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Show THE HOTEL FIRE. Further Particulars About That Ilrcxdritl ;sastrn a LUt or Killed. CHIEF HENNCSCV ASSAULTED Y ASSASSINS. The lie mains of .Ssrcral Keral (.'rr- maiis ilotrd la a Ncir Mauolcuct. By Ttleiriph to the News. tiii: norm. ruiR. The Iis Aniotitila Tts Isll5,U00. r.lallt l-ersoiis Iflltril. Syiucusk, N. V., Oct. 16. The loss on the Letetnl Hotel exceeds SI25,"W. The hotel co-Is S50.WW. rhefuniltureisalldestroytsJ. Considerable Con-siderable ios was nulaliHsl by the American lixpress Company in its isiiMIn-- and exiiress matter. In the t aJjoInlng hotel. Tho Individual inmate of the hotel lo-t heevily ol r their inTsouaUliects. Theiirolnblc ; lo-s of life does net exceed tlht, thrto guests and five servants, i Thirty srrsoiis aro sevefly Itijuretl. Thu magntrlccut JVInnd hotel, the most mxlern nnd fluest apolut-i apolut-i ed hottl I u central New York, to-i to-i day is nothing lut a miss ot smuul-' smuul-' dering ruins. It was at li this i morning hen the flru was first discovered dis-covered ill the region of the kitchen 'on tho second floor. Inside of fifteen fif-teen minutest the building was in Hames from end to cnJ, awl before thirty minutes had elapsed, the walls had fallen with theexctp-Ioii of the northeast corner. The vv liolo was In one seething lurnace to which was aided the horror of many lives lieing involved. At first it was feared the loss of life would he about thirty, iiut the night wore aloiig and the mimler of miss-lugaud miss-lugaud dead was reduced to seven or eight. When t'te H-VMKS inaUN SWKEI-IXO through the hotel, night tlerk Jones set the automatic llru alarm Iwll ringing. Heforu the rudely awakened awak-ened guests could reallre vv hat was the matter, the flames and smoke rti-hcd through the halls, culling oil the usual means of ixit. liich room was .rovided with a omiuoii roi fire t-caia', ai.d by means of these many itves were saved. I)jr-ing I)jr-ing the lire, the hotel, viewed from the street, presented :i scene which never will be forgotten. At many windows of the live stories of the Isirnlng buildings could Iwfcenmen and women plteously railing for help or making cst-ipe L-y menus of the rope appliance. On all sides men and women could be seen dropping from windows win-dows or sliding down tiro cscaics. On the roof ol the 1 wiler hoiiM?. located ou the side of the building at one time by seven s'rwii unconscious un-conscious and injured. Cora Tanner, Tan-ner, the actrev, when aroused ru-hed into a gentleman' room. a ml cried. "For Cod's fake, save mel" He let her down by a rope aud she escaped with only lacerated hands, saving all valuables. A IJST Ot Till: IlKAIl. Foliov.lnglsn list of the dead us far as kri-un: Annie Cummings, jtmiisl from the fifth floor, killed instantly. William Wil-liam K. Harroji, Klixabrth, N. J.. lowered hiin-elf by ro Itaif-ways dou u from tin. fourth floor. When the ruje burned ollj he fell to the ground. Died al i a. in. Itwe Schwurz, hotel ilotiiestlc, juml from the fifth lloor. Died from the shock and luleriial Injuries. L'n-I L'n-I known woman, hotel domestic, t juminsl from tlie tilth lloor. Iu-tant-I ly kills d. Missing are Mary DjjIc, servant; Itobtrt Mills, Neft York, gutt; A. J. Van Daten, Jerss-y City, guest: Geo. K. Wood Dextt r, New York, guest. |