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Show oo MANY WERE IN DANGER Nearly 100 Guests in Grave Peril in New York Hotel Fire New York, Mar. 8 Nearly a hundred hun-dred guests of tho Hotel Burlington, an apartment hotel on Thirtieth street near Filth avenue, were placed In grave peril hv lire which shot from the tlrst floor up through an air shaft of the old six-story structure early today. Clad only in iheir night clothes, the guests were driven into the open air on one of the coldest mornings of the winter Many women wo-men were helped down ladders to the street, others climbed down fire escapes es-capes in the rear, and some had to be carried across ledges into the Holland Hol-land house next door. The guests of tho Holland bouse also were routed from their beds b. the alarm and they vied with one another In loaning the refugees from tho adjoining hotel their garments Mrs William H. Claggett. Jr., of Washington, who had a room on the sixth floor of the burning hotel, climbed out on a ledge about two feet wide and worked her own wa- across to the Holland bouse HCro of Fire. The hero of the fire was Henry Smith. H.'i years old. who has been In 'the hotel for twenty-five years. He 1 ran his elevator for seven or eight trips until the smoke drove him out land he carried man; persons to safe, ty. The fire proved to have gained less headway than supposed from the volume vol-ume of smoke, and flames which leaped up tbc alrebaft and the damage dam-age was confined SttBuly to the lower Moors. |