Newport weekly independent., 1902-02-21

iment armory, this city, resulted n the loss of 15 lives and the destruc- ton of property valued at $750,000. 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. A revised list of the dead and injured follows:
 The 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 $. Hoyey, Lyons. N. I.
 Thomas F. Horne. Denver, Col.
 John H. Iverson, Denver, Col.
 Unknown woman.
 Charles Underwood O'Connell, New York; died of his injuries in hos pital.
 Col. Alexander Piper, U. s. A., re- tired; resident of hotel
 c. A. Robbins, lawyer, of Selma, Ala.
 Miss Esther Schlesinger, Chicago. Jacob Shahn, lawyer, of Roches- ter, N. Y.
 John E. Walker, Columbia, Tenn.
 Wm. s. Barnhart, of Chicago. MT. Barnhart had come to New York to. take charge of the furniture business of 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.
 Wm. 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 Y. R. Hall and daugh- ter, Miss Anna G. Hall, Newark, N. J.; suffering from burns and shock.
 Wm B. Hale, Williamsville, Mass; partially suffocated
 E. s. Hearne, Atlanta, Ga.; burned on body
 Emily I. Livingstone, burns on face and body.
 Lyons, 145 East Twenty-second street; cut by falling glass.
 Miss E. s. Meyer, Savannah, Ga; suffering from shock
 Joseph Pearson, 60 years old; hys- terics.
 Frank B. Reed, proprietor of Park Avenue hotel; burned on face and hands.
 Mrs. Frank B. Reed, burned on face and hands.
 Vim. Stebbins, S5 years old; burned on face and hands.
 Mrs. S. Neach, burned on face, hands and body.
 Charles l.. Woodbury, Portland Me; partially suffocated.
 Shortly before one o'clock fire was discovered bursting from the roof of the Seventy-first regiment armory, Park avenue and Thirty-fourth street. The flames had gained tremendous headway, and by the time the fire men arrived on the scene it was inn possible to do anything toward saw ing the magnificent building. Several times flames were communicated to the car barns of the Metropolitan street railway, but as often extin- guished. The heat of the burning armory became more and more in- tense, and shortly after two o'clock flames were discovered running along the windows and woodwork of the fifth floor at the northeast corner of the Park Avenue hotel, diagonally across the street from the armory This was entirely unexpected, and the police up to that time had bent their efforts toward removing the inmates of the adjacent houses on the cross streets. Frightened occu. pants of the hotel soon appeared at every window, and many were res cued by means of ladders set up by