Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-08-14
DRIVEN OUT BY FIRE.
Five Lives Lost in the Burning Of
a Chicago Hotel.
ESCAPE BY TIE STAIRS CUT OFF.
Death Of Man by Jumping From
the Top Floor.
S G E n E S OF ERROR.

CHICAGO, Aug. IA hotel fire result
ing in the death of five of the guests oc-
CURED 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. Others were sufso-
Gated and burned to death.
The first body to be recovered was that
OF Harry Godfrey. the seyen-year-old son
of J. Godfrey of Buchanan, Wis. The loss
on the building and contents is practically
total. but as the structure was old and the
furnishings cheap the amount will not ex-
ceed few. thousand dollars.
A restaurant occupied the ground foor.
and the Senate Hotel the two upper ones.
1t contained thsrty-siX rooms. and held
thirty guests when the fire broke out short
ly after 6 o'clock a. m. The rooms were
proved hrst-class food for fire.
The blaze started in the Office on the
that and the inner floor Before the guests
could be warned these flames had cut of
the escape Of a number from the stair
ways and they were caught like rats in a
trap.
Scenes of Terror.
The scene during the fire was IN excit-
ing one Mrs. Ohrens and her daughter
Annie who slept in the front part f the
third floor, discovered the fire first. 4 mo-
ment later they and the other occupants
were flying about seeking an avenue Of es-
cape. Annie ana her mother gropai their
way through the sitting smoke to the win
dow and stood on the sill. The crowd below
yelled TO them not to jump. With des-
perati the women clumg TO the frame
work. keeping as far out as possible while
the smoke and flames burst through the
windows around them. Although ha5.y
rival OF a hook and ladder company. A lad
der was raised and they Were rescued.
a man whose identity is unknown next
n ha Win Tlaxa Aor 4
ready scorching his almost naked body and
he jumped 10 the stone pavement. He was
picked UP in an unconscious condition. II
was at this iunct6re that the firerue1 ar
rived with ladders which they raised and
the work of rescuing the imprisoned in
mates Systematically began
Five Lives Lost.
In all. five people We're killed and three
others were so badly injured that they can
scarcely recover. At the Cook County :nd
Mercy hospitals others are moaning with
pain in the wards. badly Injured as TO
be unable to tell their names. The list of
killed and injured is:
Harry Godfrey, seven years of age son
of j: Godfrey. a hardware merchant of
Little Rock, Ark, burned
Edward Short Of Chicago, gambler burrs.i
and jumped from the rear window
Unknown woman. five feet six inches in
height burned, removed from bed by fire.
men.
Ink Inkn9wn rn, man, five feet eight inches in
Unknown man removed to county hos
pital unconscious, died fifteen minutes after
arrived.
injured: jay Godfrey, hardware p,er-
chant: Little Rock, Ark, burned about head
and shoulders, removed to Mercy Hospital.
will recover.
Mrs. Godfrey, wife of above. slight burns
or shoulders; wounds dressed in drug store
Grace Godfrey. aged thirteen years. .y-
tensive burns. will probably die; taken TO
Mercy Hospital
Unknown man. supposed to be William
hfonberg, stage hand at The Schiller
Theater: badly burned about the heal and
lace, delirious and will probably die
Unknown man, taken to ward N OF fba
County Hospitalabout twenty-eight years az
age ana very badly burned. He can scarce
ly recover
Unknown man about twenty wears Of age
terribly burned about head and face is
pital and will die.
VIII Millery. aged seventeen years nanha,S
OF SAY godfrey. burned about he1d and
arms, cut by glass in breaking wiadow Tor
air. viii recover. 40
F. A, Coons. Lake City. Mimi, cut bv
glass abont head. Taken to Mercy Hosnf-si.
Will recover.
Mrs; F. a. Coons. burns and cuts about
SI. SIouluers ana breast Taken To Mercy
Flora Coons. aged fifteen years found al
most sunocated. Removed TO Mercy Hos
pital; recovery doubtful.
X T. Morton syracuse. ". V cut about
sh4uiders. Removed to Mercy Hospital
Matte Ahrens. Chicago. aged eighteen
years, arms burned will recover
r. MEYER, a spectator of CHICAGO, head
cut by falling glass
L NJ. Rogers of Chicago. burns on body
; ana arms. Taken to Unity Hospital; ser