Evening journal., 1892-10-18
STAMPEDED BY FIRE.
Hotel Guests Aroused by Flames which
Threatened to Wipe out n suburb.
Two Deaths and Much Dapage.

Two DtNAnh anu MUCH bAbtNitts
lBy Telegraph TO the Evening Journall
CHICAGo Oct 1S.-Fire that broke
out at 4 o'clock this morning in Engle
wood, suburb of this city, did damage
to the extent of 800, 600.
One woman was killed by jumping
from thirdstory window in hotel
Those who escaped did so in their night
robes and had close calls at that Strong
winds carried the flames TO house a
block away, which so alarmed the peo-
pie living between the two fires that
about twenty families moved out into the
street A dozen more are homeless and
the charity of the people has an oppor-
tunity to display itself
The fremen battled manfully for hours
to confne the flames within block, but
could not prevent damage TO adjacent
buildings from the intense heat The
half of the block south Of 63d street,
between Wright and Honore, was made
up for the most part Of frame buildings.
Four brick structures only were in the
row. The corner at Cad and Honore was
occupied by a frame structure. The
next four were of brick and the rest Of
the block had frame buildings. II now
has nothing but ruins, four brick walls
being the only things left standing.
The first of the brick buildings was
occupied by paint store, and it was in
this that the fire originated. II is sup
posed to have been started by spontane-
GUS combustion Of the oils.
Panic in Hotel.
Above the paint store and the next
building, occupying the second and third
stories was the Hotel Kent. II had
about thirty rooms, and no less than
twenty FIVE guests were there last night.
There was an unusually strong wind
blowing and the fire was famed so
! iercely that the sparks hitting the win
dows warned the people in the houses.
| IL was no time TO save anything. Men
dashed for the doors and women
shrieked
Jumped TO Death.
Miss Butler. aged about 20 years, daugh-
ter of the proprietor of the hotel. occu-
pied a room on the third floor. She was
awakened by the dense smoke She
found the halls suffocating and turned
towards the window. In her night robe
she leaned out and appealed for help.
In the gray dawn she was a most pitt
able looking sight Firemen and police
men below shouted TO her not to Jump,
but she either did not hear or misunder-
stood them. She threw herself head
long and fell on the pavement. Her
head struck first and she was picked up
a corpse.
Other people in the hotel went down
the stairways, but it is feared all did not
get out. Not more than two or three
had time to dress. Nealy all we're more
or less affected by the heat, one mans
full beard being burned to his face.
Spread of the Flames.
From the hotel the flames commnni
Gated rapidly to each successive building
along the street. They spread 50 quickly
that almost no furniture was saved
Flames were reaching nearly across the
street and the fremen turned their at
tention to the opposite buildings, in
which the heat had already broken al
the glass.
1t looked as though the whole town was
going and about this time the sparks
had lodged in the roof of building Oh
Sixty-second street. That spread the
alarm and about twenty families living
J between the two fires moved into the
[ street.
| Fourteen engines and three trucks ar'
still on the grounds. Trains were de
layed until the fire was sufficiently
under control to allow the fremen tim
to get the hose under the tracks. Tn
insurance will not come anywhere nea
q covering the damage. The brick build
ings were insured, but many Of the franz
, ones had no insurance.