The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-01-09
HOLOCAUST IN A HOTEL.
THE HORROR OF ETHE IOELEVAN
HOUSEFIRE REVEALED.
1t Is Now Certain That Fourteen Employ
es, Ten OF Them Women, Became Panic
Stricken and Were Lost.

1t Is Now Certain That Fourteen Employ
es, Ten Of Thorn Women, Became Panic
Stricken and Were Lost
ALBANY. Dec. 31.-Later develop
ments in the Delevan House fire show
that at least six servants are unac-
counted for. They are Mary and Nora
Sullivan, chambermaids. sisters; Bird
get Fitzgibbon, pantry girl; two color
ed cooks. whose names cannot be as
certained, and man named Fernan-
do. employed in the stewards depart
ment. The pay roll has not yet been
fully verified and it may be that
several other persons perished.
John Norman, one of the walters,
says he took Louis T. Payne. the well
known friend of Hamilton Fish, to
room 303 just before the fire broke out.
He returned to the Office to get some
traps for Payne and delivered them.
AS Norman was returning to the eleva-
tor, a dense smoke appeared and he
rushed around from room to room to
give the alarm to guests who We're in
their rooms. Norman was overcome
by the smoke. which he says was so
dense as to blind him and make it i'm
possible to breathe He fell unconscious
and lay upon the floor some time
Guests came rushing out and some one.
stumbled over him and fell heavily
This aroused him enough so that he
got up and reached a window where
he could get fresh air. He escaped
from the building none the worse for
his experience. Norman said this
morning that many of the servants
must have perished in this way. He
says that they were apprised of the fire
in time to save themselves, but that
they ran around to arouse the guests
and in doing this ' ere overcome by
smoke. Norman was on the fourth
floor of the hotel The servants had
their rooms on the fifth floor and he
thinks that those above him were cut
off from all escape
Messrs. Herly & Moore, proprietors
of the burned hotel, devoted this morn
ing to hunting for their missing en-
ployes. During the morning they
found one of these, but up to II o'clock
several others could not be found.
Charles Rosecrans. one of the night
clerks, could not be found. He was
in a room or the fourth floor. He is
son Of William E. Rosecrans. secret
ary of the Hotel Mems Association.
Mrs. S. F. Hill. the housekeeper, Is
missing. She had room on the top
floor.
Kate Crowley, an employe, is
thought to be dead, asshe is missing.
So far as is known, none Of the
guests were lost in the fire. At Al
band Hospital at noon the physicians
said that the four fire patients remain
ing there would recover. Mrs Henry
F. Fooks, wife of the agent of the
American Cash Register Company, of
Dayton, O., was the only death, She
dying at the hospital. She jumped
from a fourth story window, and it
was her husband who clung to the rope,
fire escape, his feet resting en- the corn
ice of third-story window for over
ten minutes before ladder was reach
ed to him.
ALBANY, Dec. 31.-The latest esti-
mate is that thirteen persons, all en-
ployes of the hotel, perished in the
Delevan House fire last night. Three
of the missing people are men and ten
are women.
A conservative estimate of the loss is
S150, 900 on the building, which ISM
sured for $3.50, 900, and $4,000 on the
furniture, which isinsured for $37, 500.
The rents of the hotel are insured for
s26, 900. Heiser & Mulfelder, dealers
in whole sale notions, who occupied
store under the annex, suffered a loss
by fire and water of $40, 900, fully in
sured. Slight looses were incurred by
several merchants on the opposite side
of Broadway, caused by falling walls
and the intense heat