| Show Fifteen rl People JL Burned to Death 1 w Were flere Guests Gt sl of ParA Hotel New Nw f Suffocation Caused Calls Most Mosi of the place Caught Fire from he Ibe Burning Armory Annor of oIba the Se Regiment N Y J S N Q 3 i York fork F J 2 eady Cati a 1 n tho pirk Mel botel un 1 C I In t the ot X KM ruction of 0 property valued aued u ut ute i 1 Ih dead d cro nil all alli rho e 3 hotel I Flames Iames ware first firstI ho 01 otho Iho i ii I ln jn the h armory and 45 4 min that tho the found laler u It was wa o revised list of 01 dead and andu u I flit ft A I Injured TUB DEAD t o A Norman I Hartford Col colone ci r nt ot of the tho coIn Conn J f that gu n a prison frell rY N Y YH H 11 ThOrne Denver John ohn H 11 Den Denver nver Vel fl ChArles Underwood New York Tork die died d 0 of t hi In II hos lita Co Cul Alexander Piper U IL B S A re rc I Of t ho l Mm Selma Ala 0 A J awer r ot of S h ahn h D a lauer ot N y John E Walker Columbia Tenn Term II I r I dt of t Chicago Mr came caine to t Now New York to toisto tOo tor i r o Into isto t the h furniture business In jn a II do tie ato stOre t woman nn body found on the tho I floor g live 11 rings on the tho left lert TOE rUE INJURED Tie The lilt Hit Of d t Injured who pre ore being In for lor fo at t and Md Now lork tork or orL L ItAI H 11 os IS a follows Un Mrs I onora A au nil invalid i irOn from o shock c and nd Catherine rr Bennett tt gt of Colo burns burna on bodies hands a ml nl anJa face and hands burn burneY R eY v Wm Wi S B New rew ew York burnt burned fare tace tee Mra Will im S on face t ac II Hid and area inu arm Loula Herry Portland Maine A shock I b Ie burns Jurns Wo Wm X J 4 Ove 0 vt ve hotel burns bd Ot A Gregory lawyer New Nil el tort tare Ile ind nd hands bande burned lit M T P 1 It B Hall flail anti and nn her JI r ler kIi Arm WI 0 hAll Now r k u J JI Of from burns burtis and ani shock limo B 11 lisle Hale Mass suffocated L Eo S H Atlanta Allan ta a 0 Ua a burned bu rne d ta tD body tolly mil I L Livingston burns on taco face t ICO sad lid body by bod Lyons ons 1 East I at f tree cut cui by b tailing falling glass Ms MIl E S Meyer Savannah Siv Qa Oa suf aut from Iron shock shock V tint tta Irla Joseph Pearson Pearon sixty sity years year old hys hYI Prank Fank B 13 Reed pro etor of ot lark Avenue hold hott burned on en face tace and bands buda hr ra Frank Flank B D need burned on face ml ud hand William Stebbins 85 year of ot age burned on face tace and hands 11 Mrs B Veach burned burnt on 00 face tace hands bands ltd lad d body bod Calt Charie L l Woodbury Portland aln par I suffocated Shortly before 1 names flames were turning bursting from the roof root of ot Ih the armory amor J of r f th the reel regi N ON G a N v Y V at Park avenue and th street a n fine granite J which h en with Its equipment cost t ISO When the firemen Is n arrived it II WI t to do Irem anything to J Ird rd v ln IB the magnificent nt building tarel fla Were cited to the u h tr ear fr barns bama bars of ot the ti rubbed an Street r railway but as ns often AMMUNITION EXPLODES In the Ibe 1 armory armor w was stored a l large of ammunition both blank and aud bullet 1 cartridges cartridge These Thul The soon Boon be ran to explode de and ana teni added to tho the In m nt Shortly after atter these theae had c ceased the wall wal of ot the street tide ride f tell Inward hl tel bi Crash was las followed by time the ex blOtt lollon I of t about lm loot P pounds of ot powder Th In the m nt ot of the tho armory ten iOn detonation had i n was vas terrific but the fire re fen and Ind Le n warned of lh the danger dane r rem non no ot of them em were ere Injured AVENUE AVE tl HOTEL nOTEL ON FIRE FInE after afler r 2 names flames fames were and running along the windows of the fifth n floor noor nt at the n hotel corner of the Park avenue I the t across the street treet from armor This was entirely une f ad beet an and the polee pollee up p to that tro tune the 1 e their toward removing of adjacent houses hosea ram on time the rl the e hotel Frightened occupants of G fO and Soon appeared at every win o of fl ladders many were rescued by means addes let up u by the firemen CALLED Ambulances h w were called from every In ii caled the district e and the theto fire line ne ot of hose hOl th their lr attention to the hotel tre to th third floor Wi qUIckly rushed up per Ir taken while locorea ot of gU guests st stIr from the windows Windo by other f on o Ibe th outside IU The In ri found fremen Lung Dr that the hotel otel was rapidly i lh smoke anti for a time their a hose and hurried through lT of o St the building In search ho t role Ie by mIght have hae been over overa a lad d In i th On neArly every foor foort foord floor t er t scores of persons nd who ho lied fore they Iy been overcome be o rould reach time the open air k persons were taken to the t Ork Ind and hospitals I Nearly double that tha number Injured In their endeavors to CM Os o cape were given aid ali on time the spot Of Ot the tho scores Beores taken from the time windows of the third fourth and fifth nth floors many Inny snaIl were slightly burned anti and 1111 wore were hysterical from shock OF 01 DEATHS DE All S SAl All Al deaths were caused causel by burns burn or suffocation with one ono exception Onu One man jumped from tho time fifth story alory win dow to 10 tho the Inner court Ills His skull was crushed and death was as Instantaneous When Whon the lie fire started In the fre II armory core of In II the tho Park Avenue hotel were ere by tho the clang of tho the engines and aud crowded to tho the hotel windows About Ab ut an nn hour elapsed be he two foin tOI tho the hotel took lire but lut In Ito II spite of ot this many wore were In its their rooms room A clod clad chii only In imi their night clothes and amId Ind some Were In bed bcd Men MIn and amId women ap appeared POured at the windows of ot the Park nJ avenue eldo sillo of ot the tho hotel and ali called calell for tor help Mrs Charlotte Dennett Bonnett and her husband Harold of 01 Alabama stood on ona onI ona too a I on 01 tho time fifth floor just junt over tho the portico of f tho the main of 01 the hotel Mrs Uennett ennett wax W as aid again and again tom for tO one Olle to rescue concise her Her ler husband her and amid from the crowd of thousands gathered In the time streets there wore er oro shouted warnings not to Jump When It I was WIll seen leu that alto nho was WR deter deler determined mined to jump tho the firemen fremen gathered In Inn II n a circle stretched out nut thir With Wills Wih n to I final 1101 desperate effort Mrs lOire Mr hems Den Dennett Bennett nett smelt wrenched herself free tree from her hel grasp and mimI with wih n a piercing pl scream fiting herself Into Ino the tho arms of ot the tho waiting firemen fremen five stories below When she nho Iho Jumped from the ledge lodge on which sho and her husband hUband had stood the time flames were licking out of the time win window windol winlOW lOW dow dol behind her lIar and around her form tOM Inside of ot Uio room was WI nil all ni In flames famos Mrs Bennett Dennett Jennet struck In Imi the arms of the tho firemen fremen Tier Her weight caused them to sag rag nud Ind she RIl lia struck the tue pavement Sho She was terribly burned the body bd Sims She Sh taken to the tho was WI hospi hospital tal where she died dl Her ler husband when sirs Mrs Dennett Jumped jumpe fell fel hack back Into the room He Ho Io was not nt seen sen after atter afterward ward and It I is II believed ha he hl wu was WI burned or suffocated to death deathA deathA A TERRIBLE DEATH Col Cd Charles Charlos I of ot Connecticut cut met death In tom a terrible manner ills His Is body bod with wih the skull kuil split spilt open was as astound found lying In the court yard of at the tho hotel Ho Ifo had Md fallen ellen at t least five stories Col Burdette had hod ha a room rom on the seventh floor When th the alarm of 01 fire lre fr reached him for hs his was cut CU oft off Ills His Is room rom faced tac d tile the tle court co rt in the th Ih center of the hotel lintel Apparently he had dragged d the mattress rpm his hll bed and dropped It to the room rom of ot an I extension over the tho hotel dining room several sto eto stories ries below belo Then by knotting the thc sheets together he ho made a I rope secured It I to the window lowered himself on the Im Improvised rope and then dropped Ills His Bs design was IS aa to land lane on op the mattress and thus have luwe the tha frightful fall fail broken Ho lie 10 miscalculated ted the time distance went beyond the extension and Ind was wu 1 killed kiedA A PARTY PAnTY OF Or PRIESTS SAVED RAVED Father Smith n a 1 fire tr chaplain found Ludden of ot Syracuse In a I room rom romon on tho the sevenths seventh floor for of the hotel and helped him to t the time street treet Bishop Ludden told the firemen then that there ther were a number of priests tl In the time hotel Including Mgr Kenney also of ot Syra Syracuse Syr cuse Father Smith returned Into the building fought ought his hla way Wn through the smoke up the stairs and conducted c the time priests down don the stairway Y to safety Ono One of the bodies awaiting RW Identification ton tion was waa recognized by Henry Newman of oft 1 city as a that of ot his niece Miss Esther of Chicago who had come m to New York to buy goods for tor her fathers tather store More Ito In that city gs Gaston A Robbing Hobbins who was W killed kie was wn formerly a 1 congressman from Set Bel Belma ma Irma mi Alabama A SAD FATE FAT Among the persons per ons killed were svere Miss Mss Foster Foter a I missionary who soho devoted her herself herself self sll to work In the time Tombs Tomb prison She was as a dally daIly daly visitor to the prison and gave up all ni her time to the time service orvice of the unfortunates confined there ther MaS Jacob Spahn a I l N Y 1 lawyer lost his imla life le In the fire fre Rear Admiral Joseph N Miller Mier re retired retired tired was wa reported mortally hurt In Inthe Inthe Inthe the fire tre but he was Wa uninjured and ad Is In his hil usual health Many Mony of or o tho the police and fire fre officials declare that In their opinion th blaze blazo In the tho hotel was as entirely Independent of that nt ot the tM armory and that It was only a 0 coincidence that the two fires fres oc occurred occurred occurred so S near together It I was WI established with wih a I fair degree of ot certainty c today that the fire fre nt at the Park Avenue hotel originated nt at the tho base of at the tho north elevator shaft haft From this timI point It II crept up to the fifth and sixth floors and spread In every olry direction direction tion completely covering the tIme upper loom Police Capt Delaney paid that when ho was nl notified that the hotel was afire afre there thoro was no thought of the structure being endangered from the armory blaze bl ze HOTEL BUILT DUt T BY DY STEWART Tho Park Avenue hotel was built bui by byA byA byA A T Stewart Steart who spent on onIl Its construction and furnishings Tho The building Il occupies the tile entire entre front of tho tile on Park avenue from Thirty second to streets with wih a n depth of half hol a 0 block It I Is seven even stor stories lee ies In height and encloses encloses on four tour sides a court cour containing 1400 feet teet of space s At tho the time of ot Its s construction It I was Wi tile the largest hotel In tho the with wih the I tl hI of tho time Palace hotel a 1 San Ban BanI I el t Sewart designed the tho hotel originally as PS a a n home borne hore for tor working bot when wh n It was wal found that It I could olen not ha bo managed on al the th plan adopted by Its Hi founder It was WI converted Into a family tamly hotel |
