The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-07-30
FOUR OTHERS INJURED,
ONE PERHAPS FATALLY
Those Are the Parents and One
Sister Of Miss Perkins---Thir-
ty Other Occupants Of the
House Got Out SafeIy---HoteI
Loss is $4,000.

rairlee, July. 30.-Two persons were
burned to death and four others were
injured, one Of them probably fatally, in
fire which destroyed the Glens Falls
house at Lake Morey this morning.
The Dead:
MISS EFFIE PERKINS, Flushing l.. /
MISS FLORA ALBEE, Springfield
Mass,
Those who were injured were the fa-
ther, mother and a sister of Miss Per-
kins and Miss Bernice Dean. They
were all badly burned. Twenty
six guests were asleep in the hotel
when the fire was discovered, and all
got out safely with the exception of the
above. The hotel was destroyed. the
loss being $4,000.
At G:38 o'clock, the clerk OF the hotel
started a fire in the fireplace to take
off the chill of the morning, and after
wards he left the room for time. The
fireplace was decorated with evergreen
and flowers, and the flames crept out
and communicated to these decorations,
the dry material burning rapidly and the
fire quickly catching on the building
itself.
Only Hotel Help Was Astir.
At that time the guests were not astir,
none but the help having arisen. In a
short time the flames were discovered
but they had made such progress that
it was impossible to stop them, the light
construction Of the three-story wooden
building causing it to be easily CON
oI Tho nf nd
cracking OF the flames aroused the i'm
periled inmates, but by that time their
escape by the stairway was cut off by
the flames.
Then, clad only in their night clothing
and not having time to gather any of
their belongings or clothes, they began
TO jump from the windows of the hotel.
The proprietor of the hotel SAYS there
were % guests in the building. The
family of c. Z. Perkins of Long island
occupied quarters in the second and
third stories over the dancing pavilion
and nearest the lake. Effie Perkins, one
of the girls who lost their lives, was
partial paralytic, and although she was
able to get about could not make rapid
progress.
The parents occupied room in the
upper story, and when the flames APP
preached them they jumped from the
window, together with another daughter,
Addie, to the ground, distance of 80
feet. All of them were burned, and
they were saved from death only by
rolling down the incline into the lake,
being later rescued with difficulty by
men who plunged into the lake after
them. Mr.. Perkins is the most seriously
burned, and it is feared that he will not
recover Mrs. Perkins was considerably
injured.
Some of Injured Taken to Hospital.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perkins and Miss Ber-
nice Dean, another person burned, were
taken. to the Mary Hitchcock hospital
At Hanover this forenoon. The body
pf Fife Perkins was found late this
forenoon beneath where her room had
been. The body of Miss Albee, the
sther victim, was found in another part
,f the ruins. The other guests, clothed
,nly in their night apparel, were taken
b. At the nearby hotels and cared for
turing the day.
The hotel was the property of Belcher
{ Hale, J. O. Belcher of Springfield,
Mass, and Arthur Hale of Bradford.
The insurance on the property was
81 200, The house was run by Will Gale
sf Bradford, The hotel had been built
for some time and was one of the land
marks of the summer resort. Miss Albee, |
pne of the victims, had come to the hotel
irom her home in Springfield only last
Saturday.