The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1885-04-03


TIE Lsngham Hotel ~ Chicago Totally
Dcssreyed ny Fire-Several Lives Lost
Miraculous Escapes NJ some ~ ths
0uests-The Dead and Mi<sing.
Cn,cAGo, Ill, March 22.-The Laug-
ham Hotel, formerly the Burdick House,
located at the corner Of Wabash avenue
and Jackson streets. was entirely de-
stroyed BY fire last evening, notwlth-
standing the persistent efforts OF eleven
Are steamers, whose many streams Of
water seemed but 10 make the flames,
which cxirded from cellar to garrett, burn
Aercer aud brighter. The firc originated
An one OF the lower rooms from kero-
scne lamp, which was accidentally over
turned. AT the time the restaurant OF
che house contained 100 guests at supper,
and as many more were In their rooms.
The people In the restaurant had no
trouble in getting out, but several per-
sons in the upper rooms had very mar
row escape.
Mrs. Bclknap, an elderly lady, was
killed jumping from the fourth story
into the alley. Subsequently the cry
was raised that the walls were falling,
and that Bulwinkie's fire ms urance pa
trolmen were inside the building. A por-
ton Of the south wall was seen TO TO tier
and then II came down with a
crash. Two members Of the fre insur-
ance patrol barely escaped the tumbling
bricks land timbers. Two others we're
pinned fast, but after long efforts we're
finally extrlcated. The legs OF both
we're severely bruised. Patrolmen A.
Jones aud John Walsh are believed to
have been suffocated beneath the wall.
The firemen never ceased tn cir efforts to
secure the two missing patrolmen and
about four hours afterward they were
found In the basement of the building
next to the hotel, buried under broken
flooring and fragments Of the falling wall.
They were taken out alive, and will prob
ably survive their injuries.
The escape Of Mrs. J. A. Murray ana
child was marvellous. The lady occupied
room on the nth floor, and wa un-
aware OF danger till II was too late to at
tempt TO descend the stairways. She
reached the fire-escape, but at each floor
found the hole In the grating too small
TO admit the passage OF herself and in
FAINT, ard she was therefore compelled
four times. with the flames bursting
around her, to seat the child upon the
platform, lower herself over the edge and
reach up for the little one. Mrs. Murray
reached the ground without assistance,
and quarter Of an hour afterward had
wholly recovered from the effects Of her
terrible experience.
Policeman Marks saw two domestics at
- - -. sys<xx.- 1T 3
was supposed all the inmates had been
rescued. He rushed up the burning
staircase. and few moments later APP
pcared, dragging out both women, who
had been rendered unconscious by smoke
The hotel, which Is total loss, was
erected Immediately after the great fire.
While substantial looking outside, 1t was
called q 6re-trap. 1t was formerly known
as the Burdick House, then as the CrSw'
ford, and, recently, as the Langham
Cummings & Howard, owners. Shaw 4
Son leased the establishment. The lat
ter's loss is $50, 900; Insurance, $4,000.
The building was valued at $3.50, 900 and
insured for half. kietz & Son, picture
trainers. and Harden's hand-grenade
agency suffer total loss; insurance un
known.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, March 22.--AnotheI
victim Is added to the list Of fatalitie.
connected with the burning Of the Lang
ham House last night. The body OF JohE
Hennessey, an cmploye Of Faxon Co.
was recovered from the ruins this after
noon. lie was among the party buriee
beneath the falling wall, and was found
crushed beneath Q heavy piano. Tn
dead are:
John Hennesscy; single, twenty-eight
Winthrop Place.
william Bean; married, seventy-two
Van Buren, street.
Mrs. Belknap.
Fire Insurance Patrolmen John Walls
and Edward Jones; both single.
Mrs. Belknap might have been saved
but became wild with fright and lcapc,
from 4 fifth story window to the stree
while ladder was being raised for he
rescue. Nothing Is known OF her idcntit
further than that she came from Alabama
and had only been at the hotel a fe,
days. Her neck was broken by the fall
A blind man named Thompson, an en-
ployc Of the hotel, ID missing. Also
travelling salesman from New York, nam
unknown. The travelling mans baggag
was saved from the hotel Office, bears til
initials I'D. X. b." which Is all that
known of him. lie was seen TO enter til
building when the alarm sounded, an
has not vet appeared to claim the ba:
gage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hooly, Of Cincinnati Ia
q miraculous escape. Both are cripple'
and unable to walk. Mr.. Hooly Is
member OF the nrm Of Snyder & Hooly, {
this city. When the fire broke out NJ
Martindale, cashier OF the firm, was on
business visit to their room on the fourl
floor. lie caught the invalIds, one undo
each arm. and. carving them to the eli