The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-08-15

CmoAao, August l4,-A hotel FIRE, re-
sulting in the death OF a 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 a window in the top story and was
killed. About half dozen others
were sufRocated and burned to death,
The frat body to be recovered was that
of Harry Godfrey. the seven.year.old
son Of ], Godfrey, Of Buchan, Mich,
Loss on the building and contents ia
practically total, but as the structure
was old and the furnishings cheap, the
amount will not exceed few thousand
dollars. A restaurant occupied the
ground hoor aud the Senate hotel the
two upper ones. 1t contained thirty
six rooms and held thirty guests, when
the fire broke out shortly after 8 a. m.
The rooms were separated by fimsy
wooden partitions, which proved good
food for the flames. Before the guests
could be warned the flames had cut of
the escape Of u number from the stair
ways and they were caught like rats in
q trap. j. GooChe is landlord OF the
senate. AS fast as the dead were re-
moved they were taken to the morgue.
The bodies first recovered were those
OF two men and two women. Mrs.
Anrens and her daughter Annie, who
slopt in the first floor, discovered the
fire first A moment later they and all
the occupants were seeking an avenue
OF escape. Annie and her mother
CROPPED their way through the sitting
smoketo the window and stood out on
the sill. The crowd below yelled to
them not to jump. With desperation
the womon clunR to the frame work,
keeping as far out as possible, while
the smoke and flames burst through
the window around them. Although
badly burned they retained their posi-.
tion until the arrival Of hook and
ladder company. A ladder was raised
and o man unknown next reached the
window. The flames were almost
scorching him and he jumped to the
stone pavement. He was picked up in
an unconscious condition. The work
Of rescuing the imperiled inmates then
systematically began. For some,
hemmed in by flames, overpowered by
smoke and with all egress cut of, the
rescue was too late, however. The fire.
men found dead bodies rather than
living ones. The fire is said to have
started from an overturned stair lamp.
Five persons were killed, a numbsr OF
others badly injured, and they can
scarcely recover.
Their names so far as obtained:
Edward Short, gambler killed by
jumping.
Unknown woman, burned to death.
Unknown man, burned in bed.
Unknown man removed to county
hospital unconscious, died fifteen min
utes after arrived.
Injured:
Jay Godfrey, hardware merchant,
Little Rock, Ark, burned about head
and shoulders; removed to Mercy hos.
pital; will recover.
Grace Godfrey, aged thirteen years,
extensive burns; will probably die.
Matte Ahrens, Chicago, aged eigh-
teen, arms burned.
+. Myer, Chicago, spectator, head
cut by falling glass.
L. NJ. Rogere. Chicago, burned body
and arms; serious.
IATER-THE COMPLETE LIST.
Two more of those injured in the Sen.
ate House fire died late this after.
noon and tho complete list Of the dead
isasfollows: Harry Godfrey, aged seven;
Edward Short, aged twenty-five; Mrs
Fannie Reed, aged twenty-seven, q
widow, and recently from New York;
Philip Cronberg, aged twenty-one, OF
Little Rock, Ark, died at the county
hospital in the afternoon; William Ul-
lery, aged seventeen, of Buchanan,
Mich, diod in the afternoon; unknown
man about thirty-fve years old, may be
Q. A. Taylor, Of Hot Springs, and un.
known man about twenty-three years
old.