The Lamar register., 1902-02-26
DENVER PEOPLE DEAD
VICTIMS OF THE HOTEL FIRE.
Three Buyers for Denver Firms Lose
their Lives at New York.-Total
of Eiqhteen Deaths.

New York. Feb. 24.-Seventeen and
probably eighteen persons lost their
lives in the burning of the Park Ave
nue. hotel here Saturday.
OF the number three We're from Den
yer and one from Colorado Springs.
The list of the burned. and otherwise
injured people. numbers eighteen, i'll
Guiding two Denver women.
There We're about 200 guests in the
hotel when the fire broke out. 1t had
no fire escapes. or stand pipes, being
considered fire proof. and the compara-
lively small loss of life seems marvel
Gus.
The following list of persons who lost
their lives in the Parke Avenue fire, or
who died from injuries received i'll ii,
has been compiled:
Norman Acton died in Bellevue body
at morgue. lived ut Colorado Springs.
Colonel Charles l.. Burdette Hart
ford. Conn. commander of the First reg
iment Connecticut volunteers; killed by
fall in fire.
William ]. Bernhardt Of Chicago,
killed in hotel.
Mrs j. Bcrnhardt of Chicago, died
in Bellevue.
Lee q. Conrad, draughtsman, of this
city.
ffeu = f1OVeN OF Lyons, N. L.
Thomas i. Horne, of Denver. buyer
for the Joslin Dry Goods Company.
John Iverson, Denver, buyer for the
Joslin Dry Goods Company.
Minnie T.. Liggett. Denver buyer for
Daniels & Fisher Stores company.
Mrs. J. McManus.
Captain Charles Underwood O'Con
nell.
Ex-Congressman CASTOR A. Robbins
of Selma. Alabama.
Esther Schlesingcr. aged IS. Chicago.
Jacob SPAIN, aged 80, Rochester
New York.
John G. Walker, aged 81, Columbia,
Tenn.
Colonel Alexander NJ. Piper, U. S. A..
retired, aged 40 years.
Mrs. Salome Foster, known as the
'Tombs Angel
Body of woman. unidentified may be
that of wife of Rev. William S. Board
man. who is n patient at Bellevue.
This list of eighteen may he cut to
seventeen. ms one body has been iden-
titled as that of William j. Bernhardt
and as that OF Lee G. Conrad.
1t was the worst hotel fire since the
Windsor was destroyed. The fire was
first seen at about | 80 in the morning.
in the armory, and in remarkable short
time that building was nfame from
end to end. The fircmen made their
way as best they could through streets
deep with slush and did all possible
to coniine the fire 10 the armory but
after they had been at work an hour
the discovery 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 800 persons We're
in the house.
1t was not until almost 3 o'clock
that the flames were discovered in the
Park Avenue hotel. directly across
"'om the armory. Manager Reed of the
Jtel had been on the roof watching
the fire in the armOry with guests from
the hotel He had descended to the
first floor and was standing talking 10
guest when burst of flame came
UP through the elevator shaft. Immc-
dlatcly he ordered his men to go
through the hotel TO give the alarm.
The lights almost Immediately went
out and the hotel corridors We're in
darkness. The flames lcaped up
through the elevator shaft and seemed
10 gather around the fifth and sixth
floors. filling the halls with dense
smoke and making exit by means of
the stairways almost impossible.
The Park Avenue hotel was built by
A. T. Stewart who spent S3,0oO.OOO on
its construction and furnishings. The
building occupies the entire front of
the block on Park avenue from Thirty
second to Thrty-third streets. with n
depth of half n block. 1t is seven
stories in height and encloscs on four
sides court containing 1900 square
feet of space.
The fire was confined principally to
the fifth and sixth floors, near the ele-
vator air shaft. About the time the
hotel was found to be on fire the lights
went ont and the corridors We're filed
with smoke. The guests. unable to find
the way through the darkened hallway,
jumped from windows or ran directly
into the flame-swept portions of the
buildings. 1t is this fact that accounts
for the large loss of life, although the
hotel was not destroyed.
-Four Colorado people are among the
dead in the Park Avenue hotel of
New York. destroyed by fire yesterday
morning. and several other residents of
this state were injured or had narrow
escapes. In the destruction of the
house n well-known former hotel man
of Colorado. T.. Barnett. Il second time
has seen his business and property de-
stroyed. Mr.. Barnett was proprietor
of the Antlers hotel of Colorado
Springs when 1t was burned three
years ago.
Miss Minnie T.. Liggett. the latest
identified Denver lady victim of the
Park hotel fire in New York. was head
dressmaker for the Daniels & Fisher
Stores Company. She lived with her
widowed mother, Mrs. Jane Liggett, at
No. 1913 Ogden street. Mrs. Liggett
is very old and has been i'll with heart
diesase for some time. The news of
her daughters death was great shock
to her and her doctor says that it may
result in her death. Mrs. Liggett was