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and was reused by the call of ire. In
her attempt to find the fire escape she
window. Stepping out on the Ledge,
she. swayed moment, probably, blinded
and overcome by smoke, and either
jumped or fell to the ground. She fell
into the narrow stairway to the Turk,
ish bath parlors in the basement and
was instantly killed. She had evidently
been hurriedly reused and was excited.
She had made no attempt to clothe |
herself and her nightrobe was torn |
from her body in the fall or while she
was climbing thru the window.
Miss Hodges has travelled for the
University Extension lecture course for |
some time. She had but recently moved !
tel, where most of her effects are still
stored. She was taken to the mOrgue
and after identification was moved to
undertaking rooms.
She was at first taken for Miss Alice
Larson, an employee of the house, who
jumped to the alley.
| the second person to meet death IN
the alley next the theater. In an at
tempt to jump to the roof Of the thea.
| ter he fell far short and struck head
foremost in the alley. He was. horri.
| bly, mangled and disfgured. by the fall
and was instantly killed. Had he sue
| ceeded in reaching the roof of the
/ theater, the result would probably have
1 been the same as his room was on the
seventh floor and the theater is but two
stories high.
! Mr.. Peisniger's death was witnessed
by James Wilson, porter in the thea
ter, who stood on, the theater fire
u escape, watching the fire in the hotel:
q! saw him stand second and jump"
sold 10 INN a.
gin to carry him across the narrow al
ley, in fact he struck only about seven
!; feet from the hotel wall. He turned
/ several times i'm his fall, but struck
head downward. It was awful. He
collapsed completely and did not move
afterward. His brains were spattered
over the walls Of both buildings
|, Mr.. Peisniger was travelling sales
: man. His home address is given az
45l East Eighty street, New
! York.
Clinton Lamme Of West Point, N Y,
/ was. on the seventh floor, where there
l was the greatest loss of life. He oc-
, cupied room 761. He was found in his
| room dead from fire and smoke. His
. ened, but had evidently been overcome
t by the smoke before the fire broke into
3 his room.
!. -. Lamme was West Point cadet and
J.. was On his way to his home in Bozeman
d Mont. for a visit. He stopped over in
}. Minneapolis to see his aunt, Mrs. Ar
o thur Place, s12 East Fourteenth street
> Captain Berwin's Heroic Death.
IS The most tragic death was that OF
II Captain Berwin Of Truck No. l, who
70 fell from the seventh floor on the Fifth
g. street side, while in the act of saving
a. Mrs. Emaline Barlow, an aged woman
h who had been overcome with smoke
n AS soon as the truck was in place
Captain Berwin himself was the frs
to go up the ladder and break in tn
Cropping his way about in the corne
rooms Of the seventh floor he foun'
Mrs. Barlow, nearly unconscious from
q the smoke and heat. Placing her upol
y his back he crawled out of the window
and started down the scaling ladder t.
the main ladder below. When he wa
about In the middle of the scaling lad
der, between the sixth and sevent
floors, his belt, which held Mrs. Barlo1
a. to his back, broke, and he lost his ba
ance. Knowing that his own life wa
lost, he threw the woman to one sid
with almost superhuman strength
She fell on top of projecting windo,
and was. saved. Unable to get ne
hold, lBerwin reeled, clutched wildly fo
something that might save him, an
then fell headlong to the pavement g
a. the feet Of thousand breathless spe'
W tators.
n Z. With screams Of horror the wome
'eI crowded back. while crowd Of cur
% Gus men closed in and hampered tt
M police, who had picked up the lifele'
u body, endeavoring to take it to SON
Nv less conspicuous place.
20 Met Death in Their Rooms.
Ia, +. The most horrible and prolonge
he death of all was that of J. E. Wolf
who roomed on the seventh floor. H
TAI others met their death, horribly burnt
IN and the condition of the furniture
20 the room showed that. he mad fougl
la the flames fercely to ward off dea'
piy until aid might come. Chairs we
ne thrown about and the clothing hi
,re been whipped from the bed, evident
49,, i.e in an effort to smother the flames tn
- ragged about him. Wolfe was the mort
t ns western representative Of Sperry & A
oo' exander, hardware dealers Of New Y q
~, ~, city. He had lived at the hotel f
III several years and travelled over t.
r. northwestern territory.
w. g. Nichols, member of t
Minneapolis Chamber Of CONNER
ug. and resident of the hotel, was suf
W. Gated in his room and was found de
. by the fremen. d, His body was tax
to an undertaking establishment.
Mr. Nichols was evidently ov'
come while asleep and had no chan
Of escape. $3.50. T..
"a Died After Being Taken Out.
0S Thomas Sommerville, who occupied
II. room on the top floor, was found l
Ia conscious on the floor of his room ,
L., the fremen. He was carried into
i'y West hotel drugstore, where physicis
were summoned and worked over h
NV ,or for more than an hour trying to sa
~ ~ his life. Restoratives failed to acco
aro plish any results, and he died shor
mn after 9 O'Clock. He was a represen
WV tive of Atkins & Co., manufacture
stationers, of Burnside, Conn. His no
- was in Springfield, ILL.,, and he b
travelled for some time in the nor
western states.
William Block a travelling salem
for A. Tanner & Co. of New York, Y
suffocated in his room on the sever
floor. He was carried to the NOR,
and for several hours was unidentif
He was rescued at the same time