San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-08-14
PARTIAL LIST OF THE DEAD
AND WOUNDED FURNISHED
THE LIGHT.
Boatman of Louisiana Favors Free
Coinage--Local Rams Promised
New York Money Easy
Silver Looking Little
Better Hot From
The Wires to
The Light.
HOTEL FIRE.
A Number of Guests Lose Their
Lives.

Lives.
CHICAG o, Ill, Aug. IA hotel
fire res ulting in the death of a
number of guests occurred this
morning. The fire was in the Sem
ate hotel, a three-story structure,
on Madison street, near Fifth ave-
nue.. One man jumped from a win
dow in the top story, and was
killed. About a half dozen others
suffocated and burned to death.
The loss on the building and con-
tents is practically total, but as
the structure was old, and the fur
nishings cheap, the amount won't
exceed a few thousand dollars.
A restaurant occupied the ground
floor and the Senate hotel, the two
upper floors. 1t contained thirty
six rooms, and held thirty guests,
when the fire broke out, shortly
after six this morning. The rooms
were separated by fiimsy wooden
partitions. The blaze started in
the office on the second floor, and
spread so rapidly through the
halls and upper rooms, that it
could not be checked. Be-
fore the guests could be warned
the flames had cut off their escape
from the stafrways, and they We're
caught like rats in trap. j.
GaOch is landlord of the Senate
Hotel, and j. Ohren is manager.
AS fast as the dead were taken
from the ruins they were taken to
the Morgue. Four bodies were soon
recovered. A man hose identity
is unknown, next reached the win
dow. The flames were already
scorching his almost nude body,
and he jumped to the stone pave
ment. He was picked up in an
unconscious condition. 1t was
at this juncture the tiremen
arrived. Ladders were raised and
the work of rescuing the imperiled
inmates Systematically began. The
work of rescue was too late, how
ever. The firemen found only
dead bodies rather than living
people. The fire is said to have
originated from an overturned stair
lamp. Five people were killed and
three others were so badly injured
that they can scarcely recover.N At
the Cook county and Mercy hos
positals others are moaning with
pain in the wards, so badly injured
as to be unable to tell their
names. The list Of killed and
injured are: Harry Godfrey, seven
years old, son of j. G. Godfrey,
hardware merchant of Little Rock,
Ark, burned; Edward Short, of
Chicago, plumber, burned and
jumped from rear window; an I'M
known woman, five feet six inches
in height, burned, removed from
bed by the firemen; an I'M
known man, five feet seven inch
es in height, burned in bed.
An unknown man, removed to
Cook county hospital, unconscious,
died fifteen minutes after he ar
rived. j. G. Godfrey, hardware
merchant, Little Rock, Ark,
burned about the head and shout
ders, removed to Mercy hospital,
will recover. Mrs. Godfrey, wife
of above, slight burns on shoulders,
wounds dressed in drug store.
Grace Godfrey, aged thirty years,
extensive burns, will probably
die, taken to Mercy hospital.
Unknown man, supposed to be
VIM. Kronberg, a stage hand at
the Schiller theatre, badly burned
about head and face, delirious, and
will probably die. Unknown man
taken to Ward II, of Cook county
hospital, is about % years old and
very badly burned. He can scarcely
recover. Unknown man about "A
years of age, terribly burned
about head and face, is uncOn-
scious, in Ward 3, of Cook
county hospital, and will die.
Will Miller, aged %, nephew of
Jay Godfrey, burned about the
head and arms, was cut by glass
while breaking a. window for air.
He will recover. A. COOns, Lake
City, Mimi, was cut by glass about
the head and was takpn tO Mercy