Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-02-26
CEDAR RAPIDS HOLOCAUST.
Clifton Hote. Burns and the Result
Is Appalling.

Is Appalling.
Cedar Rapids, Feb. 21.-Four black
ened corpses have been taken from
the ruins of the Clifton hotel, which
burned yesterday morning at 1880.
One of them was that of w. A.
Mowry, a young stockman of What
Cheer, Iowa. Another was that of E.
c. Young. general foreman for the
Western Union Telegraph company on
the Rock Island, with headquarters at
Minneapolis. Two others are as yet
unidentified. Five or six bodies are
thought to be in the ruins.
The list of the injured as as fol-
lows
L. C. Burnett, Nebraska City, Neb.;
probably fatally injured.
Vina Burns, head waitress, Cedar
Rapids; jumped from third story win
dow and badly injured internally; con-
dition critical
DIR. S. q. Grove, Cedar Rapids; ter
ribly burned while hanging to fire es-
cape; only slight hopes for recovery.
P. e. Strickland, conductor on Chi
cago and Northwestern railway, Gin
ton; jumped from third story window;
internally injured; condition serious.
Synda Williams, waitress; badly
burned; knee sprained.
Emma Smith, waitress; painfully
burned; not serious.
Celia Williams, waitress; painfully
burned about face and head.
May Reel, waitress; badly burned;
taken to home of relatives.
Lizzie Gelley, waitress; leg painful
ly sprained from jumping.
f. c. Outing Center Point; left arm
cut and sprained; hands burned.
H. w. Bremen, Lyons, Ia; lungs In
jured by heat and smoke.
F. r. Moore, Chicago; ligament OF
left leg ruptured.
Beatrice Netolicky, Shueyville. face
badly burned.
j. u. Winniger, Taterloo; face burn.
ed and right wrist sprained.
J. e. Anderson, 1853 Martin street,
Chicago; back sprained.
A. M. Larson, Oelwein, Ia; feet
bruised and lungs injured.
d. f. Taylor, Davenport; head in
jured, elbow fractured and hip and
body burned.
A. s. Farrow, Boone, Ia, feet burned
and bruised.
F. M. Gardner, woodbine; scalp cut
and back bruised.
Ed. Templeton, conductor on Mil
waukee, head hurt; jumped from
second story.
C. w. Roberts, brakeman on Rock
Island, hands cut and ligament of left
tburph cavarad
j. A. Eyler, Davenport ankle and
back sprained.
C. f. Hamburg, Leroy, Mimi; back.
hand and foot hurt seriously.
r. c. McConahy, Aurora, ILL.,, hands
and face burned.
M. P. Hoover, Tama, strained leg.
Louis Thompson, yardman at hotel;
badly burned.
Fred Seaman, Chicago; badly burn
ed and bruised.
C. A. Roseman, independence, trav.
cling salesman for Anchor Mill COM
pany; arms hurt and legs sprained.
jumped from third story window.
struck telephone wires and landed in
snow bank.
w. C. Donley, Chicago; face and
hands burned.
LAZY, SdutOht cllSht Sueo
and burned feet.
f. o. Redmond, railway mail clerk.
Tama, slid down wires and burned
hands badly.
O.AJ. Lamb, Center Point; hands
and face burned.
6. F. Koesser, Walker; face and
hands burned
L. o. Vernon, Delta; hands cut and
face burned.
d. P. Halves, DEBORAH; back
sprained.
George Taggart, St. Paul: hands
and face burned.
j. M. Dunbar, Monticello; wrist cut.
Mrs. Jackson, colored, pastry cook;
face burned.
F. A. Chase, Tama; slid down light
wires from second floor; hands in
jured.
Jim Lewis, colored, porter; slightly
burned.
John w. Lewis, Ottumwa; slightly
bruised.
That the list of dead does not equal
the list of the rescued and escaped is
due largely to the splendid work of
the firemen, who remained cool
throughout the terrible ordeal and
worked heroically In getting their lad
iers up to the windows, by means of
which many people were brought safe
ly TO the ground. W., ~
Forty-two were injured in the fire,
dozen of them seriously.
Some of the injured were able to be
taken to their homes last night. The
others are at the two city hospitals, and
The corps of nurses has been reinforced
Dy a number of Cedar Rapids women
who are doing all in their power to aid
he sufferers, both with nursing and
with supplies. Some of the mattresses
escaped with all their clothes burned
from th.m, and several others were in
need of the charity which has been
generously bestowed.
The total losses, as the result of the
fire, are as follows.
Clifton hotel building, owned
by Bever estate $40 900
Young & Lansing, proprietors. 10000
w. H. Coffee, cigar stand $3.50. $500
P. ]. Kiley, barber shop. 49,. 1000
Medhurst & Fuller, pool room. 5000
Cedar Rapids Plumbing Co.. 90. 400
National hotel, water damage. 500
The fire started in the electric light
wires In the basement, and had gained
great Roadway when the night clerk,
who had been on the third floor dis.
covered 1t. He Immediately made an
effort to arouse the guests and, with
the aid of the day clerk, was mainly
successful. The majority of those
injured were hurt in jumping from tho
windows Of the second and third