The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-02-09
AS 1T looks TODAY.

OF the health department examined an d
notified the proprietor of IL TO either pui
ii into decent shape or close it mp. 1t had
not been closed up aud loss of life oc
Cured not from typhus as was antici
pated, but from sutfocation. When the
fire broke out there were ten occupants
in the upper part of the old wooden
building which constitutes the old rook.
cry of lodging house. Three persons
were badly burned and one was smoth-
ere TO death.
The property belongs TO William
Grosvenor, and the building is suppos ed
To have been erected as far back as 1850 or
1870. The fire department responded in
great shape and through their efforts the
damage to property was confined to the
hotel building Ii the fire had been
driven by an east wilma ~ night have
cleaned out the cheap wooden buildings
between there and Weybosset street, aud
done very serious damage even If gen.
eral conflagra ion had not resulted
1t was about 800 when the fire was first
noticed by Officer Frank Martin of the
Central Police Station. who was ON the
bridge at the time. He Immediately
fastened 10 the sCsne aud started for the
fire alarm box. In the meantime box 312
was rung and "A second followed soon, as
tue fire was bursting from windows aud
roof When tue officers frs. arrivel at
Coles Hotel, several persons We're found
standing on the fire escape and these were
assisted to the ground as soon as possi-
BILE.
The occupants of the building we're
Patrick w len, the proprietor, Mrs
Welsh, Jenuie jameson, the COOK, Au-
gustine Va lette. a French woman, %
years of age, DeIia Alexander "A Swede.
32 years Old Thomas Il. Hunter, "A lodyer.
Mary Freeman. Charles Thornton aud a
colored man. Hunter was in the sitting
room on the second floor when the Ere
started and tried TO get out by the nearest
stairway, but was drivea back by the
smoke. He then went into the dining
room and rang the auxiliary alarm.
Della Alexander was badly burned
about the body anu was rescued from the
fire escape on the southeast part of the
building. Nallette jumped from the
same fire escape aud was badly burned
BOth were taken To the Rhode Island
Hospil al after their wounIs had been
cared for at Greene's drug store aud the
Central Police Station. or the other
occupants Hunter was the cnly one
who was burned. his hands being so
badly burned that he was obliged TO 20 To
Greene's drug store on Westminster
street TO have them dressed
Jennie Jameson, sometimes called Jaue
Skelley, was found in "a small room over
the third floor, suifocated by the smoke.
While he fire was in progress Joseph
Kent and George Brown of the Ones
Ladder Company were pushing their way
around the rooms Oh this hJor, when |
Kent fell down Oh bis hands. He felt
like "a human face. cold as ice.
and on investigation found that it was
a woman, apparently dead. With |
the assistance OF two more OF
the hremen she was raised aud |
placed on the bed which WAS |
almost the only piece of furniture in the |
small III lighted room. 1ne flames had |
been controlled by this time, and Medi. |
cal Examiner Pal uer came and received /
.he body. H. pronouuced IL case of /
ieath from suffocaiiol ald ordered the /