The Sentinel=record., 1910-01-23
NINETY GUESTS AROUSED IN A FLARE OF EXCITEMENT AND E
 ESCAPE IN scANT ATTIRE.
Manager Petit Checks up Roster ot Guests, Accounting for All but Two, Who May Not
 Have Burned.

The New Wayerly Hotel anu Bath 5iouse, in which ninety-two guests end about forty employees were hous- ed, was consumed by the flames this morning in one of the most threaten. ing conflagrations that has been wit messed here since the famous big fire that swept the south portion of rne city.
 The fire started in the rear in a kitchen apartment, and because of the timber construction of the building, spread rapidly.
 Knight Clerk Klinnoch realized af- ter a first inspection that the hotel and lts sleeping inmates were In dan ger Of sheir lives. and sending the potter to summon the fire department, the clerk started on tour of the ho- tel shouting the fire signal at every door.
 In this work he was joined a few AtHfutcS thttf DS w. W. tOie. TeSi- dent of the city, who stopped at the Waverly. They had no means at time of seeing that every guest left his apartment but they did stop long enough at every door to thoroughly arouse the guests to the sense of dan. ger. after which they kept on the round Of the rooms.
 Here and there. where an invalid was known to be the couupant of a room. special attention was given un- til the unfortunate was safely on his way out of the building.
 Manager Petit and his wife were within cfw minutes at work on the mission of arousing the occupants. An hour after the fire had been raging Mir. Petit was at work on his regis ter. scurrving through the crowd ln- tent on satisfying himself that there were none missing from the saved. The matter of salvage or property less was a secondary consideration.
 The fire department summons was slow The porter evidently was high ly excited, and instead of hurrying ia the Majestic to a phone, or attempt ing 10 wire in the alarm, he Is said to have ran down the street yelling fire--
 The response. however, was hurried and the first flash that the fire was at the Waverly gave the fighters ai ded zest, for they knew that fight was ahead Within a short while eight lines of hose were on the fire which required the service of every foot of hose in the various fire de partments.
 The loss on the hotel, bath house and furnishings of the New Waverly is complete The value of the proper ty as a whole is accepted as $75000 Mir. Tom Petit owned the furniture on which he had but sl3,000 insur ance. Only yesterday an insurance solicitor tried to get him to increase the insurance. but he procrastinafed
 The hotel building is property o the l.. D. Cain estate, and had peer recently rebuilt and reftted. It wal among the most prominent Of th' second class hotels of the city beln' first class in many respects and nav ing splendid hot water baths depart ment in connection.
 The loss from the fire extended '' the homes of John J. Sumpter ant Charley OrBryan, where, while 'h' houses themselves were saved, all tn' furniture from each was hurriedly tS' en out and dragged to places Of safe ty
 Guests from the waverly as run saved nothing. They were highly eS cited by the cry of fire at night an before they investigated as to on time they had to save some few p' longings. as a rule rushed out or pu ho'el, with nothing of salvage. ine were given hospitable roof at me M'