Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-01-29 | Page 2 | Girl Causes Hotal Panic

GIRL CAUSES HOIELPANIC Rings Fire Gon? by Mistake Mis-take and Alarms Many Statesmen. : . ' WASHINGTON, Jan -One of the young women attached to a spectacular spectacu-lar show at a local theater was the cause of a panic in the Raleigh hotel. She wanted to ring for a drink, but instead in-stead touched the button that controls the fire alarm circuit of the house. In- i stantly twenty or mora great gonga were pealing a discordant alarm, 'Guests, roused from sleep, left their beds ia a hurry and Jumped Into the halls, prepared to run for their lives. Nobody took time td put oh "his clothes. Senators and Kepresentatlves and their families and everybody else who was under the roof of the Raleigh Joined 4n the scramble for safety. Half an hour elapsed before the cause of the false alarm was located, and then th hotel management reassured the frightened guests. The girl who touched the button was so pleased with her performance that he was willing to hav her escapad written up by th newspapers.