The Dickinson press., 1890-10-18

Guests Perish in the Burning Building OF
Leap From Wind ows to Certain Destruc-
tion---Loss of Life Placed at Twenty
Many Manned OF Seriously Burned.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Oct. 18.-The Lee
land hotel, the largest hotel i'll Central
New York, caught fire at 1890 a. m.
and was Il total loss.
So great is the confusion and excite
ment that the identity of those killed
and injured is wholly unknown. IN
dertakers' 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 rs one of those that were
burned to death. Many people,
Crnzod With Fright,
lost their lives by jumping from Win
dows. One man says he saw six people
jump from different windows on 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.
It is impossible to learn how many
guests were in the hotel at the time the
fire broke out. Vaguerumors are afloat
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 to the hotel, and police
are stationed all around the building.
The scenes and incidents connected with
the rescue of inmates
Saw Twenty-Five Die.
An eyewitness of the fire says it 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 ropo parted and the
woman fell to the pavement-her brains
dashed out and her body fiattened into
a shapeless mass.
Are Hoartrcnding i'll the Extreme,
AT 1:12 a. m. a MAJ and woman were
seen locked in each others arms in a
window on the fifth floor. Below them
was n 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
e%ntreating her to desist. The woman
made n 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 tho 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 vas 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
severe burns on the arms and hands.
Put Loss of Life at Nineteen.
SYRACUSE, N. Y, Oct. 1.-THE LIE.
land hotel ruins are still burning
fiercely, with several streams PLAYING
on them. An immense crowd is present
The number of dead is still uncertain.
-Four bodies have been recovered. About
fifteen persons are missing.