The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-16
Twenty-Five Guests Perish In
Flames at Syracuse.
TIE LELAND HOUSE DESTROYED.
Helpless Crowds in the Streets See
Men and Women Cremated.
4 Woman Leaps From window and II
Dashed on the Pavement-Thousands
Of People Case Herror-stricksn Upon
Fiame-Enshrouded Beings In the
Upper Stories.

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Upper Stories.
SxRAcusr, Oct lev hat proved to b
the most disastrous fire that has visited
syracuse ZOE many years was discovered In
!ne Leland noteI o t!z:oOo'ciock tnis morn
ing: ~ - nov O'Clock. ana the nre -
stiii burning nefceiy, aitnougn the entire
ufe departments, consisting OF nine engines,
y working nAfd 70 save iurther loss OF lie
ana hmo. An eye witness OF the fire says
u - posluve tnas o ieast twenty-nye per
sons nave been i0st and many more
injured.
One woman was being lowered from .
window By the aid OF . rope. She bad
reached point opposite third-story win
dow when the rops became ignited from q
burning sill and parted, and the woman
fell to the pavement. Her brains were
dashed out and her body fiattened into .
shapeless mass.
So great is the confusion and excitement
that the identity of those killed and in
jured il wholly unknown. Uadertakers
and ambulances are flying in all directions
ana the streets IN the neighborhood OF the
in-iated MOTEL are thronged with an excited
crowd OF people.
Frank Carey. OF Glen's Falls. n. T.. has
oeen ioennned as one OF those burned TO
death. Many people. crazed with fright,
lost their lives by jumping from the VIM
dows.
One man says he saw six people jump
from different windows on the Fayette
street side of the building within the space
Of four minutes, and the sight sickened
him with its horrors, SO that he was 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, stock broker OF this
city, escaped into the street almsot naked.
De Was slightly injured about the shoul-
d0rs.
One woman was found with . babe in
her arms crouched in the stairway. where
she had been overcome by the smoke. She
Was removed by the firemen, but has not
YET reganed conscousnesss ana IT Is ini-
posnDae 70 say Wnas ner name OF residence
y.
The fire is said to have started In tho
kiechen. The building Will be total loss
IL Was built two years ago o cost OF
$4,000. 1t is six stories high and con-
tanned 400 rooms. II Il impossible to learn
now how many guests were ~ the hotel at
the time the IRE broke out The total loss
VIII be nall million.
Among those injured is Cora Ianuer, the
actress, who was seversly burned about the
head ana feet Sne was playing IN en-
gagement ~ the Grand opera mouse and
had room at the hotel.
Every physician IN syracuse 10 on the
ground. Most OF those killed were on the
fourth and NTH floors.
- m.:--The hotel is still burning. A
vague rumor is afioat that the listsof killed
will number fifty persons. but this fact can
not Be substantiated, and it Is believed that
the number will be less than twenty-five,
the first estimate. The guard lines that
are stretched across the streets arc made
quate to keep back the surging crowds OF
people that are packed in the streets lead
iQg to the hotel, and police aae stationed
al around the buildings.
The incidents connected with the rescue
OF the inmates are heart-rending in the ex-
treme. The cries of tho women standing
IN the upper windows. and of the horriied
crowd below were deafening, and,
S>ssSs~'~>~
many firo-sngines, created Babel
OF confusion and panicky exclteuent In
and around the hotel. Newspaper repre-
sentatives are endeavoring with all the en-
ergy at their command to obtain substanti-
ated lists OF those who lost their hves, but
have met with little success.
At liz .. m. man and woman were
seen locked in each others arms in win
dow on the fifth floor, at the northeast cor
ner of she building. Below them was .
perfect sea OF flames. No possibility OF es-
cape, except by the window, was open to
them. and that seemed inevitable death. NO
assistance could reach them. The woman
seemed TO be anxious 70 Jump, but her
husband earnestly entreating ner 70 desise
The crowd below waited with oated breath.
The woman made one last enort % leap,
was restrained by the husband. and the
cry OF the crowd signaled the awful END
that must have Defaiien tnem - tney Iell
backward into the room into mass OF
flames.
At window on the fourth foor, almost
directly under this, woman was sur
rounded on al sides on the interior OF the
room by nerce names. sne seemed lrreso
lutte % TO whether 70 Jump 20 tne pavement
Or 70 lace the merry Zoe tnat WAS last en-
croaching on her lie. one stepped upon
the sill and placed her hands above ner head.
The people IN the street below snuodered
and turned their faces % smut ous the nor
rible sight that must meet their gaze should
the woman Jump 70 the ground. Sne seemed
to be withheld by either . fear or feeling
that escape would come from some source.