The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1890-10-22
HOTEL FIRE.
Twenty-Five Lives Are Supposed
10 Have Been Lost.
v-f1I scenes Presented to the View Of
sncctators TelOw-FictiIns Appear
at Windows, Hesitate, and
sink Back Into the
Flames

What proved TO be the most disastrous
f. that has visited Syracuse, n. Y, for
-,.rv years was discovered in the Le-
hand Hotel at 1880 o clock Thursday
morning. At2 o'clock the fire was still
burning 1ercely, although the entire
fire deuartmont, consisting Of nine en-
rfucs was working hard 10 save further
4 loss OF life and limb. An eyewitness Of
the fire SAYS 1t is positive that at least
twcrtv-fvcp persons have lost their lives
4 and many more have been moro or less
injured One woman was being
lowered from window by
tho aid Of a rope. She had
reached a point opposite the third-story
when the rope became ignited from
burning sill the rope parted and the
woman fell 10 the pavement, her brains
dashed out and her body hattened into
q shapeIess mass. Frank Carey, Of
Glons Falls, y. Y, has been identified
as one Of those that was burned TO death.
Many people orazed with fright lost
their lives by Jumping from windows.
One man says he saw six people jump
from different windows on the
Favette street side Of the build
ing within a space Of four minutes,
and the sight sickened him with its hOr-
TOR, and he was compelled to leave the
spot. The building was provided with
both iron fre-escapes on the Outsides
and ropes on the inside, which were the
means Of saving many lives. At 1:12 a.
ID. O man and woman were seen. locked
in each others arms in a window on
the fifth floor at tho northeast corner
Of the building. Below them was a
perfect sea Of flame. No possibility of
escape except by the window was open
10 them, and that seemed inevitable
death. No assistance could reach them.
The woman seemed TO be anxious to
Jump, but her husband was earnestly
cutreating her TO desist. The crowd be-
low waited with baited breath. The
woman made one last effort to jump, was
restrained by her husband, and the cry
Of tho crowd signaled the awful end that
must have befalien them as they fell
backward into the room into a mass OF
flames. AT window on the
fourth floor, almost directly under
this, a woman appeared at the win
dow. She was surrounded on all sides
from the interior Of the room by fierce
flames. She seemed irresOlute as tO
whether TO jump 20 the pavement or to
face the fiery foe that was fast encrOach-
ing on her liberty and life. Sho stepped
upon the sill Of the window and placed
her hands above her head People in tho
street below shuddercd and turned their
faces 10 shut out the horrible sight that
must meet their gaze should the woman
jump to tho ground. The woman did
not jump but seemed to be
withheld by either fear or Z
feeling that escape would come from
some other source. She stepped down
from the sill into the room, but remain
ed at the window but an instant when
the whole room became envelOped in
flames and the woman sank back frOu
view. A number Of guests were injured
among them Cora Tanner, the actress
who was severely burned about tho
head and feet The fire is said to have
started in the kitchen. The building
Will be a total loss. 1t was built two
years ago, at q total cost Of $50, 600. L
Is six stories high, and contained fOul
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