The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-02
CHICAGO IS AGAIN STRICKEN
THREE KILLED, FOUR INJURED
 INH0TEL FIRE.
The Louvre Destroyed Last Night Nearly One Hundred Guests in House many of Whom Had Retired for the Night-with Memory of Thea,er Hor- TOT Fresh fin Their Minds All in the Place Become Panic Stricken.

Chicago. Jan. 1.-Three persons were killed and four others injured in fire tonight that destroyed the Louvre ho-
 tel. S611, s621 Lake avenue. Nearly one
 hundred guests were in the hotel at the
 time the fire broke out. many of whom
 had retired for the night. With the re-
 membrance of the Iroquois theater hor-
 TOT fresh in their minds, everyone in the place became panic stricken and rushed madly for the streets as soon as it became known that the hotel was
 on fire.
 The dead;
 Patrick Ryan, retired merchant. Mrs. Florence Chapin. Bissell Chapin. twelve years, son of Mrs. Chapin.
 All had been overcome by smoke and had not been touched by the flames. The injured:
 M. M. Bright, guest at the hotel, leg
 broken in falling in darkened hallway. William Hayden, waiter in hotel,
 badly burned; hands and face cut by falling glass.
 Dr. N. Won schill, sustained severe injuries to back and right leg in fall on stairway.
 1 Frederick Hoop, fireman, leg broken 1 by fall from fire engine. When the fire was discovered most of the guests were in their apartments and all hurried to escape, but in the
 upper story of the building the smoke was SO thick that they had great diffi- culty in finding the exits. Several persons were rescued from the second story through the efforts of | three of the guests of the hotel. These I three men raised a plank to window, and, breaking in the glass, held it Sc
 several men could slide down it. Many
 were enabled to escape in this way, as
 the stairs and passageways to the bot 1 tom floor had become congested in the
 rush for safety.
 l A boy about fifteen years old was
 taken from the building almost suffo- cated. He died few minutes after l being taken to the street,
 l But for the heroic efforts of Miss Mary Corbett, an employe of the hotel three children of Mrs. F. I. Schaffer
 one of the guests. probably would have Host their lives Becoming separated ! from their mother, these children were
 wandering around the upper story al most suffocated with smoke and not able to find their way to safety. Tying
 a cloth about her head, Miss Corbett
 rushed into the burning building and | in her search she discovered these three little Schaffer children. Calling for
 help, Miss Corbett picked up two of the children and carried them to the street
 The other child was led from the place
 by man who heard Miss Corbett's call for assistance,
 l The building is a three story and base fment brick structure and was used as a private hotel It was in reality five buildings which had been connected fol
 an hotel The fire started In the dining
 room on the first floor and spread with great rapidity Despite the efforts oi the flrenlen it could not be checked unti lit reached the fire wall that separated the hotel in the middle. Here the pro.
 gress of the fire was stayed. but the en. tire building was practically destroyed
 The loss is s40,00o.