Los Angeles herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1890-1893, 1890-10-16
who had already saved several others of

the help.
The doors of Gray Bros, shoe manu-
facturers, across the street, were
smashed in and several persons carried
there on stretchers. The police Office
was turned into hospital and patrol
wagons into ambulances.
One of the most frightful incidents of
the fire was the terrible death of
woman who jumped from the fifth
story. Several policemen stood on
the sidewalk holding nets ready
to catch the guests as they
jumped. Two persons, man and a
woman, bumped into one of the nets
almost at the same moment and escaped
with broken limbs. The next to Jump
was woman who appeared in window
of the fifth story in her night clothes !;
she leaped out of the window, and mis-
sing the net was dashed to pieces on the
stone sidewalk. She was picked up and
removed to the morgue.
Among those injured is Cora Tanner,
the actress, who is severely burned about
the head and feet. She was playing an
engagement at the Grand opera house,
and had a room in the hotel.
Every physician in Syracuse is on the
ground.
Most of those killed.were on the fourth
and fifth floors.
3a. m.-The hotel is still burning.
Vague rumors are af1oat that the list Of
killed will number fifty persons. but
this fact cannot be substantiated, and it
is believed the number will be less than
twenty-five, the first estimate.
The 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 build
ing. ,
The scenes and incidents connected
with the rescue of the inmates are
heartrending in the extreme. The cries
of women standing in the upper windows
and of the excited crowd below, were
deafening, and, added to this, the con-
stant roar of many fire engines created a
babel of confusion and panicky excite
ment in and around the hotel.
Newspaper representatives are en-
deavoring with all the energy at their
command to obtain substantiated lists
of those who have lost their lives, but
have met with little success.
One of the firemen told this story of a
woman who was killed by jumping !:
"When we first came we were hampered
by telegraph wires on West Fayette
street. Trying to raise ladder, it be-
came caught in the wires. A woman
stood in window crying for help. The
flames were leaping out toward her,
and she was frantic with fright.
I went up the ladder to cut the wires.
While was doing this she Jumped,
thinking we could not reach her, and
the awful esult was that she missed the
net and was killed."
1t is now 4 rs O'Clock, and although
the hotel is still burning, the fire de-
partment have the flames under
control. There are four dead
bodies lying at different under
taking establishments, and one
dead at st. Joseph's hospital. These
bodies are as yet unidentified. 1t will be
utterly impossible to learn definitely
how many were burned to death, and
whose bodies will never be found.
A remarkable coincidence is the fact
that today meeting of the
assurance adjusters of this state was
to have taken place at the hotel. The
proprietors of the hotel are Warren j.
Leland and Van Buren, Leland, who are
also the proprietors of and are in
terested in various other large hotels
in different cities throughout the United
States.