The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-02-08

tDe uttel last ulBlt registered, nor ala all
who did register put down their true
names for reasons best known to them
selves. 4 few Of tie names rs written are:
II. d. S0nlln, City.
+. T. Leonard and wife, Philadelphia.
+. +. Lecnl0ka, Ontario
W. Tratf0rd and wife, New Rochelle
+. a. Clark and wife, Boston.
J. {. Price ana wife, CITY.
J.. {. ana Mrs. Taylor, Newark, \. j.
+. Lester and wife, Boston.
h. Smith ana wife, Springfield, Mass,
John PalkeTSCn ami wife, Great Neck.
/. l.
Mr. McKea and wife, New Haven.
{. Nj. W hlte and wife, NyaCk, \. \.
j. c. Williams and WIFE, Albany.
H. Q. Warren aud wife, Nyack.
r Marroug and wife, Boston.
John Thompson and wife, Boston.
Thomas Gould, City.
+. Lutfel and wife, City.
MT. White and vile, Chicago
Mr.. Faulkner, wife and daughter, Con.
uecIcut.
UNACCOUNTED FOR.
Those known TO be dead whose bodies
were recovered, were not all identified. In
fact only one was identified with any de-
gree OF posltIyeuess, and that is believed to
be II. c. Levy. II is feared the search Of
the vast smoking pile Of debris in the cellar
VIII reveal many ghastly huds. 1t was re-
ported at late hour tonight that no less
than 100 IeO}le are still uuaccOUnted for
THE FIRST ALARM
The origin Of the fire is unknown. 1t
started IN the basement, near the elevator
shaft, which Is located in The middle Of the
building The flames were first seen pour
ing out Of the cupo.a on the roof, directly
over the elevator shaft by an engineer Of
SlXth-avenue elevator trai0, who
stopped his engine directly in front Of
the hotel ana blew tie locomotives
whistle loud aud continuously. This
unusual sound aWoke many Of the
sleeping people ana brought policemen 10
the scene, no at once sent IN o fire alarm.
When the fire was finally gotten under con
troll there was a general inquiry as 20 who
had taken lodgings az tie hotel ana who
had gotten out IN safety Neither prOprie-
tr nor attaches could give the names of
but lew ot their pers1' al acQuaiutanCeS.
Then call was naturally made Tor the
hotel register It could not be found. al
though II was not apparent that it had been
destroyed. search was instituted, and an
enterprlSlng news spaper man was found max
ing OF with II, thinking thereby, DOUBTLESS, 20
secure beat ON bis contemporaries by
printing the exclusive list of names. But
he was desDOlled Of his prize and may have
to answer TO charge Of larceny in the bar
gain.
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
a guest who probably had the most mar
row, aud at the same time most marvellous
escape, was VI. J.. Harman, 4 travelling
salesman for a -. Louis wholesale grocery
house He registered at the hotel Saturday
Eht with EIs wife. 81 had a room on the
sixth floor, said Harmon, and was aroused
from sleep by loud cracking noise and the
sound of whistle, which / think was from
one OF the engines on the elevated road |
opened my door and found the stairway
leading % the lower Il 0rs in a blaze. |
then went % tile window and opened it,
and there seemed TO be as much smoke on
the outside IS in the hallway, for the room
Vas soon hlied. Both my wife and !
would have sutfUcated u the room
had we nottaken two towels which soaked
with water These we used to keep the
smoke out Of our lungs by holding them
over our mouths and nOstTls. ! tried to
find hIe-escape near the window, but there
was none, and l Thought at one time we
should never get out Of the room alive. IL
was certain death to jump six stories aud as
1t was that or burn TO death, / said to my
wife: Matte, l am going 10 shoot you
and Kill myself ! concluded that il would
be better to die that way than TO he burned
to death, and a. always sleep with a reyol-
yer under my pillow / hurried to the bed to
getit
MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.
." By this time the flames were coming M
through tie cracks Of tie floor and through
the cracks Of the door. Just as | was
about 10 shoot NY wife the floor fell with
crash and we went down probably TWO
stories. The flooring stopped opposite
window and my wife Jumped out and landed
on p0TilcO beneath. A rope was hanging
out OF this window. and with this assistance
l managed to get down another story, but
here ! slipped and fell 10 the pOrtlcO beside
my wife. / picked her up, but was unable
to carry her and was almost sutfOcated. and
the fall had injured me. | was endtayor-
70. .I,t,
her from me. How | reached the street |
do not know" Harman is confined to his
bed a. the Gedney House. His hands and
chest are severely burned and his hair and
eyebrows siuged He was told to-day that his
wife was beng cared for at one of the hos
pitfalls and that she was not fatally injured.
Itis believed, however, that she is one Of
the dead.
SAVED BY AN UMBRELLA
There was not even rope hre-eScape in
the room on the second floor which Felix
kraemeT, a salesman fl Steinway d Sons.
Of New York, occupied, and had ii not
been Tor hrdemeTS S experience at hotel fires
and an umbrella he probably would have
been numbered among tie victims. Had
not | had a strong umbrella | should either
have been burned or killed by Jumping"
said AIr. kraemer. ! have been burned out
ut hotels three tines now. at a fire at
NaTrenSbuTg, No, a guest escaped by
using an open umbrella to ease his fight
from an upper story window. | never for
got il. and since have always been pro-
Vded with a strong umbrella fer emer-
gencv. As soon as ! reached the window
opened my strong umbrella and carefully
put shawl strap over il 10 prevent it from
turning inside out Then | made a leap.
did not 90 sailing gracefully out into the air
and land lightly on the ground beneath,
but ! landed without any broken limbs and
am all right now. The umbrella partially
turned inside out just before ! reached The
ground and / got something of a jar, bnt
should think myself iucky if he'd escaped
with broken leg.
CRIES FOR HELP.
Il never before saw a fire burn so forci-
bly, as the one which consumed the hotel
] ran into the Office as soon as reached the
ground. / was the first person to get out OF
the hotel, and | cannot imagine how any Of
the guests got out alive ! saw Meares and
the night clerk in the Office For Gods
sake | cried, why don't you turn in fire
aIarmY / went 10 the Gedney House, reg
istered and secured a suit Of clothes, which
did not iit me, and returned 10 the fire. Even
at that time the Fire Department had not
arrived, and men, women and children were
at windows screaming for some one to save
them. / saw two or three people Jump
from windows. 1t was ten minutes after
returned 10 the fire before a ladder was
raised to any OF the windows. | heard that
JheTe were more than 100 people I'D the house
when | got out, and l cannot understand
how more than twenty of them escaped with
their lives. 1t would be a difficult matter
TO convince me that many of them were not
roasted. There was court in the rear Of
the hotel, and many of the windows of the
inside rooms overlooked it. Here | be-
leVe, dozens Of people lost their lives"
STORY DENIED.
The World has the following: zone Of the
scTub-wOmeu at Hotel Royal made start
ling statement to n World reporter last
night. She said at o'clock in the 2iaTu-
ing. when she lefs the hotel -,