Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-11-12
FIVE ARE DEAD
S50,O0O Fire in ihe Hoiel Garde Sent Guests Out Into the
 Night
BODIES BADLY BURNED

broke out early this morning at the Hotel Garde, and drove into the night about 300 guests. The dead were hotel attaches. Of the guests none suffered serious injury, though one was slightly hurt while making his exit. Among the guests there was but one woman, Miss Elizabeth G. O'Gorman of Worcester, Mass, who is travelling for a Boston con- cern. She was i'll and had to be as sisted down the stairs and out of the building. Frederick H. Meyer, son of the proprietor, was ill with pneu- monia and had to be carried out. The fire started on the fifth floor in the rear of the building and in the servants quarters. Just how it started does not seem to be clear, but it is believed that it had its origin in a hallway. Four men were suffocated to death on this floor. The fifth man fell while making his way down a rope to the ground, and striking on his head, was killed.
 Two alarms were rung ln, the first one shortly after 1 o'clock and the second, calling out the whole fire fighting force, some ten minutes later, as soon as the magnitude Of the blaze was seen. The alarm of fire was given at the hotel by Joseph w. Blume, representative of a New York tobacco house, who was occu- pying room SS, and who says that he heard cracking noise near his room and Investigating found that the building was on fire He rang tip the office and a bell boy, Michael Cosgrove, who answered the call. immediately rushed down stairs again crying that the building was burning. The alarm was then sent in by William J. Diamond, the night clerk. In the meantime Cosgrove and another bell boy, Max Ingalls,, ran through the hotel arousing the guests, they themselves leaving only after they had accomplished this work.
 The names of two of the victims burned were John Usa and Jacob Dublin. A Polander whose name has not been ascertained and a fourth man known simply as Henry, make up the list of those who perished by fire. Isaac Levine, a porter, fell from a rope he was descending and was killed.
 The fire, which threatened at one time to consume the whole structure, was subdued and extinguished after a little more than an hours hard work on the part of the firemen, although for some time after the blaze was believed to have been out, the streams of water were stil pour ed into the place. The fire did not get below the fourth flfloor. and while the burned portion is not so large, the damage will be swelled by reason of the volume of water which was thrown into the building.
 When the firemen were able to make their way to the fifth floor the sight that greeted them was hor- ryfiing. In two rooms were found four bodies so burned and charred that they were practically unrecog- nizable. One of the men was kneel- ing as if he had turned in his ex- tremity to prayer. The bodies were removed and later when the firemen were searching through the burned quarters they found part of human leg and foot charred and burned. but whether this wan gruesOme indica- tion of fifth victim was not known. Of the injured, the most severely was a fireman employed at the hotel. named Peter Antuzan. who was badly bruned about the face and body. and was taken to the New Haven hOspi- tai
 H c. Alderman. q guest. and a rep resentativc of a New York firfim was slightly injured while making his exit from the third floor Samuel Miles, another hotel atachp. jumped from the third story and suffered broken leg. John Lynch made a dash through the flames and escaped. CoSgrOve was burnede about the neck when he made his escape by sliding down tho same rope which Levine attempted to slide to safety.
 When it became known about the city that the hotel was on fire and likely to be badly daT.1ged. if not consumed. the propTietOrS Of the various hotels repaired at once to the Garde and offered to pro- vide accommodations for all the guests. Carriages were provided and the guests were transported to the various other hOstelries anI made comfortable.
 The property is valued at about s15O, 900. It is believed that the damage is covered by insurance.
 \ heartrending incident in con- nection with the fire was later re- by Cosgrove. He says that as he was aboEr to descend the man known as Henry appeared at the window. his face and head wreathpd in flames. COsgrOve cried ont to him to come down the rope. btu as he cried out the man fell back into the flames.
 Several of the guests had narrow escapes and among them were three Japanese who were in New Haven visiting q Japsnese friend Tetsutsrz Hasezaws. a student at Yale- They were: Tsuzo Yokots- a student of Lon don England: Tekichi Haysahi sRl Takahzzhi
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