The Springfield herald., 1902-02-28
DENVER PEOPLE DEAD
VICTIMS, OF THE HOTEL FIRE.
Three Buyers for Denver Firms Lose
their Lives at New York.-Totai.
of Ejohteen Deaths

probably eighteen persons lost their
lives in the burning of the Park Ave
nue. hotel here Saturday.
OF the number three Were from Den
yer and one from Colorado Springs. 80.
The list of the burned. and otFerwise'
lstnJured people, nuinlersyfighteen, IN
| Guiding two Denver wolnen. . i.
There were about 800 feuests in the
hotel when the fireaAy9k- out, 1t hdd
no fire escapes. or stand pipes, Beng
considered fire proof. and the cOmpara-
\ lively small l2ss srof., Lie seems marvel;
| Gus.
|, The following list of persons who lost
their lives in the Parke Avenue fire. or
who died from injuries received in it,
has been compiled:
Nofnan Acton died in Rellevue.abedy
| at morgue. lived at Colorado Springs.
Colonel Charles l.. Burdette, Hart
ford, Conn., .cenander Of the First reg,
! iment Connecticut volunteers; Killed by
| fail IN fire. al -,
h William j., ,Bernhardt Or chicago,
killed in hotel, -
'fMrs. j. Bernhardt of Chicago. died
Mn Bellevue. - i. ". :,,,
Lee G; Conrad, draughtsman; OF this
Fredss. H,yey of;Ly6ns, N. Y. -
Thomas F., Horne. of Denver, buyer
for the Josiln Dry Goods Company.
~ John ISerson,s Denver, buyer for the
,doslin Dry Goods Company.
Minnie E. L1ggett, Denver, buyer, for
Daniels & Fisher Stores company. !.
.MEs. j. McNanus. -NAay|
Captain Charles Underwood OCon
| t'neh. . f',AN o. la ft.,s 80,
Ex-Cougressman CASTOR IA Robbins
OF Selma, Alabama. ,,..,.....r
/. Esther Schlesinger. aged 3S. Chicago
Jacob Spain, aged 5O,r' Rochester,
New York. =.
: John G. Walker, aged 80, Columbia,
Tenn. ~ s1spl 80 ,t.'.Y, =.
retired, aged 10 years. ~ e7s.,-,
Mrs. Salome Foster, known as the
'.Tombs Angel"
Body of woman, unidentified, may be
that of wife of Rev. William s. Boari-> 4
man. who is patient at Bellevue.
This list Of eighteen may. be cut to
seventeen, as, one body has been lden-
titled as that of William ]. Bernhardt
and as that of Lee G. Conrad. ~,
4 Ii was' the. worst hotel fire, since the
Windsor was destroyed. The fire was .
first seen at about 80 in the morning,
| in the arlnory, and in remarkable short
time that builling was afame from
I end to end Tile firemtn made their
way us hest they could through streets
deep with slush and did all. possible |
to conffha the fire to the ariiiory tnit
nfter tbay had, been at work 'fn lYoufi
the discovery was Inade.:t2mt tlie:hatP1
| was on Hire The hotel was, crewdetl,
iwith' guests who hatl:eoInes to:attenth
| the, festivities fh honor dfiiI'rinee.
Henry. Mort than 500 persons. were
m the house. .,tN ilH
1t was not until almost 3 o'clock
f1,b Il
Park Avenue hotel, Directly. ncERss
from the armory. Manager Rded at':tafa
hotel had been or the: foot Matching
the fire in the arn6ry' w1rli guests .ffSns
fIie hotel He had descended 10; fliG
first floor and was ,stapdlpg talking 80:
guest when burst Of. aaIne came
upjthf6ugh the elevator shaft, ImIne-
| dtptely he ordered his men TO 90
through the hotel to give The alarm.
The lights ALMOST i1nmedintelS Went.
out and the hotel corridors We're in
l'darkAess. ~ The flames leaptf up
through the elevator shaft. and. seemed
to gather around the fifth and sixth
! doo,s,r 1illipg the halls with dense
smoke and making, exit. by means of 4
| fire stIirwaFs almost impossible. -
The; Park. avenue hotel was built by
A. T. Stewart, who spent s3,0O0.p0O ON
its construction and furnishings. Tile
building occupies the entire front of
the block on Park avenue from Thirty
secoirl..to ,Thirty-third streets, with Il
depth of half a block. 1t is seven
stories in height and ,encfoses.on four
sides q court containing 1902 square
| feet of space
The fire was confined principally to.
the. fifth and sixth floors, near the, ele
vator air Shaft. About the time the
hpfol xyuc fnunI 10. ha op frS, a. jyplrfa
went out and, the corridors We're filed
l,with smoke. The guests unable to find
| the, way through fhe darkened hallway,
| jumped from windows or. ran directly
into the. tiame-swept portions Of the
| buildings. 1t is this fact that accounts
fof the large loss of life, although the
| hotel was not destroyed. - 81,
-Four Colorado people are ahoffg. the
\ dead in the Park Avenue, -hotel .sof.
New York destroyed by fire yesterday
morning, and severaF other reAdthts Of
|Sthis state were: injured or-haq marrow
escapes In. the destruction of the
house a wellsknowr! wr!former9hoteRs
of Colorado, f.: Bapnett.. q second time
| has seen his business and property de
| stroyed. MI. Btfrnett was proprietor .
of the Antlers. hotels of -Celorada
Springs when it was burned three
1 years ago. y t'7@.f,'f. -
Miss Minnie j.. Liggett,. the latest
identified Denver lady victim of the
Park hotel fire in New York, was head
| dressmaker for the Daniels & Fisher
1 Stores Company. She lived with her
| widowed mother Mrs. Jane Eiggett, at
I No. 1915, Ogden street. Mrs. Liggett
is very old and has been i'll with heart
| diesase for some time. The news of
her daughters death vast great shock
l,tn her a nd her doctor snys TINT it may