Ten Men Burned To Death

TEN MEN BURNED TO DEATH. 

Frightful Holocaust at the Burning of a Boarding House. 

TOWER, Minn., Jan. 23.—Fire broke out in the Barnaby boarding house and saloon, on the main street of the town at an early hour Saturday morning, and before the inmates could be awakened the structure was a sheet of flames. Fiive men were certainly roasted alive and their charred bodies taken from the ruins, and it is variously estimated that from two to nine others were also caught in the flames. The bodies of the following, burned to a crisp, were recovered: Robert Whitford, W. H. Barnes, Dan O'Connell, Alexander Brandt and Mike Trump. 

Everybody was asleep when the fire broke out, and there was a terrible struggle among those who were saved to reach the street. Men fought with each other in the narrow passageways like wild beasts in their endeavor to reach an exit first, the consequence being that most of those engaged in the struggle perished. One escaped, and tells the story of the panic.

A friend and room-mate of one of the boarders, who was laid up with rheumatism, tried to get his partner out. He got him as far as the front door, and find that locked, kicked it open. Turning around he could not face the flames, and was compelled to let his companion perish, and barely escaped with his own life. 

A young lady who was sick in the doomed building was rescued with difficulty. 

There were over thirty people in the building. 

LATER.—Search for the bodies of those burned was continued and five more were taken out of the ruins, making a total of ten. All are too badly disfigured to be recognized. It is thought some bodies may have been entirely consumed. One of the bodies is believed to be that of Jack Collins, of Superior, Wis.