The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-19

JITY. UTAH, MONDAY,
more or less injured by being trampled
upon and by falling in the broken glass
which covers the streets and sidewalk
in every direction.
broken poles in the alley added fresh
peril to the firemen. One horse was
killed by coming i'll contact with live
wire.
Two injured men had almost been ex-.
tricated from the ruins when the flames
approached SO close that the rescuers
had to abandon them for their own
safety. Both voices have now been 81
fenced. fire completing the work COM
menced by the explosion.
Under Heavy Weights.
The bodies of three women are also
to be seen in the back part OF the
building. but cannot be reached.
AT 1:30 the flames are still keeping
the firemen back from the work of
rescue except just at the line of the
alley wall OF those pinioned beneath
the debris only two are now thought to
be alive, both men from the fifth floor
who are still lying on their beds. Both
are covered several feet deep except
about their heads and can hardly sur
Yive another half hour Almost no
progress is being made in relieving
them, as the smoke is binding The
flames are only kept back from their
bodies by half dozen streams of
water.
Thus far six persons have been
taken from the ruins, all badly injured.
In addition four We're severely cut by
glass falling into the street.
y piece of the cornice of the Chees-
man block, at Seventeenth and Lari-
mer streets, fully a block from the
Gumry hotel was torn out and fell to the
street, narrowly missing several pass
ersby. The fragment weighed at least
ton.
In the wrecked hotel there was a
tier of five or six rooms extending
across the rear of the building, facing
the alley on each of the three upper
floors. All of these rooms are believed
to have been occupied, as people re-
siding in rooms directly across the al
ley observed lights burning in every
window during the evening.
Among the dead are Peter Gumry
and R. c. Greiner the two proprietors
of the hotel the day clerk and the
night clerk, none Of whom have been
found.
A Baby Burned.
Immediately after the explosion oc,
CURED a young baby was heard wall
ing in the corner of a room which had
nearly all fallen away. It's parents
had been carried down to death with
the first crash. Soon after the little
ones cries became weaker, and later,
when the flames shot up in the skele-
ton of the building, became entirely
silenced.
The firemen made q brave effort to
save a woman caught in the debris at
the north corner of the hotel, but
were forced to abandon the attempt.
The spot where she lay is now the hot
test part of the fire.
None of the six people thuA far
taken out are conscious and identifica-
ton is impossible. The force of the
explosion carried away a large por-
ton of the rear of the building next
adjoining the Gumry toward Seven
teenth street and occupied by A. Lilly
blade, wholesale and retail furniture.
The wall of the Gumry on the side to-
ward Eighteenth street crushed a
stable and small frame house, but
no one was injured
Both AreseDead.
The Gumry hotel was a five-story
and was erected about six years ago.
1t was of the better kind of second
class hotels, catering largely to tran
Slent family patronage. Thus many
ladies and children were among the
guests. The building was erected as
the Eden Musee by the widow of Cen
eral Tom Thumb and was so occupied
for about a year, being later remodeled
for use as a hotel. Gunry and Greiner
h rfor
Gumry was a prominent contractor and
had much of the work during the erec-
ton of the state capitol. Mr.. Greiner
acted in the capacity Of manager. Both
are among the dead.
Those Registered.
No meals were served in the hotel
and every guest entered on the regis
ter occupied a room in the hotel to-
night. Twenty-Five people registered
today, most of them late tonight, the
list being as follows:
Mrs O. H. knight, Lake City, Colo.
Mrs. Knights sons.
J. l.. Kink, Omaha.
j. A. Brown, Omaha.
Bud Buren,, Colorado Springs.
j. w. Roberts and wife, Colorado
Springs.
Miss Jennie Howard, Boston.
MTS. y. M w llllaIlS, boulder, COLO.
Miss Hattie H. Williams, Boulder.
w. c. McClain, Huron, Kas
Mrs. Mccain and child.
Hewey Sloan, Huron.
Mrs. Sloan.
George, Burte. Colorado Springs.
e. T. McCloskey, Cripple Creek.
F. French, Central City, Colo
3. ]. Lorah, Central City, Colo.
NJ E. Letson, Denver
W. j. Corson, Pueblo.
Thus far only fifteen people who are
known to have been in the hotel at the
time of the explosion are accounted for.
This leaves sixty supposed to be dead.
Henry Sloan and wife. of Huron, Kas.,
and w c. McClain. cashier of the Huron
State bank, arrived at the hotel tonight
from Manitou and occupied the front
south rooms, They, are among those
taken down by ladders, all more or
less injured Mr. McClain states that
he thinks there were sixty guests in the
hotel. which with the employees would
of