Bonners Ferry herald. [volume] (Bonners Ferry, Idaho) 1904-current, 1908-05-09

EVERY member or family OF 1--WE
persisted in a tenement fire in Brook
Iyn, N. Y, one other is dead and four
others injured.
Fort Wayne, Ind, May AT least
IL persons lost their lives in a fire that
destroyed the New Aveline hotel here
early Sunday. The entire interior of
the building is a 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; ]. 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
& Lehman, Philadelphia. Three I'M
identified men.
The known missing: Max Wessem,
wrestler, Fort Wayne, formerly of st.
Louis; e. 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-
yond recognition.
The fire was discovered at $3.50 a.
m. 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 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
a balcony and bounded far into the
street. He was a crushed and bleed
ing mass when taken up, and died a
short time later in ST. Joseph's hospi-
| 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 four-story brick tenement
at II Humboldt street, thickly popu-
lated district of Brooklyn, caused the
death of six persons and the serious
injury of four others Sunday.
Every member of one family, con,
sisting of a mother and four children
is among the dead. There were many
thrilling escapes by police and fire
men, and it was due to their work that
the death list was not larger
A half dozen or more persons were
entrapped in the upper story and were
saved by jumping into life nets. The
financial loss caused by the fire is
estimated at $4,000.
The dead are: Mrs. Dora Abrams
Sadie Abrams, Carrie e. Abrams
Anna Abrams, Charles Abrams anc
Mrs. Jennie Cohen.
The injured are: Mrs. May Noble
Mrs. Amelia Hirschhorn, Fannie
Hirschhorn, who sustained severe
burns; Anna Hirschhorn, who suffer
ed broken shoulder from jumping
from window into a life net.