, 1890-10-16
H0RRIFYING SCENES.
Twenty-Five Dead a Con-
servattve Estimate.
THE LELAND At SYRACUSE
Many of the Inmateo Leaped to
tho Pavement. and Were
Crushed.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Oct. 16.-What
proved to be the most disastrous hire
that has visited Syracuse for many
years was discovered in the Leland
hotel at 1890 O'Clock this morning.
1t Is now 2 o'clock, and the fire is
still burning fercely, although the en-
tire fire department. consisting of nine
engines, are working hard to save
further loss Of life and limb.
An eyewitness of the fire says that
it is positive that at least twenty
Ave persons lost their lives, and that
many more were injured.
One woman was being lowered from the
window by the aid Of q rope. She had
reached point opposite the third-story
window, when the rope became ignited
from the burning sill, the rope parted
and the woman fell to the pavement and
her brains were dashed out and her body
was Aattened into shapeless mass.
30 great is the confusion and excite
ment that the identity Of those killed
and injured is wholly unknown.
Undertakers and ar, balances are flying
in all directions, and the streets in the
neighborhood of the ill-fated hotel are
thronged with excited crowds of people.
Frank Carey, of Gens Falls, N. Y,
has been identified as one of those
burned TO death.
Many people, crazed with fright. lost
t,at h,, i,,.r ~ ,uip
One man says he saw six people jump
from different windows on the Fayette
street side of the building within space
of four minutes, and the sight sickencd
obliged 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.
Burnet Forbes, a stockbroker Of this
city, escaped into the street almost en-
tirely naked. He was slightly injured
about the shoulders.
One woman was found with babe In
her arms crouched in stairway, whore
she had been overcome by the smoke.
She was removed by the fremen, but
has not yet regained consciousness. and
1t Is impossible to say what her name or
reference was.
The fire Is said to have started in tho
kitchen. The building will be total
loss. 1t was built two years ago at a
cost of $50, 600. 1t is six stories high
and contained 400 rooms.
H. is impossible to learn how many
guests were in the hotel at the time the
fire broke out. The total loss will not
be less than bali million.
Among those injured is Cora Tanner,
the actress, who is severely burned about
the head and feet. She was playing an
engagement at the Grand opera-house
and had q room in the hotel.
Every physician in Syracuse is on the
ground.
Most of those killed were on the fourth
and fifth floors.
At A. Nj. the hotel is still burning
Vague rumors are afioat that the list O
the killed will number fifty persons, bu
this fact can not be substantiated, and i
is believed that the number will be lesl
than twenty five, the first estimate.
The guard lines stretched across tn,
streets are inadequate TO keep back tn,
surging crowds of people that are packed
In the streets leading to the hotel, anc
police are stationed all around the build
ing.
The scenes and incidents connected
with the rescue of the inmates wer.
heartrending in the extreme. The erie
of the women standing in the uppe
windows and of the excited crowds be
low were deafening, and, added to tn,
constant roar OF many fre-engines
created n babel of confusion and d
panicky excitement in and around the
hotel.
The newspaper representatives are en-
deavoring with all energy at their com
mand to obtain substantiated lists O
those who have lost their lives, but hay,
meet with but little success