Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-04-01
Inmates ola Burning Hotel Jump to
Save Themselves.
FATAL EXPLOSION IN A COAL NINE.
M. Meline Invited to Be the New
French Premier.
OTHER TELEGRAPHIc NEWS.
HAD TO JUMP FOR THEIR LIVES.
Inmates Of a Bradford. Pa. Hotei Driven
Out by Fire.

Inmates Of q Bradford. Pa, Hotei Driven
ont by Fire.
PrTTsnrBs. April IA special to the Ieader.
from Bradford. Pa, SAVE: Fire AZ 42O this
morning destroyed the Higgins Hotel. tho
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg depot. tho
Higgins cigar factory and the grocery stor.
and building Of J. LEROY. A. least five persons
were burned TO death and the li.t OF injured
number between twenty and thirty.
The dead taken from runs are. Parks ma
chinist, u. X. and =. shops: y Ravelin. en-
gineer, 7. ana L. r. r.; bodg OF unknown
woman. supposed % be Miss C Bond. These
are ri the bodies taken out up 20 lOAm
Tom Cullen. a painter. and n child OF Mrs
I. Tucker are known 20 be Ia the ruins The
loss VIII reach 800 .00O.
THE DISCOVERY oF THE FIRE.
Last night los persons went to sleep in the
building. and while 1t i known that many had
Jumped from the second and third-story win
GoNs /; was feared that many others had per-
ished in the fEm.s.
i wns Nfte- O'Clock before the FIRST BODY
was found. Il was an unrecoSnizable chnrred
mass OF acsh. The second Nas found soon after
IN similar condit on. The search continues as
this CispG,ch i boiug written and tits rnpo.si-
bic 10 state at preent how many lives have
been lo-t. il is feared that some os those who
jumped from the hotel into the creek wers
drowned.
The list OF Injured Is long one.
The inmates oi the Higgins building were
awakened from her sleep by man who
rushed through tho Railways kicking ut the
doors und calling nra.
LEArrNa roR THEIR LIVES.
The mon and women rushed .r 1m their rooms
into the hale, which were already hlled with
smoke Ead fame, and tho general cry was:
"Janp from the windows aud save you--
selses." Many did 40. out the junp was q bad
one 10 risk. From tho upper story Il wa.
thirty toUt on The west sIde. with plank road
wEy ON which 20 hand.
On the eAs; sIae wac the creek. which made ths
jump forty feet. Several persons made tho
loap for nfe into the stream anil were rescued
Mr.. and Mrs II ggins escaped from the burn
ing building after they we're nearly suffocated
by the sr4oke Alrs. HIGGINS was badly injured
and was carried 60 the Esddell House.
The Rildsll HoHse has been transferred into
q temporary hospital. In one room is Prof.
Neunieyer of tho Samison orchestra. Ills left
foot crushed aud he Is seriously hurt in
! ternaiiy. In another room J. W. Osborne lies,
both legs bro@sn and his back ID in
mon hurt internally and badly bruised
about their heads. Two women in
another. burned about their faces and hands.
One of the women has lost her baby, aud her
agony Is pitiful. John johnson. a boy, was
found wandering through tine streets with a
two-sear-o.d baby In his arms. its face, arms
and hands burned and blIs,erud.
The cause OF the hre Is unknown, but % u
supposed TO have caught from q gas stovs-
DEAD BODIES iDESriFtrD.
Iater-1hs following persons known 70 BE-
dead are, Thomas Cullen, Bradford; L. Have
i'm. sanbury; Miss Georgia Bond, Bradford;
George Parks. Brndford, and Baby Tucker,
aged Two wears. drowned in the creek.
The dead men who have bcon recovered are:
. -. l. 4 a
nan. singles John EyHn. singc; Frederick
Clutter, single; John Burtt, married; John
Garry, married; Joe Bo-trex, single. Nick DOL
ten, married, and Frank Shupis, single.