The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-10
Hotel Guests Wake to
Fight the Flames.
Leap From Windows and Make
Ropes of Quilts.


~ pire hotel. large three-story
dwelling house at eco and 27O2 Olive
street occupied by men exclusively.
caused the death of eleven persons
ten men and one wOman-and danger
ously injured seven others. A dozen
or more who had narrow escapes from
death received less serious injuries, or
were frost-bitten. 1t is estimated that
there were between thirty-five and
forty persons in the building last night,
and it is believed all have been ac-
counted for. The financial loss is nom
inaI. Il is thought that $4,000 will
cover the damage 10 building and con-
tents, which were totally destroyed.
The Dead.
Morris YAH, senior member Of the
| firm of Yau, Clark & Cowen, manufac-
turers of fine cut glass; formerly Of
Chicago; burned to a crisp.
lobe Davis, man about town, suffo-
Gated.
John c. Leuders, skull fractured in
| jumping from third story window.
! George Thompson, switchman ter
minal yards burned to death.
| Sarah Harris. colored chambermaid,
burned.
ii. F. Woodley, employe Hamilton
Brown Shoe company, burned.
/ J. A. McMUllen, carpenter, burned.
:. 7. Corey, telegraph operator, Mer-
| chants Terminal association.
I Vance Martin, civil engineer, In
/ dianapOlis, burned
a. J. Allen, Sedalia, Mo, stone ma
son, burned.
Unknown man, who died at city hos
pital from burns.
The Injured.
Harry Cline. medical student of Mar
ion, Ills, hands burned badly; Walter
Johnson. hands burned. both legs
broken and injured internally; Henry
J Robinson. colored, night porter badly
/ burned: George Lane, medical student,
! Rich Hill, Mo, ankle spralned in jump
ing from second story window; - -
Sturgeon. medical student: back
sprained in jumping from secOnd-story
window; Harry Thompson. medical
student, Nashville, Ills, ankle sprained
in jumping from second-St0ry window,
IL. Il. Lally, manager Empire hotel,
back badly sprsined; Con Ryan,
burned about face About ten or twelve
others less seriously injured being
bruised. burned or suffering from eX-
posure.
Jump From Windows.
The IRE started about $3.50 a. NJ,
when few people were abroad. and
gained much Roadway before 1T was
discovered and the alarm given. There
was considerable delay in turning IN
Ian alarm. and when the engines finally
reached the scene the whole front OF
the building was in flames and the IN
terror was a seething furnace. By thai
time all who escaped death had gotten
out OF the building by jumping from
the windows or climbing down ropes
made of bed clothes
\ few escaped from the ground floor
through the front door. Some Of the
escapes we're very narrow. Most every
one who got out suffered some injury
or was frost bitten. Some barely had
time to get out when aroused, the
flames had spread SO rapidly. Some
saved their clothing, which they car
ried in their hands, but others we're not
so fortunate, losing everything.
| After some delay nearby houses were
opened To the unfOrtunates and they
were given shelter from the biting cold
weather Ii was one Of the coolest
nights of the winter, the ground being
covered with ice and snow, and every
one suffered from exposure. The in
jured ones were put under the care OF
physicians. Harry Cline, Walter John
son, Henry Robinson and an unknown
man who died later were taken to tht
city hospital. Robinson recovered
enough to be taken home. The Others
named viii be laid up for some time.
Search For the Bodies.
After a short fight the iremen go
the flames under control, and, assisted
! by the police, made search Of the
ruins. The first body found was tha
of John c. LeUders. who was killed
by jumping from the third-stOry Win
dow. His head was crushed in. The
#, body of Leuders and those of the Others
found later were taken 10 the mOrgue
where friends and relatives later iden
titled them. Sarah Harris was fOunl
on the first floor The remains OF tn
other victims We're found in. thei
rooms. where they We're suffocsted o
burned.
]. J. Laliy, who managed the hOte
for his brOther-in-liaw, J. W. Gillian
: had rooms on the first floor. He state
there were four rooms on the frs
floor. nine on the second and seven OF
the third.
If all the guests occupied their rooms
thirty-six persons, including the col
Ored porter and chambermaid. were i
! the building when it burned Lally sai'
he had no means Of knowing just how
many persons were in the house a
the time the fire broke out Some o
them We're in the habit of staying on
late, and it is possible all were no
there then. He was awakened by hear
| ING CON RYAN one of the rOOmerS cry
ing fire.
Lally said he grabbed his clOthin
and money and hurried into the hal
which was ablaze and without stop
ping To dress stepped out through tn
/ front door. Both stairwayS were o
! fire. ana he barely had time to get Ou'
being scorched and sprainins his bach
Lane, Ryan and a man named NIGEL
escaped the same way. The only va
= for the others who got out alive va
I through the windows. the burnIu
stairWays cutting off their escape tina
Z way. Some jumped and sustained IN
. juries more or less serious, while 9th
ers who took time 10 improvise rope
from their bed clothing got dow
safely
: Tonight most Of the guests hav
2 been accounted for in the list of deaC
: injured and escaped Among those uT
. | accounted for is A. Goldberg. an ur
1 known stranger. who came in late an
went 10 bed without registering; tn
two students. whose names are nc
known, and +. p. Contrand. 1t is n
{ believed there are any more bodies
: the ruins. 4 careful search has bee
u made. II is believed the missing pei
sons viii be found.