Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-01-13

suffocating smoke and the fear of i'm
minent death drove him to use the
window as a means of escape. A
double telephone wire entered the
building at that point and quickly
swinging from the window ledge, as
we'll as mis- fifty years of age would
permit. he grasped the wires. Down
these he attempted to go, but burst
of flame from the window below him
belched upward and wrapped him
about. His beard and hair were burn
ed and the pain he suffered caused him
to loosen his hold and fall
Plunging downward ne struck
sign of the Chesapeake q Potomac
Telephone Company, which broke his
fall somewhat, but added to his in
juries. He struck the pavement with
considerable force and was renGeredun-
conscious. He was carried to the
Office of DIR. h. II. Thompson, directly
across the street, where he was given
all possible attention by DR.. Thomp-
son and later removed TO the Emer-
gency Hospital.
1t was found that he had suffered a
severe abrasion:of the nip, conclusion
of the brain, severe scalp wound and
lacerations of his hands, which latter
he had received while bursting out
the sash of his window. His sons in
Baltimore were at once telephoned
for, but present indications are that
his injuries will not result seriously
unless complications set in.
While this was transpiring, the other
guests of the hotel were not idle. They
were making heroic efforts to reach
the street in safety, and that none of
them outside of Anderson suffered
death, is surprising Two members
of the "Winsome Winnie" Company,
which played at the Colonial Theatre
last night, were guests at the hotel.
At the first alarm of fire they start
ed for the halls and tried to make
their way down them to the stairway.
The great amount of smoke in the
halls, however precluded the possibil-
ity of escaping in that manner. They
moved across the hall and made their
way TO the front room on the west
side of the building.
ESCAPE OF ACTORS.
Quickly raising the window which
overlooks small attached building
occupied by Grillo's book bindery,
one story below. they swung out and
dropped onto its roof From it they
made their way to the ground by
means of awning supports, cutting
their bands severely in doing so and
breaking away one of the iron sup
ports. Other guests of the house fol-
lowed their example and escaped with
but slightly injury TO their hands or
where their heads came in contact
with some proturbance in their anx-
iety to get out
By this time the interior of the
building was sheetine mass of flames,
which were bursting through the
windows and threatening every mo-
ment to come through the roof. The
firemen soon had streams on the build
ing direct from the plugs and in
very few minutes had the flames par
TALLY under control.
One of the belated guests, Mr..
Frank Pumphrey, who had been IN
able to reach the ground otherwise,
was carried down ladder from the
rear of the building He was not
burned or injured in any manner, but
was badly frightened. Other of the
guests were able to make their way
from the building by way of the back
stairs and halls.
NONE AWARE OF DEATH.
All of this time little thought of the
death which had taken place inside
the building. In the excitement of
the moment and the rescue and escape
of the guests few knew of the fact
that Anderson was in the building.
Within sight and sound of those who
would have gladly gone to his aid,
Anderson was suffocated by the smoke
and then badly burned by the flames.
Last night, as has been the case for
some time, he had been permitted by
Sunderland to occupy sofa in the
office, which is situated on what is
known as the ground floor, but which,
ON the Main street end, is about 10
feet from the pavement. In this room
the fire undoubtedly started, but from
what source or by what means is not
and probably never will be known.
The sofa or couch was situated in the
corner of the room furtherest removed
from the front or any other windows.
Between it and the windows was a
stove which was placed there for the
purpose of heating the office. The fire
in the stove was not greater than
had been the case on other nights and
the condition of the weather would
not indicate that Anderson had found
it necessary to put on any fuel.
When the fire was first discovered
and the excitement ON the street had
aroused the neighborhood, Miss Helen
Thompson, daughter of DR.. +. H.
Thompson, went to the window of
her room and looked across. At that
time the flames had penetrated to the
room above that occupied by Ander-
son, but could not be seen very plain
ly in the Office occupied by him by rea-
son of the heavy smoke.
SAW HIM FALL.
While she looked she saw dark
form cropping across the room. 1t
moved slowly and falteringly toward
the window. The curtains were agi-
tated by hands she could not see. The
curtains swayed backward and forward
as though the person having hold of
them was clinging to them for support
or trying to part them in vain effort
to open the window.
Then the form which appeared to her
only as q dark and intangiable mass,
swayed backward and forward and
sank TO the floor, shut out from her
sight by the high window frame and
was seen no more. That this was An
derson there is no doubt 1t was in
the spot where she had last seen the
form that his body was found, his
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