The new North-west., 1888-04-27
AN OLD HosrELRY BURNED.
The Centennial, in Butte, Burned and Two
Lives Lost. |

Between 2 and 8 o'clock Tuesday morning
the Centennial hotel at Butte, owned by Dr.
Geo. W. Beal, took fire, and by 5 O'Clock was
| the hotel at the time, and two-Jesse b
Glidden, partner Of DR.. Beal's, and Frank
Lincoln, a brother of Mrs. Patrick Talent
| were burned to death. Mr.. j. II. b. Foster,
| who WIS lying in the hotel sick Of pneu-
monia, was removed safely. The hotel GOV.
| cred ground 2O9 feet on Granite Street with a
50 foot front on Main, widening to 125 feet in
the rear. It had been built piece meal, and
cost DR.. Beal in the neighborhood of $5O, 600.
Furniture and all, 1t was probably worth
that when burned. There was only $1,000
insurance. 1t had been conducted as hotel
since July 4, 1876. The fire evidently started
in the linen room. Dr.. Beal thinks some one
came in from the outside to get some bed
clothes and dropped match there. Mr..
Geo. W. Newkirk's fine cabinet, the best in
Montana and valued at $4,000, was not re-
moved, and was about the only thing saved
in the building The supply of water was
very feeble at first, and the flames spread
with great rapidity through the wooden
structure. Dr. Beal, Frank Bateman and
night clerk Kinnerly, as soon as the alarm
was given, gave their attention to getting
the guests awakened and out Of the house
through the narrow Railways, the sitting
smoke and the intense heat, or many more
would have been added to the list of deaths,
but while doing so the fire gained headway
that it was impossible to suppress Mr.. Glld-
den had just come in from the German Gulch
mines, was very much exhausted, and it
seems had sat down IN chair and gone to
sleep, and was probably smothered before
awakening. The story of Frank Lincoln is
very pathetic, and is thus stated by the Inter-
Mountain: MM
The fate of Frank Lincoln, money order
clerk at the post Office and brother-in-law of
Postmaster Talent, was a terrible one. He
had met with the misfortune several years
ago of losing both his feet, and had artificial
ones substituted. His room was back, and
when the alarm sounded he got out of bed
and went into the hall to see what was the
matter. He found the hall on fire, and be-
1ieving his only escape was through the fire,
(the truth was he could have gone out the
back way if he had but known it) he con-
cluded he could not crawl through the fire
and so went into his room again to buckle
on his artificial limbs. He would have
jumped from the window, he said, if his
room had heen an outside room, but it was
one of the rooms with no outlet except
through the hall. Hurriedly dressing HIM
self and strapping on his artificial limbs he
started through the fire. Poor fellow, his
misfortune made his progress slow and the
heat overcame him and he fell right in the |
midst of the fire. In struggling about he got
hold of the knob Of a door, raised himself,
and fell forward again. This brought his
body through the fire, all but his wooden
legs. Recovering himself again, he hurried
on. At the top of the stairs he met Mr.
Phelps, printer, who attempted to help
him down stairs through the fire there, but
not knowing that Lincoln was cripple he
hurried him too fast. and both rolled down
stairs together. Lincoln was taken to the
Senate Saloon, where Drs. Leavitt and Nor
cross Jr. attended to his injuries as best they
could. His clothing was all burned from his
body and arms, and the hair and scalp were
burned to carbon. His arms and hands
were so cooked that the skin peeled off over
his hand like removing glove. He did not
seem to feel the pain Of the burns, but suf
fered intensely from sympathetic pain in
the stomach. He was removed to Mr..
Talents residence on West Broadway, where
he died. His remains were taken Wednes-
day to Waterville, Me-, by Mr. and Mrs.
Talent.