New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-25
"LCCKT" RALDWIN'S BIG Loss.
TWO AND \ HALF MILLIONS WENT Up
IN FLAME AND SMOKE.
REVISED LIST ~ vrcr,ms OF 7ur BALDWIN

REVISED LIST ~ ficTlMs OF TIT BALDWIN
HOTEL FrFr ~ SIS FRANCISCO THE
BUILDING \ DEATH TRAP
san Francisco. NOV 2i-Thc body Of J. NJ
Leichthead purser Of the steamer city Of sgd
ney. previously reported missing Was recovered
from the ruins If the Baldwin Hotel to-day.
Tic number Of victims Of tho FIRE is vet
known. THE Examiner" to-day gives tho fol-
loving list:
DEAD.
CARTER. John j. associate Judge California Jrckoy
LEIGHTHEAr. J. VI. pursor steiner or, Of sydney.
MEyrEs. Louis. s'cretar, of the La Tu,ara Bay Colo
PRYOR. Ta'e, sheet writer j. J. Carroll.
WHITE. !. L.. capitalist. living in the hotel.
MISSING
ANDREWS --. cashier n tho Baldwin Groio ca't
BENCHLEY. W. W. en.ploye Of s-illroam.
"-rhe Chronicle" places Carter and Pryor
among the missing, while The Calr' confines
to the list Of the dead White and Meyers. and
adds Mrs. Andrews and children. Of Salt Lake,
to the missing, and orniis the name Of Tate
Pryor. he is said to have been seen ny friends
since the fire. II will be some time before an
accurate list can be obtained. as il is impossible
to make search Of the burning ruins at pres
ent.
from rerilous position on the roof by fire
man. Ed" Kehoe When rescued Mr. Christie
had a razor in his hand. with the determination
TO kill himself rather than plunge into the seeth-
ing flames that ragged beneath him.
w a. Ballard a merchant Of Scran ton Penn.
was bereft Of all his clothes and pa pers.
Immigration Commissioner ". NJ Rice Of Vic
toria. b. G. who had room on the fourth floor
OF the hotel. had a very close call. but sue
ceeded in reaching the street In safety.
The entire scenic and mechanical effects and
wardrobe Of the Secret Service" company were
destroyed by the fire Manager Robert NJ.
Eberle estimates the loss al 5000. NJ. Gillette
will take the California Theatre Monday even
ing and play out his engagement here.
L. !. Baldwin said to-day that the fire meant
loss to him II about S2J00OOO as he had ex
pended that amount in building. altering and
furnishing the hotel. Fire Marshal Town de-
clares that the structure was a death trap. and
says that no such himsy structure shall again
be erected in the heart Of the city.
A careful estimate OF the loss places the total
at 81 100000 on which at the outside there was
not over $4,000 insurance. The insurance
$4,000, carried on the hotel was ridiculously
small. The reason for this lay in the high rate
charged and the fact that the underwriters die
4
ing built of wood and brick. with no brick
dividing the wall, and but one outside
wall Of brick. The insurance on the stocks Of
goods in the burned structure and their fittings
amounts to S7225O. George a. Moss carried
81 500; Hyman & Myers $4,000; Isaac Grant
of the drug store, $1,000; J. j. Groom. $1,000;
VI. A. Gunst & Co. $1,000; j. Edlin. S3,JOo. and
smaller sums were carried 10y other tenants. The
smoke and water damaged adjoining buildings
$1,000 go that S1j0OO0 Will cover the in
suranco loss.
St Louis, Nov. 2i.-lt WAS learned at the or
fee Of the "Westlche Post" in this city, that
their advertising agent Ernest r. Giles tnot
Siler) who is reported among the missing in
the Baldwin Hotel fire in san Francisco. is
safe 4 telegram was received from him last
night IN that effect
Uaverhill Mass. Nov 1.-THE report that =.
F. Witherby. A shoe salesman for &. K. cox
slipper manufacturer of this city, had met ms
death in the san Francisco hotel FIRE was hap
rilv disnroved to-day by the receipt OF tcle-
gram in which he stated that he escaped unhurt.
bur had lost his samples. Mr. Wtherby's homo
is in NcW-YOrk.