The Russellville Democrat., 1893-08-17
SEVERAL BURNED.
The Senate Hotel at Chieago Destroyed
 by Fire.
LITTLE ROCK PEOPLE.
Jay Godfrey and Fsmiiy BadIy Injured,
 Two ChiIdren Fatally.

fire resulting in the death of num- Der of guests occurred this morn ing. The fire was in the Senate Hotel, a three story structure on Madison street, near Flftl avenue. One man jumped from window and was kil ed. About half dozen others were suffocated and burned to death. The only body that has been recovered is that of Harry Godfrey, the 7-year- old son of J. Godfrey, of Little Rock. The loss on the building and contents is actically total, but as the structn-cc old and the furnis.a.sssss cheap the amount will not exceed few thousand dol lars. A restaraunt occupies the ground floor and Senate Hotel the two upper ones. It contained thirty-six rooms and hel,i thirty guests when the fire broke out shortly after 6 am. The rooms were separated by fiimsy, wooden partitions and proved frst-class food for the fire. The blaze started in the office on the second floor and spread rapidly through that and the upper rooms. Before the guests could be warned the flames cut off the escape of number from the stairway, and they were caught like rats in trap. ]. Gooch is the landlord of the Sen ate and J. Thern manager.
 As fast as the dead were taken from the ruins they were taken to the morgue. Four bodies were soon recovered. They were those of Godfrey, boy, and two men and a woman. The scene during the fire was an exciting one. Mrs. Ahrens and daughter, Annie, who slept in the front part of the third floor, dis covered tine fire first. A moment later they and the other occupants were flying around seeking an avenue of escape. Annie and her mother groped their way thror gh stiaing smoke to a window and stood out on the sill. The crowd below yelled not to jump. With desperation the woman clung.to the frame work, keeping as far out as possible, while the smoke and flamos burst through the windows around them. Although badly burned they retained their position until the arrival of the hook and ladder company. A ladder was raised and they were rescued. A man whose identity was unknown next reached the window.
 The flames were already scorching his almost nude body and he jumped to the stone pavement. He was picked up in an unconscious condition. It was at this juncture the 6remen arrived. Ladders were raised and the work of rescuing the imperiled inmates systematically begun. For some, hemmed in by flames, overpowered by smoke, with all egress shut, the rescue was too late however. The fremen found dead bodies rather than living ones. The fire is said to have started from an over turned stair lamp. In all five people were killed and three others so badly injured they can scarcely recover. At the Cook county and Mercy Hos
 pitfalls others are moaning with pain in the wards so badly injured as to be unable to tell their names. The list of the killed and injured is; Harry Godfrey, years of age, son of J. Godfrey, a hardware merchant of Little Rock, Ark, burned; Edward Short, of Chicago, gambler, burned and jumped from a rear window; an unknown woman, five feet six inches in height, burned, removed from a bed by 6remen; an unknown man, five feet eight inches in height, burned in bed. An unknown man was removed to the county hospital unconscious and died fifteen minutes after his arrival. J. Godfrey, a hardware merchant of Little Rock, Ark, burned about the head and shoulders, removed to Mercy Hospital, will recover; Mrs. Godfrey, wife of the above, slight burns on the shoulders. Her wounds were dressed in drug store ]; Grace Godfrey, aged 13 years, ex- tensi7e burns, will probably die, taken to Mercy Hospital an un- known man, supposed to be Wm. Kronberg, a stage hand at the Schiller Theatre, badly burned about the head and face, delirous and will probably die. An unknown man was taken to ward eleven, county hospi- tai, about 28 years of age, very badly burned, he can scarcely recover. An unknown man about 24 years of age, terribly burned about the head and face, is unconscious in ward five, county hospital. will die. Will Millery, aged IT years, a nephew of Jay Godfrey, was burned about the head, and arms cut by glass in breaking window for air, will recover; F. A. Coons, of Lake City, Minn., cut by glass about the head, taken to Mercy Hospital, will recover; Mrs. F. A. Coons, burned and cuts about the shoulders and breast, taken to Mercy Hospital, will die: Flora Coons. aped 15