The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-12-13
A FIRE TRAP BURNED
Flames Break Out In a Cheap Hotel
in Chicago.
Escape of the Inmates Cwt On-Four-
teen Persons Lose Their Lives
and n Number Are injured
Young Boys bravery.

Chicago, Dec. 5.-Roused from their
sleep just as dawn was breaking
Thursday morning, IA guests in the
Lincoln hotel, 176 Madison street, an
institution recently opened and not
yet provided with devices to insure
the safety of it's occupants, were suf-
located by smoke from a fire that
broke out in the kitchen on the third
floor. OF the hundred-odd other pat
rons of the place, most of them farm
ers and stockmen visiting in Chicago
to attend the fat stock show. all had
q perilous time before they reached
the ground, some jumping to the
roofs of adjoining buildings or even
to the street; others descending by
means of ropes and the iron window
shutters on the burning building.
wild scene In the Hall.
Mad scenes were enacted in the dark,
narrow hall of the top floor of the
four-story structure, and when the
first detachments of firemen and police
arrived they found the smoke
wreathed windows framing the faces
of terrified men and women. The pas
senger elevator would not work, and
but one fire escape was in place The
| platforms to this were not completed,
| and few of the frantic tenants of the
establishment gave any thought to its
whereabouts, hidden away as it was
| on one of the side walls. Instead they
CROPPED about in the unlighted pas
sageways or helplessly beat out the
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to the street, so feet below, and shrink
back from the leap that seemed to
promise no better fate than that be-
hind them.
Revised List of the Dead.
Following is list of the victims of
the fire.
NJ. NJ. Fardy, GAINESVILLE, Wis; 80
years old; employed by Kirkhoff G.
Neubarth, wholesale liquor dealers at
IS Lake street, as city agent.
H. X. Woods, Lebanon, Ind; F3years
old; identified by r. c. Hamilton, of
Lebanon.
A. b. Coon, Marengo, ILL.,; lawyer, 40
years old; married; here assisting F.
II. Raymond in Dalton mail swindling
case; identified by Raymond.
I. C. Yocum. Davenport, Iowa, SO
years old; visitor to stock show; ap-
parently well-to-do.
Samuel Yocum, Davenport, Iowa, %
years cid; here with 1. c. Yocum, his
father.
T. V. Slocum, machine dealer, Wau-
conda, ILL.,; As years old; married; wife
now with her father at Libertyville. Ill.
F. L. Ewing, railway mail clerk, Ma
rietta, o.; As years old; worked on the
Pennsylvania system.
Ed Toner. printer, Milwaukee, Wis;
40 years old.
Ward Lowe, railway mail clerk; Sech-
lerville, Wis.
F. II. Corey, railway mail clerk;
Bucyrus. o.; SO years old.
b. +. Boswell. paper box factory en-
ploye; lived at Lincoln hotel; worked
on west side.
John A. Cline, Duluth, MINI.
c. p. Cowan, st. Louis, collector for
Wabash railway.
George Graves, compositor, roomed
with Ed. Toner, also dead.
hoy saves His Mother.
One of the first occupants of the no.
tel to be awakened was ten-year-old
Fred SHEPPARD. He and his mother
had room on the fourth floor near
where the fire is believed to have
started, and he awoke before the
smoke had overpowered him. The
darkness in the room was dense, but
the little fellow CROPPED to his mothers
bed and aroused her. Together they
ventured out into the hallway, blacker
than night. At no time was there any
fame visible, and the smoke seemed to
pour from an unseen source below. AS
they faltered for q moment at the door
Mrs. Sheppard tainted and sank I'M
conscious at the boys feet. He then
found a window, opened 1t and dragged
her to the air. AS Mrs. Shepherd re-
vived she tried to throw herself from
the window. But the heroic young
ster clenched his arms about her and
restrained her while he called for help.
Hook and ladder company. No. 3, un-
der command of Capt. Corners, heard
his shouts and started to the rescue.
They reared ladder from the roof of
Vogelsang's restaurant, and in few
minutes a truckman was standing be-
side Mrs. Sheppard and her CON. The
woman was hysterical, bpt the boy
was COOL and made suggestions to the
firemen rs to the way she should be
carried down. just as the truckman
was getting ready to descend, the lad
der swayed. AEthree were on the top
rung, and in endeavoring to clutch the
window SUI The fireman lost his hold
on Mrs. Hiephard and she fell. The
boy puzzled past his rescuer and clam
bered down the ladder to where his
mother lay unconscious. He was
dressed only in his night clothing, but
he refused 10 leave his mother, and
went with her in an ambulance to the
hospital.
A New Comet.
Washington, Dec. 5.-The United
States naval observatory reports that
w. w. Dinwiddie, ono of its staff, on