Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-01-18
FLEEING FROM FLAMES.
TWO sra nurrLs oU W ~ SMOKE
SIseping Guests AwaKeu Dy tho Hotel
Emplpyes and Narrowly Escaping
Nitn Their Lives

News reached Jacksonville, Florida,
Thursday afternoon, that the Suwanee
sulphur Springs hotel, at Suwaucc, prob
ably the huCst structure of the kind in
Florida, was burned AT an early hour
Thursday morning. The fire suddenly
broke out on the second hoor OF the build
ing, directly over the kitchen. A strong
draft in the hall and the high winds ou
the outside carried the flames along with
great rapidity, aud the whole building, a
magnificent fuur. sided, five turrctcd,
wooden structure, with great opcu
square in the centre, and l2) rooms, was
quickly converted into roaring furnace.
It is estimated that fully 100 guests were
asleep in the house when the fLmcs burst
| forth. Many OF these were invaltds aud
nearly all were from Northern states The
night clerk, pOrtcrs and other employees
who were up rushed through the cjrri
durs. bpating down doors and arousiug the
| sleeping inmates ia other ways, as best
| they could. Nearly all the guests wore
| forced to q. ape by leapiug through the
windows aud veraudahs, and several suf
fered broken limbs, but no more serious
| injuries.
4 Mr.. Palmer, said to bc from New
| York, was badly siuged, but his injuries
are not dangerous. A colored servant girl
and = negro boy are reported missing aud
| it is feared that both perished. No search
Of the ruins has been possible yet, how
| ever. None of the guests saved any of
! their property, and the loss to the owners
! Of the hOtOl was also total, nothing but u
small fraction Of the Office furniture being
saved. The hotel and its furniture were
valued at 500. 900. TIE insurance aggre
| gates s6l, 600 The effects OF the guests
were, of course, uninsured, aud are a total
! loss.
Guest. Fleeius from n burning Hotel.
The Grand Montezuma hotel, at Las
! Vegas, y. NJ, was burned Thursday
| afternoon. The fire originated in the base
ment, II is supposed from gasoline ma
| chine. In thirty minutes the hotel was 10
| ruins. The guests, numbering one hun
| drrd, lost everything, barely escaping with
! their lives. Frozen fire plugs rendered
! the fire department powerleSs. The hote
was owned by the Atchison, Topeka i
! Santa Fe railroad company, and was one
| OF the finest structures in the West. The
| loss is $500 900. The insurance is les,
! than 300, ,OOO distributed amOux a large
number OF companies.
a Fight with a Burglar.
| George 4 Ward, proprietor Of the Relay
house. prominent hotel in Birmingham,
! Ala. discovered a burglar in one Of the
rooms OF the hotel Thursday morning al
half pas, two O'Clock and pursued him
The Two mat on the stairway, aud the
burglar fired, the ball penetrating tbs
cheek bone The burglar then struck
Wand with a sluugsaot. knocking hin
down the stairway, aLd made his es
cape through u window. There Is 10 clu,
g. the criminal. Wards wound : scriOu
and painful \ nan Vas arresei m sus
piciou, and gave the name Of Capt. smith
slsamboat captain. OF New YORK, claimin.
% bo prospecting He was drunk when ar
rested, aad could give no satisfactory &C
count OF himself.