The age-herald., 1902-02-23
OTHER ALABAMIANS WERE
 INSURED BY JUMPING
Owner of Hotel Claims That Fire Was of Incendiary Origin, While Off cers and Guests Scout
 Such an Idea.
EW YORK Fehr1arv 22

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 A the third time since New E v Years Day, Park avenue, this city, was the scene of loss of human life. First, the collision in the New York Central tunnel, at Fifty-sixth street and Park avenue; second, came the. dynamite explosion in the Rapid Transit Subway, at Forty-frst street, and the third, today, was a fire which started in the Seventy-frst Regiment Armory, at Thirty-third street, and spread to the Park Avenue Hotel, where eighteen persons were killed and many injured.
 It was the worst hotel fire since the Windsor was destroyed. The fire was first seen at about 1:30 in the morn ing in the armory, and in a remark ably short time that bunding was aflame from end to end. The firemen made their way as best they could through the streets deep with slush and did all possible to confine the fire to the armory but after they had been at work nearly one hour the dig
  fire. The hotel was crowded with guests, who had come to attend the festivities in honor of Prince Henry. More than 300 persons were in the house.
 The fire was confined principally to the fifth and sixth floors near the elevator airshaft. About the time the hotel was found to be on fire the lights went out. and the corridors were filled with smobes The guests, unable to find their way through the darkened railways, jumped from windows or ran directly into the fiame-swept portions of the building. It is this fact that accounts for the large loss of life although the noteI was not destroyed
 The Dead.
 The following list of persons who lost their lives in the Park Avenue Hotel fire or who died from injuries received in 1t. was compiled late tonight:
 Acton, Norman, Colorado Springs. Burdett Col. Charles L., Hartford, Conn.
 Bernhardt, William J. Chicago.
 Bernhardt, Mrs. William J.
 Conrad, Lee G., New York.
 Hovery, Fred S., Lyons, N. Y.
 flames, J. R., (not certain, may be Thomas Morne), Denver. Col.
 Ivison, John. Denver. Col.
 Liggert, Minnie E., Denver Col. McManus, Miss J.
 O'Connell, Capt. Charles Underwood, formerly clerk in Supreme Court. Robbins, ex-Congressman, Gaston A., of Selma, Ala.
 Schlessinger Esther. Chicago.
 Spahn, Jacob, Rochester, N. Y. Walker, John G., Columbia, Tenn. Piper Col. Alex NJ, U. S. A. (retire0. Foster Mrs. Salome, known as the '"Tombs Angel.'
 Unidentified body of a woman, may be that of wife of the Rev. William s. Boardman.
 This list of eighteen may be cut to seventeen, as one body has been identi- fled as that of William J. Bernhardt and as that of Lee G. Conrad.
 The Injured.
 The revised list of injured follows: Woodbury, Lester L., Portland. Me-, burns on face and hands.
 Evarhardt, Frank, burns on hands and face.
 Heist. E. C., Columbia Pa., burns on hands and partial suffocation.
 Stebbins, William. Jr, West Indies, shock and burns.
 Boardman, William S., Rev, lived at hotel, burns.
 Livingston, Perry w.. Campville, N. Y shock and partiai suHocatlon.
 Bennett, Charlotte, Alabama, shock and partial suffocation.
 Beach, Sophy. shock and suffooation. Meyer Emma, S., Savannah, Ga.. shock.
 Bennett, Mary C.. Denver Colo, shock and burns
 Bennett Catherine M, Denver, Colo, shock and partial suffocation.
 Hall Mrs. Samuel H., Newark, N. J., burns on face and hands.
 Hall Miss Anna, Newark, N J., burns and shock.
 Bradley w. B.. South Carolina. ankle sprained.
 Hale. William D., Williamsville, Mass, hurns on hands and partial suffocation Brigham. Sarah, Savannah. Ga, shock; ahe Is all invalid.
 The fire in the armery started on the third floor of the Thirty-second street eide. where there was tiers of rooms oc- cupied by different companies of the reg imcnt. Within five minutes the whole structure was beyond saving. and three ,pinrtes later the roof fell in with a ter rife crash. There was no one in the ar mory at the time except a janitor and his family They escaped by going through scuttleho!e in the room and thence along the battlements on the Thirty-fourth street side to safety on the rocfs or houses to the east. This passage was at tended by much danger owing to the icy condition of the roof.