Troy weekly news. (Troy, Idaho) 1897-1933, 1908-05-08
20 PERSONS BURNF1
HOTEL FIRES AT FORT WAYNE
AND BROOKLYN.
Hotel Clerk Saved Many Live.
Rushing Through Halls elvino ~.
A'arm-su''d'nss in Ruins and Many
Missing Persons Are Supposed - ..
6uried-Firemen Do Good WORT

In the New Aveline hotel sro
Fort Wayne, Ind, nine dead have Ho At
identified and five guests are misa oSen
Every member of a family of e.,
persisted in tenement fire in proa,
Ign, N. Y, one other is dead and to'
others injured.
Fort Wayne, Ind, May AT loo..
II persons lost their lives in a fire tss.
destroyed the New Aveline hotel hoy "'
early Sunday. The entire interior =,
the building is smoldering hean =,
ruins, and how many are CONCEALED w.
the debris can only be conjectured
Chief of Police Anckerburclz Gov.
that he believed 20 bodies were strl n
the ruins.
The known dead: R. S. Jobnson
Pana, ILL.,; M. Hirsch, New York: 7 p
Miller, Sheboygan, Wis; J. E. Eu.
employee of Carson Pirie, Scott g. ~
w. A. Pitcher, Fort Wayne. statesmen
for S. F. Boyster & Co., Fort Wave
G. w. Deviny, salesman for Crawford
& Lehman, Philadelphia. Three nm.
identified men,
The known missing: Max Wessem
wrestler, Fort Wayne, formerly of q
Louis; e. B. Atty, Fort Wayne
Charles Benjamin, salesman for tho
Detroit Neckwear company; Mrs
Sarah Hathaway, Mishowaka. Ind
unknown woman, companion of Mrs
Hathaway.
The complete destruction of the iu
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 I'd
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.
yond recognition.
The fire was discovered at S:SOa
m. in the elevator shaft by Might
Clerk Ralph Hopkins. He rushed to
the upper floors alarming the guests
until the flames, which had spread
with appalling rapidity, drove hin
back. His efforts, however, saya
many lives.
The hotel was erected half a centuD
ago and the woodwork was dry as
finder.
The fire department rescued many
persons by means of ladders, but some
frenzied by the onward rush of the
flames, leaped from high windows to
the paved streets.
r. S. Johnson of Pana, ILL.,, jumped
from the fifth story. His body struck
balcony and bounded far into the
street. He was a crushed and bleed
ing mass when taken up, and died
short time later in st. Joseph's hosp
tai.
AS the flames increased, men and
women were seen in 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 curled about the fire escapes
Some of the more hardy ones braved
the flames and made their way
through smoke and fire down the iron
stairways
Brooklyn Tenement.
New York, May Am early morn
ing fire in a four-story brick tenement
at II Humboldt street, thickly popl
lated district of Brooklyn, caused the
death of six persons and the serious
injury of four others Sunday.
Every member of one family COZ
sisting of a mother and four children
is among the dead. There were many
thrilling escapes by police and hre
men, and it was due to their work lnS'
the death list was not larger
A half dozen or more persons wel'
entrapped in the upper story and ws''
saved by jumping into life nets. ll'
financial loss caused by the hre
estimated at $4,000.
The dead are: Mrs. Dora Aorams
Sadie Abrams, Carrie E. Abrams
Anna Abrams, Charles Abrams an'
Mrs. Jennie Cohen.
The injured are: Mrs. May NOOs
Mrs. Amelia Hirschhorn, fan~s
Hirschhorn, who sustained Sew
burns; Anna Hirschhorn, VINO sun,
ed a broken shoulder from ]ulnpD'
from a window into life net.
Recovar Stolen Jewels.