The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-15
A HOLOCAUST AT CHICAGO.
Fatal Fire Again Caused by an Over
turned Lamp.

lulHCu Lump
The Senate Hotel, a Madison Street
Tinder-Box Structure, Consumed,
With Fatal Results to Guests-Wom-
en- Cling to a Burning Sill Until the
Arrival of a Ladder-From the Same
Window a Man Leaps to ths
Ground-List of the Killed and In
jured.
Chicago, Aug IA hotel fire, result
ing In the death of number of the guests,
occurred this morning The fire was in
the Senate Hotel a three-story structure
on Madison street near Fifth avenue.
One man jumped from window in the
top story and was killed.
SEVERAL AsPHYXIATED AND BURNED.
About half a dozen others were suffo-
Gated and burned TO death. The loss on
the building and contents is practically
total, but, as the structure was old and
the furnishings cheap, the amount will
not exceed few thousand dollars. A res
taurant occupied the ground floor, and
the Senate Hotel the two upper ones. 1t
contains thirty-six rooms and held thirty
guests when the fire broke out shortly
after O'Clock this morning.
THE BUILDING LITERALLY A FIRE TRAP.
The rooms were separated by flimsy
wooden partitions, and proved first-class
food for the fire. The blaze started in the
Office on the second floor, and spread so
rapidly through the halls and upper
rooms that it could not be checked. Be-
fore the guests could be warned the
flames had cut off their escape from the
stairway, and they were caught like rats
in trap.
AN INTENSELY EXCITING SCENE.
The scene during the fire was an excit-
ing one. Mrs. Ohren and her daughter
Annie, who slept in the front part Of tho
store, discovered the fire first. A moment
later they and the other occupants wero
flying about seeking an avenue of escape.
Annie and her mother grouped their way
through the sitting smoke to the window
and out upon the sill. The crowd yelled
to them not to jump. With desperation
the women clung TO the framework, drop
ping as far out as possible, while the
smoke and flames burst through the win
dows around them. Although badly
burned, they retained their position until
the arrival of the hook and ladder COM
pany. A ladder was raised and they were
rescued.
MANS DESPERATE PLUNGE.
A man whose identity is unknown next
reached the same window. The flames were
already scorching his almost nude body,
and he jumped to the stone pavem ent.
He was picked up in an unconscious con-
dition. II was at this juncture that tho
hremen arrived. Ladders were raised,
and the work of rescuing the imperiled
inmates was systematically begun
REsCUERs FIND THEMSELVES AMONG
CoRPsEs.
The work of rescue was too late, how
ever. The firemen found dead bodies
rather than living people.
The fire is said to have started from an
overturned stair lamp. In all, five people
were killed and three others so badly in
jured that they can scarcely recover. At
the Cook county and Mercy hospitals 9TH
ers were suffering with pains, and so
badly injured as TO be unable TO tell their
names.
THE UNFORTUNATEs CATALoGUED.
List Of killed: Harry Godfrey, 7-year-
old son of j. Godfrey, a hardware mer-
chant of Little Rock, Ark, burned; Ed
ward Short Of Chicago, burned and jump
ed from rear window an unknown wo-
man, five feet six inches in hight, burned,
removed from bed by the tiremen; an un-
known man five feet in height, burned in
bed an unknown man, removed to Cook
County hospital unconscious, died in ff-
teen minutes after he arrived.
LIST OF THE INJURED.
j. Godfrey, hardware merchant, Little
Rock, Ark, burned about head and
shoulders, removed TO Mercy hospital, will
recover; Mrs. Godfrey, wife of above,
slight burns on shoulders, wounds dressed
in drug store; Grace Godfrey, thirteen
years, extensively burned, win probably
die, taken to Mercy hospital; unknown
man, supposed to be William Kronberg, q
stage hand at Schiller's theater,
badly burned about the head
and face and win probably
die; an unknown man taken to Ward II
f, Cook County hospital, is about 81 years
Of age, and very badly burned. He can
scarcely recover. An unknown man about
"A years of age was terribly burned about
the face; is unconscious in Ward 5 f,
Cook County hospital and win die VIII
Miller aged IA years, nephew of Jay God
frey, burned about head and arms and
cut by glass in breaking window; will res
cover. +. A. Coons, Lake City, MINI,
cut by glass about head taken TO Mercy
hospital, viii recover. Mrs. h. A. Coons,
burns and cuts about breasts, taken to
Mercy hospital, will recover. Flora Coons,
aged Is years, found almost suffocated,
taken to Mercy hospital; injuries slight.
r. L. Morton of Syracuse, N. Y, cut
about shoulders; removed 20 Mercy hos
pital; will recover.