The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-12
Four Employees Perish in Their Rooms and Another Falls to Death While Descending from the Fourth Floor by Means of Fire Rope-GuestS Rush
 from Their Rooms In Scant Attire.
VICTIMS BURNED ALMOST TO A CRISP
Sixth Man Hospital Seriously Burned May Recover Fire Starts in the Old North Wing and it Believed Those That Perished sufocated in Their
 sleep-Two Alarms Sounded

monium for while. Men dressed in the first clothes that came to hand stood about or hustled aropRd col- lecting their belongingp Travellers carted about their cases of samples to get them to places of safety, ana | all were discussing the fire. The women who were in the hotel, and there was quite a number of them, were placed in the big dining room In the Columbus avenue wing. Men rushed about looking for their goods, two jewelry salesmen were almost l beside themselves in their endeavogH to get their show boxes of ieweiry to places of safety, but the police kept the place in good order.
 I The water from the streams of hose which was pouring into the building was coming through into the office on the first floor and the next thing In order was the moving of the office fur- niture to places of safety The floors | were soon flooded into pools and the water was rushing down stairs like mountain spring in April, while from the ceiling came continuous raan of water that was leaking through Among the men who had narrow es-, capes was Frederick Myers, the son of the proprietor of the hotel He was in his room i'll with pneumonia and had to be carried out and down stairs.
 Among the first men out who began atonce the work of helping the others and maintaining order about the place was Chief McDonald of the railroad de- tective force. He was one of the men who shouted to the porter not to jump. and was one of the first to him when he fell
 \ The part of ths p..Iding in which the < fire started sAd to which 1t was con- fined was yhe old north wing on Mead ow street and with it's side facing Wa ter street. The fire was kept in the rooms nearest the side of the buildings which were badly gutted. In fact the entire upper part of the building was afire in a very short time after the first alaRm went in and when the second was turned in the building seemed doomed. No estimates of the fire damage could be obtained at press time
 Late in the night as the fire was. the second alarm brought out big crowd, the major portion of which was ignorant of the catastrophe in lives lost. The New Haven hospital ambulance was called and hastened to the scene taking away one injured person.
 The fire was discovered by bell boy who at once sent in alarm and touched the electric huttoaA which sent
 off the bells ringing in all the rooms.
 Then followed the rush of the guests
 and in the early excitement it was dif- ficult to find out whether anyone was missing or not. At this time the body
 of the man who fell from the rope was , in one of the rooms off the office and he was supposed to be the only one dead. His name was later found to s be Isaac Levine and, 1t is said, that he had only been at the hotel few , months.
 Coroner Mix and Medical Examiner t Bartlett were summoned and gave permission for the removal of the bodies. These were being taken from
 the hotel at press time.