Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1893-04-05
FIVE DEAD, MANY HURT.

Fatality Attending 70 Hotel Fire at Rrad-
fnrd, Pa.-Guests R"ut"d nv flames.
BRADFORD, Pa, April IA disastrous
fire occurred here early this morning
and resulted IN the loss of at least FIVE
lives and the injury of twenty-five per-
sOns.
At 4:20 o'clock fire was discovered in
the Higgins Hotel, on Main Street, and
spread with such fury that in short
time the structure was mass Of flames.
The hotel was occupied chiefly by rail-
road men, and there we're about 125 per-
sons asleep in the building when the
fire started.
When the alarm aroused the people a
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 it
was speedily reduced to ruins. The
loss on the buildings destroyed IS about
$1,000 The cause Of the fire is IN
known but is supposed to have caught
from gas stove The dead are:
- PARKS, engineer at the Buffalo,
Rochester q PittSburg shops.
f. HAvLIN, identified by passes on the
Philadelphia d Erie Railroad.
UNKNOWN WOMAN.
Tom CULLEN, 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
jured 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.
burned; jumped from second story win
dow in night clothes.
". j. OSBORNE, Of Buffalo. Injured
about The hack; feared back is broken: con
sidered fatal.
Mrs. HIGGINS, hurt internally md bad
ly injured.
j. A. NEWMEYER, leg broken.
MRS. Il. IUCAA--. g.. ,..- mira,
are both badly injured and burna ID ut
the face, hands and body.
Mr.. TUCKER, not known Whe;i he
escaped or not.
". Z. DRIsCOLL, injured internally.
DICK HIGGINS, son Of L. L. Higgins.
two fingers on his right hand broken and
also burned slightly.
TED BURNS, a fireman, badly hurt by
falling porch crashing upon him.
b. PICKARD, clerk, leg broken besides
internal injuries, considered very serious.
Cook MCNABE, hurt on face and head.
MIKE COLLINS, hand and shoulder in
jured.
W. J. HALsTED. internal injuries.
The Higgins Hotel is a verItable fire
trap. The scenes attending the fire
We're 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 10 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
residence. and the grocery store Of
Lerey & Waldo were DESTROYED