The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1908-05-08
BURNED
TODEATH
Is PERSONS BURNED TO
DEATH IN HOTELS.
ct. WAYNE, IND, AND BROOKLYN
N. v, SCENES OF HORRIBLE
HOLOCAUST, SUNDAY

In the New Aveline hotel fire at
Fort Wayne, Ind, nine dead have been
identified and five guests are missing.
Every member of family of five |
persisted in tenement fire in Brook
Ign, N. Y, one other is dead and four
others injured
Fort Wayne, Ind, May AT least
IL persons lost their lives in fire that
destroyed the New Aveline hotel here
early Sunday. The entire interior of
the building is smoldering heap OF
ruins and how many are concealed by
the debris can only be conjectured.
Chief of Police Anckerburck says
that he believed 20 bodies were still in
the ruins.
The known dead: R. S. Johnson,
Pana, ILL.,; M. Hirsch, New York; J. B.
Miller, Sheboygan, Wis; j. E. Ellis,
employee OF Carson Pirie, Scott & Co.;
w. A. Pitcher, Fort Wayne, salesman
for S. F. Boyster & Co., Fort Wayne;
G. w. Deviny, salesman for Crawford
6 Lehman, Philadelphia. Three un-
identified men.
The known missing: Max Wessem,
wrestler, Fort Wayne, formerly Of ST.
Louis; r. B. Atty, Fort Wayne;
Charles Benjamin, salesman for the
Detroit Neckwear company; Mrs.
Sarah, Hathaway, Mishowaka. Ind;
unknown woman, companion of Mrs.
Hathaway.
The complete destruction of the in
terror of the hotel makes the work of
recovering the bodies a difficult task.
, A confused heap of charred wood,
bricks and twisted Orders is piled up
between the bare walls to the second
story. Piece by piece, this must be
removed before the roll of the dead
can be completed. Some of the bodies
taken out are mangled and charred be-
You'd recognition.
3 The fire was discovered at $3.50 a
| m in the elevator shaft by Night
2 Clerk Ralph Hopkins. He rushed to
! the upper floors alarming the guests
i until the flames, which had spread
! with appalling rapidly, drove him
e back His efforts, however, save(
d many lives.
}, The hotel was erected half centur!
ago and the woodwork was dry al
S finder
q The fire department rescued man.
II persons by means of ladders, but som
frenzied by the onward rush of tn
/ flames, leaped from high windows t.
i the paved streets.
e r. S. Johnson of Pana, ILL.,, jumpe
e from the fifth story. His body struc
balcony and bounded far into tn
% street. He was crushed and bleed
y ing mass when taken up, and died
short time later in st. Joseph's hosp
tai.
- AS the flames increased men an
>. women were seen in the windows, {
- their rooms, where they wildly in
plored help. Those who got from the
rooms before the flames cut off the
retreat were able to make their wa
+. to the fire escapes and so were save
with comparative ease. Soon tn
10 flames curled about the fire escape
c+ Some of the more hardy ones brave
"a. the flames and made their wa
in through smoke and fire down the ire
s. stairways.
be Brooklyn Tenement.
~ New York, May Am early NOR
~ ing fire in a four-story brick tenemel
70 at II Humboldt street, thickly pop
lated district of Brooklyn, caused tt
death of six persons and the serio1
injury of four others Sunday.
Every member of one family, CO
~, sisting of mother and four childre
~ is among the dead. There were mai
10 thrilling escapes by police and fiji
- men, and it was due to their work tn
w. the death list was not larger.
,,.s A half dozen or more persons we
&c entrapped in the upper story and we
.as saved by jumping into life nets. T
Nv financial loss caused by the fire
sb. estimated at $4,000.
on The dead are: Mrs. Dora Abran
,el Sadie Abrams, Carrie E. Abran
Anna Abrams, Charles Abrams a
vas Mrs Jennie Cohen.
for The injured are: Mrs. May Mob
hts Mrs. Amelia Hirschhorn, Fam
as Hirschhorn, who sustained seve
aty burns; Anna Hirschhorn, who suff
uld ed a broken shoulder from jump
49, from, q window into q lifo not