The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-01-05
OREGON HOLOCAUST.
Forty-one Persons Cremated at q
Christmas Festival.
Joy Changed to Mourning In = Small Ore
gon Town Noted Hotel Destroyed
Louisville Has n COnfa agrntion
Other Fires.
FOrty-One Victims.

Forty-one Victims.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore, Dec. 29--News
has just reached here that At Silver
Lake. Ore, on Christmas evening,
while a large party was attending .
Christmas tree. a lamp exploded and,
setting fire To the building, forty-one
persons were burned to death and if
teen injured. While the festivities
were at their height someone climbed
on bench, from which point he ex-
pected to get n better view Of what was
going on. In doing SO his head struck
the lamphanging from the ceiling, over
turning it. The oil Immediately caught
fire and everything in the room being
dry and of an inflamabie nature, the
31o1W MAS soon q mass of flames. Some
EDn4 DkQ4tld; >. Shut the door aud keep
. Sfn3& - ~ put out" BY this time
IL Rxe4t that people
under foot and Is 80 49,
exit TO the hall and the Ire bol13 -
tween the ma jority of the crowd and
the door many rushed hesdlong into
the flames. Silver Lake is small vii
lage of about 100 inhabitants and It 10
$50 miles from the nearest telegraph
office.
Delevan House Burned.
ALBANY, n. Y, Dec. 31.-The can
didacy of the several men for speaker
of the assembly received = startling
baptism of fire here last night, for the
Delevan house, that famous hostslry
known from Maine to California, the
Mecca of politicians and the center Of
the big state political events for forty
years, was comparatively destroyed.
There were 100 guests in the house.
All escaped. although two women and
one man, who jumped from the third
story windows into the street on the
Steuben street side, were badly injured.
Two of them may die. The injured
were taken to the city hospital
The Delevan house is fifty years old
| and is one of the most famous hotels
in the country. 1t is = part OF the
estate of Edward c. Delevan. Hurly
& Moore, the proprietors. paid ~, 600
! a year rental and lately had made vast
| improvements in expectation of o big
winter season. The total loss is est-
mated at $500, 900, with an insurance
of $500, 900
At 1880 the east walls fell in aud
some of the firemen narrowly escaped
being buried. At 1880 the Broad way
wall fell out and one fireman was
buried in the debris He was taken
out and is not thought to be danger.
Ously hurt.
| A Loulsville Blaxe
Louisville, KY, Dec. 29.-Fire broke
out between 1: and o'clock this morn
ing in the five-story building of Stucky.
Brent & Co., general merchandise, on
Sixth street, between Main and Water.
The fire spread rapidly, soon gut.
ting the Stucky- Brent 4 Co. building
and communicating to the rear Of the
five-story building occupied BY J. h
Quasi & Co., boots and shoes, and Bare
ford, Lawson & Co., millinery, and
burned its way through to main street
In short time this building was alsc
completely gutted and the fremen en-
deavored to save the adjoining build
ings. The losses are: Stucky, Brent 4
Co., S., 900; ]. II. Quest & Co., el0O 900
Bereford, Lawson & Co., $4,000, III
fully insured. The weather was bitter
cold and the firemen suffered consider
ably, being compelled to stand in pool
of water while fighting the flames.
Firsmen Killed.
New YORK. Dec. Sl.-While Battalion
Fire Chief John }. Breslin and Fire
man John l.. Rooney Of truck IL wer'
; working with other firemen on . fr,
which started this morning on the hftl
floor of the gas and electric fixtures
: factory of Cassidy 4 Son Manufactur
ing CO., the two upper foors were car
ried down by the fall of heavy watel
; tank on the roof The whole mass o
blazing debris fell on the firemen
pinning Breslin and Rooney under thu
girders. The fire spread SO rapidly
that it was impossible to save them ant
they perished.
Father and Son Crsmated.
NEwAYUeA, Mich, Dec 3i.-Charle
White and his 6-year-old son were ere
, mated by the burning of their dwell
ing at IL o'clock yesterday morning
White was awakened by his wife, sn
ran up stairs where his four childrel
were sleeping. Three made their e,
cape. but before the father could I'm
the fourth the stairway was in hsmei
He knocked board OF the end of tn
house, but before he could get out wa
= overcome by heat and smoke. His viii
u realized his danger and called him n
peatcdly, but he would not sacrifice HI
e son to save his own life.
Z |