The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-31
LOST In THE FLAMES
Seven Servants, at Least.
Burned in the Big Al
bany Hotel.
WAKING UP THE GUESTS
Thrilling Tale of a HaIlman-
The Fifth Floor Cut OFF,
May Re Worse,

ALBANY, Dec. 81, 1S94.-Later develop
ments in the Delavan House fire last
night show that at least seven SER
wants are unaecounted for. They are:-
Mary and Nora Sullivan, chambermaidsi
who are sisters; Bridget Bitagibbon,
pantry girl; two colored cooks, whoss
names have not been ascertainedA ano
a man named Fernando, employed IN
the stewards department The othera
roll has not yet been fully verified and II
might be that others have perished.
A. Norman, one OF the walters, says
that he took Louis q Payne, the wen
No. 800 just before the fire broke out
He returned to the Office to get sons
traps for Mr.. Payne and delivered them-
As Norman YES returning TO the eie-
vator dense smoke appeared and ne
rushed around from room to room ta
give the alarm to the guests, who were
in their rooms.
Norman was overcome by the smoke,
which, he says, was so dense as to blind
hm and make it impossible to breathe.
He fell unconscious and lay upon tne
floor some time. The guests came rusn-
ing out and some stumbled over him
and fell heavily. This aroused him
enough so that he got UP anc reaeheq
window where he could get fresn
air. He escaped from the building none
the worse for his experience.
Norman said this merning that many
of the servants must nave nerlsnea II
this way. He says they were appr1seo
of the fire in time to save themselves,
but that they ran around TO arouse the
guests, and in doing this were overcome
by smoke. Norman was on the fourth
their rooms on the fifth floor. and he
thinks that those who were above him
were cut off from all escape.
Mesrs. Herty & Moore, the proprietors
of the burned hotel, devoted this y orn-
ing to hunting for their missing emp 9yes;
During the morning they found one OF
these but up to eleven O'Clock several
that a number of employees were burned
Charles Rosekrans. one of the night
clerks. could not be found. He was In
room on the fourth floor. He is a son
VIM. 2. Rosekrans, Secretary of the
Hotel Mems Association.
Mrs. F. H. Hill. the housekeeper, is
missing. She had room on the top
Nary and Bridget Sullivan and Bridget
Fitzgfbbons, hotel servants, who We're on
the top floor, have been given up as hav-
Crowley, another employe, was lost, as
she is missing.
So far as known none of the guests
were lost in the fire.
physician said that the four fire patients
remaining there would recover:
Mrs. Henry F Fookes, wi, wife p.,s.a,. OF the
Co, of Dayton O., was the only death,
she dying at the hospital She jumped
frem fourth story window, and it was
her husband who clung TO the rope fire
escape, his feet resting on the cornice OF
the third story window for over ten
minutes before a ladder was reached to
him.
No attempt has vet been made to ex-
anime the ruins. There are still couple
of streams playing upon the smoking
mass of debris.
The hotel proprietors say that the hotel
employees had discovered the fire and had
ample opportunity to extinguish it before
spreading, but for the lack of water. The
house hose was stretched, but there was
no force in the water pipes and but q
small stream could be secured.
The Bradley Martins were dining in
state in one of the small dining rooms
when the fire broke out They had only
time to escape. and saved almost noth-
ing.