| Show 11 I dill illia Jj 11 I ALCOHOL HOTEL I BURNS 1 DEAD t I Fir Fireman ii Hancock Risks s Life I iII iii Hl Heroic Attempt to toI I Save r Woman 1 I Fire Fire thoU hl to have o started when a 1 lighted near near an un open bottle I oL or denatured alcohol early yesterday c morning gutted th tho th building of or tho the Al Albany Al- Al hun bany hotel W. W S Second d' d street and threatened to Incinerate ato moro than twenty Inmates One woman wua killed e Lulu Johnson colored 40 died on the way war to the emergency enc hospital after mm i t heroic rescue by hy Fireman H if II J. J Han lIall c cock ct Charles Charls 27 7 was waR sed son son- out 11 I. I i hn k II iid hand 1 and suffered i ra severe r-I r cen I and bruises n Ion maddened h by thu blanc o hr hue Jumped through a I. I second 1 story atory window No others were Injured sufficiently t- t to warrant arrant medical attention It was wa- first t thou thought that tho time was of Incendiary orl origin ln and aDd I man n whom th time the police SU say suy has a lial iia record was vas held a prisoner In tho thi emergency ho hospital suspected of oC the act Testimony of Fire Chief William m TT Ti Bywater und amid his men however to the time effect that tho time quests guests of the time establishment establish establish- h- h mont ment w were rc found In bet bed apparently In Intoxicated Intoxicated intoxicated In- In after an or orgy In which II ICh de denatured denatured de- de e- e natured alcohol Is li thou thought to 0 have hao lJ been cn freely drunk led to another sion Ih Tho Tue fire Is IH now thought to have havo broken out In lii room when whon he lie struck a L match Intending to light lighta a It The rho match spark 11 Il Is IN be- be 1 Ignited the he fumes from an al open bottle boUe of the liquor thus starting starling the blaze was wm treated at al the emergency i emer- gency g-ency ho hospital and later biter to tho the county hospital Where his condition condi tion Uon Is said ald to be he n serious The first alarm came In at 6 a a. a m m. according to Ch Chief lef By water It hIt was as said aid Chief the most weird fire s scene I r have havo ever seen The smoke near nearly ob obscured the tho Cli manes flames Ladders were run up to the windows and Clr firemen be began an carrying out tho timo screaming occupants Several minutes after aCter It was thought ht the tho last Inmate had mad been removed remo Chief Bywater that Miss JohnRon JohnRon John- John Ron non was unaccounted for or Fl Fireman Hancock volunteered to bring her out Ho lie succeeded d. d but the time woman died tIled a few minutes later on the Limo way to the hospital Hancock found Cound the tho woman In a rear room on tho the second floor The Tho door to lo the room had to bo be beaten heaten in while hot timbers were falling falling- around him He lIe carried her out on his shoulders shoulder rime rhe fire damaged ed tho the building about 2000 The hotel hoto Is an old landmark having occupied tho the southeast corner cornor of the time intersection between n Second South and Fifth West Vest streets for tor moro more than fifty years It was once oneo a hostel l- l ry o of sonic some prominence but of or recent years carB It has been Leen used as a resort for people of all aH colors 01 ors say the tho police pollee Shortly before the Albany Abany hotel fire a fire at the thc Rio TIlo Gran Grando Grandc e mill caused dun damage ge It started d from a short circuit In the motor room ac according according according ac- ac cording to tho the authorities |
