Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-02-27
FIFTEEN LIVES ARE LOST.
Terrible Results of a Fire in the
Park Avenue Hotel In
New York City
ALL THE DEAD VICTIMS WERE GUESTS.
In Addition a Large Number Were
Injured, Including Several of the
Hotel Attaches-The Value of the
Property Destroyed Three Omar
tiers of q Million.

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New York, Feb. 23.-Fire early
Saturday morning in the Park Az
hotel and the Seventy-first reg
iment armory, this city, resulted III
the loss of Is lives and the destruc-
ton of property valued at ~s75o,ooof
The dead persons were all guests OF
the hotel. Flames were first discov-
cred in the armory, and 45 minutes
later it was found that the hotel was
on fire. 4 revised list of the dead
and injured follows:
n Dead.
Norman Acton, Alabama.
Col. Charles L. Burdett, Hartford,
Conn. colonel First regiment nation
al guard of that state.
Miss Ellen Foster, "a Tombs prison
missionary.
Fred S. Hovey, Lyons. N. i.
Thomas P. Horne. Denver. Col.
John IL. I~verson, Denver, Col.
Unknown woman
Charles Underwood O'Connell, New
York; died of his injuries in a hos
pital.
Col. Alexander Piper, U. S. A., re-
tired; resident of hotel.
G. A. Robbins, lawyer, of Selma.
Ala.
Miss Esther Schlesinger, Chicago.
Jacob Shahn, a lawyer, of Roches-
ter, n. Y.
John i. Walker, Columbia. Tenn.
VIM. S. B%arnhart, of Chicago. Mr..
Barnhart had come to New Aork to
take charge of the furniture business
of a department store.
Unknown woman; body found on
the sixth foor-wore five rings on
left hand.
The Injured.
The list of injured, who are being
cared for at Bellevue and New York
hospitals, is as follows:
Mrs. Leonora A. Bausch. an inva-
lid: suffering from nervous shock.
Margaret and Catherine Bennett, of
Denver, Col; burns on bodies, hands
and limbs.
Harold Bennett, face and hands
burned.
Rev. Vim. S. Broockman, of this
city: burns.
Vim. S. Broockman, burns on face
and arms.
Louis Berry, Portland, Me-; shock.
- Bridgman, burns.
William Cove, employe of hotel;
burns and shock.
Charles A. Gregory, lawyer, New
York: face and hands burned.
Mrs. Caroline 7. r. Hall and daugh'
ter. Miss Anna G. Hall, Newark. n. j.;
suffering from burns and shock.
VIM. b. Hale, Williamsville, Mass;
partially suffocated.
+. S. Hearne, Atlanta, Ga; burned
on body.
Emily I. Livingstone, burns on face
and body.
Lyons, 145 East Twenty-secont
street; cut by falling glass.
Miss T.. S. Meyer, Savannah, Ga;
suffering from shock.
Joseph Pearson, 60 years old; hys
terics.
Frcnk b. Reed, proprietor of Parl
Avenue hotel; burned on face ant
hands.
Mrs. Frank b. Reed, burned on fac
and hands.
Vim. Stebbins, IS years old; burned
on face and hands.
Mrs. S. Veach, burned on face
hands and body.
Charles l.. Woodbury., Portland
Me-; partially sutfocated.
Shortly before one o'clock fire wa
discovered bursting from the roof o
the Seventy-first regiment aImory
Park avenue and Thirty-fourth street
The flames had gained tremendou
Roadway. and by the time the fire
men arrived on the scene it was i'm
possible to do anything toward say
ing the magnificent building. Severa
times flames yer communicated t
the car barns of the Metropolita
street railway, but as often eXtiI
guished. The heat of the burnin
armory became more and more il
tense, and shortly after two o'cloc
flames were discovered running alon
the windows and woodwork of tn
fifth floor at the northeast corner G
the Park Avenue hotel, diagonall
across the street from the armor,
This was entirely unexpected, an
the police up to that time had Der
their efforts toward removing til
inmates Of the adjacent houses o
the cross streets. Frightened occl
pants of the hotel soon appeared 6
every window, and many were re
cued by means of ladders set up b
the firemen,
In the headquarters of the FIT
, brigade, in the Thirty-fourth stree
! and Parkfavenue quarter of the arm
, DRY, a large quantity of ammunitio
both blank and bullet cartridges, W;
stored. These cartridges soon beg1
to explode, and added to the inten'
: excitement. Shortly after these e
p~losions had cased the wall of Il
Thirty-third side fell inward. Th
crash was followed by the explosit
of about 1000 pounds of powd'
( stored in the basement of the arr
DRY. The defamation was terrific, b
j fremen had been warned of the da
ger, and none of them was injured.
Mrs. Eliza Robinson Dead.
: Godfrey, ILL.,, Feb. 23.-Mrs. Eli
: Robinson died suddenly with hea
Z disease at her farm residence, ne
this village. Mrs. Robinson was