Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-02-10


woman-and dangerously injured sew
on others A dozen or more who had
narrow escapes from death received
less serious injuries or were frost-bit-
ten, 1t IL estimated that there were
between thirty-five and forty persons
In the building last night, aud It is be-
lieyed all have been accounted for. The
financial loss is nominal It is thought
that $4,000 win cover the damage to
building and contents, which were to-
tally destroyed,
DEAD
Morris Yall senior member Of the
hrm of Yall, Clark 4 Cowen, manufac-
turers OF fine cut glass, formerly Of
Chicago, burned TO crisp,
lobe Davis, man about town, sullo-
Gated.
John c. Lueders, skull fractured In
jumping from third-stOry window
George Thompson, switchmQn ter
minal yards, burned 70 death
Sarah Harris, colored chambermaid,
burned,
II. T.. Woodley, employe Hamilton
Brown Shoe company, burned
j. A. McMulen, carpenter, burned.
S. Y. Corey, telegraph operator Mer-
chants Terminal association
Vance Martin, civil engineer, Indian
apolis, burned
A. J. Allen, stone mason, sedalla,
Mo, burned.
Unknown man who died at city hos.
pital from burns,
INJURED.
Harry Cline, medical student Of Ma
ron, Ill.,, hands burned badly
Walter Johnson, hands burned, both
legs broken and injured Internally
Henry Robinson, colored, night por-
ter, badly burned.
George Lane, medical student. Rich
Hill Mo, ankle spraned in jumping
from second story window.
---- Sturgeon medical student, back
spralned In jumping from second-st0ry
window.
Harry Thompson, medical student,
Nashville, ILL.,, ankle sprained In jump
ing from second-story window,
j. II. Lally manager Empire hotel,
back badly sprained
Con Ryan burned about face.
About 10 or ~ others less seriously
injured, being bruised. burned OF suf-
fering from exposure.
A FIERY FURNACE,
The fire started about $3.50 a. M,
when few people We're abroad, and
gained much hearway before II was
discovered and the alarm given. There
was considerable delay in turning In
an alarm, and when the engines finally
reached the scene the whole front Of
the building was in flames and the in
terror was u seething furnace BY that
time all who escaped death had gotten
out OF the building by jumping from
the windows or climbing down ropes
made OF bed clothes. A few escaped
from the ground floor through the front
door.
Some of the escapes were very mar
row. Most every one who got out suf-
fered some injury or was frost bitten.
Some barely had time to get out when
aroused, the flames had spread so rap
idly Some saved their clothing, which
they carried in their hands, but others
were not so fortunate, losing every
thing After some delay nearby houses
were opened TO the unfortunates and
they were given shelter from the biting
cold weather. II was one of the cold
est nights Of the winter, the ground
being covered with Ice and snow. and
everyone suffered from exposure, The
suffering ones We're put under the care
of physicians.
LOOKING FOR VICTIMS.
After short fight the flremen got
the flames under control, and assisted
by the police made a search of the
ruins. The first body found was that
Of John c. Lueders, who was killed by
jumping from the third story His
head was crushed In. The body OF
Lueders and those Of the others found
later were taken to the morgue, where
friends and relatives later identified
them Sarah Harris WAS found on the
first floor. The remains Of the other
victims were found In their rooms,
friends and relatives was found on
PEOPLE IN BUILDING.
J. ]. Lally, who managed the hotel
for his brother-in-laW j. w Gillian,
had rooms on the first floor. He stated
there were four rooms on the first
floor, nine on the SECOND and seven Oh
the third If all the guests occupied
their rooms, thrty-slX persons includ-
ing the colored porter and chamber
maid, were In the building when II
burned. l.ally said he had no means
of knowing Just how many persons
were IN the habit OF staying out late,
and It is possible all We're not there
then.
STAIRWAY ON FIRE.
He was awakened by hearing Con
Ryan, one Of the ro0mers, crying Are,
I.ally said he grabbed his clothing and
money and hurried into the hall. when
was ablaze, and without stopping to
dress. stepped out through the front
door Both stairways were on fire, and
he barely had time 10 get out. being
and spralnlng his back. Lan,
Ryan and man named Nicely. escaped
the same way The only way for the
others who got out alive was through
the windows, the burning stairways
cutting OF their escape that way. Some
Jumped and sustained injuries more or
less serious, while others who took time
TO lmproyise ropes from their bed cloth
ing got down safely
GUESTS t'NACCOUNTED FOR.
Tonight most OF the guests have been
for In the list Of dead, In
mred and escaped. Among those unac-
counted for IL A. Goldberg an unknown
stranger who came In late and went to
bed without registering the two stu
dents whose names are not known,
and +. p. Contfand. II Il not believed |
there are any more bodies In the ruins. |
which have been carefully searched. |
For that reason II Is thought they viii |
turn up.
Late TONIGHT. with the aid OF papers
fonnd near his BODY the unknown man |
Who died az the city hospital was par
fially identified as c. +. Cantrout, a
union carpenter.
Commerce OF Cuba.