Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-03-18

Miss vonspiegelc. broken leg and
rib. improving.
Miss p. MIsch. burned face. hands
and back: Improving.
Edward SHELTON. plumber, this city.
burns Of face; Improving.
New York Hospitals
William r.. Love. clerk Of the hotel.
burned on face and head. improving.
Ellen Currnn, n domestic ~ the hotel.
burns on arms and legs; condition not
dangerous.
CHIEF BONNER TALKS.
New York. March is.--It was mid.
night before chief Bonner left the ruins
u the Windsor hotel In an interview
he declared that he had found no Viola
TONS 81 either the building laws or the
FIRE regulations In the Windsor hotel
1T was an old building" said the
chief. "and Il was built under the laws
that existed many yeafH ago. The
rapidiiy with which the flames spread
was due TO the fact that the building
was not frcproof There were no Tire.
proof steps In the corridorE such ns are
required In al modern buildings and
the corridors were ~ wide that great
dfaught went through them.
How many FIRE escapes were theroT
Why. the rear and sides ~ the building
were literally covered With them and
u usually the case the people were
frantic from fear and did not know
enough to use the cacauss.
Have you any criticism 10 make
because there were not IRE escapes on
the front ~ the building. presumably
because Il would detrnct from its or
nomcntai appearance was asked.
40" replied the chief - have no
criticism a. make ON that point. Such
matters are under the Jurisdiction 81
the building department"
"rhe stnirsf want 90 say right
now that two-thirds OF the people who
live In hotels today don't know the io-
cation ~ the atalrs-that iH. u would
take them several minutes 90 ind
them. The reason N that hotel patrons
always use the elevators. our laws
require that red globe BE- placed nt
the head ~ every stairway and w fact.
that every exit he marked by rcd
globe. Besides. dingrama ~ exits arr
posted conSpicuously hut people pay
little attention to such things.
"Of course. II the building had been
firc proof. Il would have been COM
pnrntlvcly easy To- fuhduc the names.
Under the present law. The best ono
ever enacted. 80 far no the hre DEPART
munt ID concerned. All buildings murp
than thirty-nyc feet hiFh. which are
Intended for usc NJ schools. thcntnrH
or hotels, must be firrnrouf"
Asked " Il wnH tfiic that the depart
mont had been slow IN responding to
tho alarm, chief bonner said:
mo II was not. There was great
delay however. In sending In an alarm
u must have been fiftecn minutes after
the fifr was discovered before an alarm
was sent H.. After the alarm was sent.
the nrcmcn responded Instantly. II
was not two minutes after the first
alarm had been sent In until the third
alarm had been rung. The department
aid everything In lis power after The
alarm was given"
MAN WHO KEPT MS NERVE.
Edward =. Wells. his wife and daugh-
ter u jamestown. n. D.. had apart
ricntn on the sixth floor nf the Wind
nor hotel on the Fifth avenue side and
were watching the 81. patriok'A day
parade when the firc broke out. They
had hardly time 10 rcsfi1u that some
uhuR had gone wrong whcu the smoke
rolled through the corridor innd their
escape was cut IN In that direction.
The window was their only hope and
10 jump meant certain death. In this
cmVfgcncy,Mr. Wells bcaought his FAM
ily 10 remain calm nnd he then pro-
cccded with great elaboration 10 meas
ufc the chances ~ escape. He first paid
out the frc escape rope In the room
until he saw that Il would reach the
ground and hauling u back. h. quickly
but securely fastened II about his
daughters waist lie then iifled the
form Of the rlfl 10 the window ledge
ana slowly allowed II 10 descend. lie
wound the rope ilrhily about his hands
and braced hlH feet against the wall of
the room. meanwhile slowly pnylng out
the rope 10 the end of which dnnRlcd
the almost innulmnte body of his
daughter. Smoke and ilnmc shot out az
Intervals from the windown below, but
the passage II The rlrl was not retarded
ana In few seconds she had reached
the ground,
There rhe was quickly taken care ~
by nrcmcn who released here ana the
rope was quickly hauled back by Mr..
Wells aud exactly the same PERFORM
anco was gone through with IN the case
Of his wife. who had meanwhile stood
at his side hy the window.
For the third time Mt Wells pulled
the rope back after he had seen his
fnmily In safety and then made prep
arntIonH for his own descent.
He recognized seemingly that II
would De Impossible for him 10 go
down hand over hand ana knowing the
that would result II he nlid
down the rope. be- nrat carefully tod
up his hands In towels. Then he clnmb-
pfNu OUT OF iNN MlNNNM Hlli anu hNuHF |
clear. He shot down like lightning. but |
when the bnndugra had been removed |
from the mans hands II was found that |
no Ind not even 70 blister on them.
A great shout went M from the crowd |
na they saw SIR Wells land In safety |
lie nskod Tor hlH family thanked the |
firemen and others ~ their assistance |
and disappeared. he found temporary |
shelter with hls wife and daughter with |
friends ON Fifth avenue ana his sub1o-
luont place Of abode was not learned.
PATIENTS ACCOUNTED FOR
DIR. Pltkin. house physician OF the
Windsor hotel. has accounted Tor all |
Of the six bedriddon patients In the |
hotel, with tho exception OF Mrs James
il. stokes. the widow ~ General James
n. stokes, who Do fears, II among the
dead
dancing lesson from Mrs, Dora Gray
Duncan. of San funrlnco' IN parlor
IN the fourth nunr when the IRE started.
Mrs. Duncan hurried the children down
he stairs and with her two daughters.
VAS among the nrst 10 leave the build
ng.
years old. died "a frW minutes after be-
ng taken into tho house ~ Mrs. a. T..
ADAMS OF % west Foriy-sixth street.
Her legs aud breast bone were broken.
Il was said by one " the employees OF
he hotel that tho woman was from
3nn Frnncisc0. She wore black silk
Iklrt and purple waist
Thontna Il. Oohlltroc, who escaped
inhurt lost valuable pictures and
,rlc.n -brac. So dense was the smoke
nat rolled nlong Fifih avenue that
many sparrow which attempted to