The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-10
DARING HEROLSM IN
THE RESCUE WORK

window to go down first. III He \. was as
| game clear thru, tho, and refused to do
So. There was no time to discuss it.
So down / started. 1t was an awful
/ descent. I didn't have a stitch OF !
clothing on except my undershlrt. My
| companion was nearly as badly OFT. We
both finally got down in safety, but
we're cold and stiff.
Have Marrow Escape.
In their nightclothes and fighting
their way thru darkness and smoke,
A. +. Dorion of Chicago and A. A.
White, 545 Syndicate Arcade, Mime
~apolis, barely escaped with their lives
at the West hotel fire this morning. Mr..
Dorion, telling of their escape, said:
Mr. White and I were in room AGO.
| / had not slept well all night long and
| was awakened by Mr.. White g leaving
the room about 'clock. Il failed tos
/ get to sleep again and. as had left
a call for 1880, lay awake waiting for
my bell. Mr.. White in the meantime
ly after 7 o'clock and the fire had al
ready started. The first intimation I
had of it came from White, who called
to me that there was connection
across the street. | rose quickly and
went to the window, from which I saw
that people were crowding the street
anu COu1Q near inc IRE SOuSS.
50 There fire across the street,
White I said, at the same time urg-
ing him to come back to bed. He main
tanned, however, that the blaze was in
the hotel. I also got strong Whit
of smoke.
"Throwing an overcoat around me
and slipping on my shoes, started
for the door, but was met by a mass Of
inrushing flames and smoke, coming
: from the airshaft near our room. White
was in his nightgown, his clothes under
his arm, and together we made a rush
:, , for the hall. ..'.......
"When we reached the passage,
man, whose voice seemed to come from
a long distance, answered. Together
we made our way toward him, but lost
his voice in the confusion. I could find
,, no fire escape.
> 1.-THE boards were hot and bistering
J. Whites feet. We got down on our
r hands and knees and crawled for mo
ment, when my hand touched what
seemed to be stairway. 1t happened
Il to be the servants exit, and down that
= we hurried. Ten minutes longer and
we would both have been burned to
1 death.''
A. A. White, who lives on the cor
5 was visiting Mr.. Dorion. Both men lost
l. some valuables, but Dorion's samples,
!, amounting to about $1,000, were
II saved.
t Flames Woke Him Up.
" A. G. Burton of Denver, who occu
e pied room 361 on the third floor, was
the flames flashing up past his window
1T hurried to the Window say
. Mr.. Burton, tand threw up the sash
8 I had an inside room, opening on on
y. end of the court. From a window
n diagonally across from mine, flames
~ of fire shot out at least twenty fee
- from the window and licked the glas
= of my sash. The heat as soon as
~, ~ opened my window, was unbearable
20 and I had to back away from it.
10 81 grabbed my clothes and in spit
IL, the hall to the stairs and got down i
IIee | safety. The halls were filed with half
10 dressed people. A number were haul
Ill ing. their trunks along and down tn
". stairs. It was a case of everybod
look out for No. l. Il consider myse1
~ very lucky to get off as easily as 1 die
ne Fierce Fight for Life.
+ Ted D. Jones, who occupied roo,
ne enc of the party that escaped by NEAR
Ut Of the lone freescape on the buildin!
w He was in the same party with G.
20 Wright Of Kalamazoo, Mich, who di
10 covered the escape and called to rh
ng others to come. Mr.. Jones had his fiji
l gers severely, pinched and bruised, br
or counts himself lucky to have escape.
in eve had a terrible time,' said h
by 81 tried to. count the doors and reae
en- I was nearly all in and had I not see
I man with a towel over his face wou]
in have gone under. I heard someor
er- grooming in room, but could do mott
lat ing, as | was barely able to move M
self: Later I heard someone sa.,
pc This way to the fire escape
on "There were three in our party. v
Ssh were barefooted and the way tho
nd cold, sharp rungs on that escape gc1
re- our feet was something awful. Ha
he way down we overlook a man in bl,
it paiamas, who said he was all in al
in that his feet would cary him no ia
he ther. He followed US tho and reaeht
yas the ground.'
es, Unknown Hero Saves Actress
" Miss Sarah Whiteford, the leadi1
yht woman of the Lyceum Stock compa1
IAN was reused just in. time She had !
in time to clothe herself. Some m;
On whom she does not know reused he
to covered her with some hastily &C
if lected wraps and carried her to SAT
to ty. Tho somewhat overcome she
led safe at the Holmes hotel
Carried Own Fire Escape. ~.
James I. Gulick, who was on +
&C. fifth floor had his hand cut in MAXI
he his escape: He, credits his life to
m Dubuque fire escape. He had some d
ficulty in finding a window that W
ON. not screened and in finally breaki1
ved one cut his hand; II have CARR
Who that contriyance for five years. sa
ken he, "and this is the first time I e1
pht was obliged to use it. I was nea,
nId all in, and would have lost nv Ii
without it,
I Aged Woman Saved.
and Mrs. M. A. Wyman an old lady
ing 80 years was rescued by a fireman FRI
me; her room on the fifth floor. She "
and not hurt and took the entire affair We
hat, coolly. -.
Tim Murphy's Escape.
'a w Tim Murphy, the comedian, who '
,o no IN the hotel during the fire, saws:
JUL ~ was awakened suddenly by
af