The sun., 1891-08-09
FIRE IN A SUMMER HOTEL.
THE BIG COOPER HOUSE IN cOoPERs-
TOWN BURNED TO THE GROUNn

Tho $50 Guests Escape without IuJury,
Some in their Night Clothes, but Many
Lose their vaiuablcs-Dr. Morgan Dix
aud Rear Admiral Rraine Among tho
| Guests-The Admi-nl Loses Hts Teeth.
CooPERsTowN. Aug s.-Just before 4 O'Clock
this morning the Cooper House. the fashion
able hotel hero. took fire. aud In less than three
hours nothing but charred ruins marked the
spot wheie It hai stood. Tho hotcl was filed
| with guests but not single life was lost. Con-
sderIng tho rapdity with which the flames
| consumed the tinder-like structure and the
| panic Of the Ruesta this seems almost miracu-
| lous and Is the subject Of moro talk than
the burning OF the hotel. The Cooper
House was n large iour-story hame
| building that had been built away back in the
sixties 1t was formerly a seminary for Rils
| The fro startei In the bake shop In the base
| mont. directly under tho apartments OF tho
Rev. Morgan Dix, rector o! Trinity Church.
| New York. How 1t started no one knows and
| how It spread ia another mystery. for when
discovered 1t seemed TO DO consuming every
part Of the building. The proprietor Of tho
! hotal. s. c. Crttenden. who also owns the
! Princess Anne Hotel ut Virginia Beach. los
| prostrated by the shock.
| 1t was tho height of the season. Coopers-
town had not tecn SO CAV for many years and
we 'en'fwo ~ VI ns i''e anu loihty was mo Cooper
HouSe. ihe,e wore "oou' ,p' guests 'hers
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nls "',e "nu 'h'eo chl''reh' WHO was hccom.
pauiel Wy Mrs. Souttcr and Mrs. Knox OF
| Fredericksburg; Rear Admiral y. l.. Iraine
| L. 5. n, his wife, ani two childron: Charles W.
| MdGway. brother Of Brooklyn's District At
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"nair' sucu "s 'ne! now III "'os' sn'a'' country
places anu entir,lS 'haaeaua'e 10 cope WIN
u. "Fe' Livery sp'e- oouieo mau III .no 'o"n
oeiones 10 IT, anu ere 'ne ''hoes VI 'he oeii
hnd die away IN" whole Town was awake ana
hurryinc % the scene Oh me nle. ana snch
scene! Even IN the terror OF the moment the
villagers had to stand still and laugh until
.heir SIDES aehea. une nrse 'nlns .ns. s, greeted
their eyes was tau young man standing on
WIN oSn wa.es r,',hsf mo- ohar TIe We ma nan"
n sp hal, swa1owtai III coat. ss and .ne. brseehes $
evidently bicyclist. but he had forgotten his
] stockings and the white Of his drawers was iu.
d;crous beyond expression. He had appnr-
emily made straight for the washstand. picked
up the first thing he could lay his hands on.
rushed down the stairs. and become bswilder-
wnen no ,oanu mis- awe men a.a sa. a.
,,"t .p".a..,on NIL ths o,har o,s",s noured
IN au,ck suc'ess'oh az .ue o,nof 1urs's pouteu
assortment Of garments and half crazed with
sa.r pear ADMIRAL Rroin, wh,n ba saw that
his family were all safe and that nobody was
missing. sat down under a tree aud watched
Dr. Dix was awakened from sound seepby
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smeeu snono ~ nav w. os To-, ''me 80 ~ ~, VI
| his trousers AMI grasp tue rest OF suit when
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