Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-28
Hostelry Conducted By Saliva
ton Army Scene of Early
Morning Horror
MANY INJURED BY JUMPING
rhir.y.f;ve Person. Crushed and
Burned in Mad Efforts to Escape
Firemen Rescue Many in Nets and
With Ropes--Panic seizes the 500 In
mates and Many Run About the
Streets in crazed Condition and
Thinly Clad.

81 Io,is. Nov. 2s.-Four men were
h,rnad to death and probably thirty
Ave were injured in a fire early TO-DAY
that nractically destroyed the hghe-
house hotel. conducted by the SaiVatloh
Army, at Ninth and Market stree's
Fully 500 men were asleep IN ''.e
building when the fire was discoVereo'
~ sreater number being on the sec
ond and third floors. All became paiiio
stricken and before the flremen coulo
rive and stretch nets,s many hau
Jumped from the upper windows anu
we're picked up crushed and uncoh-
scious on the street below. Four oeao
we mt been identified, as their BOD
les were burnd to a, crisp.
Panic Follows Alarm.
watchman o'Connell, who was sta
.ioned on-the third foor, discovered the
t,re. He had gone to clothes close.
3, eet some wearing apparel for seVeral
,,,o,, who were practically without
clothing, and upon opening the close'
aar sheet of flames belched forth,
burning off his hair and eyebrows. Ihe
watchman was unable to shut the ooor
and the whole room was quickly hlleo
with fame and smoke. OConneH gave
~. alarm and hurried around waking
nm the sleeping inmates.
The closet had formerly been an oiu
elevator shaft and with the door open
draft resulted that quickly spread
+he fire thruout the building. At every
window could be seen forms OF nall
naked men, calling to the fremen IN
terror. and few moments later leap
ing from the burning building, to be
crushed on the sidewalk below. Lie
lines fastened at the windows, provid-
ed means Of escape for scores OF lodg-
ers
crazed With Terror.
Terror took possession OF the men
and a number Of them started 70 run
thru the streets as soon as they es-
capped from the building. Thinly ciad-
the frenzied men ran nladly until they
were pursued and caught and taken
IN anbulances to places of warmth.
Dozens were sick from the effects OF
smoke and gas inhaled. Some men,
apparently not hurt at all, were cry
ing abjectly and were not able to tell
what was the matter with them. About
eighty-five men we're crowded into the
basement, sleeping, when the fire was
discovered. T'-ey-, were unable to get
out as the door was apparently lock-
ed. Their cries attracted the atten-
ton of policemen and the basement |
door was broken in. The men poured
Eat Of the basement like rats from a
trap. Firemen called to those in the
windows not to jump until nets could
be stretched, but all to little avail, for
as fast as the flames roared nearer to
the windows, the men jumped. The fire
swept thru the second and third floors |
and damaged the structure to an es-
timated extent of $2,500. The cause
of the fire has not been ascertained.
The seriously injured were taken to
the city hospital. Two died there and
six others are not expected to live.
The known dead:
Oscar F. Davis, rs years old, an old
soldier of Quincy. ILL.,; jumped; died
at hospital.
George D. Rose, jumped; died at the