The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-03-18

JOSE MARY domestic.
NJ M'CONNELL. KATE
VRUIT, JAMES.
DEMORASCH, MRS.
BRAND, MRS. JAMES.
FULLER, MISS MARGARET, niece of A.
NJ. Fuller. of Philadelphia.
TROOPS, MISS.
CHAPMAN, MRS. WILLIAM II.
BUCKLEY, MRS.
WORTH, MISS.
RIGLEY. MISS JENNIE.
CASE, ELLEN p.
FORD, CHARLES.
WALSH, MARY.
WALSH. NORA.
LAMMY, MARY.
STOKES, MRS. JAMES II.
MULLEN, CHRISTOPHER.
MFLOY. MR. seventy-five years old; lived
at hotel with his family.
HOFFMAN. MISS DORA. and two nieces,
Baltimore.
KELLY, ELIZA.
CLARA. MARY.
ARMSTRONG, BRIDGET.
KELLOGG, DIR. KENNETH f.
MORGAN. MISS ANNIE TAYLOR.
LOREE, HARRY w.
kNGELIN, MARY.
MACKAY, MRS. FREDERICK.
CLOUDS OF SCALDING STEAM.
The flames could not be checked. and in
two hours from the time the fire broke out
the entire structure was in ruins and the
streets on three sides of the building were
filed with debris from fallen walls and
chimneys. while the streams of water being
poured or the interior Of the ruins had no
other effect than to fill the air with clouds
Of scalding steam, making it impossible for
any one to approach near enough to search
| for the bodies of those who perished.
| The fire was the most spectacular that
could be imagined. When it broke out Fifth
| avenue was crowded with people watching
| the ST. Patricks day parade, and every
window in the front Of the hotel facing
Fifth avenue was filled with spectators. The
| day was all that could be desired, and an
unusually large number of people were on
| the streets on that account, a fact which
| interfered not little with the movements
| Of the firemen and police.
| AS soon as the flames were discovered
st. Patrick day procession which was near
| the building came to halt, and in a few
| minutes the parade was disbanded, for the
police came rushing toward the fire from
every direction. and, far they were
able, drove the people from the streets. One
alarm after another was turned in, and the
| first of the fire engines were not long In
appearing on the scene. The engines caused
wild scramble among the paraders and
| spectators as they rushed along the street
and fell into position for service.
WOMEN TERROR STRICKEN.
| In addition to the regular guests of the
| hotel the windows were crowded by a large
number OF spectators residents of this city,
who had congregated there to witness the
parade. Soon after the first alarm was given
people on the lower floors OF the hotel, those
| who had easy access to the street and stair
way, commenced to pour out of the building
| in great numbers. but it very soon became
apparent that a great majority of the occu-
pants of the hotel were either panic-strick-
| en- or unable to make their way TO the
| ground floor. Windows were thrown up on
every side of the building and guests, mostly
| women, in all stages Of terror, made their
appearance and uttered frantic appeals for
assistance TO the crowd below. AS the
| flames gathered about them they became
more and more terror-stricken and pres
| emily some of them stood upon the narrow
window sills and beckoned to the spectators
| that they were about to leap The men COL
| lected on the sidewalks ready TO render any
assistance they could and, in the meantime.
| some of the women left the window sills
| and dropped to the streets. In most in
| stances the efforts TO catch them and break
| their awful fall were unavailing for they
struck the sidewalk and in most cases.
| broken limbs were the result. AS soon as the
| hremen could get their scaling ladders into
| position they climbed the sides of the build
| ing and entered at every window where
| there was an unfortunate guest appealing
for assistance and many cases of heroic
| rescue were witnessed by the throng in the
streets.
TAKEN TO HELEN GOULD'S HOME.
| AT the corner OF Forty-seventh street and
| Fifth avenue. directly across from the hotel,
is the home of Miss Helen Gould. and at her
direction many of the injured were carried
| there and were treated by physicians and
nurses whom she had sent for. In the mean
time the cnlef OF ponce had telephoned to
every hospital in the city. asking that as
| sistance be sent. Ambulances forced their
way through the crowds quickly as pos
sible and the injured people who had made
the frightful leaps from the hotel windows
were placed in them and removed 10 the
hospitals. Several occupants of the hotel
| appeared at the windows OF he sixth and
seventh stories and even on the roof and
| leapSd TO the streets from those nofnrs
Very few OF them escaped either instant
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