Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-09
Curiositv seeker. Turned Back.

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from Washington, D. c., last Saturday.
| Curiosity Seekers Turned Back.
By this time the number of persons seek
ing information or prompted by curiosity
to visit the dead house, which was rapidly
piling up with horrors, had increased to &
mob. 1t was an orderly mob, however, anC
the officials had but little trouble in de
tecting the real inquirers from the bogu.
and ejecting the latter from the premises.
The Young woman who was taken to the
| New York hospital, suffering from q frac
! ture of the base of the skull, internal in
| juries and burns is said to be Eta Green
| formerly a cashier at the Sturtevant House
| She is not expected to recover. Mrs. w.
Lockard, of this city, who is suffering from
| internal injuries, is in critical condition
at the Geddes House. All the others res.
| cued from the hotel, suffering from burns
or other injuries, are said to be doing we'll
From careful examination of the hotel
register and journal, the number of persons
in the building when the fire broke out was
152. Of these, II are known to be dead.
Eighty-one were rescued before the walls
collapsed and the others are missing.
The Possible Origin of the Fire.
Victor Follerin, waiter, who worked in
the Hotel RVal some time ago, gave, in an
interview to-day, some interesting facts that
may throw some light /on the origin of the
fire. He said that while he was working
there it was the habit for rubbish to accumu-
late in one corner of the kitchen. The pile
of rubbish, on three different occasions,
caught fire, but was quickly extinguished
by pals of water. Follerin believes that it
was here the fire originated.
This morning it is also learned on good
authority that Herbert Harding, the fire.
man of the hotel, who first discovered the
fire, fought the flames Is minutes before he
raised the alarm. 1t is now said that he
has confided this fact to a friend, and by
the friends indiscretion some of Inspector
Byrne's men have learned the fact and are
investigating.
One of the scrub women at the hotel also
made startling statement. She said that
at o'clock yesterday morning, when she
left the hotel to go across the street to sleep,
Harding was drunk. Night Clerk Under
wood denied this story when it was repeated
to him. He said Harding was steady man
and quite sober on Saturday night.
Other Stories bout the Cause.
The chef of the hotel said that one of his
cooks may have left the grease pot on the
stove, and that may have boiled over The
burning fat, in that event. could have set
fire to the floor or wall or blazed up to the
ceiling. The fire may have started in this
way. Harding is positive that his furnace
and boiler were in good order, and that no
burning Goals escaped. The boiler blew
up an hour and half after the fire broke
out
1t was common gossip among the servants
that Night Clerk Underwood was asleep at
the time OF the fire. The scrub women said
that he generally was asleep at that hour in
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Victims Who Are Still Living.
The following is corrected list of the in
jured:
j. E. Avery, New York; left hand burned.
W. C. Buchanan, New York; slightly burned.
o. Doppeler, New York; burned about the
hands.
E. C. Fonda, Rupert. Vt; hands burned.
r. L. Harmon, New York; burns about face
and hands and injured internally.
H. L. Harmon, New York, fractured skull
and thigh, with injured spine.
Clarence w. Klein, Hazelton, Pa; partially
asphy1iated and burned.
Mrs Mrs Knapp Boston, Boston, hands nds burned YD.H
burned, with internal injuries, and may
die.
DR.. o. L. Lusk, New York; hands severely
burned knees and foot cut and bruised.
o. B. Lusbie, Richmond, Va; badly burned
about the feet.
Geo. W. Magee, Brooklyn; burned about the
hands,
Richard Meares, proprietor of Hotel Royal;
hands burned.
Mrs. Isabella Meares, New York; slightly
burned on head and body and contusions
of back and side.
Mrs E. B. Reynolds, Philadelphia; hand
burned slightly.
Mrs. W. II. Schott, Jr., New York; slightly
burned.
A. W. Teal, New York: Slightly burned.
Mrs. NJ. 4. Titus, Albany, N. Y; hands
burned.
Frederick Uhlman, New York; hand cut
Charles White, Philadelphia: probably
fatal burns and contusionS.