The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-16
A FIRE In A HOTEL.
The Leland House, at Syracuse,
N. Y, Burned Down.
THE GREAT LOSS OF LIFE.
Narrow Escapes-Heartrending Seenes-Great
Excitement and COnfuslon-Names OF
Some of the Dead.

SYRACUSE, Oct. 15.-What proved TO be-
the most disastrous fire that has visited
Syracuse for many years was discovered
in the Leland hotel at 80 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, is working hard to save fur
Their loss of life and limb. An eye witness
OF the fire says he is positive that at least
twenty-five persons lost their lives, and
many more are injured. One woman was
being lowered from window by the aid of
rope. She had reached point opposite
the third story when the rope became ig-
nIted foom a burning sill. The
rope parted and the woman fell to
the pavement. H9r brains were
dashed out and her body fiattened into
shapeless mass. All is confusion and ex-
cltement. So great is the confusion and
excitement that the identity OF those killed
ana injured Is wholly unknown. UNDER
takers and ambulances are flying in all di-
rectlons, and the streets in the neighbour
hood OF the Inflated hotel are thronged with
excited crowds OF people
Frank Carey, of Giens Falls, New York.
mas Deen ldentlned as one Of those burned
to death. Many people crazed with fright
lost their lives by jumping from windows.
One man says he saw six people Jump from
diHerent windows on the E9yette street
side OF the building within the space of
Tour minutes and the sight Sickened him
with horror. He was Obliged to leave the
spot. The building was provided with
Doth iron hre escapes on the outside and
ropes on the inside which were the means
OF saving many lives.
| Burnett Forbes, stock broker of this
| city, escaped into the street almost entirely
naked. He was signify injured about the
| shoulder. One WOMAN was found with a
| babe N her arms, crouched In the stair
way where she had been overcome by the
smoke. She was removed by the fremen
but has not yet regalned consciousness and
1t is impossible to say what her name or
residence was.
The ire is said to have started in the
Kitchen. The building will be total loss
1t was built two years ago at cost of S15U,-
Co., is SIX stories high and contained 400
rooms. 1t Is Impossible TO learn now how
many guests were in the motel at the time
/ the nre broke out. The total loss will not
| fall short OF half million.
| Among those injured is Cora Tanner, the
actress, who Is severely burned about the
mead and feet. She was playing an engage
InenG at the Grand opera house and had a
room in the hotel. Every physician in
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killed were on the fourth and fifth floors.
3 A. M.-The hotel still burning. Vague
rumors are ahoat that the list of killed will
number fifty persons but this fact cannot
| be subs tantlated and i is believed the mum
Der will be less than twenty five, the first
estimate. Guard lines are stretched across
the street, but are inadequate to keep back
! the surglng crowds OF people that are
packed IN the streets leading TO the hotel,
and police are stationed all around the
| building.
Inc scenes and incidents connected with
the rescue of the inmates are heartrendipg
In the extreme. The cries of women
standing In the upper windows, and of the
excited crowd below were deafening and
added to the constant roar of the many ire
| engines created Babel of confusion and
panlcky excitement III and around the hotel.
Newspaper representatives are enieayor-
ing with all the energy at their command
TO ootala substantiated lists of those who
have lost their lives, but have met with
little success.