The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-12
The Dead.

The Dead.
 Isaac Levine, porter.
 John Usa, dish washer.
 Jacob Dublin, check boy.
 Henry , dish washer.
 Unknown Polander, worked as dish washer.
 The Injured.
 P. Amtubin, badly burned about hands, face and body, in serious con- dition at New Haven hospital.
 John Lynch, bell boy, singed by flames.
 Nicholas Miles, jumped from win dow; right knee wrenched.
 Israel Mppcott, slightly burned and blacked.
 Four burned to death, one dead through jumping from the rope which he was using to let himself down from the fourth story while it blazed up like a bonfire and big property damage was the tale in short of the biggest fire which New Haven has ex- perienced in decades. Shortly after o'clock this morning fire broke out from some cause which could not be learned at press time in a room on the fiftf 1 floor of the north wing of the Garde hotel in Meadow street and in few minutes the upper floor of the wing oi l the structure was a mass of flames AT alarm was at once sent in from box 1T. the private box of the hotel, Mean l while the inmates of the hotel whicf was filled with travelling men, awaken ed by the call of fire and the nois' arose, hastily dressed in the first thing which came to hand and tlocked dowi stairs into the big office on the frs lfioot
 With the flames all about them, tw, men, employed as porters of the hote who slept in a rear room near the ont in which the fire broke out, appeared at the window and threw out rop, which was fastened in the room as { fire. escape. The first one to attemp to come down was Michael Cosgrove who, with face blackened with smoke successfully made the trip to tn ground. The room from which he haC come was by this time all ablaze an( the porter came out of the window with hair burning in an apparentl! dazed condition. There was warn
 ing shout from the crowd below fo him to hold on and wait for the fire
 men, but he continued to come or Catching the rope he started to de scend, but suddenly he uttered a shrtel
 said by those who heard it to hay been one of the most unearthly imag irable, and dropped from the rope Charles Monahan, traveller rushe among those who went to his assist ance and was the man who picked hir , up and carried him inside the hote The mans heart was beating faintl } when picked up, but he had not bee inside the hotel more than about
 minute when he was dead. Death wa due, 1t was stated by hospital sur geous, probably to suffocation an burns as much as to the fall. The rest of the death tale was nc known for some time later, and 1t wa { thought that the porter was the onl i one to meet death in the catastroph , After the firemen had the fire unde , control and were able to get into tn | rooms four more bodies were foun : burned in their beds beyond recogn r ton. They had evidently been SUI. located as they slept and had bee
 burned when the fire reached thei . rooms.
 A second alarm of fire was sent calling out additional help, and wit
 this force on hand the fire was 500 under control, although the mort wing of the building was pretty ger
 erally wrecked. Water was poured 0
 in tons and came down through th
 intervening floors, flooding out eve
 the first floor. The fire did not g i down below the third floor. , Besides the death list there were number of persons more or less ser ! ously injured and many more who hs t narrow escapes. P. Antubin, a man l years of age, was seriously burn' l about the face arms and neck and VI f taken to the New Haven hospital whe e it was stated atspress time that his T ' oovery was possible, but his conditiC i very serious. Nicholas Miles, anoth , travelling salesman, was one of the fo
 tunate ones. He jumped out of a roc
 in the third story and got off with slightly sprained right knee. Jol - Lynch of Stockbridge, bell boy T, t through the flames out of his room al y came down stairs, having his hair al n eyebrows badly singed. Israel Lippcc n of New York, WAS also a lucky one r his escape, coming through the fl n with head and face badly blackened b s no serious injury.
 The main office was almost a pant