The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1893-08-17
OBSTRUCTIVE FIRES.

Seven Lives Lost In q Chtcsgo Hotel FIpe-
A Large Number Of PersSrs Injured ~
forffing and Otherwise--A Tfroo Hun
dred Thousand Dollar Fire ~ Donvcr,
Col, and a Destructive Confag grats~~ ~
steubenviile, q.
CHICAGO, Aug. l4.-Tn a fire which
destroyed the two upper stories Of tho
three-story Senate hotel at 1874 Madison
street i've people were killed and five
others were no badly injured that they
can scarcely recover. At the Cook
County and Mercy hospitals six others
RYs moaning with pain In the wards, SO
badly Injured as to be unable 70 tell
their names.
The dead are:
Harry Godfrey, aged Z. sor Of Jay
Godfrey of Buchanan, Mfcbt face and
chest burned and suffocated Found
drad on the floor Of his room
Edward Tor J. W short, a street VEN
der, 20 years old, Chicag1 fell from q
third.story window and died ~ once
/ Has wife in La Fayette', Ind.
Mrs. Fannie Reed, an etaploye OF the
! Great Eastern hotel at Sixty-frst
street and St. Lawrence avenue; 2T
years old: widow and recently from
New York; taken from a third-ntory
window.
Phillip Cronberg, 81 years old, of
Little Rock, An: skull fractured by
| Jumping from window. Died at the
County hospital.
william Ullery, II years old.
nephew Of JAY Godfrey, of buchanan,
Mich. Died at the County hospital.
| Unknown man, about 3s years old,
dark hair and mustacfc. medium
height; may be C. B. Taylor, Of Hot
Springs, Ark Died at the County hos
pital.
Unknown biafi, about 90 years oil,
ive feet seven inches in height, clean
sliaven and dark hair. Yound dead i'm
a hallway.
The injured are: r. NJ. Norton, Sycrr-
more, ILL.,, chest crushed, three ribs
fractured and internal injuries; Jacob
Friedman, travelling sales man, burns
on feet and hands; Mrs. +. A, Coons,
Lake City, Mimi, shoulder and back
burned; Annie Coons, Is years old,
daughter of Mrs. Coon-, burned on face
and hand: partly suffocatsd.
All of the foregoing will probably
fecovey.
In addition to these, twelve persona
We're slightly injured
The fre started in the office Of the
hotel, and is supposed to have been
caused by the overturning OF an oil
lamp. by the time the night clerk
had discovered that the building was
on fire the flames were climbing from
the starting point on the second aoor
up the stairway to the third floor and
smoke was pouring from the windows.
He raised the cry of fire and then
made his escape down the front stair
way. AS the g,iests awoke their
shricts were heard and half dressed
forms began to appear at the windows
A Three Hundred Thousand Dollar rirs
10 Denver.
DENVER, Col, Aug. 15.--A fire which
started shortly after noon yesterday
totally destroyed the Crescent hour
mill and elevator at Stanton and Mont
gomery streets. The mill was q FIVE
story brick structure and the elevator
about the same height, but was OF
frame. Roth buildings were the prop
erty of the Colorado Milling & Eleva'
tor Co., of which j, X. Mullen is presi,
dent. The total loss including .
large quantity of flour in necks and
the grain in the elevator, will foot up
from $3.50, 900 to 100000. The |nsur'
unce is about IS per cent of the loss.
During the fire Lieut.. Mclean was
terribly injured by an explosion in the
dust-room of the mill and may die.
Chief Pearce had an arm broken by be-
Ing forced from the roof by stream m
of water.
The flames had then reached such a
Stage that to control them seemed inn
possible. a general alarm followed,
and at 1880 every engine in the city was
on the scene. Practically nothing
could be done toward subduing the
fre as the mill burned like tinder
and was soon wrapped in flames, and
further, the water supply was inter
ferred with.
Within thirty minutes from the time
1t started the mill was burned beyond
the hope of saving anything. Thero
were twenty men in the mill when the
fire was discovered, and they had but
little time to escape, SO rapid was the
spread of the fire.
A Disastrous Conhagration at steuben-
Vile, q.
, STEUBENN1LLE, u, aug. To- ne
most disastrous fire of the year Oc-
Cured here yesterday. 1t started in
the barn of B. N. Lindsey, WHO was
making liniment for horse. There
was delay in turning in an alarm, and
the fire got start that it was almost
impossible to check. From the place
where it originated it spread to the
ables and sheds of the Fake e. Neil
, Co. They were destroyed, and the fire
then swept away the Lindsey-Fulke
, block.
From that point it burned a number
of residences and was communicated
to the Jacob Chapman block. The
Office of the Ohio Press was destroyed
and with it all the files and everything
of value pertaining to the paper. The
total loss is estimated at $500, 900.
During the fire man by the namo
of Charles Lowe entered the store OF
his uncle. lie became involved In a
quarrel with the latter over some
money, and seized hatchet and dealt
the defenseless man three terrible
blows on the head. He robbed the till
of sl15 and went from the store to his
.. hotel, where he changed clothing and
: left the CITY,.
Shocking Accident In Machinery Hall ~
: the Worlds Fair.
WonI.D's FAIR GROUNDS. CHICAGO.
Aug. 15.-While Charles Hacking, an
employe of the Crompton Loom Co.,