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

IBy a Staff Correspondent
Cedar Rapids, Feb. 2o.-The worst
IRE in the history of Cedar Rapids, In
point of lives lost and persons injured
acquired at 2 O'Clock this morning when
fhe. Clifton Hotel caught fire and In an
hour was a mass Of debris and black
ened ruins. Up to 5 o'clock this aftar-
noon five bodies have been taken from
the smoldering ruins and it is almos,
certain that others will bo found be-
fore the searchers finish their grew
some task. Between thirty and forty
guests were injured some of tlrem SO
seriously that they will die. They have
been taken to the hospitals, where their
injuries are being attended to and their
Immediate wants supplied.
While the property loss is not as
large as on some previous occasions,
the fire was one of tha most horrifying
ever witnessed, the guests of the hctel
being caught like rats in q sinking snir
while asleep. The flames SPREAD with
such rapidity that the victims were
compelled to jump from second ane
fhird-story windows, while the help
less spectators below stood rooted to
the spot with horror. The ruins pre-
sent a terrible sight and the charreo
remains Of the unfortunate ones We're
burned and disfgured beyond recogni-
tion. But one Of them has as yet been
identified. and all OF them We're mangled
and torn by the falling walls. and the
Ewf,R heat OF the burning structure had
caused the bodies to swell and burst
from tfrs expansion.
The body of A. A. Mowery, of Wnat
Cheer, and that Of an unidentified
woman had been recovered at 10:30 this
morning. 1t is feared that others arc
in the ruins, which are being flooded
with water and removed as rapidly as
possible in the search for the dead. A
complete count OF the guests and in
mates of the hotel is next to impossi bDe
at the present time, owing to the fact
that the hotel regiser was consumed. in
the fire.
Fifteen of the injured are at the
hospitals Mercy and st. I.uke's. Some
OF these are fatally injured, and num-
ber more or less seriously SO.
Dead.
IA. A. MOWERY, What Cheer.
UNKNOWN WOMAN.
UNKNOWN MAN. body removed
late this afternoon.
Two more bodies are known to be- In
the ruins.
Bodies found in debris. Many are
get missing.
The Injured.
L. C. BURNETT. Nebraska City,
Neb, very badly burned; may die.
VIVA BURNS, waitress, Cedar Rap
IDS, jumped from third-story window :;
badly injured internally. and bruised
about the head; may die.
CONDUCTOR P. E. STRICKLAND.
Northwestern railway, Clinton; jumped
from window. Thought 10 be internal
ly injured; serious.
T. ]. ZALLY, Canton. ILL.,, serious.
iSINDA WILLIAMS. waitress; face
badly burned; leg injured.
LIZZIE KELLY, waitress; knee
sprained.
Il. C. OUTING, Center Point. tele-
phone man: left arm sprained; hands
burned.
EMMA SMITH, waitress; suffocated
and slightly burned; not serious.
H. w. BREMER. Lyons, Iowa; suf-
fering from effects of suffocation and
burned lungs.
f. r. MOORE. Of COOS Union street,
Chicago, with Drum Commission Com
pany; tigament of the left leg torn.
BEATRICE NEToLIcKY, shuey-
vile. face badly burned.
]. U. WINNINGER, Waterloo, mer-
chant tailor; face burned and right
wrist sprained.
j. E. ANDERSON. 1es Martin street,
Chicago, wit the Chicago Novelty
Company; back strained.
A. S. FARRoW, Boone. Iowa;
bruised feet.
F.. G. GARDINER, Woodburn, with
the Dave Manufacturing Company OF
Ottumwa; scalp cut and back bruised
d. F. TAYLOR, Davenport, Iowa;
head injured, elbow fractured, hip in
jured and body burned.
DIR. S. c. GROVE, dentist, Cedar
Rapids; seriously burned on the body
LOUIS THOMPSON, Cedar Rapids
employe of Clifton; badly burned.
A. M. LARSEN. oelwein, travelling