The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-02-28
HOLOCAUST IN new YORK
EIGHTEEN PERSONS KILLED IN
HOTEL FIRE.

Third Disaster Within Short Period
oil Park Avenue-Blaze Starting
in Seventy-irst Armory Spreads
to Hotel and Five Hundred Guests
are Forced to Flee for Their Lives
Fatal Leaps.
New York, Feb. 24.-For the third
time since New Years day. Park Ave
nue.. in this city. was the scene of the
loss of human life. The first was the
tunnel on Fifty-siXth street and Park
avenue; the second a dynamite explo-
sion in the rapid transit subway on
Forty-first street. and the third. today,
was the fire which started in the Sew
enty-first regiment armory on Thirty
third street, and then spread 20 the
Park Avenue hotel, where Is persons
were killed, and many injured.
1t was the worst hotel fire since the
Windsor was destroyed. The fire was
first seen about 1870 in the morning,
in the armory, and in a remarkably
short time that building was aflame
from end to end. The firemen did all
possible to confine the fire to the ar
mory, but after they had worked near
ly 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 800 per-
sons were in the house.
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 corridors We're
filled with smoke. The guests, unable
TO find their way through the darkened
hallway, jumped from the windows or
ran directly into the fame-swept por-
lions of the buildings. This fact ac-
counts for the large loss of life, al
though the hotel vas not destroyed.
The list of persons who lost their
lives in the Park avenue fire. or who
have died from injuries received in it.
was compiled late tonight, and is as
follows:
Colonel CFMW YPCMFYPW PPPPP
The dead:
COLONEL CHARLES L. BURDETT,
Hartford, commander First regiment
Connecticut volunteers.
WILLIAM J. BERNHARDT, Chico
go.
MRS. WILLIAM ]. BERNHARDT,
Chicago.
LEE G.. CONRAD. New York.
FREDERICK S. HOVEY, Lyons, n. Y.
j. r. NAMES, mot certain, may be
Thomas Horne), Denver.
JOHN IVISON, Denver.
MINNIE e. LIGGERT, Denver.
MRS. J. M'MANUS.
CAPTAIN CHARLES O'CONNELL,
formerly clerk of the supreme court.
EX-CONGRESSMAN CASTOR A.
ROBBINS. Savannah.
ESTHER SCHLESSINGER. Chicago.
JACOB SPAIN. Rochester.
JOHN G. WALKER, Columbia. Tenn.
COLONEL ALEXANDER NJ. PIPER,
L. s.. A., retired.
MRS. SALoME FOSTER. known as
the ''Tombs Angel"
uNIDENEIFIED BODY OF WO-
MAN, may be the wife of Rev. William
S. Boardman.
PATIENT Bellevue hospital.
The revised list of the injured fol-
lows:
Lester L. Woodbury., Portland. Me-;
Frank Everhad, agent candy company;
E. S. Hest, Columbia. Pa: William
Stebbins. Jr., West Indies; Rev. Will
lam S. Boardman. hotel; Perry w. Liv-
ingston, C%ampville, N. Y; Charlotte
Bennett; Sophia Beach; Emma S. Mey-
er, Savannah; Mar. C. Bennett, Den
yer; Mrs. Samuel H. Hall, Newark;
Miss Anna Hall, Newark: w. b. Brad
ley South Carolina; William d. Hale,
Williamsville, Mass; Sarah Bugham,
Savannah.
The fire in the armory started on the.
third floor, on the Thirty-third street
side, where there vas a tier of rooms
occupied by different companies of the
regiment. Within five minutes the
whole structure was beyond saving,
and ten minutes later the roof fell in
with a terrific crash. There was no
n in the armory at the time except
the ~janitor and his family. They es-
capped by going through the scuttle
hole in the roof, and thence along the
battlements on the Thirty-fourth
street side to safety on the roofs of
| the houses to east. This passage was
attended by much danger owing to the
icy condition of the roof.
One of the most pathetic incidents of
the fire was the death of Mrs. Calome
Foster, the "Angel of the Tombs.'
who, for 10 years, has done service in
behalf of female prisoners in the
Tombs and other city prisons. Mrs.
Foster was the widow of John w.
Foster, and had lived for the last five
years at the Park Avenue hotel. Her
income, at one time, was considered
large, for the most part was expended
upon the deserving poor.
The S~eventy-irst regiment armory
cost the state $500, 900 to build, and the
loss will be somewhat more. The fire
destroyed the original famous paintings
of Generals Grant, Sherman and Sheri-
dan, the 81 900 sword presented by the
state Of Massachusetts for the services
of the Massachusetts, volunteers, all the
original war records, the rosters and
numerous other valuable trophies and
prize articles.
Storm in PHILADELPHIA.