The sun., 1893-08-15
KILLED IN A HOTEL FIRE.
FIVE PERSONS DEAD AND A DOZEN
sEVEREJP INJURED IN CHICAGO.
A lamp Bars. Ia the Senate Hotel at q

| A Limp Burst In the Senate Hotel at .
| O'ciock In the Morning and Escape Wa.
Very Dimcuit-Tho List OF tho Fatalities.
CHICAGO. Aug. 14.-Five persons lost their
| lives in FIRE in the Senate Hotel. at 1872 Mad
ison street, at z o'clock this morning. Four
others wore mortally hurt and many received
serious injuries In their haste to escape. The
list of dead is:
HARRY GODFREY. 7 years old Of James Godfrey
of Buchanan. Mich. surocated.
EpwAR, SHORT. married. killed by inhalinE smoke
and Are: fell from tho thirdstory window.
JAMES TAYLOR OF New York injured by Jumping:
taken to the county hospital where ho died without
reRaining con sciousnesa
FASNy REEp OF New York.
Unknown man. about 80 years old suroented
The following arc mortally injured:
ruirIr CRoxnrRG of Little Rock. Ark, FL yenrs old,
skull fractured and legs crushed by jumping from the
third story window; will not
;. r. srirrNER. New York. spine broken and fee
crushed: will die.
Unknown man about "a years old. taken to tho
county hospital unconscious burned about the head;
will probably die.
Unknown man. unconscious from inhaling smoke
and flames: recovery doubtful
Tho others injured are:
JosrrH WILSON. 22 years old back cut feet bruised.
JAMES GODFREY. Buchanan Mich. slightly burned
about head and bruised.
Mrs. JANIS GODFREY injured by inhaling smoke and
prostrated by death OF her son.
Mrs ANNIE CooSs. Lake City. MINI, bruised by fall
ing from r second floor window.
MATTE AuRES. Chicago. aged ls. arms burned; will
recover.
T. MrrR 8fB,t Morgan street. spectator. head cut BY
falling glass.
L. NJ. RoGkRs. Chicago. burns on body and arms; seri
o; PALMER, Chicago decorator at Worlds Fair. cuts
on head and arms: VIII recover.
JAcoR FRIEDMAN. burned about head and shoulders;
T. NJ MARIN, Syracuse. cnt about head and breast
Mss floE. Cooss 10 years o,d partially sIffoeated
frev. burned on head and cut on V arms BY breaking
window to escape.
were reused from sleep only to ind themselves
facing death. The rooms of the, hotel were
sought escape through them. Others raced
down the narrow stairway to the street.
east of the tall Security building on the south
cast corner Of Fifth avenue. The first floor
whS eHs4a Artn * ' is hSy n o wa Of
floors above constituted the Senate Hotel. It
was cheap l,n,dging house managed by Gooch
yided into. small box-like bedrooms arranged
IN rows with narrow corridors. Thirty Of the
tile dodgers were awake when the flames were
% % hs hea & eG ~ss ~
the office at the time 1t. was the smoke that
ended tho lives of most of the victims.
Joseph Wilson street fakir. grasped a
water rpe and was sliding safely to tho
ground when a falling man struck him on tho
gether. Wilson escaped serious injury. hut
! he other man. James Taylor of New York. he,
Ing very, stout received injuries which caused
and Miss Ida Woodcox OF Edgerton. O..
occupied adjoining rooms on the third floor.
Each broke window and climbed out on the
ledge, where they hung with bleeding nrgers
cut by the glass. until ladder was raised and
overcome by the smoke that she died almost |
Immediately. The iiremen succeeded In get |
ting several streams Of water through tho |
windows. Several Of the fremen scaled the |
ladders to the third floor. and under cover of
the protecting streams. forced their way into |
he window OF the room occupied by the God |
freys. He placed rope a out the form OF the |
seven-year- old Harry and lowered the body to |
The Ground