The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-27

tered ct the hotel Up 10 Friday evening:
| A. Wilson. r. Boiimsn. 7. d. slnonson,
C. g johnson, ". NcSoriey, John Chris
| tsrnan, r. Hicks, Mrs. J. W. Huesman,
| Dr. Frazier, Mrs J. Smith and friend.
| J. r. Clark. Charles A. Peter, James
| AcSsmee, VI. r. Gallery. William Msthe-
son. city; ". ]. lawson. d. Mcdonald.
/ city; C. L. Glib. VI. G. Decerickson, Port
/ Bgakeley; George l. Moon, Redmond: T.
/ schmitt. olympia; George Bothen,
Bothell; C. Z Bellmsn, John Mcclure.
| Alden s. Chase, William Mckay. Ladies'.
| John Kingston.
1t was 2:45 o'clock when the FIRE vss
| sufficiently under control 10 atmit OF
any part Of the upstairs Of the hotel being
examined At that hour Fire Chief Huut.
Chief Of Posies Rogers. Coroner Horton.
Deputy Coroner Green AMI newspaper
reporters made their way 10 the sec
ond floor and wa9ed about in the
water and blaekened debris. In the center
Of the building we're found nine bodies IN
space OF about twelve feet square. Lying
side by side were the charred bodies OF
woman and Q man, with the body OF
child between them. They must have been
sufFocatsd while they slept. and probably
suffered little or no pain. A shor. distance
away, In what was one room, were Elk
bodies huddled together as II the unfort-
innate beings were overcome with smoke
While endeayoring 10 escape and fell a
prey 10 the flames
The place being Under box, the dodgers
had no time 10 save themselves. and death
came without warning. They probably
we're awakened by the heat and roar of the
flames. and opening the doors Of their
rooms we're met by the seething flames
from the hall ways. death being then al
most instantaneous.
Tnasmuch az the bodies we're burned be-
yond all possibility Of recognition and IL
being impossible to locate the boundaries
OF the rooms. Chief of Police Rogers and
Coroner Horton concluded 10 guard the
bodies until daylight. when it is hoped
that the proprietor Of the hotel viii be
able 10 identify them By locating the
rooms
Ats o'clock. while the firemcn were
cropping through the ruins for more bodies
q woman named Walsh came TO the CO.
iumbIa street entrance. asking to be
taken upstairs among the ruins
to search for her gold watch
and purse left In room Il,
on the West street side of the hotel, which
she had occupied with q Mrs. Smith and
her child. To q reporter of the Posr-Is-
TELLIGEscER she stated that she and Mrs.
Smith and the child were IN bed.
She was aroused by passing train,
then by someone in the halls shouting
fire" They hastily jumped ont of the
bed, opened the door and saw flames at
the end of the hall. Retaining her self
possession, she called TO Mrs. Smith TO
follow her, and the three ran along the ball,
where they found a man who piloted them
through a binding smoke out to soms
back passageway and out into the air.
While running through the halls she saw
men and women on all sides and all
seemed paralyzed.
Mrs Walsh at this point insisted on
going upstairs to search for her money.
Two hremen with lanterns piloted the
woman mp the charred stairway
and through labyrinth Of half
burned timbers, partitions and
| flooring. She guided them TO the west
end of the upper floor and there. sticking
through pile of cinders appeard
two grinning skulls bu med white. attached
TO two ha!f-baked bodies. one evidently
that of q large woman, the other on its
side and unrecognizable. IL was a sight
TO make stout man quake, but
| the woman never finched, but
stepped over and passed them and
| on through TO q corner, where she located
what she said had been her room. A
square box.liks space showed where
bed had stood aud had been
burned down to cinders. In this she
delved for here precious money, her mind
seemingly bent on nothing but to find IL.
| Not doing so at once, she burst into tears,
| at which some fireman assisted her and
soon dug mp $50 aud a badly battered
| iady's gold watch.
| She felt relieved st getting her all and As
coolly CROPPED her way back past and over
the Notwithstanding corpses As fireman
| remarked when she had gone:
az have seen many n hesrt-rending
| sight, but never saw such q cold blooded
sight as the nerve displayed by this
| woman In passing over those corpses in
the deliberate search for her money"
II. Il. Glass. who was taken 10 the hospi-
tai. occupied room a.. On hearing the
alarm he first tried the stairway, but
| found that was cut of. He then rushed
| to window overlooking West street and
found man there trying TO get out.
| Regardless of the other man he
burst through the window. ana springing
| 10 the awning called TO men IN the street
below to put up = ladder There was no
| ladder 10 be found and, the flames crowd
| ing him closely. Glass swung himself up
| the edge and dropped TO the ground. His
| left ankle was broken and he was badly
/ shaken up. lie came here from Whalco,n
/ October - and has been out of work. The
/ flames came in close TO his face and singsd
/ his mus;sche.
| C. r. Yonson came out Immediately be-
/ hind Glass. lie PASSED three or four
/ windows, and then was forced upon the
awning BY the flames. which suddenly
I burst out Gil around him and severel Y
| burned his right hand. lie is the
| least injured OF the three. He had been
/ In this city only three days, having come
from Minot. \. n. lie spsat two nights
/ at the New England sad last night ch anred
/ TO the West street.
/ Hayelin. ia addltlon to the sprainod
/ hack. sustained = soap wound about an
/ inch long. on top Of the head His face
/ VAS slightly scratched. ard Is Is probable
/ that ne fell against ihe Nail of the bgild-
1 ing In the north.
Ats:aS o'clock Fire CAief Hunt and sew
! erAl bremen searched The rear az the hote!
! where the FIRE had not ioue nach damage
aud found tao more bodies, making
/ fourteen ia al Roth we're Ynea
+ and one was completely dressed
/ While the other WAS in hl. nIght-clothes.
/ Both bore evidence OF having been sgno-
/ Gated by the dense smoke thonkA neither
was touched - toe aamss.
| Al this hour Coroner Horton ordered
/ The search stopped And the buud.