The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-05-07

Fort Wane, Ind, Ma 6.-The death
roll in the New Aveline hotel fire h
mornin;s included IL known to be dead,
with several persons still u~naccounted
for. A revised list of the dead fol-
lows:
CHARLES BENJAMIN. Detroit.
j. B. MILLER, S~heboygan, Wis.
j.. E. ELLIS, Chicago.
ISAAC HIRSCH, Chicago.
WILLIAM PITCHER, Duluth.
z. S. JOHNSON, Pana, II.
JOS. w. DEVINEY, Philadelphia.
All are travelling statesmen.
The unidentified bodies of women are
supposed to be those of Mary Market
and Sarah Hathaway, of Mishawaka,
Ind. Two unidentified bodies of men
are both burned beyond recognition.
A dozen persons seriously injured by
burns are doing well at the hospitals,
except E. H. Matthews. OF Columbus,
Ohio, whose death is expected at any
hour.
Coroner Kesler began a searching in
quiry into the fire today. All persons
connected with the hotel and all the
guests remaining in the city were sum-
moned to appear at the inquest. 1t has
been disclosed with practical certainty
that the fire had it's origin from the
furnace of the hotels heating plant.
Among the injured are:
Z. F. Donnell, Detroit, right arm broken
in leaping.
James a. Foster, Fort Wayne, burned
about face and head; at st. JoSeph'S hos
A. NJ. Meth, P~ittsburg. burned about
face. arms and legs.
Lyman Campbell, Jumped three stories:
badly shocked.
Charles Falls, Columbus, Ohio, cash In
leg. confusion on head and badly LAGER
ated.
f. NJ. Matthews, Columbus. Ohio. back
broken and burns and gashes; at St. Jo-
sePh's hospital.
and burned about face and arms.
Miss Agnes Nadeau.
Miss Margaret Merriam.
Miss Anna Block and
Nathan Bell. all kitchen employees; burn
ed and blistered; at hospital.
F. C. Phillips, Calumet, Mich, face
burned and head scorched.
John Long, bartender, arms broken.
The fire department, police and two
companies of militia, aided by many
laborers, worked throughout the night,
burrowing into the ruins in search for
the dead. 1t was daylight before an
other body was recovered.
There are a number of persons yet
missing, though not many The Identity
of some of them is altogether proble-
NAUTICAL. owing to the burning Of the
ords of the hotel. The total number
of deaths cannot as yet be determined
until the debris has been completely
searched.
The fire was discovered at $3.50 O'Clock
in the morning in the elevator shaft
by Night Clerk Ralph Hopkins. He
rushed to the upper floors alarming the
guests until the flames, which had
spread with appalling rapidity, drove
him back. His efforts, however, saved
many lives.
h hotel was erected half a century
ago and the woodwork was as dry as
finder. 1t burned like matchwood and
within a few minutes from the time
the fire was discovered the whole in
terror of the hotel was Il mass of flames
that filled he corridors and rooms with
~suffocating clouds of smoke and laid
fiery barriers across all means of es-
cape except by the windows.
The fire department rescued many by
means of ladders, but some f~renzied
by the onward rush of the flames,
leaped from high windows to the paved
street.
r. s. Johnson, of Pana, Ill.,. jumped
from the fifth stocy window. His body
struck a balcony and bounded far into
the street. He va a bruised and
broker mass whep picked up and died
a short time late, in ST. Joseph's hos
pital.
AS the flames increased men and
women We're seer at the windows OF
their ooIns where they wildly i'm.
plored help, Those who got from thei,
rooms before the flames cut off their
retreat were able to make their way
to the fire escapes and so We're saved
with comparative ease.
Soon the flames broke out of the
windows and curled about the fire es.
caDes. The more hardy braved the
fire and made their. way through the
smoke and fire down the iron stair