The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1890-10-17
A HOTEL HOLOCAUST.
The LELAND Hotel at Syracuse,
N. W, on FIRE and WHY Se
"a Total Loss.
Ar Eye Witness Says He Saw
Twenty-Five People Lose
Their Lives.
Another Report Says That Fifty PEG.
pie Perished in the Flames
Details Meager.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Oct. 16.-The LIE
land hotel is on fire. 1t is the largest
hotel in Central New York. The fire
started at 1890 o'clock a. m. Nine en-
gines are playing stl cams On the flames
but the building will prove a total loss.
Saw Twenty-Five Die.
An eyewitness of the fire says 1t is
positive that at least twenty-five persons
have lost their lives and many more
have been more Or less injured. One
woman was being lowered from a win
dow by the aid of a rope. She had
reached a point opposite the third story,
when the rope became ignited from a
burning sill, the rope parted and the
woman fell to the pavement-her brains
dashed out and her body fattened into
a shapeless mas
So great is the confusion and excite
ment that the identity of those killed
and injured is wholly unknown. I'm
dert akers' ambulances are flying in all
directions, and the streets in the neigh
borhood of the Inflated hotel are
thronged with excited crowds Of people.
Frank Carey, of Glens Falls, N. Y, has
been identified as one of those that were
burned to death. Many people,
Crazed With Fright,
lost their lives by jumping from win
dows. One man says he saw six people
jump from different windows or the
Fayette street side of the building
within the course of four minutes, and
the sight sickened him with its horror
and he was compelled to leave the spot.
The building was provided with both
iron fire escapes on the outside and
ropes on the inside, which were the
means of saving many lives.
Fifty Lives Reported Lost.
1t is impossible to learn how many
guests were in the hotel at the time the
fire broke out. Vague rumors are afioat
that the list of killed will number fifty
persons, but unsubstantiated, and it is
believed the number will be less than
twenty-five, the first estimate. Guard
lines stretched across the streets are in
adequate to keep back the surging
crowds of people that are packed in the
streets leading t. the hotel, and police
are stationed all around the building.
The scenes and incidents connected with
the rescue Of inmates
Are H~eartrending in the Extreme.
At liz a. m. a man and woman were
seen locked in each others arms in a
window on the fifth floor. Below them
wa a perfect sea of flame. No POSSIBLE
ity of escape except by the window was
open to them and that seemed inevitable
death. No assistance could reach them.
The woman seemed to be anxious to
jump, but her husband was earnestly
~entreating her to desist. The woman
made mt last effort to jump, was re-
strained by her husband, and the cry of
the crowd signaled the awful end that
must have befallen them as they fell
backward into the room into a mass of
flames. :
Cora Tanner Injured.
1t was reported shortly after the fire
broke out that Miss Cora Tanner, the
actress, who was a guest of the hotel,
had jumped from a window to the
ground and had been killed. Later it
was learned, however, that Miss Tan
ner had escaped alive, but had suffered