The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1893-08-14
rho Guests Compelled to
Jump or Suffocate.
KILLED AND INJURED LIST
building and Furniture Is a
Total But Small Loss.
..ocAutrd press TO the News.

}, Associated Press to the News
CHICAGO, Aug. IA hotel fire,
,osulting in the death of number
y ouests. occurred this morning
ETbe fire was in the Senate hotel, a
.hree.story structure on Madison
.,,eet near Fifth avenue. One man
canned from window in the top
.,ory and was killed, About half
dozen others were suffocated and
burned to death.
The loss on the building and con-
sents is practically total, but as the
.tructure was old and the furnish
Ipgs cheap, the amount will not ex-
reed few thousand dollars.
A restaurant occupied the ground
Aoor and the Senate hotel the upper
bnes. 1t contained thirty.six rooms
Ind held thirty guests when the
Hire broke out shortly after six this
nornng. The rooms were sepera-
he'd by ilimsy wooden partitions.
The blaze started in the office on
ahe second floor, and spread so
spidly through the halls and upper
looms that it could not be checked.
Before the guests could be warned
he flames had cut eff their escaps
rom the stairways, and they were
sught like lats N trap. j. Gooche
a the landlord of the Senate hotel
md J. Ohren manager. AS fast as
he deal were taken from the ruins
N.Y. were taken to the morgue.
|Ou bodies were soon recovered.
Aman whose identity is unknown
ext reached window. The flames
|ere already scorching his almost
ude body and he jumped to the
Eone pavement. He was picked up
an unconscious condition. 1t
las at this juncture the fremen
rived. Ladders were raised and
be work of rescuing the imperilled
pmates systematically b.gan.
The work of rescue was too late,
lowever. The tiremen found dead
IOdies rather than living people.
he fire is said to have started from
lamp. AT the Cook County and
lercy hospitals, others are moan
bg with pain in the wards, so badl y
iured as to be unable to tell theil
ames.
The list of killed atd injured is
Harry Godfrey, seven years old
on Of j. G. Godfrey, hardware
Merchant of Little Rock, Ark.
urned,
Edward Short, of Chicago
Number, burned AID jumped from
rear window.
An unknown woman, five feet
y inches in height, burned, re
loVsd from bed by tiremen.
An Unknown man, feet T inches
height, burned in bed.
An unknown man, discovered il
ont Of the Cook county Hospital
inconscious, died in fifteen minutes
fter he arrived.
injured. G. Godfrey, hard
rare merchant, Little Rock, burned
pout the head and shoulders; re
pU I'VE to Mercy hospital.
his wife, slight burns on thu
aooldeIs; wounds dressed in drug
tore.
Grace Godfrey, aged thirteen
Iufns; will probably die; taken to
Piesrcy hospital.
~ Unknown man, supposed to b'
IN, hronberg, stage hand a
u0niiIeF theater, badly burned abou
~ ~ head and face; delirious, AM
VIII probably die.
unknown man, taken to ward |
!. oook county hospital, about ?
sS'S OF age and very badly burned
-s "a can scarcely recover.
Unknown man, about "a years
IS. 81 terribly burned about the hea
s Iu lace; is unconcious, in War
r s;s OF Cook county hospital, an
S S,.l die; Will Muller, aged l,
n nS'ned about the head and arm
~'troy g ass in falling; will recove
T. A. Coons. Lake CITY. MINI