Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24


venue, New York, for nearly 80 vear
one of the most famous hotels in this coun
try, was destroyed by fire Friday after
noon. Many persons were burned t.
Heath, over half hundred we're injured
Ind there is an ominous list of missing
Eleven bodies were found and identified
within a few hours after the fire. All bu
me were of women who had leaped from
he windows of the hotel or had fallen
Yrs. Warren f. Leland, wife of the pro.
'etor, and her daughter were among the
tlnss. The others, with one exception
10 guests of the hotel.
Among the rescued were Mrs. Abner
lcKinley, wife of the brother of the Presi-
Nnt, her daughter, Mabel, and Miss Helen
.cKlnley, the sister of the President. The
lcklnleys were living at the hotel.
~ hire occurred in the afternoon, in
Mlas, for the time being, the most
den' part of the city, for Fifth avenue
octoued with sight-seers from curb
lnstltlse-line and from curb to curb
ne wa Patrick's Day paraders. To
dalned due, perhaps, some of the loss
Brattlel good deal of the serious injury
ing labor the crowd interfered with
four prud fremen; but so suddenly
contlnue' start and so quickly did it
Trough the big hotel, from floor to
J from street to roof, from side to side,
. If there had been no crowd and moth
e to hamper the work of the firemen.
lere would still have been many accidents
nd fatalities. 1t is the worst hotel fire
nat New York has ever had.
The fire started, according to the best in
)rmation, in dining room on the second
,or. 1t was due to the careless tossing of
match into a lace curtain Had the
ding been Undertook the fire could
have taken hold quicker and completed
work of demolition in less time. 1t
be days before the list of dead is COM
. With such awful rapidity did the
IS spread, people no higher up in the
ing than the floor above the street
o fly for their lives. That there are
bodies in the ruins is almost certain.
hSpread with Incredible Rapidly.
nOfew moments the flames leaped up
nl.of and enveloped the entire Fifth
18th street fronts of the hotel
DaPUis' later the flames were roaring
4oo9 Interior of the hotel and all
seiueu tpe by means of staircase and
pelVnSeus cut off, and there was the
nouela" of excitement within and
Some Hiding.
tensiHe Gould not be checked, and in |
0h Dapn the time that the fire broke |
III cay structure was in ruins and |
copies nthree sides of the building
page trac, debris from falling walls
Perance'-5ts, while the streams of
IemR poured upon the interior of
placeod no other effect than to fill
an earEloudIs of scalding steam, max
neWspaPl'n-T n anyone to approach
through his ych for missing bodies.
tor. For three yesFeet and 9th ave-
Boston letter rom the hotel, is the
fist paper in Nould, and at her di
1881, he becam jured were carried
Waterman and by physicians and
rial staff for NOR
cember, 1896. gle Deaths and
The honorary dcu.s
ferred upon hiIbana 5o Ooo roo,i.
20 Lii anu u " ;ne smallest space they I
April IA, 1843 y;ndows Of tha u hn men
ny1i Vi climbing up the outer ,
in ' p moSe' ladders and bringing '
otp oselJi and often struggling t
aoCn0i Vi nlSrescues almost without | n
Foster, librar eered tba firor,a, "S c
IIoViuellce' time the mob swamp I
marriage was .gad hack an5 I'll L
Ann Gould, daow rushing tn see tbis
of Dover, N. II, death now 70 500
OF Inc literary u Life nets by the fire. l.
n, a., ana oulher impaled on the +,
Inc statemen1u1 ded the hotel or A
": roster was 90 iron flower urns a,
tleboro Baptist (the building The a.
pastor was Rev. ken almost nc tbo
Aug. %, 1910. themselves. They -
here and in ade after unfortunate y,
Freeman's paaed their cheers now ~
succeeded byries for aid of the peo h,
signed in 1872. In Is minutes after f e.,
Rev. DR.. Furned in the roof of 90 90
of the 50th { then the fire became ~
few years agomes shot up hundreS he
livered on that was pro- rTst sern
which he preached Ii. All tDleboro.