Gilpin observer. (Central City, Colo.) 1897-1921, 1902-02-27
DENVER PEOPLE DEAD
VICTIMS OF THE HOTEL FIRE.
Three Buyers for Denver Firms Lose
their Lives at New York.-Total
of Eighteen Deaths.

OF Etgnteen Deaths.
New York, Feb. 24.-Seventeen an,
probably eighteen persons lost thei
lives In the burning of the Park Ave
nue. hotel here Saturday.
VI the number three were from Den
yer and one from Colorado Springs.
The list Of the burned, and otherwis,
Injured people, numbers eighteen, in
Guiding two Denver women.
There We're about 500 guests In tn
hotel when the fire broke out. 1t hat
no fire escapes, or stand pipes, beinj
considered fire proof, and the compare
lively small loss Of life seems marvel
Gus.
The following list of persons who los
their lives in the Parke Avenue fire, o.
who died from injuries received in it
has been compiled:
Norman Acton died in Bellevue, body
at morgue. lived at Colorado Springs.
Colonel Charles H. Burdette, Hart
ford, Conn.,, commander of the First reg
iment Connecticut volunteers; killed by
fall in fire.
William J. Bernhardt Of Chicago
killed in hotel
Mrs. J. Bernhard of Chicago, dice
in Bellevue.
Lee q. Conrad, draughtsman, of thi.
city.
Fred s. Hovey of Lyons, N. Y.
Thomas p. Horne. Of Denver, buyer
for the Joslin Dry Goods Company.
John Iverson, Denver, buyer for the
Joslin Dry Goods Company.
Minnie E. Liggett, Denver, buyer fol
Daniels & Fisher Stores company.
Mrs. J. McManus.
Captain Charles Underwood OCon
nell.
Ex-Congressman CASTOR A. Robbins
of Selma, Alabama.
Esther Schlesinger. aged 50. Chicago
Jacob SPAIN, aged so, Rochester
New York.
John G. Walker, aged 30, Columbia
Tenn.
Colonel Alexander NJ. Piper, U. S. A.
retired, aged 20 years.
Mrs. Salome Foster, known as the
"Tombs Angel"
Body of woman. unidentified, may be
that of wife. of Rev. William s. Board
man. who is patient at Bellevue
This list of eighteen may be cut to
seventeen, as one body has been iden.
titled as that of William J. Bernhardt
and as that of Lee G. Conrad.
1t was the worst hotel fire since the
Windsor was destroyed. The fire was
first seen at about l 30 in the morning
in the armory. and in remarkable shor1
time that building was afiame from
end to end. The firemen made Their
way as best they could through streets
deep with slush and did all possible
to confine the fire 20 the armory, bu,
after they had been at work an hour
the discovery was made that the hotel
was on fire. The hotel was crowded
with guests who had come to attend
the festivities in honor of Prince
Henry. More than 500 persons were
In the house.
1t was not until almost 3 O'Clock
that the flames We're discovered in tn,
Park Avenue hotel, directly acros.
from the armory. Manager Reed of ths
hotel had been on the roof watching
the fire in the armory with guests from
the hotel. He had descended to the
first floor and was standing talking &c
guest when burst of flame came
up through the elevator shaft. Imme
diately he ordered his men to &C
through the hotel to give the alarm
The lights almost Immediately wen,
out and the hotel corridors were in
through the elevator shaft and seemed
TO gather around the fifth and sixth
floors. filling the halls with dense
smoke and making exit by means OF
the stairways almost impossible.
The Park Avenue hotel was built by
A. I. Stewart. who spent $1,000. 600 en-
its construction and furnishings. The
building occupies the entire front of
the block on Park avenue from Thirty
second to Thirty-third streets, with a
depth of half block. 1t is seven
stories in height and encloses on four
sides n court containing 1900 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
hotel was found to be on fire the lights
went out and the corridors were filled
with smoke. The guests, unable to find
the way through the darkened hallway,
jumped from windows or ran directly
into the tiame-swept portions OF the
buildings. 1t is this fact that accounts
for the large loss of life, although the
hotel was not destroyed
-Four Colorado people are among the
dead in the Park Avenue hotel of
New York. destroyed by fire yesterday
morning, and several other residents of
this state We're injured or had narrow
escapes. In the destruction of the
house well-known former hotel man
Of Colorado. Il. Barnett, second time
has seen his business and property de-
stroyed. Mr.. Barnett was proprietor
Of the Antlers hotel of Colorado
Springs when it was burned three
years ago.
Miss Minnie Il. Liggett. the latest
identified Denver lady victim Of the
Park hotel fire in New York, was head
dressmaker for the Daniels & Fisher
Stores Company. She lived with her
widowed mother, Mrs. Jane Liggett, at
No. 1915 Ogden street. Mrs. Liggett
is very old and has been Ill with heart
diesase for some time. The news of