The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-10-21
Heart Rendering Scenes-PeO
pie Dash Themselves to
Death From the
Windows.
Cora Tanner The Actress Among
the Badly Injured Husband
and Wife Enwrapped i'm
Flames.

Syracuse, N. Y, Oct. 16.-What
proved to be the most disastrous fire
that has visited Syracuse for many
years was discovered in the Leland
hotel at II: 80 O'Clock this morning.
1t is now two o'clock and the fire i:
still burning fiercely, although the
entire fire department, consisting Of
nine engines, is working hard to save
further loss of lie aud limb.
An eye witness Of the fire says it is
positive that at least twenty-five per.
sons have lost their lives, and many
more have been more or less injured.
One woman was being lowered from
a window by the aid OF rope. She
had reached point opposite the third
story. when the rope became ignited
! from a burning sill, the rope parted
aud the woman fell to the pavement,
her brains being dashed out and her
body fla tened into a shapeless mass.
So great is the confusion and excite
ment that the identity of those killed
and injured is wholly unknown.
Undertakes ambulances and other
vehicles are flying in all directions
and the streets in the neigbborhood Of
the ill-fated hotel are thronged with
excited crowds of people.
Among those injured is Cora Tan
ner, the actress, who was severely
burned about the head and feet. She
was playing an engagement at the
Grand opera house and had a room
in the hotel.
ga. m.-The hotel is still burning.
Vague rumors are afioat that the
list Of killed will number fifty per.
sons, but this fact cannot be substan.
tiated and it is believed the number
will be less than twenty five, the first
estimate.
Guard lines stretched across the
streets are inadequate 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 fire, which started in the
kitchen, spread by means Of the eleva-
tor we'll, which was near the stairway,
and so all means of escape was cut of
and those in the upper stories were
compelled tojump.'
The clerk of the hotel began send
ing in the alarm by telephone, but
the flames spread so rapidly that he
was driven from the instrument and
compelled to jump to save bis life.
The 6remen saved many lives.
Nothing is left of the building ex.
cept the elevator shafts and the
chimney.
Within fifteen minutes after the
blaze was first discovered the entire
building was wrapped in flames. 1t
was impossible for the guests to es-
cape. The scene was one of the Wild
est confusion and people were to be
seen at the windows on every floor
shrieking frantically for help, which
could not be given them. Many were
seen to fall back into the flames faint
ing and exhausted, while others hur.
led themselves from the windows,
meeting death on the pavement.
Many who escaped from the lower
stories will die from the effect Of their
injuries occasioned by the flames and
part of the falling walls.
HEARrRENDERINa INCIDENTS NUnER-
Gus.
The scene and incidents connected
with the rescue of inmates are heart
rendering in the extreme. The cries
Of women standing in upper windows
and of the excited crowd below were
deafening, and added to this the con-
slant roar Of many FIRE engines, crea-
ted q babel of confusion and panicky