| Show GUESTS TRAPPED BY FIRE I KILLED KILLE IN BURNING HOTEL Death List of New York Holocaust Holo- Holo caust Now Numbers Fifteen With Many Injured Geor gia Woman Jumps From a Window andIs nd Is I NEW YORK F FOb Feb b. b 22 Fire Fire early this morning in the Park Avenue hotel hote and the Seventy Seventy first first r regiment armory this city resulted in the loss of fifteen lives and t the e destruction ion o of prop property va valued li a. a at The dea dead persons V were we're wre le all guests of the he hotel Flames Flame were were first discovered in the armory and f forty forty- ty- ty five minutes later it was found that the Uie hotel was on fire A revised list O of oC dead and Injured follows fellows I Norman Acton Alabama Col c Charles arl s L L. L Burdette ord Coon Conn onn col Colone ne First regiment of the National G frd of 01 that State ss E len Foster a Tombs prison m missionary missionary- Fred S SHovey Hovey Lyo S- S T. T Thomas Thom s H. H Thorne Thorn q qI Denver John H. H Iverson Denver Mrs E. E 77 W McGInniss McGinnis identification not not I positive Charles Underwood OConnell O'Connell New York died of or his injuries in a a. hospital Col Alexander Piper U. U S. S A. A reed reared resident of notel G. G A. A Robbins Rob- Rob bins lawyer of Selma Ala Miss Esther Chicago Jacob Spahn a lawyer of Rochester N. N Y John E. E Walker Columbia Tenn unidentified man body found found on on the fifth floor about 35 years old five feet seven ceven inches in height 14 lP 1 pounds black hair and mustache wore white striped trousers tn users gray underwear under under- underwear underwear wear silk Jacket and a gold ring unidentified d woman body found on the s sixth floor wore five rings on the he left left hand The injured being cared for at Bellevue Bellev vue e and rew Tew W York ork hospitals include Margaret and arid Catherine Bennett of Denver Colo Cob burns oi on Oil bo boes ies I a Cs and abd limbs I Armory Is Destroyed About 1 o'clock flames were discovered bursting from the roof of the armory of the Seventy-first Seventy regiment N. N G. G N. N Y at Park avenue and Thirty-fourth Thirty street a fine granite structure which with its equipment cost When the firemen arrived it was impossible to todo todo todo do anything toward saving the magnificent magnificent magnificent cent building Several times flames flame's were communicated to the car barns of the Metropolitan Street railway but as often extinguished In the armory was stored a large quantity of of ammunition both blank and bullet cartridges c g These soon began to explode and added to the intense ex ex- ci temen t. t 5 Shortly after these eased the wall of the Thirty- Thirty third str street el side fell Inward This crash I was Ted followed by the exp explosion of about 1000 p pounds I of powder stored in the basement ement of the armory The detonation was terrific but the firemen had b warned of the danger and none of ot them was injured i Fire T Hotel on i after fler iter F 2 2 o ocl o'clock clock ck flames were discovered red running along the win windows woodwork and ot of the floor at the northeast corner of f the fh Park Avenue hotel diagonally across the street from the armory This was entirely unexpected ed and the police up to that time had bent their efforts toward removing the inmates of adjacent houses on the cross streets Frightened occupants of the hotel soon appeared at every window and many were rescued by means of ladders set U up by firemen Ambulances were called from every hospital in th the district and the firemen turned their attention to the hotel A Aline Aline Aline line of hose was quickly rushed up to the third floor while scores of guests were taken from the windows by other firemen on the outside The firemen in inside inside inside in- in side found that the hotel was rapidly filling with smoke and for a time they dropped their hose and hurried through every portion of the building in search of guests who might have been overcome overcome overcome over over- come by smoke Scores Are Overcome On nearly every floor and in the hallways hallways hallways hall hall- ways scores of persons were found who had been overcome before they could reach the open air Twenty-six Twenty persons were taken to the New York and Bellevue hospitals Nearly Near Near- ly double that number injured in their stricken panic-stricken endeavors to 10 escape were given medical aid on the spot Of the scores taken from the windows of the third fourth and fifth floors many were slightly burned and were hysterical from the shock All deaths were caused by burns or suffocation with one exception One man jumped from the story fifth-story window window window win win- dow to the inner court His skull was crushed and death was instantaneous When the fire started in the armory scores of guests In the Park Avenue hotel were a awakened waken d by the clang of the engines and crowded to the hotel win win- dows dews About an hour elapsed before the hotel took fire but in spite of this many guests were in their rooms clad only in their night-clothes night and some were in bed Woman Jumps From Flom Window Men and women appeared at the windows windows windows win win- dows on the Park avenue side of the hotel and called for help Mrs Charlotte Bennett and her husband Harold Bennett Bennett Bennett Ben Ben- nett of Alabama stood on a ledge on the fifth floor just over the portico of ot the main entrance of the hotel Mrs Bennett Dennett was terror-stricken terror and screamed again and again for some one oneto oneto oneto to rescue her Her husband grasped her herand herand herand and from the crowd of thousands gathered gathered gathered gath gath- ered in the streets there were shouted warnings not to jump When it was seen that she was wa determined determined determined de de- de- de to jump the firemen gathered In a circle and stretched out their arms With a final desperate effort Mrs Bennett Bennett Bennett Ben Ben- nett wrenched herself free from her husbands husband's grasp and with a piercing scream flung herself into the arms of the waiting firemen five stories be below ow When she he jumped from from- the ledge on which she and her husband had stood the flames were licking out ut of the window window window win win- dow behind her and around her form torm orni I Inside of the room was all in flames I Mrs 1 Bennett struck in the arms of the firemen Her w weight ight caused them to sag and she struck the pavement She was terribly burned about the body She was taken to Bellevue hospital hospital hos boa pital where she died Her husband when Mrs Bennett Dennett fell back into the room He was not seen afterward afterward afterward after after- ward and it is believed he was burned or suffocated to death Was Terribly Mangled Col Charles I. I Burdette of Connecticut cut met death in a terrible manner His body with the skull split open was found lying in the courtyard of the hotel He had fallen at least five fire stories Co Col Burdette had a room on tl seventh floor When the alarm of lire Ure reached him his escape was cut cui oft off His room faced the court in the center of the hotel Apparently he had dragged the mattress from his bed be and dropped it to the room of an exten r tt Continued on pagay Gu Guests Fire Continue Continued 1 sion over ove the hotel room dining-room several stories below elow Then rhen by knotting the sheets together he mad madeva mada a rope secured it to the window lowered himself on the Improvised rope and arid then dropped His design was to land landon on the mattress and thus have the frightful fall broken He the distance went beyond the extension a and d was killed S Priests Are Rescued Father Smith a fire found Bishop Ludden of Syracuse in a room on the seventh fi floor or of the hotel and helped him to the street Bishop Ludden Ludden Ludden Lud Lud- den told the firemen then that there were a number of priests In the hotel Including Mgr Kenney also of Syracuse Syra Syra- cuse rather Father Smith returned into the building fought his way through the smoke and up the stairs stairs' and conducted the priests priest down the stairway to safe safe- ty One of the bodies awaiting identification identification tion was recognized by Henry Newman of this city as that of his niece Miss Esther S of Chicago who had come cone to New York to buy goods for her fathers father's store in that city Gaston A. A Robbins who was killed was formerly a Congressman from Selma Ala Missionary Killed Among the persons killed were Miss Foster a missionary who devoted herself herself herself her her- self to work In the Tombs prison She was a dally daily visitor to the prison and gave up all her time to the service of the unfortunates confined there MaJ Jacob Spahn a Rochester r N. N Y lawyer lawyer law law- yer lost his life in the fire Rear-Admiral Rear Josepn N. N Miller re retired retired retired re- re tired was reported mortally hurt In Inthe inthe inthe the fire but he was n-as uninjured and is Inh in h his s usual health The Police Theory Many irany of the police pollee and fire officials declare that in their opinion the blaze in the hotel vas was entirely independent of that at the armory and that it was only a coincidence that the two fires occurred so near together It was established with a fair degree degree degree de de- de- de gree of certainty today that the fire at atthe atthe atthe the Park Avenue hotel originated at atthe atthe atthe the base of the north elevator shaft From this point it crept up to the fifth and sixth floors and spread in every direction completely gutting the upper floors Police Capt Delaney Deaney said that when he was notified that the hotel was afire there was no thought of the structure being endangered from the armory blaze 4 Hotel Cost Coat The Park Avenue hotel was wa-s built bunt by A. A T. T Stewart who spent on its structure and furnishings The building Occupies the entire front of the block on Park avenue from Thirty Thirty- second to Thirty-third Thirty streets with a depth of half a block It is seven stories In height and on Oil four sides a court containing square feet of space At the time of Its construction It was the largest hotel In the country with the exception of the Palace hotel hate at San Francisco Mr Stewart designed the hotel originally as a home for working women but when It was found I that it could not be managed on the plan adopted by its founder it was as converted into a family hotel I |
