The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-02-23
THIRTEEN LIVES LOST IN A
FIRE IN NEW YORK
The Flames Start in the Seventy First Regiment
Armory and Then Spread to Park Avenue
Hotel Thronged With Guests Many
of Whom Are Killed
and Injured
and Injured.
lRv the Associated Press.l

(By the Associated Press.)
New York. Feb. 22.--For the third time
since New Years Day, Park Avenue
Hotel, this city. was the scene of the
loss of human life. The first was the
collision in the New York Central at
j6th street and Park Avenue; second
came the dynamite explosion in the Rapid
Transit subway at 41st street, and the
third today was a FIRE, which started In
the fist Regiment Arnory at 33rd street
and then spread to the Park Avenue
Hotel. where thirteen 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:S0
o'clock in the morning in the armory,
and in remarkably short time that
building was afaIpe from end to end.
The firemen made their way as best they
could through the streets deep with
glush and did all possible to confine the
fire to the armory, but after they had
been at work nearly an hour, the dis
covery was made that the hotel was on
fire.
The hotel was crowded with guests,
who had come to attend the festivities in
honor of Prince Henry. More than 500
persons were in the house.
The fire was confined principally 10
the fifth and sixth floors, near the elevP-
tor and air shaft. AT about the time
the hotel was found to be on FIRE, the
lights went out, and the corridors We're
filled with smoke The guests, unable
to find their way through the darkened
hallway jumped from windows or ran
directly into the fame swpt portions OF
the building It is this fact which ac-
counts for the large loss Of life, al.
though the hotel was not destroyed.
The dead:
NORMAN ACTON, Alabama.
COL. CHAS. L. BURDETTE,. Hartford
Conn, Colonel First Regiment Of the
National Guard Of that State.
MRS. ELLEN FOSTER, q Tombs Prison
Missionary.
FRED s. HOVEY, Lyons, n. Y.
THOs P. HoRE, Denver
JOHN II. IVERSON, Denver.
UNKNOWN WOMAN.
CHAS. UNDERWOOD O'CONNELL.
New York, died of his injuries in a hos
pital.
COL. ALEXANDER PIPER, U. S. "A.
retired, resident of Hotel.
G.. 4. ROBBINS. Lawyer OF Selma La.
MISS ESTHER sCHLESINGER. of
Chicago.
JACOB SPAIN, a lawyer Of Rochester,
New York
JOHN r. WALKER, Columbia. Tenn.
WM. H. BARNHARDT. Chicago.
The unknown woman's body found on
the sixth loor--wore five rings on the
left hand.
The list OF injured, who are being
cared for at Bellevue and New York hos
pitals, is as follows:
Mrs. Leonora A. Bausch an invalid,
suffering from nervous shock.
Margaret and Catherine Bennett, OF
Denver. Colo. burns on body, hands and
! limbs.
Bennett Harold, face and hands burned.
Rev VIM s. Boardman, this city, burns.
Mrs. w. S. Boardman. burns on face
and arms.
Louis Barry Portland. Me-, shock
- Bridgeman, burns
VIM. A. Goven. employe OF hotel. burns
and shock.
Chas A. Gregory, lawyer, New York
face and hands burned.
Mrs. Caroline l. r. Hall and her
daughter
Miss Anna G. Hall. Newark, y. J.. suf-
fering from burns and shock.
VIM. B. Hale. Williamsyille. Mass,
partially suffocated.
f. S. Hearne, Atlanta Ca. burned on
| body.
! u,pi1-, vf,.inyetnr h,,rry m faca o,,a
body.
-- Lyons, 1l5 East 92nd street, cut by
| falling glass.
Miss e. S. Meyer. Savannah, Ga, SUI
ering from shoc&
Jos. Pearson, Plysold, shock.
| Frank Z. Read, proprietor OF Parl
| Avenue Hotel, burned on face and hands
Mrs. Frank D. Reed. burned on face and
hands.
VIM stebbins, 50 years old, burned or
face and hands.
Mrs. S. yeach, burned on face hand.
and body
Chas. L. woodbury., Portland. Me. par.
italy suflocated.
The FIRE in the armory started on the
floor on the 33rd street side. where ther,
was q tier OF rooms occupied by differ.
eut companies Of the regiment. Within
! FIVE minutes the whole structure was be
yond saving and ten minutes later th'
roof fell in with terrific crash. There
was no one in the armory at the hlme
except iapitor and his family The,
escape by goiua through a scuttle hol,
in the roof and thence along the battle
ments on the S4th street side to safet.
on the roofs of houses to the east. Thii
passage was attended by much danger
owing to the icy condition OF the root
Six alarms we're turned in. but in spit,
of the quick responses the armory wa
doomed. The prevailing gale made It il.
possible to check the flames. Severa
hundred pounds OF ammunition stored Il