Birmingham age-herald., 1895-01-01
THIRTEEN BgPLOYES Of the Delaven House Known to
 Have Perished. ONLY ONE OF THE GUESTS Known to Have Been Killed. Patients at the Hospital
 Will Recover.
ONLY ONE OF THE GUESTS

ALBANY, N. Y., Dec. 31.-Later devei- opments in the Delaven house fire show that at least six servants are unaccounted for. They are Mary and Bridget Sullivan |, chamberH1aids, sisters; Bridget Fitzgit- bons, panlN II; two colored cooks, whose names have not peon ascertained, aud n man named Fernando, emplo yed in the stewards department. The pay roll has not yet been fully verified and it may be that several persons have perIshed.
 Johu Norman, one of the walters, says he took Louis F. Payne, well. known friend of Hamilton Fish, to room 353 juss before the fire broke out. He returned l. the office to get his traps for Payne and dc lived them. As Norman was returning to the elevator a dense smoke appeared and he rushed around from room to room. to give the alarm to the guests who were in their rooms. Norman was overcome by the smoke, which he says Was so dense as to blind him and made it impossi bic to breathe. Hefel: unconscious aud lay upon the floor some time. The guests came run ming out and some one stumbled over him and fell heavily. This aroused him enough so that he got up and reached 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 they were apprised of the fire in time to save themselves, but that they ran around to arouse the guests, and in doing this they were overcome by smoke. Norman roomed on the fourth floor of the hotel. Tue servants had their rooms on the fifth floor, and he thinks thas those above him were cut off from all es-. cape.
 Messrs. Herty X Moore, proprietors of the burned hotel. devoted this morning t. hunting Tor their missing employees, During the morning they found one of these, but up to II o'clock several others could not be found. It was feared that a number of the employees were burned alive.
 Charles Rosecranz, one of the night clerks, could not be found. He was in c room on the fourth floor. He is SOB of William E. Rosecranz, secretary of the Hotel Men's association.
 Mrs. F. s. Hill, hotisekeeper, Is missing She had room on the top floor.
 Mary anu Bridget Sullivan, and Bridges Fitzgiobons, servants, who were on the top floor, have been given up as having perished.
 Kate Crowley, an employe, is thought to be dead, as she IS missing.
 So far as known none of the guests wer.t lost E the fire. z
 At the Albany hospital at noon the pby i cians said four of the five patients remain lHg tneTe WOulu recover. NlrS. Henry <. Fookes, 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 fourth story window, and 1t was her husband who clung to the rope fire escape, his feet resting on a cor nice of the third story window, for over ten minutes before ladder reached him.
 No attempt has yet been made to examine the ruins. There are still two streams playing upon the smoking mass of debris. The hotel proprietors say the hotel em- ployes had discovered the fire and had ample opportunity to extinguish it before spreading, but for a lack of water. The house hose was stretched, but there was.no force in the water pipes and but small Martins were dining in state in one or the out. They had only time to escape aud saved almost nothing.
 he latest estimate is that thirteen em- ployes of the hotel perished in the Delaven house fire last night. Three are men and ten are women. A conservative estimate of the loss is $50, ,000 on the building, which is insured for $l6O ,OO0, and $50, 900 on the furniture, which is insured for 37,50O. The rents of the hotel are insured for$26 900.
 Heiser & Mulfelder, dealers in whole. sale notions, who occupied a store under the annex, suffered a loss by fire and water of $40, ,000, fully covered by insurance.
 Slight losses were incurred by several merchants on the opposite side of Broad way, caused by the falling walls end in- tense heat.