The Nome nugget., 1903-07-08

Three lives were lost in fire which desroyed the Golden Gate hotel and a number of adjoining building on Sun day morning last The property dam age and personal losses aggregate SlOO,O0O. ~
 The Dead. ir
 The dead are: Mr. and Mrs. Robert NJ. Hayes, of Pittsburg, and sherman D. Gregg, of Freeport, Green county Pa. The fire was the most disastrous that has occurred in Nome.
 The story of the fire, it's victims and the cause was told in THE NUGGETS extra edition of Sunday. Briefly re- peated, the fire seems to have been caused by coal oil in the hands of the second cook of the hotel. As result he is now an inmate of the federal jail, charged with manslaughter.
 The remains of the three victims were recovered Sunday afternoon. The only other casualty that occurred was one in which Fred C. EdginGton was
 
 from the burning building through a dormer window in the topmCst story he slipped on the roof and was precipitated to the ground, 50 feet below. His right leg was broken badly above the knee, and it was feared that he was injured internally, but fortunately this is not the case, and he is doing nicely at the Holy Cross hospital.
 Start of the Fire.
 The fire started about o'clock, and from what was developed at the coroner's inquest, held Monday after noon, it seems that l.. R. Barr, the second cook, was the direct, though irresponsible, cause of the conilagration. Barr attempted to light the fire in the kitchen range. He says that he went to the woodshed, got tive-gallon can of coal oil and from it filled an empty baking powder can about two-thirds full. This he threw into the stove after setting the coal oil can on . table. The oil exploded, and as he jumped back, he upset the big can on the floor and the flames spread. Hastily he ran for water and threw three buckets on the kitchen floor and walls. thus unwittingly spreading the flames
 Tony Martini, the night porter, had awakened Barr with some difficulty, and after the fire had started Harvey Edgington, the night clerk, was called. He took in tho situation at glance, seized some hand granades and threw their contents on the flames, which by this time were licking up the floor and the walls of the kitchen. Then he turned in fire alarm and rushed up stairs to arouse the guests. He kicked in the doors on each floor as he went along and told tho inmates the hotel was on fire.
 A Direfui Scene.
 The flames spread with nconceivable rapidity. In few moments the entire hotel was filled with stifling smoke and most of the numerous guests had a literal fight for life. Nearly, II not quite all, had only time tc put on few clothes and reach safety. Many, whose exit through the front doors was cut off, escaped by the windows. willing hearts and stout hands aiding bravely in their rescue from an awful death.
 Bremen Fight BraveIy.
 So quickly did the flames spread that the chemical engine, which has so often quenched incipient fires, was of no avail, and the big engine in the fire hall was soon playing three streams upon the burning hotel and the build ings nearest it. But in the meantime all the inmates had been rescued or had had time to escape, save the three who met their death.
 A Hero At the Front.
 One of the many brave men who did