The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-05-07

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Fort wane, Ind. Ma 6.--The death
roll IN the New Aveline hotel fire this
morning included III known to be dead,
with several persons still unaccounted
for, A revised list of the dead fol-
lows:
CHARLES BENJAMIN, DetroiA
]. b. MILLER, Sheboygan, Wis.
IT, r.. ELLIS. Chicago.
ISAAC HTRSCH. Chicago. 80
WILLIAM PITCHER, Duluth.
T. s. JOHNSON, Pana. Ill,
JOS. w. DEVINEY, Philadelphia.
ALI are travelling statesmen.
The Unidentified bodies OF women are
supposed 20 be those OF Mary Markett
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 r.. III. 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 its origin from the
furnace OF the hotels heating plant.
Among the injured are:
r. r. Donnell, Detroit, right arm broken
James A. Foster. Fort wayne, burned
about face and head; at st. Joseph's hos
pital. rg&. q
Lyman Campbell, jumped three stories:
badly shocked. .|. e..
Charles Falls, Columbus, Ohio, cash in
leg. confusion on head and h1t,y LAGER
H. M. 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
n e Phillips, Calumet. Mich, face
burned and head scorched.
John Long. bartender, arms rohen
The fite 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 vas recovered. he
There are q number of persons yet
missing, though not many. The identity
Of some of them is altogether proble-
NAUTICAL, owing to the burning of the
hotel register and the other guest rec
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.
The 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 vas a mass of flames
that filed the corridors and rooms with
suffocating clouds of smoke n laid
fiery barriers across all means Of es-
cape except by the windows.
The fire department rescued many by
means OF ladders, but some frenzied
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 story window. His body
struck a balcony and bounded far into
the street. He was a bruised and
broken mass when picked up and died
a short time later in st, Joseph's hos
pital.
AS the flames increased men and
women were seen al the windows. OF
their rooms, where they wildly i'm
plored help. Those who got from their
rooms before the flames cut off their
retreat were able to make their way
to the fire escapes and SO were saved
with comparative ease.
Soon the flames broke out of the
windows and curled about the fire es-
capes. The more hardy braved the
fire and made their way through the
smoke n fire down the iron stair
ways.
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