Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-01-05
a SUDDEN ALARM.

his = SUDDEN ALARM.
OF the DeiAvan House st Alba,
are 60. Nsrrow Escaps OF the Namero
nG F.s.,,- ,U OF Them BADLY, and O
ne. Assiiy Injured by Jumplnr 49,. :
burning Structure Detail. :, - -
w.. astrophe. " We -
Va. -. AlBAsY, . n Y, Dec. si.-The Del
lbs la van house proper was Rutted bv a
~ .ast night There were 100 guests
a. .ne mouse All escaped, although ~
~ women and one man, who iumne
~ ~ from the third-story windows into i
Do s'reet o.. the Steuben-street side. We,
7. No. badly injured. They were: W.
M M MRS, +. Fooles, wife Of the agent Z
ia .le e;.s. sne Na1ionarSssh Regisscr Co., Of thI
h. 'i,y' formerl, OF Das Of q.
~ ~ !se,' iain;sk lle'liuaa and Ms = ~ b !
n tour. ''r "eooin
,a Mr Fookes was badly bnrnod H.,
o WI m.i recover. His wife was internall,
s injured, and will die. Mr. He;lma,
was badly burned about the chest nm,
n iani'erhally injured. He will probabl,
" ~ u,e soon His wife was badly burneI
- - ABOUT the face, her nose was split onsr
~ ana she was cut on the anlle Shr
:. miii recover The injured were taken
;, 10 the city hospital. '"
4 Inc speakership fight was on in ito
4 intensity when the cry of fire rano
:. through the corridors of the hotel at
o'44 O'Clock. The headquarters of tho
candidates were on the first floor oras w
,,.h, une loooies' otherwise the large crowds
, % wnlcn fllled the corridors and rooms
, "uuio T not have SO luckily ESCAPED.
/, Inc hre started in the basement y,
, sne broadway side, directly under tho
elevator shaft, and spread with the m.
pio'ty OF lightning. No one had time
w save anything above the main floor
ana before the affrighted guests and
poi''ic'ans had emerged upon the
streets ,hs the flames had broken throuob
nc elevator shaft was adjacent to
she broadway stairway, and tho
names cut off the egress of the g,ssts
~ .'a,, ;ne northern end of the hotel in
winch nearly two.thirds of the guests
were located. Those who were nv,
uole 10 get past the elevator shaft 90
as ss 10 pass down the main stairway nm
''euoen street, were without bono 70
escape Tor some minutes until thoiu
way was directed to the sarvan,n,
stairway in the north section Of tho
structure '- 'ne
~ was some time after the alarm
sounded before the department 30.
spohded. Meanwhile every affou,
was made to save those in the ,,nnan
stories. -" viz upper
T. A. Manchester, the postmaster Of
1he u assembly, came down rope on the
broadway side from n fourtb.storv
WINDOW and escaped with no iniury
except TO his hands. z. W. Arnold nf I
nochester' ~, also reached terra firma In
this manner. IL IL" Ill S
Edmund Walsh, porter, who ,s bs il
neara the cry of fire, went through Il
i, we mousse alarming the gnests. fopnd p
.'o essape cut OF on reaching the ,,,' II
IN M s'orles- lie succeeded IN rettinp =
0at on the roof Of the center annax Z
ana with Edwin Murphy, another en-. p
'ioye' was rescued with the Ala -, q
aaaers' Walsh's hair was singed and o
iis !, hands and arms were badly burned u
ne was taken to the hospital. te
"A man and his wife, who were m rth tn
ame roof would not let each other he ht
aved until the fremen carried thor en-
own the ladder. The man vas afraid SO
venture down, and to add to this ai
is "ife did not want to be left alone ma
Or minute. 'Ao tn
Mrs Zen, OF Hillsdale, Columbia ar
ounty, who only last week wac ro err
'oVed from the hospital here to tho ve'
otel' was carried out by ex-Congress- SUI
IAN Id. c. Burleigh, of Whitehall. COZ
mage {. j. Mclaughlin, of Port be
enry' and Deputy Constitutional Con. Pa
'ntlon Compiler McGonigal. wrapned thi
his great coat f-" of
Mrs. Moore was sick in bed apa hal bli
be carried out. rag
Mrs Fookes jumped from the fourth for
'or' striking ON the roof of the hal.
ny on the main floor and rolling oH
TO the sidewalk fall of fully sixtv
A. eiNtJ He
Mr. Heilman jumped from window n
the same floor, but jumped clear ~ X
balcony, falling on snow bank Smi
s. Heilman also jumped, but struck ka1
balcony, and likewise rolled o1 hon
o The street below. All three cano ease
'n, u seemed, almost together neal
S. lieilman's fall was broken some. IN
at by striking on the heads and ago.
'ulders of three men who w. uaa1 anu dent
:. p"'' vile
IT. fookes availed himself of the Cine
e fre escape in his room, and low. elect
himself down as far as the corn;ce tire
nc window below his floor. There -Four
showed his noble fortitude in hn;nr teres
to stand for a period of some to,, first
utes before ladder could be run mn exch
I'M. lie descended It alone. The the i
'tators in the street below him were tclep
'ouDt responsible for his not iump.
They feared such an act minute rA
minute as the time rolled slowly bv
.hey reassuringly kept calling to
that ladder was coming.
DRIVEWAY, OF New York citv.
cut on the arm in forcing the win wv, mon1
OF his room. He was rescued from anu >
third story with the aid of a lad up u
KecL 90 of the
through the .oc:ns ns'uwn, The
5 notifying m. am.s. "n1 ."'ru sole I,
er. He belned twan,u .ne'r quart,
and had verr ro 49,. poop'o W ah able d
Np' ''''h' compl
E;.h lat, as TO ,
the others in Mr. MIL" ayne 1nsp
ers had no troplle q, noau rank
lain floor Those IN A.. scuing Ms,ng joys Il
were not 60 oy inspec
- ~ 'u"a"' given
RS. AMELIA BLoOMER.
OF Ono OF the Earliest Advoc.t.. Of ,b.
~ Rational Ur~as o..