Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-05-16
20 PERSONS BURNED
HOTEL FIRES AT FORT WAYNE
and BROOKLYN.
Hotel Clerk Saved Many Lives BY
Rushing Through Halls GIVING the
Acknowledging in Ruins and Many
Missing Persons Are Supposed to Be
Buried-Firemen Do Good Work.

In the New Aveline hotel fire at
Fort Wayne, Ind, nine dead have been
identified and five guests are missing.
Every member of family of five
persisted in a tenement fire in Brook
Ign, N. Y, one other is dead and four
others injured.
Fort Wayne, Ind, May AT least
- 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, H.; M Hirsch, New York; J. B.
Miller, Sheboygan, Wis; J. e. Ellis,
employe of Carson Pirie, Scott & Co.;
w. A. Pitcher, Fort Wayne, salesman
for S. F. Boyster & Co, Fort Wayne;
c. 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 mapgled 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 10
the paved streets.
n. s. johnson OF Pana, H., jumped
from the fifth story. His body struck
"A balcony and bounded far into the
street lie Was a crushed and bleed
ing mass when taken zap, and died
short time later in ST. Joseph's hospi
tal
As the flames increased men ana
women were seen in the windows OF
fheir rooms. where they wildly im
plored help Those who got from theii
rooms before fhe flames eat OF thei'
retreai were able to make their Na,
fo the nre ESCAPES and 30 were SAVED
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flames cured about the nae escapes
some of fhe more hardy ones brafe'
fho flames aud made tnelr Na'
ihlough nmol.e and hre down tne iiol
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