The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-01-04
A SUDDEN ALARM.
Burning OF the DelRyan House at Albany,
N. Ys-Narrow Escape of the Numerous
Gueets-Son1e OF Them Badly, and One
Fatally Injured by Jumping from tho
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ALBANY, n. Y, Dec. 3f.-The Della
van house proper was gutted by fire
| last night. 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. They were:
Mrs. +. Fookes. wife of the agent of
| the National Cash Register Co., of this
city. formerly of Dayton, o.
BENJAMIN Heilman and his wife, of
Brooklyn, who were on their wedding
tour
Mr.. Fookes was badly burned, but
will recover. His wife was internally
injured. and will die. Mr.. Heilman
was badly burned about the chest and
internally injured. He will probably
die soon. His wife was badly burned
about the face, her nose was split open
and she was cut on the ankle. She
will recover. The injured were taken
to the city hospital.
The speakership fight was on in its
intensity when the cry of fire rang
through the corridors of the hotel at
| S:44 o'clock. The headquarters of the
candidates were on the first floor over
the lobbies, otherwise the large crowds
| which filled the corridors and rooms
would not have SO luckily escaped.
The fire started in the basement on
the Broadway side, directly under the
elevator shaft, and spread with the ra-
pidity of lightning. No one had time
to save anything above the main floor,
and before the .affrighteds guests and
politicians had emerged upon the
streets the flames had broken through
the roof.
The elevator shaft was adjacent to
the Broadway stairway, and the
flames cut off the egress of. the guests
in the northern end of the hotel in
which nearly two-thirds of the guests
were located. Those who were not
able to get past the elevator shaft, so
as to pass down the main stairway on
Steuben street, were without hope of
escape for some minutes until their
way was directed to. the servants
stairway in the north section of the
structure.
1t was some time after the alarm
sounded before the department re-
sponded. Meanwhile every effort
was made to save those in the upper
stories.
Z. A. Manchester, the postmaster Of
the assembly, came down a rope on the
broadway side from a fourth-story
window, and escaped with no injury
except to his hands. E. w. Arnold, of
Rochester, also reached terra frma in
this manner.
Edmund Walsh, a porter, who as he
heard the cry of fire, went through
the house alarming the guests, found
his escape cut off on reaching the up
per stories. He succeeded in getting
out on the roof of the center annex
and with Edwin Murphy, another en-
ploye, was rescued with the aid of
ladders. Walshs hair was singed and
his hands. and arms were badly burned.
He was taken to the hospital
A man and his wife, who were on the
same roof would not let each other be
saved until the frenlen carried them
down the ladder. The man was afraid
TO venture down. and to add to this
his wife did not want to be left alone
for minute.
county, who only last week was re-
moved from the hospital here to the
hotel, was carried out by ex-Congress-
man H. C: Burleigh, of Whitehall;
Judge c. b. Mclaughlin, of Port
Henry, and Deputy Constitutional Con-
vention Compiler McGonigal, wrapped
in his great coat.
Mrs. Moore was sick in bed, and had
to be carried out.
Mrs Fookes jumped from the fourth
floor, striking on the roof of the bal
cony on the main floor and rolling off
onto the sidewalk, fall OF fully sixty
feet. }I-Gw ttElf51
Mr.. Heilman jumped from window
ON the same floor, but jumped clear of
the balcony, falling on snow bank.
Mrs. Heilman also jumped, but struck
the balcony, and likewise rolled off
into the street below. All three came
down, it seemed, almost together.
Mrs. Heilman's fall was broken some
what by striking on the heads and
shoulders of three men who were pass
ing.
Mr.. Fookes availed himself OF the
rope fire escape in his room and low
cred himself down as far as the cornice
of the window below his floor. There
he showed his noble fortitude in being
able to stand for period of some ten
minutes before aIadder could be run up
to him. He descended it alone. The
spectators in the street below him were
no doubt responsible for his not jump
ing. They feared such an act minute
by minute as the time rolled slowly by,
but they reassuringly kept calling to
him that ladder was coming.
d. P. Brockway, of New York city,
was cut on the arm in forcing the win
dow of his room. He was rescued from
the third story with the aid of lad
der.
AssembIyman Kecls, of Johnstown,
went through the second and third
floors. notifying the guests Of their
danger. He helped twenty people to an
exit, and had very narrow escape him
self
Assemblyman Fish, Louis Z. Payne
and the others in Mr.. Fish's head
quarters had no trouble in reaching
the main floor. Thuse in Mr.. Malby's
headquarters were not so fortunate.
MRS. AMELIA ELOOMER.
Death of One of the Earliest Advocates
of Rational Dress for Women.
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