Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-02-20

for the tobacco house in Lawrence,
KY; feet bruised and lungs burned.
C. w. ROBERTS, brakeman on Rock
Island, both hands cut and ligament
of left thumb severed.
L. o. VERNON, Delta, Ia, with Wells
Milling Company of Wells. Mimi, botn
hands badly cut and right side of face
burned
MAY REEL, waitress, face and head
badly burned.
N. P. HOOVER, Tama, left foot hurt,
not serious.
j. A. EYLAR. Davenport, slightly
hurt. a,.u.
S. L. BENDICT, body burned.
D. p. HALVES. Decorah, back hurt.
f. o. REDMON, mail clerk, Tama.
ED scoFIELD. bell boy, saved five
men, escaping injury himself. Saved all
the girls but one.
N. o. TEMPLEToN, Monticello, head
hurt.
GEORGE TAGGART, st. Paul, hands
and face burned.
JIM LEWIS. colored porter. slightly
injured.
r. NJ. DUNBAR. Monticello, wrist
cut.
JOHN w. LEWIS, ottumwa, bruised,
not seriously.
c. f. Hamburg, Leroy, Mimi; r. C.
McConahy. Aurora, Ill: O. j. Lamb,
Center Point: C. +. Kaesser. Walker;
C. A. RossQand. Independence; and f.
A. Chase.
Uninjured.
SAM WRIGHT. Tipton, lost clothes,
but uninjured.
w. c. DONLEvY, Chicago.
r. ". DICKSON, Waterloo.
D. H. FINCH, Manchester.
p. j. DAILY, Canton, ILL.,, lost all
clothes.
+. c.. KNEE, Waterloo.
II. BOESHAAR. Algona, Iowa.
GEORGE HAYNER. New Yor..
FRANK LANE, Rockford, Ill
w. w. BENSON, Maquoketa
w. B. MYERS, Humboldt.
DICK WHITE, bell boy.
f. d. DICKSON. Waterloo.
f. A. CHASE, Tanla.
r. RICK, Boone.
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MISS l.. A. GAYLORD, Belvidere,
III.
A. c. ELLIOTT. Iipton.
EDITOR BRIGGS, Clinton Advertis-
er
The fire started ir, the basement sup
posedly from defective Insulation Of the
wires supplying the light, and which
centered in the basement room. Five
minutes after the alarm was given the
building, which was built of wood. brick
yeneered, was mass of fire. Two fire
escapes, one at thu, rear and one on
Fourth street, were the only means of
escape. Ths swift advance Of the flames
filled the corridors and barred the
guests from the fire escapes. Then the
holocaust began. The Mortified on
lockers from the street found an array
of terrified men and women at the win
dows silhouetted against the flames be-
hind them, gesticulating, screaming
and praying for help. Men ran out
upon the window ledges and leaped
desperately into the straet below as the
fire blistered and drove them forward.
Perhaps twenty escaped over the roofs
and thru windows and adjoining build
ings. Others were rescued by the fire.
men from ladders While others went
down the telegraph and electric light
wires which they leaped for and
grasped with the grip of despair. The
firemen wera doing all in the power to
save life, but the pressure from the
mains was so weak that the fire fight
ers were forced to break windows with
into the building. The fierceness of the
fire and the futility of the efforts to
subdue it will be realized when it is
understood that the ;sntire building was
consumed within an hour.
Thrilling Escapes.
Two Tama residents. +. A. Chase and
p. O. Redmond, both mail clerks or.
the C. & N w, were on the third floor.
Redmond managed to get outside on a
window and grasping an electric light
wire slid to the ground. His hands
were badly burned. Chase made his
escape by the same route.
Lena Gaylord, travelling saleswom
an from Bcldieere. Ill, made her es-
cape thru the window of the Darlor.
Miss Gaylord had been trained nurse