Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-05-08
DEAD
IN HOTEL FIRE
At FORT WAYNE
HOSTELRY IN INDIANA CITY GOES
UP IN FLAMES LIKE PASTE
BOARD.
MORE BODIES IN THE RUINS.
Clerk Has No Time to Arouse Guests,
Some of Whom Figure in Re-
markable Escapes.
NEW YORK HAS A BAD BLAZE.

fOhI "a1NE' lhu'' May 80
day the death roll IN the new AVellne
hotel fire stood at eleven known dead
Nth e,-o.I .o,,. 4ilI ,,noooo,,r+od
for. Just at daylight the bodv of = man
was recovered from the ruins, the first
to be exhumed from the heaps OF debris
since Sunday evening. The body was
identified as that Of Charles Benjamin
Of Detroit.
4 revised lief Of daod fnlIov-c.
trITTFR +..,+oIjI,., 'nInsinap ph,,-
adeInbia.
ELLIS I = travelling salesman. for
Carson, Pirie Scott X Co, Chicago
HIRSCU ISAAC travelling salesman.
Chicago
PITCHER. WILLIAM. travelling sales
man, Duluth.
JOHNSON, r. s., travelling salesman,
Paua, Ill.
DEVINEY. JOSEPH W, travelling sales
man, Philadelphia
r, BET IdtAdit CHARLES tra'ehhg Sales
IrNIDENTIFIED BODY of woman. sup
posed to be that of Miss Mary Burkett,
Mishawaka, Ind. From the remains gold
band ring bearing the initials M b. was
taken.
UNIDEMTItlEC woman, supposed s,. TO 10. De
IhaL ol MISS "arah ll"tha""9' 1hieii" " 'h"'
inu ,>.,,,,,,,,,,, ,..,.- g o,, ,o,s,s+-
CNlIENf If lhD p9uy 81 ii,,m, hnrnod
o Un,+ SUPPOSED - "e 'A'' -
20 I-%In1>,rrp1rO hod,-. Of man ca hadIv
bnrned as to he practicaliy unrecognizaDIe.
1;o5 Doi,,o Wall
1hJuIeu DolhS "ei'
of tho doyan nareons seriously iniurod
mo hotel all were doing well Mt the hos
nitois cvcent T. NJ NIatthews of CoIum-
bnS n Iboce doath was bourIv ay-
nectad
M fro donortman+ noIica and two
oo,1,,orine nf ,l,iiitin Idol NV rony
Iohorors vorI,od throu~hout tho nioht
i,l,-;,,,. it +ha ,,iTs u, eoarol for
2ul y" IN iii'o l"I iuril9 ~ &c a,.
deau. inere are q lulilpei u pSi 'o ti
~, t,lie
lueiiIltS ~ 81 H. ~
the register and ether guest records of
the hotel. The total number of deaths
cannot be determined until the debris
has been completely searched.
Couea of Fire JTnLno1Un
-. -.
:, Inc cause OF Ihe hlaZe mas not pceil
qlScoVered; put lie IhNeSIISatIon WhIGl
has already peen begun SHOWS that inc
building was a hrcirap. ne hre SPREAD
50 quichE ti'ioilEH l"e Itlit Iiia
many o. me EIclliIS we're roasted III
tnelf bedS' WINE etherS, cur on from
al escape, leaped from the WINDOWS 10
death. ....,,-. ..,,....-,.., E
ne ho'el was a SLA-StoI5 80 SIIu 5TI Vi
brlck ana WOOD pulit III 1o,)-. me 'op
story was OF Wo9d ana Wheh once ~
mted TINS burned ike paSteboard: II
was mere that the greater part OF me
deaths occurred Inc IRE was dIScoF-
efed at ?.2o ciGch ETSIeruaH Hi"ril. Il
py lne nlslI CIeLh, ~ q, lusi ,. u IHg
The flames which snreod With great
rapidity. drove him back
Cut off from the elevator and stair
ways by the flames, men and women in
the upper stories rushed to the windows
and the hremen gave their first effort to
rescue these. There was some delay in
turning IN the alarm. the clerk deyoting
the hrSt lew minutes aller the dlScoY-
cry OF the biaZe 10 awakening the guests
who were all asleep III their rooms.
Started in Elevator Shaft.
Tho rioht clerk declared that tho fro
bod haon snoIdering in tho ain,-,tar
nbof+ foI conc Tine befora he disno,,",od
Il Rpforn he Gould Give tho oIorn -
shoot Of fame flashed nm throuat tba
shaft. The fire leaned TO the INNER
stories LICKING mn the old wooden Hnors
IN tho cnrridorS aInoS+ i'm loss t;,,3o no.,
As the fremen arrived with thei. lad
ders ten minutes after the first alarm
was sent in. the roof fell with great
crash. After that there were no more
cries from the top floor
There were many thrilling escapes
Edward Hamilton who travels for a
Chicago jewelry house, made Il sensa-
tional slide for life down an electric light
wire which he was able to reach from a
fourth story window. He escaped in his
underclothes and lost several thousand
dollars worth of diamonds
Family Makes Escape.
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