, 1902-02-27
DENVER PEOPLE DEAD
VICTIMS OF THE HOTEL FIRE.
Three Buyers for Denver Firms Lose
their Lives at New York.-Totai
Of Eighteen Deaths.

nue. hotel here Saturday.
or the number three We're 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 were 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 COMPARE
lively small loss of life seems marvel
Gus.
The following list of persons who lost
their lives in the Parke Avenue fire. or
who died from injuries received in 1t,
has been compiled:
Norman Acton died in Bellevue, body
at morgue, lived ut Colorado Springs.
Colonel Charles l.. Burdette, Hart
ford, Conn, commander OF the First reg
iment Connecticut volunteers; killed by
fan in fire.
William ]. Bernhardt of Chicago,
killed in hotel.
Mrs. j. Bernhardt Of Chicago, died
in Bellevue.
Lee q. Conrad, draughtsman, of this
city.
Fred s. Hovey of Lyons. \. Y.
Thomas II. Horne. of Denver. buyer
for the .JOslin Dry Goods Company.
John Iverson. Denver. buyer for the
Joslin Dry Goods Company.
Minnie L. Liggett, Denver, buyer for
Daniels & Fisher Stores company.
Mrs. ]. McManus.
Captain Charles Underwood O'Con-
nell.
EX-Congressman CASTOR \. Robbins
of Selma, Alabama.
Esther schlesinger. aged IS. Chicago.
Jacob SPAIN, aged 30, Rochester,
New York.
John G.. Walker, aged 30, Columbia,
Tenn.
Colonel Alexander NJ. Piper, U. S. A.,
retired, aged 30 years.
Mrs. Salome Foster, known as the
"Tombs Angel"
Body of woman, unidentified. may be
that of wife of Rev. William $. Board.
man, who is a patient at Bellevue.
This list of eighteen may be cut to
seventeen. as one body has been iden-
titled as that of William ]. Bernhardt
and as that of Lee G. Conrad.
1t was the worst hotel fire since the
Windsor was destroyed. The fire was
first seen at about 1:3O in the morning,
in the armory. and in remarkable short
time that building was afiame from
end to end. The firemen made their
way as best they could through streets
'NNP . iANh III iNu an ilbSSlIlp
to conflne the fire to the armory, but
after they had been at work an hour
the discovery was made that the hotel
was on fire. The hotel was crowded
with guests who had come Il attend
the festivities in honor of Prince
Henry. More than 800 persons were
in the house.
1t was not until almost 2 o'clock
that the flames We're discovered in the
Park Avenue hotel, directly across
from the armory. Manager Reed of the
hotel had been on the roof watching
the fire in the armUry with guests from
the hotel. He had descended to the
first floor and was standing talking 90
n guest when a burst of flame came
up through the elevator shaft. Imme-
diately he ordered his men to go
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 arou the fifth and sixth
floors, filling the halls with dense
smoke and making exit by means of
the stairways almost impossible.
The Park Avenue hotel was built by
y. II. Stewart. who spent $1,000. 900 on
its construction and furnishings. The
building occupies the entire front of
| the block on Park avenue from Thirty
second to Thlrty-third streets. with a
depth of half a block. 1t is seven
stories in height and encloses on four
sides n court continuing 1900 square
feet of space.
The fire was contined principally to
the fifth and sixth floors. near the Gle
vator air shaft. About the time the
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went olt and the corridors were filled
with smoke. The guests. unable to find
the way through the darkened hallway,
jumped from windows or ran directly
into the tiame-swept portions of the
buildings. 1t is this fact hat 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 Il well-known former hotel man
of Colorado. Il. Barnett, a second time
has seen his business and property de-
stroyed. Mr.. Barnett was proprietor
of the Antlers hotel of Colorado
Springs when 1t was burned three
yeuTs ago.
Miss Minnie Il. Liggett, the latest
identified Denver lady victim of the
Park hotel fire In New York, was mead
dressmaker for the Daniels X Fisher
Stores Company. She lived with her
widowed mother, Mrs. Jane Liggett, at
No. 1913 Ogden street. Mrs. Liggett
is very old and has been i'll with heart
diesase for some time. The news OF
her daughters death was n great shock
to her and her doctor says that 1t may
result in her death. Mrs. Liggett was
very weak last night and refused to be
comforted.
Miss Liggett was TO have started for
Denver the day following the fire. 1t
is stated that after being awakened she
wen from her on the sixth floor
TO the second floor 10 awaken IA friend
who had a room there. Then she re-
turned to her room and failed to get
out of the building in time to save her
own life.
John ii. Iverson had charge OF the
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