The Cairo bulletin., 1906-01-11
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in frantic attempt 10 save them
selves
There was really no help for several
Who IDS; their lives The wood ~ the
elevator shaft burned like finder ana
a sheet of fame twenty feet wide
mounting the seventh story frightened
the guests ont Of their senses and
induced a panic which struck terror
to the stoutest hearts.
II wa q huge volume Of smoke that
stampeded the guests, as the moment
a door was opened the room was filled
with smoke and tho panic-stricken
guests We're compelled to beat our
windows to prevent instant suffoca
ton. Many used their hands against
the windows. others their feet, and
IN almost every instance ugly wounds
resulted
Following the first alarm che de-
partment was quickly on the scene
ana the work Of rescue began Al
though the h ur was early. hundreds
of people tbronged the streets and
eazed up at he great hotel whose
windows were alive with guests frant-
calIy watching the liremen below and
yelling TO them to hurry.
Here and there men We're erouched
on the ledge of the windows, ready to
leap b the ground, but they We're de
TERED by frantic warnings of the
crowd below. Several men declared
afterwards they certainly would have
made he leap il the crowd had not
encouraged them 10 hold on There
were innumerable escapes by guests
4 h almost every part Of the building
who were partially overcome by
smoke. or who lost their way in the
confusion incident 10 getting out Of
NE building Allied with smoke
The full extent of the tragedy en-
acted throughout lie house was not
Known at first II was thought the
casualties were confined % those
| which the crowd watched from the
street, the death of Captain Berwin
IN unfortunate man and woman who
capped to heir dea5h ID an alley to-
ward Sixth street. At the moment
he department got the blaze under
! way and the smoke cleared search
rom cellar to garnet showed scores
IF victims more or less overcome by
smoke
Caught like rats in trap, several
IF those now dead laid down in theii
.ooms % be slowly smothered and burn
ID 10 death Others more heroic at
empted 10 escape down the fire es
eapes Two Ieaped from the seventh
loor Of the building to death on The
)avements and a third Captain Der
WIN, hero Ct the day, lost his life while
attempting to save Mrs b. d. Barlow
/ IF Los Angeles Cal He was on the
adder carrying her 10 safety from
he sixth story window when he los
his balance and fell to the sidewalk
Re was instantly killed.
J. ID. Peisuiger. a travelling MAI
rom New York lost his head whil'
uuning for his life. Awakened by The
moke, he ran no seventh story win
low Apparently dazod, he climbe.
mp onto the window sin and an instan
later ne was turning and tumblinl
Trough The air. He struck a railing
/ near the Hennepin avenue side Of tn
lotel and was literally cut IN two.
J. E. VOLTS. the northwestern repre-
.entative of the Sperry and AleXan
Ter Company, of New York, sufocate
n his room on the seventh floor Hi
room was in the hottest OF the fire
md he had no chance whatever IT.
vas unmarried and has no relative
n this country His relatives live ii
fermany.
Clinton Lamme. travelling man fro1
Kew York sufocated in his room am
vas revived after the fire had beei
1ut out
The fire los viii not exceed $4,000
7lihough the catastrophe was one O
he worst ever experienced in thi
ity