Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-04-06
FIVE DEAD, MANY HURT

Fatality Attending Hotel Fire Mt R-o,
ford, Pa.-Guests R"ur-d nv Flames
BRADFORD, Pa, April IA disastrous
fire occurred here early this morn;pa
and resulted in the loss of at least 6va
lives and the injury of twenty-five nar.
sofs.
At APO O'Clock fire was discovered ~
the Higgins Hotel, on Main Street and
spread with such fury that in a short
time the structure was mass of flames
The hotel was occupied chiefly bv rail.
road men, and there were about 125 ne,.
sons asleep in the building when the
fire started.
When the alarm aroused the people
panic ensued and many of those who
were aroused jumped om windows
into the creek below, some being seri-
ously bruised and others badly burned
The fire spread to adjoining buildings
and the Buffalo, Rochester & Pitts.
burg depot and freight house were
soon destroyed. The flames communi.
Gated to Leroy's grocery store and if
was speedily reduced to ruins, The
loss on the buildings destroyed is about
100000. The cause of the fire is un.
known but is supposed to have caught
from a gas stove The dead are:
- PARKS, engineer at the Buffalo
Rochester & PittSburg shops.
+. HAvLIN, Identified oy passes on the
Philadelphia Il Erie Railroad.
UNKNOWN WOMAN.
TON CULLEN, a painter, dead in the
ruins.
CHILD OF Mrs. E. TUCKER, known to
have persisted in the flames.
The injured are:
HAL RHODES, ankle sprained
JAMES BRYsER, face, hands and feet
badly cut.
w. d. DRYsDALE, of Johnsonburg, in
iured internally.
j. d. CADY, Of jamestown, hurt about
the head.
IL. b. CAMPBELL, of Bellwood, Pa. arm
broken and hip sprained.
HARRY JONES, cut about hands, face
and head.
JAMES BRIssoN. carpenter, head cut
w. j. HOLIDAY, travelling salesman.
ankle sprained.
Mrs. WEAVER, Hotel Higgins, burned
about hands
Mrs. WEAvER's BABY, missing.
JUDY HARMON, glass blower cut about
hands, face and neck; hair entirely burned
off; injured internally.
j. Copy, clerk Higgins Hotel: badly
burned: Jumped from second. story win.
dow in night clothes.
". j. OSBORNE, of Buffalo injured
about The hack; feared back is broken: con.
sidcred fatal.
MRS. HIGGINS, hurt internally nd bad
ly injured.
j. A. NEwMEYER, leg broken.
MRS. Il. IUCl>--. $50. ~..~ ,. mira
are both badly in inred and burns. ID ut
the face, hands and body.
Mr.. TUCKER, not known Whe,! he
escaped or not.
w. E. DRIsCOLL, injured Internally.
DICK HIGGINS, son of L. J.. Higgins,
two fingers on his right hand broken and
also burned slightly.
TED BURNS, q fireman. badly hurt by a
falling porch crashing upon him.
B. PICKARD, clerk, leg broken besides
internal injuries, considered very Serious
Cook NCNABE, hurt on face and head.
MIKE COLLINS, hand and shoulder in
jured.
w. J. HALsTED. internal injuries.
The Higgins Hotel is a verltable fire
trap. The scenes attending the fire
were appalling. The fire had gained
great headwav before the guests were
awakened. The utmost confusion and
panic prevailed. Men jumped from
the third, second and first story
windows TO the railroad track
on the west side OF the hotel and into
the Tuna Creek On the east side. The
hotel register was burned and no &C
curate list Of the missing can be OBJ
tanned. The fremen are still searching
the ruins. The Buffalo, Rochester &
Pittsburg depot and freight house, Hig-
gins cigar factory, NJ Lundcrman's
resid ence. and the grocery store CT
LeraY & Waldo were DESTROYED