The semi-weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1890-1891, 1890-10-18
TERRIBLE FIRE At SYRACUSE,
Leland Hotel Mt Syracuse. N. y, Do
str"y"d and Many Lives
Lost.
APPALLING SCENES At THE DISASTER,
"A Spirited Race at Lexington Awak-
ems the Enthusiasm of the
kentuckians.
"Our Darling Boy" Returns Home in
Time to Learn that Registration
is 600 Short in Helena.
APPALLING SCENES At THE DISASTER.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, Oct. 15.-What prov
ed to be the most disastrous fire that has
visited Syracuse for many years was dis
covered in the Leland hotel at 1890
o'clock this CThursdayl morning. 1t is
now 2 o'clock and the fire is still burning
tiercely, although the entire fire depart
ment are on the site with nine engines
working hard to save further loss of life
and limb An eyewitness says it is posi-
tive that at least 25 persons have lost
their lives and many more have been
more Or less injured. One woman was
being lowered from wlndov by the aid
of a rope. She had reached point opposite
the third story when the rope became
ignited from burning sill, parted and
the woman fell to the pavement. Her
brains we're dashed out and her body was
tlattened into shapeless mass. So great
is the confusion and excitement that the
identity of the killed and injured is
wholly unknown. Undertakers and am
balances are flying in all directions and
the streets of the neighborhood are
thronged with excited people.
LATER.-The Leland hotel, the finest
in this city, was totally destroyed by fire
tonight and 1t is reported that twenty five
lives are lost.
Frank Careye of Glens Falls, N. Y,
has been identified as one of those that
were 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 differ
ent windows on the FaYette street side of
the building within four minutes and the
sight sickened him with its horror and he
was compelled to leave the spot. The
building was provided with both iron
flre-escapes on the outside and ropes
on the inside, which were the means of
saving many lives.
Burnet Forbes, stock broker of this
city, escaped into the street almost entire
ly naked He was slightly injured about
the hands. One woman was found with
a nursing babe in her arms crouched in
the stairway, where she had been over
come by smoke. She has not yet regain
ed consciousness.
The fire started in the kitchen. The
building will be total loss. 1t was built
two years ago at cost of $150,OOO. 1t
was six stories high and contained 400
rooms 1t Is impossible to learn how
many guests were in the hotel at the
time tie fire broke out. The total loss
will not fall short of half million dol
lars. The building was partially covered
by insurance. 1t is impossible to learn
wnat the private and individual losses
will be.
3a. m.--The hotel is still burning,
Vague rumors are atloat that the killed
will number fifty persons, but this can
not be substantlated,a and 1t is believed the
number will be less than 25, the first es-
innate. Cries of women standing IN the
upper windows and of the excited crowd
bslow were deafening, and added to the
constant roar of many fire engines Gre
ateaa babel of confusion and panicky
exciement in and around the hotel.
At 4:12 a. m. man and woman were
seen hcked in each others arms in u
windowon the fifth floor at the north
east cornu of the building. Below them
was q perfect sea of flame. There was no
possibility # escape except by the win
dow which was open to them and that
seemed inevitable death. No assistance
could reach hem. The woman seemed
anxious to imp, but her husband was
earnestly entsating her to desist. The
crowd below waited with bated breath,
The woman made the leap and was
killed. -
Among those Injured is Cora Tanner
the actress, who isseyerely burned about
| the head and feet. She playing an Ell
gageInent at the Gand opera house and
had q room in the hotel. Every physl-
ciani in Syracuse is IN the ground.