Durango semi-weekly herald., 1902-12-08
reLeaRAPhic NEWS.

| NNoWH 10 De utdu- .Nlnetteu Uouits
have been recovered at 10 O'Clock
There were awful scenes during the
fire. The hotel was fire trap.
CHICAGO. Ill. Dec. 4.-Fifteen Wis
ltors TO the Live Stock Show and
light other persons. guests OF the Lin
coin hotel on Madison avenue, met
their death this morning in a disas
trous fire that partially destroyed that
hostelry.
Scenes around the burned building
this morning are appalling. Bodies
are garduaily being taken out of the
ruins. twenty-one having been recover
one having been recovered up to noon.
The fire broke out shortly before 8
o'clock. and within half an hour a
score of human beings were destroyed.
| The structure was a veritable fire
trap, persons sleeping in the rear of
the building on the upper flood had
no chance for their lives. narrow
stairway being the only exit, and that
choked up by smoke and flames.
Half a dozen jumped from the
fourth story windows. Others tried
to save themselves by climbing down
the fire escape in the front OF the
building. but that was inadequate.
They would lose their grasp on the
cold iron and fall to the ground a
shapeless mass,
There were many injured during
the fire and ambulances and patrol
wagons from all over the city carried
them away to the hospitals and
homes. The hotel was crowded with
out of town persons. most OF whom
came to Chicago to attend the Live
Stock show.
Many were turned away from the
hotel last night. Cots were placed in
the Railways to accommodate guests.
One hundred and twenty persons reg
istered last night.
The origin OF the flames has not
been definitely fixed but are suppos-
ed to be the result of a gas jet being
left open and which set fire to the
draperies. Within ten minutes great
volumes of smoke filled three floors.
those that died being suffocated in
bed, and the position of their bodies
shows that consciousness never came
to them.
When the firemen began the work of
rescue they had a tremendous task.
Men, women and children were car
ried down ladders and through skoe.
filled halls. Two of the firemen were
Frustrated.
Edward Shepherd. the night clerk,
Is being held by the police pending an
investigation. Mrs. Shepherd first
discovered the fire. She awakened
her two sons and they in turn warn
ed others of their danger and made
their escape Mrs. Shepherd, howev
er, was so panic stricken that she and
her little boy rushed into the most
dangerous part of the building, where
she was seized by firemen who
dropped her into life-net. The legs
of both were broken.
BY noon the following dead had
been identified
HENRY WOOD, Labanon, Ind.
8. c. and ISAAC YOCUM, Daven-
port, la.
ED. TONER, Milwaukee. Wis.
PETER SLOCUM. Waconda. Ill.
NJ. HARDY. GAINESVILLE, Wis.
FRED COREY, Bucyrus, o.
MAIL CLERK.
When the fire was first discovered
the men fought desperately in the
narrow stairway. AS the flames did
not spread rapidly, the panic subsid-
ed. and crowds made their exit in
scanty attire.
ARTHUR COON. Marengo, III.
WARD LOWE, mail clerk.
I'D AyE L. UvINn vail ,larL
d. 8. ROSWELL. residence un'
known.
The investigation by the police and
fire officials shows that the Railways
of the hotel which occupied three top
floors of the building, were so narrow
that two men could hardly pass
abreast
SCRANTON, Pa, Dec 4.-When the
coal strike commission resumed this
morning, Andrew Matty. a miner EN-
ployed by Coach Bros, told of diff
culties. He said he received from
$50 to $22 wages weekly. Some he
said did not get $40 in two weeks.
NEW YORK, Dec. 4.-George Layh
rich old merchant of Brooklyn, diet
suddenly Tuesday under suspicious
circumstances. The coroner begar
an investigation which shows that the
merchant was killed by poison beint
put in beer. He was 10 years old ant
left over three hundred thousand dol
lars in ready money.
He usually lunched in the store
having a bottle of beer with his meal
Tuesday he took bottle from tn,
case and drank, remarking that 1
tasted badly He started across tn,
room and fell, dying in twenty min
utes.
The doctors discovered today tina
there was strong irritant poison II
the beer someone having taken OF
the top and poured lot of poison II
it, and putting 1t back in the case
AS Layh alone drank beer, 1t was sim
ply question of time when he woul,
take the fatal drop.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. A.
Howard Goodwin, treasurer OF tn
Cassate bankers and brokers' wa
found dead on couch in the office O
the company this morning, with a bu
let hole in his head. No motive TO
t the suicide has been ascertained.