Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-10-16
Leland Hotel, Syracuse, Barned to
the Ground; Many Lives Lost in
the Flames;
SIX PEOPLE JUMPED THROUGH
THE WINDOWS;
4 Nan and Woman Locked in
Each Other, Arms Above
S-a OF Flame;
AwomEN FRANTIC WITH FRIGHT
JUMPS INTO DEATH.
Professor Smylhc Declines TO be
Condemned Fur Teaching
FaiSc Doctrines.
Telegraph to the SEwS.T
4 SICEEsING HORROR.


| ihe Leland itetel II Eurned and
Numerous Persons Perish.
! SYRACUSE, Get. 15.-what proved
10 lie the most disastrous fire that
has visited Syracuse for many year,
was discovered in the Leland Hotel
at 1890 O'Clock this morning. II is
now > O'Clock and the fire is still
burning iiercely, although the en-
tire fire department, consisting Of
nine engines, are working hard b
save further loss Ui life and limb.
An eye witness OF the fire says il i
positive that al least tWenty-iiv We
persons lost their lives, and many
more were injured. One woman
vas being lowered from window
| 10y tine aid O: rope. She had
reached a point opposite the third
story when the rope became iguitei
from the burning sill. TEe rope
/ parted and the woman fell Ia the
pavement. Her brains were dashed
out and the holy was ilattynei into
a -iapeless mass.
81 great are tine confusion aud eN-
element that the identity Of those
killed and injured is wholly an
known.
Unlertakers and ambulanccs are
dying in all directions, and the
streets in the ne ghb0rhOOd OF the
Inflated hotel are tnrOugei with tx
citei crowds Of people.
Frank Carey o. Gien's Falls.
New YORK, has been identified n
one %! those burned 1, death. Many
people, crIzsd with fright,
LOST THEIR LIVES
by jumping from windows. One
man says he saw siN people jump
from different windows Uu the Fay
cite Street side Of tine uuillius vita
iu four minutes, and the sight sick
ened him with horror and he vas
Obliged 10 leave the spot.
The building vas provided with
both iron fire escapes on the outside
and rupes on the inside, which were
the mean, OF saving many lives.
Buruut Forbes, a stock broker ut tins
city, escaped into the street aim 4,
entirely naked. lie was slightly
Injured about the shoulders.
One woman was found with babe
IN her arms, cruuched Ia a stairway
where She had been overcome by
smoke. She was removed by fiu-
men. but has not yet rcgaiued Gun
-ciOusnC-s, and il J. Impossible 10
say what her name or rc-ijeuCe Is.
The fire i said to have started in
the kitchen. the building will be a
total loss. II was built two years ago
at a cost % Sl5D,O1D. II l. six stories
high and contained 800 rooms.
Il j. impossible 10 learn how many
guests were In the hotel at the time
the fire broke out. Tine total loss
will not fall short Of half a million.
Among those injured i Cora
Tanner, the actress, who was severe
~ burned about the head and feet.
She was playing an engagement ut
the Grand Opera House aud hal a
room in the hotel. Every physician
in Syracuse in nn the ground. The
most Of those killed were on the
fourth and fiith ii1ors.
NUMBER or UNFJETUNATEs.
8a. m.-The hotel Is still Burning.
Vague ruuOrs are ailOat that llle list
81 killed will number fifty persons,
but this fact cannot be suhstBuiiated.
and IL i believed the number will
lie less than twenty-five, tine first
estimate. The guam lines stretched
across the streets are inadequate b
keep back the swaying crowds Of
people that are packed in the streets
leading to the hotel, and police are
stationed all around the huiiding.
The scenes and incidents c1nueC-
tt-i with the rescue OF the inmates
were helrtrending in the extreme. |
The cries Of women standing In the |
upper windows, ani Of the excited /
crowd below, were dcafening, and |
added q the constant roar Of the I
many fire engines. created cOnfu- I
sion and panicky excitement in anu |
around the hotel.
Newspaper representatives are en- |
deivoTing with al the energy at |
their command 10 obtain a substan- |
tial list Of those who have lost their
lives, but have met with little sue
cess.
At leo n. m. n man and woman |
were seen locked in each others |
arms in window on the fifth floor,
at the northeast corner Of tine build
ing. Below them was a perfect
SEA OF FLAMES.
There was no possibility Of escape |
except 10y the window open TO them,