The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-10-16
WRAPPED IN FLAMES
Frightful Holocaust in
a Syracuse Hotel.
HORROR UPON HORROR
At Least twenty-five Persons Believed
TO Have Been Burned Alive.
SCENES SAD AND TERRIBLE
The Beautiful Leland Hotel Catches
Fire at Midnight and Burns
Rapidly to the Ground
Fate of the Guests.

SnkAtlSt, oct. lp.-N nat proved 10 De
the most disastrous fire that has visited
Syracuse for many years was discovered
in the Leland hotel at 1890 o'clock this
morning. 1t is now o'clock and the fire
is still burning fiercely, although the en-
tire fire department, consisting of nine
engines, are working hard TO save further
loss of life and property.
An eye witness of the fire says il is posi-
tive that at least % persons lost their lives
and many more were injured.
One woman was being lowered from
window by the aid of rope. She had
reached a point opposite the third story
when the rope ignited from burning sill.
The rope parted and the poor woman fell
to the pavement. Her brains were dashed
out and the body ilattened into a shape
less mass.
So great is the confusion and excite-
ment, that the identity of those killed and
injured is wholly unknown.
Undertakers and ambulances are flying
in all directions, and the streets in the
neighborhood of the Inflated hotel are
thronged with excited crowds of people.
Frank Casey of Glens Falls, New York,
has been identified as one of those burned
to death.
Many people crazed with fright lost their
lives by jumping from the windows. One
man says he saw six people jump from
the different windows on the Favette
street side of the building within space
of four minutes and the sight sickened
him with its horror 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, the stockbroker of this
city, escaped into the street almost naked
He was slightly injured about the shoul
ders.
One woman was found with babe in
her arms, crouched in a stairway, where
she had been overcome by smoke. She
was removed by the flremen, but has no
yet regained consciousness and il is i'm
possible to say what her name or refer
ence was.
The fire is said to have started in th,
| kitchen.
The building will be total loss. II wa,
built two years ago at a cost of S150,OOO
1t was six stories high and contained 40,
rooms. 1t is impossible to learn nov
how many guests were in the hotel at tn,
time the fire broke out. The total los,
will not be half million.
Among those injured is Cora Tanner
the actress, who is severely burned abou
the head and feet. She was playing al
engagement at the Grand opera hous,
| and had room In the hotel.
Every physician in Syracuse is on tn,
ground. The most of those killed wer,
on the fourth and fifth floors.
a. m. The hotel is still burning
Vague rumors ava ailoat that the list o
killed will number 80 persons, but thi
fact could no. be substantiated and il i
believed the number will be less than %
the first estimate. The guard line
stretched across the street are inadequat,
to keep backthe surging crowds of peopl
that are packed in the streets leading I,
the hotel, and the police are stationed al
around the building.
The scenes and incidents connecte,
with the rescue of the inmates wer
| heartrenderlng In the extreme. The erie
Of the women standing in the upper win
dows and Of the excited crowd below an,
added to the constant roar of the man
fire engines, created a bable of confusion
and panic of excitement in and aroun,
the hotel. The newspaper representa-
tives are endeavoring with all energy a
their command 10 obtain substantial
list of those who have lost their lives bu
have met with little success.
A remarkable instance is the fact tina
to-day meeting Of insurance adjusters @
the state was to have taken place at tn
hotel.
The proprietors of the hotel are Ware
j. Leland and Van Buren, Leland, who ar
also proprietors OF and are interested 1
various other large hotels i'm different eli
les throughout the United States.