The morning call., 1895-01-01
Burning of the DeIavan
House.
RAGGED WALLS REMAIN.
The Number of Victims Increased
to Seventeen.
RAGGED
THOSE INJURED ARE IMPROVING.
Employees of the Hotel Perished in
Trying to Save the Lives
of Guests. ::

:
|: /. ALBANY. NY, Dec. :31.-The list of
those who are missing and supposed to-
have persisted in the Delavan House num-
.bers seventeen. Ali The injured are re-:
ported out of danger and improving. ALI
/. the hotel: servants. had quarters on the
fifth: floor. :: .It.i is asserted by the hotel
people. that The help were apprised of the
fire in time to: save. themselves, but they
ran to help 'the*guests. and in doing this
were overcome by smoke :: :. -: =
+ -Four ragged walls and a mass of smol-
derfng.ruins marked the site Of the Della:
van House today Two. hundred and nifty
.of its guests are. quartered at other hotels,
The list of casualties go far:are as follows:
Dead-Mrs. HIS. .Fookes.. formerly of
: DAYTON, Ohio. -. s: ''* ~ -.:. !.
/: Injured enry *F.::Fookes, injured in.
ternaIly. face and hands burned, will re-
cover Mrs. B. j. HeilBlan, Brooklyn.
face cut: and: internally Injured: will re-
cover; !. Ben +. HrrlmaD, Brooklyn, ankle
injured. Edward. Walsh. face i badly
burned; E: A.. Manchester Auburn, hands
and arms badly burned: =. "A. Arnold
Rochester, bruised by: jumping from q.
Window; ID. P..==#BrockWay New York.
right arm badly. cut and both arms
burned; Edward Murphy. bad s burns;
james Hennessy, fire man. steamer: f.,
struck on he head bya brick when one Of
the walls. fell about midnight {: = !:
+ The. police+.ars !. unableto account for,
eigh persons-tw mi aids and six guests.
They say while it i s possible these persons.
may o ow: elm some hotel it -:isquite prob
*able their: bodies arein the ruins. Among.
those unaccounted for are Mary am Nora
Sullivan. maids; Bridget Fltzgib bons,: ser
want ian Italian named Fernando and two
vegeta Die cIoks.. .s i :: s. =; =
s.: Chef .Qnerana Tomagni: WATSON the top
floor when1he cry: Of fire was given.:#. =. I
was: in my. room" said he.i:'''W hen some
one = yelled Fire" The half was filled
with: smoke; and. the stairs were blocked
*withthe flames.# Iturned to- run the other
way. OI the floor .of: the corridor lay
three persons shrieking for: help: The
flames were leaping along the corridor
and Twas 10 sing my senses. They grabbed
my legs. lpulled myself away and found
a window. from which.:l lowered myself
five stories by means.of ar0pe. :.
:" The horrors of: the Delavan: House fire
increase as the, hours go by. and where.
this. morning nine. persons were reported
missing. the: list Tonight is. increased to
seventeen. The full:list of missing IS as.
.follows: Mrs. Francis Hill:from Chicago :;
Nora Sullivan, chambermaid; Mary Sulli-:
van, chambermaid; Mary. Carr, chamber
maid "A nnie DALEY, employe =: Bridget
Fnzgibbons. employ !. Ameia<Tomasna
chambermad; Simon: Myers, = employee:
Rosanta Storney, : cham bermaid :; Ellen
Dillon laundress: .Agn es Wilson, cham
bermald; Rae. Young. employee; Kate
Crowley: 4 ella mbermaid; !; Tom. Cannon.
hall man ;:=Ferdinando Belleti,- fireman;
RICARDO Teeskoni. W orked in kitchen; an;
unknown Italian, worked In kitchen.
) About .tw enty girls were sleeping inthe
attic. whiclrsis on the Steu ben-street side.
of the house, and the: only exit was mar
row stairway leading to the third floor. ::
!, The mostrela bic Information hat could
be obtained was given by an EN- ploye of:
the house named Kate: Mono han,* who.
knew all the girls well-and who had: been;
unable TO find twelve OF: them.:.w hom she:
is positive are dead: Besides these she
asserts that four men, are in the ruins. i:
Il Miss Monohan says 8 he escaped through
-:the basement, and that at: that time the
girls were lost in: the attic" When she
reached the last stairway the six lower.
steps were burned and she. had to jump
the remaining distance. II the girls were
in the attic then.:it seems impossible for
them TO have esca ped. i: 81 -, s.