Committee, who had known Mr. Sherwood intimately for a number of years, reached the city Monday morning and was very much shocked at the news of his friend's sudden death. “IT am not as much surprised, however, as I would have been had I not known Mr. Sherwood’s allment.“ said Col. Conner. He had been a sufferer from a dangerous form of heart disease for a long while, and Mr. Seibert told me this morning that Sher- wood had been subject to fainting spells during the past few months. Several times of late while working at his desk in the Auditor's office he came near fainting and to be carried home. Any un- usual exerti or excitement has been dan- geroue to him for the past year.’’ Chief Clerk George Moore of the Southern says Mr. erwood left the ‘hotel Sunday afternoon about 4 o'clock in seem- ingly robust health. He was accompanied b r. Maffitt. who took lunch with bim at the Southern about 2 o'clock. After lunch the two.sat on the north plaza of i in éarnest conversation until the | fort "Tus house. “i | Coroner W. J. Wait is out of the city on 7 4 * re od * 4 „ * ng JP . Jefferson oft a eral will be ly attend ay. An effort was made Monday morning by ex-Gov. Francis and Chairman Maffitt to dispense with the inquest. Dr. Williamson was of the opinion that a death certificate signed by him would be sufficient. He = A sung victim’s death was caused by the shock. Mr. Sherwood's funeral will take esday at ternoon 10 phe a ed. by p ent men and politicains from all over State. The active of the State Auditor's office and associates of Mr. Sherwood. The following gentlemen Will act: A. O. Allen, Stephen Chapman, R. T. Booth, John A. Lee, W. S. Brotherton, Paul Brace, T. W. Park, T. M. Bradbury, Morton Jordan, A. W. Morrow, John R. Green, W. H. Miller and 8. D. Williams. The honorary pall bearers will be Gov. Wm. H. Stone, R. Francis, J. M. Sei- bert, A. A. Lesueur, R. F. Walker, Lon V. 8 James Cowgill, T. J. Hennessey, C. C. Maffitt, John H. Carroll, R. A. Lozier, J. B. Thomas, J. N. Davis, Barnard Corri- an, H. W. Salmon, Dr. J. H. Brown, J. W. evely, S. B. Gook, J. A. Roberts, A. Stue- ver, H. R. Lozler and Thomas Connor. The News at the Capital. at the Special to The Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Aug. 19.—News of the death of A. C. Sherwood came upon Auditor Seibert and the employes of the Auditor's office like a pall. herwood was sincerely beloved by those who intimately knew him. The office will be closed for to- day. Capt. O. A. Allen goes to St. Louis this afternoon. Auditor Seibert left for St. Louis last night with Mrs. Sherwood. WHO WILL SUCCRED HIM? State Committee Has the Power to Fill Sherwoed’s Place. The death of Hon. A. C. Sherwood creates a vacancy in the Democratic State Com- ‘mittee, the filling of which will probably to 11 number of political complications. The sent ment of the Democracy of the Thirteenth District, which he represented, is so overwhelmingly for free silver that there is no room left for doubt as to the currency views which his successor must hold if the will of the party is to govern the selection. But the fact that the State Committee, as constituted before the hold- ing of the Pertle Springs Convention, was largely dominated by the gold bugs and that the further fact that this committee may contend for the right to fill the vacancy independent of the wishes of the nineteen new committeemen, suggest the possibility of a lively row, particularly if the old and inadequate organization should show a stubborn disposition to select a man whose coinage Opinions are not in accord with the Pertle Springs deliverance on the currency question and at variance with the domi- nant sentiment of the Thirteenth District Democracy. Then, too, the prospects for a lively row—or, at any rate, as much of a row as the minority faction of the party can create—are enhanced by what now seems almost a surety of an early call for a meet- ing of the State Committee. The new committeemen have not yet been officially taken into the fold of the party organization, and even though à regular State Convention provided for them and de- fined their power they have not received the recognition which invests them with au- thority. Nor can they until the State Com- mittee meets and takes them into its coun- sels. The excuse for this A tion heretofore has been that Was no oceasion for a meetin f the committee, as there was nothing emandi ite atten- tion. The death of Mr. Sherw however, now gives the committee something to and Chairman Maffiitt win lead interesting undoubtedly have to issue a call for an early meeting to fill the vacancy. The rule is for all vacancies to be filled ted as ex by petition . When thie call is sent out new will mittee meets and, armed with the proper 2 — ili demand immediate and tion. Then the fur the committee has been to view the action of the Pertle vention in a new and more | Explosion of all bearers will be employes | — Boilers Wrecks a Five-Story Denver Hotel. PROBABLY. TWENTY -KILMED, | Names of Those Known to Be Dead, the Injured and the Missing. DENVER, Colo, Aug. 19.—The fire in the Gumry Hotel, wrecked by a boiler ex- plosion soon after midnight; has been ex- tinguished, and the search for the dead has begun. A large force of men and teams is engaged in hauling away the debris. At 1 o’clock one body, which was not identi- fied, had been removed from the ruins, and several more were in sight. The number of killed will not exceed twenty. Following are lists of the dead so far as ascertained: PETER GUMRY, owner of the hotel. R. C. GREINER, manager of the hotel, son-in-law of Peter Gumry. MRS. R. C. GREINER, clerk of the ho- tel, daughter of Peter Gumry. GEN. CHAS. ADAMS, Manitou, Colo. X. L. BLAKE, Pueblo, Colo. MYRON E. HAWLEY, Union Pacific Rail- road clerk, Denver. JAMES MURPHY, contractor, Denver. GEORGE BURT, passenger conductor on = Rock Island Railroad, Colorado Springs, olo. MRS. WOLFE and DAUGHTER. TWO CHAMBERMAIDS, names un- known. ONE BELL BOY, name unknown. The names of the missing are: —— GREINER, father of R. C. Greiner, manager of the hotel. BUD BURNES, Colorado Springs. W. J. CARSON, Pueblo. F. FRENCH and BERT I. LARSCH, Cen- tral City,- Colo. It is not positively known that these two were in their room. E. F. McCLOSKEY, Canon City, Colo. JUDGE GLYNN, Leadville, Colo. Following are the names of the injured: JOSEPH MUNAL, cigarmaker, Cairo, III.; face and head terribly ~- 1 injuries, MICHAEL C. BURG , severely cut about face. A. E. IRWIN, night clerk; bruises, J. H. LETSON, tramway conductor; body badly bruised; internal injuries. FRED COLEMAN, not serious. BUD HOPKINS, not serious. Child of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Greiner. cuts and J. H. Letsen was discovered alive in the ruins about 7 o’clock. He was jammed be- tween an icebox and some timbers in such shape that it was impossible to remove him for several hours. Meantime he piteously to be saved. About 10 o'clock he was rescued and was removed at once to the hospital. One of his arms was crushed and he may have suffered internal injuries, but his recovery is confidently expected. Among the guests who escaped practic- ally uninjured are: eter Poss and Tenn. ve W. R. McCormick, traveling salésman, Chicago. ‘ Ray Helmes, Ogden, Utah. Mr. and Mrs. „G. McClain and baby, Huron, Kan. g Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shaw, Huron, Kan. Herman 1 rs. and on the ceiling fell and stricken and did not way te turn. They were let down stairs by fire- men. : Mrs. G. R. Wo who had on floor. Mrs. room on the , w x y morning to go husband left her to Pueblo. The whole blown 8 atoms “Eee tence rear half of the hotel was and sme Srent ofthe, daughter, Chattanooga, : Manitou, Colo. | J. W. Roberts, Colorado every window in the business blocks lies ‘shattered in pieces upon the . pavements. It was a catastrophe complete and pitiless in its horror. The dust had cleared away somewhat when the firemen reached the place. There was no fire to be seen then. In front of the house there was the sound of glass fall ing and people were running in night- clothes in horror from the doors and ap l- piteously from the windows for help. in fhe explosoin awoke the guests in the front part of the house and by the time the firemén reached the scene they were ready be taken from the windows. firemen with torch and lantern en- tered all parts of the hotel. First to demand attention of the ambu- lance was Michael C. Burgess, who along Lawrence street on the ite ‘the hotel when the ex- very though not necessarily fatal. He is a painter from Custer City, 8. D. Bud Hopkins,.a bar tender at the Gumry was found on the ground floor of the hotel unconscious and bleeding from many cuts. His injuries are not serious. Joe Munall was found in the basement dressed only in his underciothes, and was completely covered with ashes and dust. When he revived he said: Jam a cigar maker and have been in the city for a week, aoe come Cario, III. I was upstairs in bed when I heard an awful crash. I did not know what it was, and got out of bed and hur- ried out, and on going down stairs must have lost my way, for when I got down on what I thought was the ground floor I fell down into the basement.“ His injuries though severe are not thought to be fatal. These three are the only injured persons who had been taken to the county hospl- tal up to 8 a. m. Six pérsons, including a woman and baby, were thken off the roof of the building pene the Gumry occupied by A. Lilly- ade. Peter Poss, an aged gentleman from Chattanooga, Tenn., was 8 room No. 34 with his daughter Addie. e is an invalid. He was awakened by „ — and found the room .full of dust. Peter ured. ty, Colo., says when he awoke the building was s and rocking, and it. seemed that it was likely to go down. The room was full of lime dust so he could scarcely breathe, and plaster was falling all about him. He got and dressed and came down stairs. .. Purcell and wife of Broken Bow, Neb., slept in room 17. Mr. Purcell is pub- lisher of the Custer County Chief, Neb. ‘We awakened,’ said Mr. Purcell, with a emot feeltng. I felt around and found that the bed-clothing was covered with mo nd several inches of dust. I jumped up at game time that the transom fell down with a loud report and effectually shut us in. I then smashed the window in order to get some air and saw the debris on the street below. I did not feel any upheaval and experienced no injury.“ Mr. and Mrs. Purcell escaped by the stair- Logan, editor of the Buena Vista (Colo.) Republican, was in his room, but had not —— when the explosion occurred. a: ~ He said: „ was sitting on the side of the bed when I felt the bed move upward with a violent jerk. Before the bed hted itself a vy quantity of plaster fe completely 112 — ning ) When I co under for several fastened in tightly except for the window of the room. Beyond the slight shock at the time of the explosion I was not hurt in any Me f but I lost no time in getting out of the dul ding.” The hotel or iow... -Out< fegble m tne and piteou po AA... 0 felt his foil er on — h. n ö 1 will take ~ — 5 he —_ keep Munal’s head moist, a properly limbs were bein position of great r for all, on account of the flames and the overhanging roof which threatened to come down at any mo- ment. But the men worked on, hauling at beams with ropes, and using every to clear the space around the suffering man, who bore his agony with great brav- ery and cheered on his helpers. At last about 2:30 o’cleck a great cheer arose, word was spread among the great. crowd waiting outside that the work was finished. Soon afterwards citizens appeared at the entrance of the alley bearing Munal on a stretcher. He was „ suffert ar F uitimady eur r his mate. val. At 430 al Sires ad took aka ay the where ö dapat of the td to be. t daylight t already in sight, tees of 2 22 to identify th the fi en em, e fire still being — A . There is no doubt the disaster was caused by a boiler explosion. Frank Loescher, the engineer, it is said, after turning a large quartity of cold water into the hot boilers, left the build ten minutes before the ex- — occ The police are looking for R. E. Irwin, the night clerk, says Loescher, who was only 17 years old, was drunk wh he went on duty, and that he was in habit of neglecting his duty. Irwin was pinned beneath some heavy timbers at his d by the 2 was rescued by 4. He has 25125 re- wounds and internal itnfuries, but cover. WANDERED SEVERAL DAYS, A Youthful Runaway Couple From Au- burn, III., Finally Located, Special to The Post-Dispatch. 25 AUBURN, II. Aug. 10.— Walter Connell, aged 16, a son of A. J. Connell, a farmer living three miles east of here, took Lena Goodpasture, the pretty 15-year-old daugh- ter of a prominent Auburn merchant, bug- gy-riding last Wednesday evening and no trace was found of the pair until yesterday, when they were found at the home of Con- nell’s half-brother, John Hiner, seven miles east of here. nnel) had 80 b and harness for at 4 leaving the horse for his father to call for. WI the proceeds been Oo men and a to a charge of abductio LIKE A DAY IN MAY. Cool Breezes From the West Chase the Hot Wave Away. The hot weather vanished last night, and to-day the weather is as mild and balmy as if St. Louis was located high up in the Adirondacks. St. Loutsans feel grateful, though it ts just the kind of weather that they have grown used to in this city, the most delightful of all summer weather cit- the new Post-Dispatch Ua. wm. i: les. The readings of hermometer are: N m wer eeeveeee eee eee ee . . . 000 6 60660 1 1 attend to him while his lower extricated. It was a witness echt | a" the hotel N 11 4 Tike ies Ate sup- | nationality, * wrote t was impossible to uncover LOOKING FOR Honk HUSBANDS. Kirby, Alias “Ollie” May, at His Old Tricks, : HAD PLENTY OF NEW OFFERS He Has Reorganized and Enlarged His Matrimonial Bureau Since Leav- ing Jail on July 1. The arms of the law have again embraced Kirby L. May, alias Hobo, Ollie May, and more recently “Miss Laura Zope. He is again charged with working matrimo- nial racket. May has a “patent-right” on the racket.“ Last April the Grand-jury indicted him and he was sentenced to one month in jail for the * of using the mails to defraud. He was réleased July 1, and again launched into the husband hunting business. “I am the liveliest, jolliest, most loving little blonde in the country,” was the way he advertised hims And the way the suckers bit was what aroused the suspicion of the authori- ties. Since hig release May has been do usiness on à larger scale. en ph t is how the authorities came to block his sec- ond game. Last Thursday May took a stroll around the Court-house square, He spoke o & urnee doe rr tae ee eee nv Levee beer. While the RF emis oy: — tee avenue, and for her al lerks_ wing his o letters were given gave them May. su was a when May open them. He t one of the let out of his 1 on day repor ue the = to 8 4 tor Johnson. onday May calld for his mon, and just received. thr 10 e had recei ree letters. on | S kenak wet teowte sheets of cap covered by ‘the enthusiastic lovemaker. After a romantic tale of what he thought of Miss Zone he wrote upon himself. “IT am getting quite gray and bald, but oldest girl is m money, but feel that I am, in pure love and ection for a nice companion. I would