St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-08

Not all the persons who engaged
rooms at the hotel last night reg
istered. nor did all who registered put
down true names, for reasons best
known to themselves. A few of the
names as written are:
L. T. Leonard and Mrs. Leonard, Phila-
delphla; II. ID. Sonlin, city; E. F. Leonloka.
Rupert Ontario; W. Trafford and wife, New
Rochelle; F. A. Clark and wife, Boston; j.
c. Price and wife. city; Lie. and Mrs. Taylor,
Newark, D.; F. Lester and wife, Boston;
j. n Smith and wife, Springfield, Mass. :;
John Parkerson and wife, Great Neck.
H. l.; MIR. Mckee and wife, New
Haven; c. NJ. White and wife, Nvack.
n. Y; j. c. Williams and wife, Albany; FL
o. Warren and wife, Nvack; s. Marring and
wife, Boston; John Thompson and wife.
city; Thomas Gould and wife, city; F. E.
Luehfel and wife, city; Mr.. White and wife,
Chicago; Mr.. Falkner, wife and daughter,
Connecticut.
Those known to be lead, whose bodies
were recovered, were not all identified.
In fact. only one was identified with
any degree of pOsitiveness. This was
believed to be II. c. Levy, of the firm
OF Levy, Strauss d Freeman, clothiers,
on Broadway. The body was badly
burned and disfgured. The other four
are the bodies of two men and two
women. 1t is feared that a search of
the vast smoking pile of debris in the
cellar Of the hotel will reveal MANY
CHASTITY finds. 1t was reported at a late
hour that 70 less than 100 people were
still unaccOunted for.
How 1t Occurred.
At sos o'clock Mrs. Isabella Mears.
wife of Richard Mears, proprietor
of the hotel, awakened her husband.
telling him the house was on fire. She
heard the cracking of the flames, and
saw smoke coming through the crevices
of their bed room door. Mr.. Mears had
only retired at 1 o'clock, and was
aroused with difficulty. He sprang out
of bed and ran into the hallway. Vol
umes of smoke filled the halls, and the
flames were making their way RAPIDLY
up the elevator shaft. Their apartments
were on the the third floor and
forty feet from the stairway
One glance at the situation was enough
to tell him the story. lie ran back to
his wife'S room and shouted Now Won
follow me-" snatched up a coat and
again ran into the hallway. He fought
his way straight to the staircase. sup
posing that his wife was close behind
him. The passageway was choked with
dense smoke, which almost stranoled
him. Then, throwing his overcoat over
his head to prevent Sutfocation, he bent
his head low and CROPPED his way to the
banisters, OIL which he placed his left
hand. Flames were shooting I'D from
below. His hand, which was on the
railing, was burned, and his hair was
Singed.
His Situation Was PeriIous.
To run down the stairs for two flights
meant death, and SO he, swinging him
self over the hand rail, dropped tw entv
feet to the ground floor. He landed on
his feet without broken bone and
made his way to the street. Mr.. Mears
was among the first to leave the burn
ing building, and when he made his
exit not fire engine had arrived. But
even i'll those few minutes the flames
had gotten their grip on the fated struct-
ure and fire was shooting from all the
windows of the upper floors. When Mr..
Mears reached safety in the street he
realized that his wife was not with
him. AT that moment hook and
ladder arrived. Mears implored them to
save his wife. A ladder was quickly
placed in position to window, which,
ne said, was his wife's room. Up the lad
des Policeman Merritt ran. The win
dow selected was not the right room. In
1t was an unknown woman, who quickly
stepped out on to the ladder and was car
lied down in safety. Then the ladder
was placed against the window of Mrs.
Mears' room. A young man ran nimbly