The Detroit times., 1913-02-28
KNOWN DEAD.
Mrs. z. c. Wilkins, badly burned.

MI <Gu0mluBs icdpou iIOiH the tniu
4 1oor and was killed.
The hotel register was destroyed
ard the exact number OF missing can
rot be determined. At least y per-
Sons sustained injuries.
Fifty persons were registered at
the hotel last night and SO far today
y0nly 16 have been accounted for.
'Jesse d. Mold, manager OF the hotel.
the last to leave the building. declar-
Ese4 81 rooms were occupied by about
IN persons. including dozen women.
j. F0y, a broker, was passing the
1otel 1t $3.50 n. m. when man rush
I: ~ out and asked him to help carry
E$oome people out. He found six per-
&Do9s lying unconscious just inside the
1902, and by the time these were car
S5od 70 the street the building. was a
1nas1 OF names.
According to guests who escaped,
y tne nrst intimation Of the fire came
when Q wOman's scream awakened
them. The building was then FLIED
with smoke and within half an hour
4 q Vas In ruins.
Mrs.. F. Il. wilkins says che was
n yiou, and upon opening their cham
q ~ door saw the halls filled with
nmOke and flames. They broke win.
low In their room. Mrs. Bonnevieu
B dropped unconscious and was carried
10 the window by Mrs. wilkins, who
then was almost overcome. F1remen
B rescued Mrs. wilkins, but Mrs. Bon
" nevieu was burned to death.
Tina Nelson, chambermaid
euehed from her room to the from,
n ~ the building, opened window on
second floor and leaped out. She
E1s- picked up unconscious and bleed
IHIng. Al the hospital 1t was staten
inst her right leg was broken ana
1Ae may have sustained internal in
&3qries. sa~s s4k4p@.
Shortly after the maid jumped, the
10y OF Charles Cummings, a bar
&GndsrE was.- picked ND from the side
yak. He had leaped from the thiro
Fotogy In his night clothing. His body
14e horribly mangled.
MA Policeman Schwager, who was
eolled to the fire. carried out two I'm
4 46ontided women and himself narrow
n n escaped being burned to death In
Attempting to re-enter the building
HI said that at least dozen uncon
oGlous persons were lying on thu
Y tnxeshold when he entered. These
$WGre carried out by J. Foy, broker
There are conflicting stories az Il
~ cause of the fire. A night watch
S1an in q neighboring building saw
S|opnrks coming from the chimney anu
u tuEned In an alarm. A drug cler>
sacEOss the street declares he heard
80 explosion, but this IL discredited.
=. T. Conner. Of Ellinwood, Neb.,
E6ko was guest In the hotel, declares
IL was awakened by the cry OF fire.
- rushed from his room and saw the
1o1lway packed with screaming. fran.
10 women. each trying to escape
B t1eOugh the wall OF flame and smoke.
\ H rushed to the rear and luckily 10
toted = window near fire escape ana
made his way to the street. He il
y Dcoitive that all OF the frantic guests
no were damned in the halls ana
xocnhI persisted.
Fate estimates of the number OF
E4ood range from 16 to 80, but 1t Is
foGetain that not more than 30 have
y 1oon accounted for out OF at least 50
ky1D were registered.
The hrenen were handicapped in
0Ating the flames by a temperature
t4nging near zerao and suffered ter.
1)ele hardships.
Tor q time 1t seNmed that the en-
block would go. but the FIRE was
Ally confined to the hotel and the
oeores beneath II.
the hotel building burned SO rap
Nv that ladders were burned under
H. hremen as they sought to reach
upper hors, where frantic men
- women were calling for aid.
H Porter and Dwight Bruce, or