The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-10-28
FIRE AT SNOHOMISH.
Burning OF the Riverside Hotel,
with Loss OF Life.

Ga !.st THURSDAY Light about Is
minutes past IL o'clock, the guests Of
the Riverside Hotel were awakened BY
the cry of FIRE Mr. A Clifford was
asleep On the second floor ard was
awakened by the cracking flames He
sprang into the hsll giving the alarm,
ouly to find hi, passage to the stairway
barred by Al impossible sheet Of fame
and sufocating smoke. lie burs: open
door leading TO the room next to the
one be occupied. aroused its occupant
and making lis escape through the
window from the second floor to the
ground Several other guests were In
bed On tue same Hoor, oil having to es-
cape through the windows Of the burn
ing building. which was accomplished
without any serious accident - any,
with one terribly unfortunate excel ton !;
that Of young Benjamin Dolan, who
occupied q room near the stairway
where the fire is supposed 10 have orig
insted. Every effort TO arouse or rescue
him was oil In vain. and j. was soue
three hours after the sad disaster before
his chsrred remains were rescued from
the ruins. Several guests had very
narrow escapes. having to leap 70 the
ground 10 or II fe,t below, in an Il!
most nude coud,iou; losing All their
clothing Mrs Commit and three chill
dren. likewise her brother, . Able
who cannot walk without cru'cl,, ), he
Is just recovering !:om fractured
thigh occupied rooms on the ground
floor. but being assisted by the land
lord ard one or two OF the guests who
had not retired for the night. they all
o. aped unipjured. losing plrt Of their
elo,hin. aud bedding. No,hing was
saved from the secoud so:y. AID but
very littlo from the fist flor The
structure WAS wood. lined. paperei and
painted throughout. ard IN few mo
ments the flames flashed all through It.
enveloping the building from basement
to roof in roaring flames, rolling smoke
and sending hssvcn~a,d columns If
cinders and ashes The store Of d
Is jackson & Co is terribly singed. aud
i. wfn almost impossible to save it But
the town was aroused; help came; ropes. !
buckets aud ladders were procured, and /
the men all worked heroictlly to save
the property.
The property Of WIN Romines acroes
the street, that Of Mrs Packard aud J I
II Hilton and others. was in imminent
danger: but fortunately the roof fell in,
leaving the west wall standing and par
TALLY smOthered the flames and sup
pressed the intense beat But for that
and the timely iain the,. would be bu,
little Of the eastern en-! o: town 1T
Standing now.
The loss o. the building falls heavily
on Mr. Romincs, rs it was not insured. !
Mr. Naders loss is large. mostly in fur t
niture and provisions. The house was
recently refurnished throughout, and u
large stock Of provision, LAID iu.
A gentleman recently from the East
loses quite heavily in clothing and fur
niture. Q fine family organ and com
plete kit of carpenters toolf.
Considerable damage and loss was
by removing aud replacing
the stock of goods in d Il Jackson & F!
Cos store.
But the loss is nothing compared to t
the fate of that overwhelmed young |
Benz Dolan. ITs was - young man of
nncxcep,ionsl moral character. abont
81 yesrs Of age, perfectly temperate.
without Il vicious habit. Both he and
his father. MIR Franz Dolan. are well
known all over the country The agony
Of the latter. when he saw that his son.
his only chill. was lost, was unspeaka-
BILE. Every heart sunk with sorrow
when they saw him. Stout men. his
friends had 10 turn from him to hide
eheir emotion. as he went from group
to group, through beat and smoke.
pesring into every face. unwilling to
believe that he was gone still hoping
he had escaped refusing to yield up
every hope till told. late at night. that
friends had rescued the remains.
The fuaeral occurred Friday after
noon from the Presbyterian Church,
Rev Mr. Mccoy preaching very in
sermon. His remains were
followed to the grave by nearly all our
and as they wendell their
way homeward. every heart grieved ct
the fate of the young unfortunate and
throbbed alphabetically with the af>
fliCted fathers.