Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-10-27
BURNED TO A CRISP.
TEtlYe Persons Perish 10 a HO,sl
RiIs at Seattle, Wash.
OTHERS NAVE MARROW ESCAPES.
Explosion Of n Kerosene Lamp In tie
Kitchen Is the origin OF
the blaze.


broke out IN the West Street Louse, at
Columbia and West streets, about
o'olocl, this morning and at this hour
6 a. MI all tho dead are burned be-
You'd recognition and the coFJLer has
decided 70 allow the dead 20 remaiu
where they are in hopes that the pro-
ptletor could idsniiiy the bodies by the
location Of tho rooms, tbs hotel register
bridg saved.
TIE flames broke out 10 aud denly and
No forcoly that the occupants were
taken by surprise aud there was a VIII
panic, men anu women jumping from
the windows In all manner OF attic.
a sharp explosion was heard IN tho
kitchen IN tnv rear part Of the SECOND
ttUfy by 3. H. Butler, sDn OF the pru-
puetuf AMI Immediately the n,mns
began a. spread rapidly through tie
ury inner timuer OF the oorfugatcl iron
building, which A. one Of range Vi
tw0.8iUfy structures Ownel ny J. M.
Juluinn ON the east side OF Wrs. Street,
Butler raisoi cry u nru which
aroused the guest, with wh0m tue
house was CT wdcd. aud rush Tor liiv
followed. 10 was not any too soon, Tor
the flames were rushiug through tue
luug narrow hais likuiuvaning aDliiofb
tucknr - city. La tne nvantimu
Onicrr H, T.. Bryant bat disc vcfrI
tue namuH and turned IN an slnfm
which brought tue fire department 60
tuu tCtuv. then hv tur.uI uiH utttu'
ton To saving tue tcruhcd people, whU
urtrtd from uyufy window, with tue
lamrs last creeping up huhihd tutm
ll5 found Mu. Susie Allen aud hyf
twuytut.uid CHILD nj 90 wiuuow on
the Nvtt street eide, tuu woman cfyink
Tor Humr uuu 60 Htvv hes CuiIl.
"DTp taU ohi d." shouted the Oill-
cpd.
She did 40 aud hc caught 20 safely go
biz Afml. DcpOiiuug % on tho ground
Ice ulhlChUu "a plank aud eel 10 up
uEaluut "a WI dow. lhu woman tli4
uowu u aud suffered un luther Injury
tnau q fsN scfatuuvs.
W. g. Butter proprietor Of the hotel,
VA. iu bed Whom tic TIRE was disc0y-
cred Aud escaped Ia scanty attire.
ills son, 4. +. Butler, was night
pirFk ~ the hotel. lie ssys that tno
IRE undoubtedly originated from a
kufoseue lamp Ia tho Kitchen, which
WA located On the upper fJor near the
rcnt wall. The flames made such rapid
prOsttsa that before th' inmRtua COu d
possibly be aroused the hfc was upon
them. Then the people began TO drop
FROM tho windows on bo1h sides Of tue
uuildiug, the flames closely following
them.
q. IL. Lewis, who was In room "a"
at the corner, dropped twenty foot 10
a s.s.I a.
A. Day, who was Ia room %, TIED the
sheets together aud used them ~ n
fope To slide down. ID. u. Glass jumped
out VI window but not I'll MS haif
was burned. lie struck on his back
nuu lay struggling on the ground. lie
war picked up anu carried ~ the North.
,rn rauiilc passenger station aud win
the two others WAS taken to the hos.
pitnl.
One poor FELLOW whose Identity IL not
known, was caught Il the Tush % the
couflagrntion near the top Of the West
street railway aud "a L down over
come with the emgko and ilAmcs. Tue
fitrmun fought 30 Keep thu IRE away
tom his body, but was driven back,
anu when last seen the viclim's nghI
arm had been burned 10 "A blaekeneu
uindrr.
Two streams OF water were kept
trained on this place aud tho water fell
IA torrents on the stairway, which wa
nOt enough almost 10 scale.
IL was only after the fire department
hai gotten well 10 work that toe fall
horror OF tho affair began 10 teyta
itself, and by that time the building
a. mere shell. There was some un.
accountable delay In getting the wstul
on, owing 10 the slpwnotH Of the M,
boat Va getting up steam. Whom nj
last tho pressure diu come, the bulldog
wRsH raging furnace and all that could
be done Uau to cUnhue the tiamta Il
the block where they started.
Tho nTst dead mun was taken ou
from over tho HIN syrup company
store, and was found with ono log u
his trousers and hiH shoes half laced
The body was found with hts hen,
covered with this bed clothes, under tn
bed, having apparently hidden iron
the iismey, 20 badly burned Us 10 b.
unte, o ynizable, aa were all the othe
bOuirs,
FOURTEEN BODIES FOUND.
SEATTLE, WASH, Oct. .7.-Foufieei
bodies have been taken tom this ruin
Of the Wet Hotel anu two more ~
thought 10 he m the ruius. NoL
have been Identified.
Police Chptnin 1tNes Himself up.
INV YOhl, Oct. 27.-Police CAPITAL
SuumIttuvrAvr gave himself up q
police headquarters today 10 answer /
The charge vi receiving urlbts. Judg
Owing liked the cnptgiu's bail d
s7,5uJ, nd tnis was furnished.
IEuM ALASKA