The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-14

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building on Madison street near Fifth
avenue. The bulldogs aud conte It's
are total loss.
A restaurant occupied the ground floor
and the Senate hotel. the two upper ones.
1t contained 36 rooms and held 80 guests
when the fire broke out shortly after o
a. m. The rooms were separated by
nimsy wooden partitions and proved good
food for fire. The blaze started In the
Office on the second floor aad spread
rapidly through that and the upper
rooms. Before the guests could be
warned the flames had cut of the escape
of q numbe from the stairways and they
were caught like rats in a trap. j.
Gooche is the landlord of the Senate ana
j. Ohren manager.
Exciting Scenes
The scene during the fire was an excit-
ing one Mrs. Abrens and her daughter
Annie, who slept in the front part OF the
third floor, discovered the fire first. A
moment later they and the other occu-
pants were running about seeking an
avenue Of escape. Annie and her mother
CROPPED their way through the smoke TO
the window and stood out on the sill.
The crowd below yelled to them not to
Jump. With desperation the women
clnng TO the frame work, keeping as far
out as possible. while the smoke and
flames burst through the windows
around them. Although badly burned,
they remained there until the arrival of a
hook and ladder company. A ladder was
raised and they were rescued.
A man whose identity Is unknown
next reached the window. The flames
were already scorching his almost naked
body, and he jumped to the stone pave
ment. He WAS picket up In an uncon-
scious condition. Ladders were then
raised and the work of rescuing the i'm
prisoned inmates was systematically be-
gun. For some. hemmed In by flames,
overpow cred by smoke aud with all
egress hut of. the rescue was too late.
The fir emen found dead bodies rather
than living ones.
How 1t Started.
The fire is said to have started from an
overturned stair lamp.
In all five people were killed and three
others were so badly injured that they
can scarcely recover. At the Cook
Co unity and Mercy hospitals Others are
IN gaming with pain In the wards, SO badly
Injured as to be unable to tell their
names.
jay Godfrey, hardware merchant. Little
Rock, Ark, burned about head and
shoulders; removed to Mercy hosp ital
will recover. +.
Mrs. Godfrey, wife OF above. sligh t
burns of shoulders; wounds dressed in
drugstore.
Matte Ahrens. IS, arms burned; will
recover.
+. Myer. head cut by falling glass.
L. M. Rogers, burn on body and arms;
serious.
Grace Godfrey. IS. extensive burns; will
probably die. Taken to Mercy Hos
pital
Unknown man, supposed to bs William
xronbera. stage hand at the Schiller
heatre; badly burned about head and
face; delirious and will probably die.
Upknown man taken to County hos
pital, is ABOUT % years Of age and very
badly burned; he can scarcely recover.
unknown man about "a years of age;
terribly bur ned about cad ard face.
unconscious in the County hospital and
will die.
William Millerv. IL; burned about
head aud arms, cut by glass In reaking
window for air: will reco over.
+. A. Coans. cut by glass about head !;
taken to Mercy hospital will recover.
Mrs. +. A Coous, burns and cuts about
shoulders and breast taken 70 Mercy hos
pital; Will die.
Flora Co on. IS, found almost suffo
cate /; removed TO Mercy nospllal re-
covcry coubtful
r. l.. Morton, cut about shou ders: re-
mo cd 10 Mercy hospital: ill recover.