The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1902-02-25
Exploding Dynamite In
an Armory Added to the
Horrors Of Flames.
THRICE IT BLAzED
OUT AFRESH
After Firemen Thought They
He'd lt Scenes Of
Suffering - Many Hotel
Guests Jumped.
BULLETIN,

iAN'
New York, Feb. 22.-It has Just been
learned that Rear Admiral Miller, re-
ported dead, is alive and we'll. He
was carried out of the hotel and for a
time nearly suffocated by smoke.
(News-Demoerat Leased Wire Service.)
New York, Feb. 22.-At least fifteen
lives are believed to have been lost
In the Park Avenue hotel fire which
broke out shortly after midnight, last
night.
The fire destroyed the Seventy-hrst
Regiment armory, between Thirty
third and Thirty-fourth streets, on
Fourth avenue. The Park hotel caught
fire at 2:45 o'clock. The building is
not fireproof, and the police had a
hard time in rescuing the guests.
The armory building occupied en-
tire block within the limits described
above, and last night a drill was in
progress. 1t Is supposed that the fire
was started by the explosion of mag
azine. This building is in ruins.
THE KNOWN DEAD ARE:
COL. ALEXANDER PIPER, Louis
vile, suffocated in his room.
MRS. REED, wife of proprietor,
suffocated.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN, back
broken.
GASTON RAWLINS, ex-congress-
man from Alabama, died in ambulance.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN, died at
Bellevue hospital.
FRED s. HOVERY, New Haven,
Conn, jumped from fifth floor of ho-
tel.
JOHN D. WALKER, Columbia,
Tenn, jumped.
JACOB SPAIN, Rochester.
LONG LIST OF HURT.
Among the injured were L.L.Wood-
bury, of Portland, Me-, his head and
shoulders were badly burned, and A.
G. Hewlings of Chicago, who escaped
from his room on the fifth floor.
Others injured were: Col L. l..
Burdett, Hardford, Conn; Charles
sO'Connell, Patrick III. Harvey New
Haven, Conn; William Horn, Denver,
Colo; William Miverson, Denver, Col;
w. J. Barnhart, Chicago Charlotte
Bennett; Mrs. Hall, burned about the
hands, face and body; Lewis Wood,
{ burned about hands and face; d. l..
Bennett, shocked; John Lyons, las
East Second street, slightly burned.
= Catherine M. Bennett jumped from
window. Others who jumped from
windows were: Margaret c. Bennett, |
sister OF Catherine Bennett; Jacob |
n hn
j.. Heis, Louis G. Woodbury., Portland, |
Maine
SAW EIGHT BODIES.
Proprietor Reed said, after a trip to
the upper part of the hotel, that he had
seen not less than eight bodies on the
different floors. He said that the |
guests in the hotel could have got
out alive If they had started soon
enough.
w. r. Bradley and wife, of Alber-
VILE, s. c., leaped from a room on
the third floor. Both were taken to
Roosevelt hospital. 1t is said the wo-
mans injuries are mortal. Harry l..
Bennett, of Toronto, jumped from
fourth floor window. His arms and
one leg were broken. ?,
FROM ROOF TO DEATH.
Two men, whose names have not
been learned, attempted to escape by
going to the roof. Both jumped from
the roof. later, and one was instantly
killed, the other was fatally injured.
A little after 3 o'clock, the four up
per floors of the hotel were a mass of
flames, and the fire was spreading
down through the structure. It was
then apparent that the hotel was
doomed Just at this time a woman
In her night clothes appeared at a
window on the fifth floor and flung
herself headlong to the portico over
the main entrance. It is believed that
she will die. Two bodies were found
on the fifth floor by the fremen, and
two more were fornd in other parts
of the building.
EXPLODING AMMUNITION.
After the fire had been subdued at
B. o'clock, 1t broke out afresh on the
seventh floor while the panic-stricken
guests were returning to their rooms
for their valuables. new panic en-
sued and the guests again fled in terror
to the street
Ammunition exploded in the Seven
ty-finst regiment armory, telling the
walls with succession of shocks and
crashes, and the danger that great
quantities of dynamite stored In sub
way structures close by would be de-
tonated added to the horror of the sit
uation.
The fresh blaze was finally gotten
under control and by 2 o'clock was
practically out.
The loas Is placed at 100000.
FIREMEN WE'RE HEROES.
The 6rcmen worked like heroes in