The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-02-27
ARM0RY BLOWN Up
And HOTEL BURNED
Latest Addition 10 New York's Shock.
ing Tragedies.
1000 POUNDS OF POWDER EXPLODED
Col Pepper, Of Louisville, KY, One Of the Vic
tims-0iber Dead Bod es Brought Out Of the
Burning Building The Armory Of the Sew
enty.first Regiment Was Totally Destroyed,
and the Loss VIII Amount to Sl,030,00o.

NpliCil' lost tnClT lives, anu ~ ~ ~
others were injured in a fire that
started carly in the morning in the
Seventy first Regiment Armory, at Park
avenue and Thirty fourth street, New
York and spread to the Park Avenue
Hotel diagonally across the street The
armory was destroyed the hotel partially
burned.
New York (Special) Fire that broke
out early in the morning in the armory
OF the Seventy-hrst Regiment New York
National Guards, at Park avenue, Thir-
ty-third and Thirty fourth streets, spread
to the Park Avenue Hotel, and at least
four lives were lost, while the damage
is roughly estimated at over 81 100000.
One woman. a guest of the hotel, jumped
from the fifth story and is believed to be
fatally injured
Four bodies have been taken out but
only one so far identified said to be that
OF Colonel Pepper. of Louisville, Ky.
The Park Avenue Hotel is a total loss.
The Seventy-first Regiment Armory, a
magnificent granite structure, and one
OF the finest in the city, was destroyed.
The car barns of the Metropolitan
Street Railway on an adjoining corner,
were threatened with destruction. but
the good work OF the frcmen succeeded
in saving them
The armory occupied an entire block
and was occupied also by the Second
Battery and the First Signal Corps
The fire was discovered burning from
window of the armory on the Thirty
fourth street side, and by the time the
firemen arrived the flames had COM
pletely enveloped the building and ap-
peared through the roof. Shortly after
the cartridges and ammunition exploded.
Shortly after ? o'clock a thousand
pounds of powder in the cellar exploded,
and the walls of the building were
thrown outward. BY this time the peo-
pie living in the neighborhood had been
driven from their homes by the heat.
The guests OF the Park Avenue Hotel.
numbering about 600, were aroused as
quickly as possible, but not without
panic among the women and children.
Firemen poured II streams upon the side
of the hotel nearest the armory, but in
spite OF this, the third floor caught fire.
Notwithstanding the fact that every
body in the hotel had ample time to get
out, large number of women were car.
red down the ladders by fremen, entil
It was thought everybody had been taken
out
Just at this time woman in her night
clothes appeared at a window on the fifth
floor. and before warning could reach
her flung herself headlonS to a portico
over the main entrance 1t is believed
that she will die. Two bodies were found
on the fifth floor by the firemen, and two
more in another part of the building. 1t
is feared that several other bodies will
be found in other parts of the building
Admiral Miller, United States Navy
retired, who had a room on the fifth
floor of the Park Avenue Hotel, fell un-
conscious in his attempt to escape from
the burning building 1t is stated that
he cannot recover. Admiral Miller went
through the Windsor Hotel fire and the
Murray Hill explosion unscathed.