Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-08

in height, weighed about $50 pounds, wore
linen night-shirt and trousers
Unknown man, good Locking, about
forty-three years old, had on striped silk
undershirt, light brown stripes, evidently a
Hebrew.
Henry c. Levy. OF the firm Of Levy,
Strauss & Freeman, 707 Broadway, whole
sale clothiers. Identified by his brother.
INJURED
ClRfe3ce W. Klein, thirty-nine years old,
single, lawyer at Hazelton, Pa Sudo-
aated and burned Injuries not fatal.
Taken 10 Bellevue hospital
Waiter l. Yates, sixty years old, q
clothier of Philadelphia. condition serious.
burns and Commissions. Bellevue hospital.
Mrs. Isabelle Mears, wife of the pro-
prietor, injuries not serious; viii recover.
Bellevue hospital
Herbert Harding, engineer of the hotel,
fatally burned in trying to rescue a woman
Several ribs were broken. Taken to the
hospital.
William E. Armstrong; Thomas E. Ken
nedy, Charles E. Close.
RESCUED.
W. G. Buchanan, c. S. Sonby, Rupert
Lamont, c. Kramer, E. B. Reynolds and
wife, c. Cockbarn. E. c. Allen, 70. Zepler,
c. White, G. Harding, w. Fl. Scott and
wife, Langden Smith. C. S. MCGEE. James
"a
Chicago All these escaped from the burn
ing building and were taken 10 the Gedney
P. Taylor, H. P. Tompkins, W. C.
Pearce were rescued and taken to the
Hotel Metropole.
MRS. MEARs DISCOVERED IT.
At 4 O'Clock Isabelle Mears, wife of Mr..
Richard Mears, the proprietor of the hotel,
awakened her husband, telling him the
house was on fire Mears sprang out of
bed and shouted Follow me-" snatched up
his coat and again ran into the hallway. He
fought his way straight TO the street.
When MearS reached safety in the street
he realized that his wife was not with him.
At that moment the hook and ladder arrived.
A ladder was quickly placed in position. The
window selected was not the right room.
In it was an unknown woman. who quickly
stepped out on the ladder and was carried
down in safety. Then the ladder was
placed against the window of Mrs. Mear'S
room. She was very nervous, and III max
ing the descent slipped and fell to the side
walk. She was picked up with sprained
ankle and had several body bruises.
The scenes at the fire before the
fire companies arrived were hearrrending.
One man whose name is not known Sprang
from the third story window and was
dashed TO death on the ground below on
the Sixth avenue side of the building.
A moment later another man leaped from
the window on the Fortieth street side and
was instantly killed. Shortly afterward two
women jumped from windows on the Sixth
avenue side and were dead when picked up.
The bodies unidentified were removed to
the morgue. Several others dropped from
the windows or slid down the ropes, with
which every room in the hotel was pro-
vided and escaped with severe burns,
while many more were injured in the same
way in making their escape by the fire
escape
All this time the fire was raging fiercely
The structure burned like kindling. The
work of rescuing the guests went on aud
many were taken from the windows by the
fremen and policemen.
Walter Il. Phelps and wife got down
ladder safely.
Mrs. Samuel Knlff also.
Frederick Uhlmann, dealer in hops, es-
capped with only an overcoat to cover his
nakedness. Uhlmann lost everything in
his room, including $500 in cash. several
checks, notes and other valuable business
documents.
Mrs. S. Knight. West Fortieth street,
made temporary hospital OF her fiat and
had no less than nine homeless people there
at one time. Among those who accepted
her hospitality was young man named
Levy, who slid down a rope, tearing the
flesh to the bone. These escapes occurred
before the walls Of the building fell. When