, 1890-10-16

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stepped down from the sill into the room,
but remained at the window but an in
slant when the whole room became
enveloped In flames and she sank back
from view.
A riRKMAN's TRAGIC STORY.
One Of the firemen told this story OF q
woman who was killed by jumping'
"When we first came we were hampered
by the telegraph wires on West Fayettc
street. In trying to raise a ladder
1t became caught in tho wires.
woman stood In window
crying for help. The flames were leap
ing out toward her, and she was frantic
with fright. l went up the ladder to cut
the wires. While was doing this she
jumped, thinking we could not reach
her, and the awful result was that she
missed 1t and was killed"
THE DEAD UNIDENTIFIED.
1t is now 4 ;25 O'Clock, and although
the hotel is still burning, tho fire depart
ment have the flames under control.
There are four dead bodies lying at the
undertaking establishments and one
dead body lies ut tho hospital. These
bodies are as yet unidentified, and 1t is
utterly impossible to learn definitely
how many were burned to death, many
of whose bodies will never be found.
PECULIAR coIscIDENcE.
A remarkable coincidence is the fact
that to-day the meeting OF insurance
adjasters of the state was to take place
at the hotel.
The proprietors of the hotel are War
rem Leland and Vanbusen Leland, who
are also proprietors of and interested In
various other large hotels in different
cities throughout the United States.
.. rRLL BACK IN THE PLAMEs..
The frlghtful shrieks of the guests and
craokle of the flames could be heard for
blocks away. The building burned so
rapidly that most of the people on the
upper floors were obliged to use the fire
escapes or jump for their lives. One
woman appeared at u window in II room
on the north side of the building with
baby in her arms. Her pitiful cries Tor
help weru heartrending.
AS the flames gathered round here the
fremen tried in vain to raise ladder on
this side of the building. The woman
was told to throw out rope or jump
from the window. She threw out rope,
and as she was climbing out of the W in.
dow the flames enveloped her, and she
fell back into the building and peiished.
TORE OFF THEIR ENTERTAINMENTS.
Seven or eight men and children
jumped from the upper stories on to a
shed in the rear of the hotel. At one
time seven persons were struggling to.
gether on the shed, which had already
caught from the flying sparks. Tho vic
Tins were half naked, and several Of
them were seen to tear off their under
garments that had caught fire. One
woman lay ON the ground where she had
fallen, tearing her hair from her head
Her hair had caught fire. and 1t was
with difficulty that the flames were
quenched. She, together with others
who had jumped from the rear windows,
was picked up and carried on stretcher
to saloon In the neighborhood. In this
saloon several persons lay on the pool
tables in all positions. One of the women
was Annie Schwartz a laundry girl, en-
ployed in the hotel. She was rescued
from the rear of the fourth floor by a
colored man, who had already saved
several others.
The doors of Gray Bros, shoe manu-
facturers, across the street. were smashed
in and several persons carried there on
stretchers. The police OIL ce was turned
into u hospital. and the patrol wagons
into ambulances.
FRtGHTFUL INCIDENT
One of the most frightful incidents OF
the fire was the terrible death of a
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 woman, jumped into one of the
nets almost at the same moment and es-
capped with broken limbs. The next Ia
jump was woman who appeared in a
window on the fifth story In her night.
clothes. She leaped out of the window
and missing the net, was dashed tc
pieces on the stone sidewalk. She wa.
picked up and removed to the morgue.