Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-02-08

man " the ladder truck, and 10 an In
slant the top Of ladder rested upon
window ledge. Pushing aside the
fireman, tho landlord scaled tho lad
der himself. Ho found that he had
mistaken the window, but saved u liie,
for he took down a half-spnsolcts, wh,'e
figure, aud turned the ladder until u
hioUd beneath hIs wiio's window. NhiH
time y slender young man, AtrnngeIi
was too quick for him. boating him 10
tho window by half the length of ms
the ladder. Halt way down, either Tue
young mnn missed hls footing Or Ills
strength gave cut. for no
DROPPED Mrs. MBAnrs.
Half cra1ed, the husband says he
does, not know whether he fell or
whether he clambafed down The ladder.
hut lac started 10 Ind his wife, when a
big policeman With heavy black beard
whose name, he said, he would give
considerable sum 10 ascertain, stopp-
Ell him and demanded to know ms
busiuCss.
al am the proprietor Of the hotel"
he sail, "and looking for my wife"
At this they laughed, aud, despite
his urgent cntru1Uc., lac was not pee
AANAAANNf w ANNNNh NANNs NAfaNfHH fHhA -
was not tll Ian hour lateg that ho learn
ed her fate.
Moares raid that tho spectacle for
twenty minutes alter he reached the
street was beyond hlH power Of portray.
al. Men and women NJ the upper
windows, clai only In robss de Hmk.
snrlthod aud gesticulated frantically,
and were only prevented from uInp.
no l.a nFafHHnHH NNhn NhnItfsl
COugagement IL them. But the flames
Waxod fercer, AMI presently human
form plungcl from the fourth story
and .lfucl1 the street head foremost,
whllo blood aud brains splnshed upon
The bJ s,auders. Another and another
shot downward, until three bodies lay
bleeding aud mntiOnloss. Mr.. Mean
said hp could stand no more, aud got
away from the horrible spot rs quickly
as possible. Aside from sever. burns,
no was not badly injured. There were
some thfllliug resoUrs.
Mis- Ellen rururriand MIS-. Ellen
Slate were carried down from the ROOT
by The nromen while the flames were
embracing the ladders on which they
descended.
William T.. Gordon, one NJ the hotel
employee, s,iu that the flames were
frst discovered IA the basement on the
| FUriioth street side. WHAT cnused tue
/ IRE he dil nOi know. He says there
vas about one hundred people In the
/ hotel. IL his opinion not more than
| half Oi them escaped. The police esji-
mate thpt twenty or twenty-five bodies
axe still IN the ruins.
At $3.50 u. M. the whole building fell
/ In AMI Firounn Brennan was sori0us-
/ ly II not fatally injured. Policeman
[ eileen rescued two women from the top
/ floor, aud, while carrying them down
/ the lRddsr the ilsmus burst out from
/ The nOor beneath them and lac was
| forced 10 diOp one Of the women. She
/ IL badly injured. Just then another
/ woman umped from a window above
and struck the policeman with his
| burden. All fell from the ladder.
/ Both womuu were killed and tho
policeman tadly Injured.
REGISTERED.
Not all tue persons who engaged
rooms nj the hotel last night registered,
nor did all. who registered pat down
their true names, for reasons best known
| to themselves.
rho names OF tho follow Ing persons
were Registered: J. u. smith aud
wife, Springfield, Mass; II. Jackson,
Jersey CRY; Mr.. aud Mrs. Mckee, New
| Haven, n. Il. Leroy, Stamford, Conn,
Thomas Gould and wife; j. q. VIII
liams and wife, Albany, n. Y; n.
Van Alstine, Poughkeepsie, n. v; II.
Marrong and wife, BOaton; y. V.
Leuckrol and wife, New York; Mr.. and
Mrs. q. NJ. White, Chicago; Mr.. aud
| Mp. Faulkner and daughter, Counpc-
tlcut; u. r. V. Leonard and wife,
| phlladelphia; Il. T.. Lonlouka, Bupert,
Ont; II. A. Clark and wife, Boston; l..
q. Taylor aud wife, Newark, n. j.;
y. Lester aud wife, Boston, Peter
Taylor, New York; Mr.. and Mrs. j. O..
Price, city; Mr.. and Mrs. w. Tafi6rd,
New Rochelle; IL. ID. TOulin, New
York; William Freeze, Cambridge,
| Mass.; Il. Krapp, Boston; John
| Thomson aud vile. city; Ii. Walker,
Albany; A. A. Townsend, New
| Haven; IL. A. Warren and wife, N.Y.
aok, y. V; q. NJ. White and wife,
Nyacki IL. IL. Wood, Jersey City;
JsnI Daitnp. Nil. ~" pa,,In",n,,
Ne,y ynrl civ. Jnbn n pa,Lins,,,
,nd u,iGs CRAM NecL l.
Tbnse known m ihn dsoJ ,aoso
bodics vers recoverea were not aii
iISmtifisd. In moi onIy ,n"wss iS",tI' ~
isd Win npy d,gyns ~ nnsI,ivnnass
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ia har,J ihet n sssrch ~ III. va, -.
ing nj. ~ J.hrIs Ga ,hn csi,,, a,ii li'S 10
va many ghasttv 6ndS p,n,,is ",
n Ia, hnn, t"n,gbt "ra IA nn ~
Inn n hundtnd nsonls ave lin $3.50
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