The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-12-31
DELEVAN HOUSE IS GUTTED,
THE FAMOUS HOTEL OF ALBASf DEsTROYED BY FIRE.

rHE FAMOUS HOTEL OF ALbANA
 DESTROYED BY FIRE.
 Crowded at the Time the Alarm Was Given
 -Peopls Jumped From -Windows ana
 Some of Them Are Expected to Die-
 Great Exhibition of Fortitude.
 Albany. Dec. 3o.-rhe Delevan mousse proper was gutted by fire tonight. There were 100 guests, In the hotel. AM escaped. although Ave persons were badly hurt.
 Mrs. H. ?. Fookes, wife of the agent of the National Cash Register com pany oe this city. and Benjamin He'll man and his wife of Brooklyn. who were on their wedding tour, Jumped from third story windows. Mrs. Fookes was internally injured and will die. MT. Heilman was seriously burned about the chest and internally injured. He will died before morning. Ills wife was se- verely burned. She will recover. MT. H F. Fookes and Edmund Walsh, a porter, were badly burned. but will re- cover. All the above were taken to the City hospital. Several other persons were slightly injured
 The speakership fight was on in It's intensity tonight when at 8:44 o'clock the cry of fire rang through the corri- dors of the Delavan. The headquarters of the candidates were on the first floor over the Hobbies, otherwise the large crowds which filled the corridors and rooms would not have 50 luckily es- capped.
 The fire started in the basement on the Broadway side. directly under the elevator shaft, and spread with the rapldity of lightning. No one had time to save anything above the main floor, and before the affrighted guests and politicians had emerged upon the streets the flames had broken through the roof. The elevator shaft was adjacent to the Broadway stairway, and the flames cut off egress in the northern end of the hotel in which nearly two- thirds of the guests were located. Those who were not able to get past the ele- vator shaft so as to pass down the stairway on Steubens street. were with out hope of escape for some minutes, until they were directed to the servants stairway in the north section of the structure.
 It was some time after the alarm sounded that the department responded. Meanwhile every effort was made tto save those in the upper stories. E. A. Manchester. the postmaster of the as- :: ssmblY. came down a rope. on, the Broadway side from fourth story win dow and escaped with no injury except to his hands B. w. Arnold of Roches- ter also reached terra firma in this man. ner. tss F.......,
 Porter Edmund Walsh, who went through the house alarming the guests, found his escape cut off on reaching the upper stories. He got out on the roof of the center annex, and with Edwin Murphy, another employe, was res- cued with the aid of ladders. Walsh's hair was singed and his hands and arms were badly burned. A man and his wife who were on the same roof would not let each other be saved until the f1remen carried them down the lader
 Mrs. Zoh of Hillsdale, Columbia coun- ty who only last week was removed from the hospital here to the hotel, was carried out by ex-Congressman Henry c. Burleigh of Whitehall, Judge c, B. Mclaughlin of Port Henry and Deputy Constitutional Convention Compiler McGonigal who appeared in his great coat. Mrs. Moore, the wife of Mr. Moore, one of the hotel proprietors, was Ill and had to be carried out.
 Mrs. Fookes jumped from the third- story window above the main floor on Steuben street, striking on the roof of the balcony on the main floor and roll ing off upon the sidewalk, fall of sixty feet.
 MT. Heilman jumped from a window on the same floor. but jumped clear of the balcony. falling on snow bank. Mrs. Hetlman also jumped, but struck the balcony and likewise rolled off into the street below. All three came down, It seemed, almost together, Mrs. Heil- mans fall being broken by striking on the heads and shoulders of three men who were passing. MT. Fookes availed himseM of the rope fire escape in his room and lowered himself as far as the cornice below his floor. There he show ed his fortitude in being able to stand for ten minutes before . ladder could bes run up. V. Rs Brockway of New York was out on the arm in forcing open the windows ofhis room. He was rescued from the third story with the aid Of q ladder. hs
 Asssmblyman Ke6k of Johnstown went through the second and third floors notifying the guests of their dan- ger. He helped twenty people to an exit and had a narrow escape himself. Assennhyman Fish, Louis F. Payne and the others in Mir. Fish's headquarters had no trouble in reaching the main floor. Those in MT. Maltby's headquar- ters werA not e fortunate. MT. Maltby and Assemblyman Weeks of Queens county were tho last to leave and 1t renained for MT. Weeks to direct MT. Maltby to a means of escape by the servants stairway.
 A. P. Dart, a New York Herald art fit, when he opened the door of his room on the third floor was knocked down by a burst Of flame. He picked himself m and reaefed inc ground h,,t