The Dolores star., 1902-02-28
DENVER PEOPLE DEAD
VICTIMS OF THE HOTEL FIRE.
Three Buyers for Denver Firms Lose
their Lives at New York.-TotaI
of Ejohteen Deaths

I
| lives in the burning of the Park Ave
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
| cluding 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 compara-
lively small loss of life seems marvel
\ ous
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 moreue. 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 ]. Bernhardt Of Chicago,
killed in hotel.
Mrs. J. Bernhard of Chicago, died
ih Bellevue.
Lee Il. Conrad. draughtsman. of this
city.
Fred s. HOvey of Lyons. y. Y.
Thomas =. Horne. of Denver. buyer
for the .Ioslin Dry Goods Company.
John lverson. Denver. buyer for the
Joslin Dry Goods Company.
Minnie +. Liggett. Denver. buyer for
Daniels & Fisher Stores company.
Mrs. ]. McManus
Captain Charles Underwood O'Con-
nell.
EX-COngressnan Castor A. Robbins
| of Selma. Alabama
Esther Sclilesinger. aged 3S. Chicago
Jacob SPAIN. aged 30, Rochester,
New York.
John G. Walker, aged 35, 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 s. Board
man. who is patient at Bellevue
This list of eighteen may be cut to
seventeen. ns one body has been iden-
titled as that of William ]. Bernharlt
and us that of Lee G. Conrad.
1t was the worst hotel fire since the
Windsor was destroyed. The fire was
first seen at about 30 in the morning.
in the armory. and in remarkable short
time that building was atlnme from
end TO end. The fireinen made their
way as best they could through STREETS
deep with slush and did all possible
to confine the fire to the armory. but
after they had been ut work 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 300 persons were
in the house
that the flames were discovered in the
Park Avenue hotel. directly across
from the nrmory 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 TO
a guest when Il burst of flame came
up through the elevator shaft Imme-
diately lie 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 lcaped up
through the elevator shaft and seemed
TO gather around 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
A. 4. Stewart. who spent $3.0OO,OO0 on
its construction and furnishings. The
building occupies the entire front of
the block on Park avenue from Thirty
second to Thirty-tlird Streets with n
depth of half block 1t Is seven
stories in height and encloses on four
sides court containing 1I.O00 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 We're filled
/ with smoke. The guests. unable to find
the way through the darllened hallway,
jumped from windows or ran directly
into the tiame-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 well-known former hotel man
of Colorado E. Barnett. a second time
has seen his business and property de-
strOyed. Mr. Barnett was proprietor
of the AntlaIN 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
dressmaker for the Daniels & Fisher
Stores Company. She lived with her
widowed mother, Mrs. Jane Liggett at
No. 1915 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 great shock
to her and her doctor says that it may
result in her death. Mrs. Liggett was
very weak last night and refused to be
comfOrted.
Miss Liggett was to have started for
1 Denver the day following the fire. 1t
Is stated that after being awakened she
went from her room on the sixth floor
to the second floor to awaken friend
| who had room there. Then she re
turned to her room and failed to get
| out of the building in time to save her