New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1902-02-26
List of Victims of Fire in Park
Avenue Hotel, New York
j ARGE N Be r OF G Es is IN URED.
Total LOSS by Destruction OF seventy
#s First Regime emit ArmOry and the
Hotel About $3.50, 600 Scenes
] Mt the Fire.

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the hotel. "a revised list Of dead is as
follows: 81.
Norman Acton, died in Bellevue, body at
morgue lived IN Colorado Springs. ss
& Col. CharlesfL =. Burd EFT, Hartford, Conn.,
commander of the First regiment Com
necticut volunteers, killed by fall IN fire.,
body removed from the morgue and shipped.
to Hartford. ~ 55G; #as
William J.zBernhardt, IS years old. killed
in hotel; body taken to Undertaking rooms
for shipment to home, Chicag 20.
szzs Mrs. William J. Bernhard, died in Belize
vue; same disposition Of body as that Of
\ her husband 93 s#555 5%5
Lee q. Conrad, q years old, draught sman.
Of this city ss s i5as, S5s3 553zsS
Fred S. Hovey, IS years old. Of Lyons, N.
y, died at West Thirtieth streetsstatton
house. 3 5|3s$ 2z.sss2 ss< 81 u 0
5 ]. r.. Hames (not certain, may be Thomas
Horne), lived In Denver, Col, and was
an agent Of the II. b. Clafin company.
5 J Ohm lvlson, died N hotel, lived in Den.
YER Col, agent of TT. B. Clafiin company. h
=5 Minnie r: Liggert, 40 years old, dress
maker, Of Denver, Col, where she was en-
Sployed by the Daniels &. Fisher company
B Mrs. j. McManus. #
Capt. Charles Underwood o. Connell, died
in New York hospital; was formerly clerk
In the supreme court. sss @3355.:< 81
n.
savannah, Ca r =S. SEA
Esther Sc1lessinger 80 years old, of Chi
cago, buyer Ss@g 81 s. fs%z az
Jacob SPAIN, so years old, Rochester,
IN. Y. 3. .
John G. Walker, IS years old, Of Column
bia, Tenn. 49, = j., s=4
Col Alexander M. Piper, United states
army, retired, 20 years old, at hotel.
Mrs. Salome Foster, known as the
"Tombs Angel" tsS.E9 II. ] 5Ei ~. z
Sophia Beach, aged 81, died at Bellevue
hospital Sunday. ss>5ss.. r.. q
Julia Boardman, wife of Rev. William
Boardman, of Norwalk, Conn., e. + L. "A,
Terrible Death. s,-&..e>z E
& Col. Charles I. Burdett, Of Connecti-
cut, met death in terrible manner.
His body, with the skull split open,
was found lying in the courtyard
within the hotel. He had fallen at
least six stories. Col. Burdett had
"a room on. the eighth floor Of the
hotel. When the alarm OF fire
reached him his escape was cut off.
His room faced the court in the cen
ter Of the hotel. Apparently he had
dragged the mattress from his bed
and dropped it to@the roof of an ex-
tension over the hotel dining-room,
several stories below. Then, by knot
ting the sheets together, he made a
rope and secured it to the window.
When his preparations were complet-
5ed-they must have been finished in a
few moments himself on
the improvised rope and then dropped.
His design was to land on the mattress
and thus have the frightful fall
broken. He smiscalculated the dis.
tance, went beyond the extension and
was killed. !, :. H.
Cause of the Fire, tr;,. +
It was established with a fair de-
gree of certainty, Saturday that the
fire at the Park Avenue hotel orig
mated at the base of the north eleva-
tor shaft. From this point it crept
up to the fifth and sixth floors and
spread in every direction, completely
quitting the upper floors. s=.zs.s I
The Park Avenue hotel was built
by A. t. Stewart, who spent So, OOO,.
900 on its construction and furnish.
ings. The building occupies the en-.
tire front of the block on Park ave
nue. from Thirty second to Thirty.
third streets, with a depth of half a
block. It is seven stories in. height
and encloses on four sides a court
containing Y, 900 square feet of space
At the time Of it's construction it was
the largest hotel in the country
with the exception of the Palace
hotel Of San Francisco. s&Ez5$ s.
Mr.. Stewart designed the &, hotel
originally as home for working
women, but when it was found that
it could not be managed on the plan
adopted by its founder, it was con
verified into a commercial and family
hotel. RI . s. .. s*.. ii z s=.t s=@. .s: