The Monticellonian., 1902-02-28

Saturday morning in the Park Av- enue hotel and the Seventy-first reg iment armory, this city, resulted in the loss of 15 lives and the destruc- tion 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. X 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, Tombs prison missionary.
 Fred S. Hovey, Lyons. N. '.
 Thomas P. Horne, Denver, Col.
 John II. Iverson, Denver, Col.
 Unknown woman.
 Charles Underwood O'Gonnell, 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 Sehlesinger. Chicago.
 Jacob Shahn, a lawyer, of Roches- ter, \. |.
 John E. Walker, Columbia, Tenn.
 Vim. $. Barnhart, of Chicago. Mir. 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 \. Bausch, an inya- 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. Wm. s. Brooelman, of this city; burns
 Wm. $. Broocllman, 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 F. R. Hall and daugh- ter. Miss Anna G. Hall. Newark, N. d.; suffering from burns and shock.
 Vim. E. Hale, Williamsyille, 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, S years old; burned on face and hands.
 Mrs. s. Neach, burned on face, hands and body.
 Charles L. Woodbury, Portland, Me; partially suffoeated.
 Shortly before one o'clock fire was discovered bursting from the roof of the Seyenty-frst 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 ear 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 the firemen
 In the Headquarters of the Fifth brigade, in the Thirty-fourth street and Park avenue quarter of the arm ory, large quantity of ammunition, both blank and bullet cartridges, was stored. These cartridges soon began to explode. and added to the intense excitement Shortly after these ex- plosions had cased the wall of the Thirty-third side fell inward. This crash was followed by the explosion of about 1000 pounds of powder stored in the basement of the arm ory. The detonation was terrific, but firemen had been warned of the dan ger, and none of them was injured
 Mrs. Eliza Robinson Dead.
 Godfrey, H., Feb. 23.-Mrs, Eliza RpbinSpp died cuddepIy with bea If