Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-01-16
Doubtful Whether All of Three
Hundred Guests in Structure
at Time Fire Broke Out ES-
capped,
FLAMES CONTROLLED
WITH DIFFICULTY
Firemen Battle Hard to Con-
fine Blaze to Building in
Which It Started; Many Per-
iIouS ReSCueS,
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Boston. Mas. Jan. iG.-The Revere
house took fire shortly before > O'Clock
this morning. The fire started IN a
I dining room on the street floor and
quickly spread through the six stor
! les Many guests were carried down
! ladders by firemen and others scant-
! ly clad, rushed from the building
through the dense smoke.
From the Revere House the fire
spread to the han of the National
Lancers and then to the house of En-
ginc company No. 4. Hotel ReXford,
another of the older hostelries was en-
dangered and the guests We're ordered
out. one fireman lost his life
Police Officers who went into the
hotel To rescue the guests were driven
back by the dense smoke.
Four alarms called out the greater
portion of the eitN's fire fighting APP
paratus and the tlremen were able,
10y strenuous tueastTss, TO save the
Laneers Hall and the engine house,
though there were brisk fires on the
ROOFS.
sudden SHIFT in the wind sent the
blaze around To the main part of the
hotel and al 2:3o O'Clock this morn
ing the building appeared doomed.
The fireman killed fcll from the
fourth story and landed on picket
fence. He died on the way to a
hospiWl.
Confirmation of the report that
there are a number OF dead In the
hotel Is lacking
\ party of sailors from the battle
shlps in the harbor who were in the
vicinity. did excellent work They as
sisted the iircmen in raising ladders
and carried several women and chill
dren from the burning building
More than 500 persons We're sleep
ing IN the hotel when the fire was
discovered and there was Wild con
fusion as they scrambled for safety.
Families became separated and for
a time the police had difficulty In re-
straininp some who sought TO return
to the building.
At o'clock II was thought that All
had been accounted for notwith-
standing the report of policemen that
many were still sleeping when they
were driven back by smoke. At that
hour the fire was stil beyond con
troll
No hotel In Boston ana few in the
United states were richer In associa-
tious than was the Revere House.
Here stayed visiting royalty. famous
statesmen ana soldiers and some OF
the prima donnas who charmed
generation of Hostonians now dead.
The Revere House was named after
7 ffNli iAfN f'lf's ~ NJ NN Nlt'ifU III way
1874. as the most sumptuOus hotel
Boston contained up to that time. The
bah room aud the banquet halls were
regarded as models of splendor.
Al I o'clock this morning the IRE
men believed they had the flames un-
der control At that time the Bull
finch street annex was In ruins as
were the upper three stories of the
main structures aud the rest of the
had been damaged by
smoke ana water
There b. considerable doubt as TO
all escaped. Policemen who
went into the building To- arouse the
Inmates were driven back by the
smoke before thcN had been able tn
reach AN the rooms and are firm In
the belief that some of the guests did
not csoape.
The frcmrn already have started
search OF the ruins while the hotel
is seeking 60 round up
hr guests in an effort to learn if any
arc MISSING
Edward Kcttcnhergcr. fireman.
.el from siNtN-iiVe foot ladder aud
landed uu "a picket fence. He died on
hc WAS to a hospital.
Fire Cautlin O'Bricn was leading
D. squad uf men through the build
ur when portion Of th, nfth floor
'"lltnsed and he was injured but not
fatally.
Among those REGISTERED at the
lurIst at tho tim, Was Colonel Berkin
'l I.cNiI ttuu and A. y. stewart Or
Wilmington Del Thcy had narrow
~rapps
THE hotDl Luildiuu was owned by
Doe Ftltt Associates and operated bv
j; s.. Harrison. IL was roughly esti-
mated thi- muruiue that the fire dam
irr uould .4usidt trthly exceed $780,
300
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