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Burning of the Newhall House
Published by Bleyer Bros.
Cramer, Aikens & Cramer, Printers - 1883

     [5]              BURNING OF THE NEWHALL HOUSE

                           A SCENE OF HORROR

       SHORTLY after four o'clock on the morning of the 10th day of
    January, 1883, an alarm from Box No. 15 startled Milwaukee's
    Fire Department and awoke many of her citizens to witness a fire
    unequaled in the horror of its results by any in the history of the
    city. Those who were acquainted with the location of the box
    from which the alarm was sounded made all possible haste to reach
    the scene, where confirmatory flashes of light were already visible,
    and from whence came floating on the morning air a faint roaring
    sound, intermingled with cries of terror. Others went to their win-
    dows, and, looking for a moment at the first tongues of flame that
    shot skyward, shiveringly retired to their seductive couches, satis-
    fied that Milwaukee's trusty firemen could cope with any confla-
    gration that might arise within the jurisdiction of their vigilance.
    Had they known that the alarm was the death-knell of scores of
    people who were fated to be consumed with the Newhall House in
    the brief space of one hour, it is safe to say that no inclination to
    rest would have kept them from the awful spectacle. Many were
    so deeply wrapped in slumber that they remained in utter ignor-
    ance of the fire; a merciful Providence had spared them the hor-
    rors of the night.  When they awoke at daybreak they found
    sorrow enough.  The smoking ruins and the crowded morgue were
    indisputable evidence that the hour of the fire was filled with woe
    unutterable.

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