The weekly Corinthian. (Corinth, Miss.) 1894-19??, 1900-11-15
RUR PERSONS persisted.
-. others Fatally Injured and
seven Badly Hurt in Hotel
Fire at Poplar Bluff, Mo.
ruf CLIFFORD HOUSE WAS DESTROYED.
u.x,uu Guest lay be Dead In
u,,.-Au Unknown Woman
relieved to Have Been Fatally
Injured-There Were Many Hair
x~.adth Escapes.

pon,ar Bluff, Mo-, Nov. 12.-Four
49, are known to have been lost,
80 80 nersons fatally injured and
saren badly hurt in the burning of the
uotel Clifford, large three-story
frame building, in this city
The Known Dead.
u;ck Clark, Doniphan, Mo.
Rebeeca Owens, Poplar Bluff.
shelby Dehort, Poplar Bluff.
Curley Berry, Poplar Bluff.
Fatally Injured.
Eta Hargrove, Poplar Bluff.
Uinslow Stowe, Tennessee.
Missing.
Eugene Dalton, Hot Springs, Ark.
Badly Injured.
Il. A. Smith, Poplar Bluff; burned
about hands and face.
Barney Pernaud, De Soto, Mo-;
hands and face burned.
Charles Stardly, Poplar Bluff;
bruised and burned.
Mrs. Benjamin Shelby, Poplar Bluff;
back injured; bruised and burned.
Pink Berry, Poplar Bluff; severely
burned.
Elmer Freshour, Poplar Bluff; Sc
verely burned.
James Upchurch, Poplar Bluff; Sc
gerely burned.
Besides the names given an I'M
known woman is thought to be fatal
" injured and about a dozen more
we're slightly burned or received
bruises in trying to escape from the
building.
Eugene Dalton, who is missing, may
be in the ruins.
The fire originated about 1880 a.
m, in the rear of the hotel and in
few minutes the building, which was
entirely of wood, was a mass of
flames.
There were in the neighborhood of
forty-fve guests in the building, and
the porter, the only person awake in
the hotel,wa unable to give an alarm,
the smoke and flames driving him
back.
The fire department was on hand
early, but they were unable to render
any assistance to the inmates.
The guests on the second and third
floors were caught like rats in a trap,
the fire preventing their escape by the
stairs and they leaped from the Sec
ond and third story windows.
One of these, Heck Clark, jumped
and broke his back.
Eta Hargrave leaped from a third
story window and suffered broken
limbs and internal injuries, which will
cause her death.
One guest, Benjamin Shelby, forced
his wife to leap from a second-story
window and thereby saved her life,
but lost everything they possessed.
Mr.. Shelby tried to escape by the
Stairway, but the smoke and flames
drove him back, and he, too, sprang
from window.
He asserts that he saw ten or fif-
teen persons in the hallway overcome
by smoke. If this is the case, a dozen
or more bodies may be found in the
ruins.
Many of the guests had hair
breadth escapes in their nightclothes,
aosing everything else. Their hair
and eyebrows were singed by the
flames.
Numerous feats of heroism are re-
corded. AS yet, it is impossible to tell
Just how many lives were lost.
Quite number of the guests were
not registered and their names, are
unknown. Every room in the house,
- In number, was occupied. Men are
now at work on the ruins, but it will
PROBABLY be several days before the
complete list of deaths will be obtain
able.
me Clifford house was one of the
oldest hotels in southeast Missouri.
W. I. Norrid was the proprietor. He
ana his wife escaped, but lost every
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