The Holly chieftain., 1902-02-28
DENVER PEOPLE DEAD
WcriMs OF THE HOTEL FIRE.
Three Buyers for Denver Firms Lose
their Lives At New York.-Total
Of Eighteen Deaths.

lives in the burning of the Park Ave
nue. hotel here Saturday.
Of the number three Were from Den
yer and one from Colorado Springs
The list OF the burned, and otherwise
injured people. numbers eighteen, in
Guiding two Denver women.
There We're about 500 guests in the
hotel when the fire broke out. 1t had
no fire escapes. or stand pipes. being
considered fire proof, and the conapara
lively small loss of life seems marvel
0us
The following list OF persons who lost
their lives in the Parke Avenue fire OF
who died from injuries received in II,
has been compiled:
Norman Acton died In Bellevue. body
at morgue., lived at Colorado Springs.
Colonel Charles l.. 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. ]. Bernhardt of Chicago, died
in Bellevue.
Lee q. Conrad, draughtsman, of this
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 r. Liggett, Denver, buyer for
Daniels & Fisher Stores company.
Mrs. ]. McManus.
Captain Charles Underwood O'Con
nell.
Ex-Congressman CASTOR A. Robbins
of Selma, Alabama.
Esther Schlesinger. aged 3S, Chicago
Jacob Spain, aged so, Rochester,
New York
John G. Walker. aged 35, 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 he
that of wife of Rev. William s. Board.
man, who is patient at Bellevue
1t was the worst hotel FIRE since the
Windsor was destroyed. The fire wa.
first seen at about l 80 in the morning
in the armory, and in remarkable short
time that building was aflame from
end to end. The firemen made theii
way as best they could through streets
deep with sllsh and did all possible
to confine the fire to the armory, bu,
| after they had been at work an loui
| 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 were discovered In the
Park Avenue hotel. directly acrose
from the armory. Manager Reed of the
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 10
guest when burst of fame came
up through the elevator shaft 1mme-
diately he ordered his men to &c
through the hotel to give the alarm.
The lights almost Immediately went
out and the hotel corridors were in
darkness. The flames leaped up
through the elevator shaft and seemed
to gather around the fifth and sixth
floors. filling the halls with dense
smoke and making ext by means of
the stairways almost impossible.
The Park Avenue hotel was built by
A. I. Stewart, who spent 100000 on
Its construction and furnishings. The
building occupies the entire front Of
the block on Park avenue from Thirty.
second to Thirty-third streets, with
depth Of half a block. 1t Is seven
stories in height and encloses on four
sides 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 filed
with smoke. The guests, unable to find
the way through the darkened hallway.
jumped from windows or ran directly
into the fame-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 were injured or had narrow
escapes. In the destruction of the
house a well-known former hotel man
of Colorado, +. Barnett, second time
has seen his business and property de-
stroyed. Mr.. Barnett was proprietor
of the Antleis hotel of Colorado
Springs when 1t was burned three
years ago.
Miss Minnie f. Liggett, the latest
identified Denver lady victim of the
Park hotel fire in New York, was head
drrssmaker for the Daniels & Fisher
Stores Company. She lived with her