The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-03-05
Believed Miss HiIda Ala Cannot
Survive Terrible Injuries
She Received


The Imperial Hotel building, corner
Of Lake Linden avenue and llccla
street. was destroyed by lire early this
morning. Besides the monetary. loss,
which will total ia the ncighburhuud
Of $4,000. several of the twenty IN
mates were seriously injured and. ali
who wore in the building, had mar
row ESCAPES.
The most seriously injured are.
Miss IIllda Ala. waitress, aged -,
Jumped from third story window to
sidewalk, back believed to be brolcn
aud leg injured. Miss Ala has been
revoed to the Lake Linden hospital
where She is suffering from partial
paralysis
Mrs. Mary Brown, aged G3, salcslady
for the Womaus Home Companion
and other magazines Jumped from
second story window after making her
way down stairs from the third floor.
Face and head badly burned; also sur
f,ring lium internal injuries ANA ncrv-
Gus shock.
Thomas Ganucy, spraued ankle.
Miss Edna Toupiu. bad cut on leg.
Martin Eninger, arm hurt.
Robert Simpson. back hurt.
T. STAFF. cheek cut by glass
William Anderson, exposure To
smokc aud cold
The cause of the fire. which was dis
q I4t.
ing. is unknown. II is believed 1t start
ed in the room formerly occupied by
the simmons and Rowe saloon, ana
which has been used as a store room
by Walter TOupih proprietor OF the
hotel. and possibly was the result OK
escaping gas.
Anderson Gives the Alarm.
William Anderson. the well known
Laurium contractor who was sleeping
on the third floor. was awakened bS
the smoke and gave the alarm. VIII
out waiting to dress. ho ram down the
stairs through the smoke To the PAT
ace holcl building from where the
Iaurium department was notliled d.!
two other general alarms, when Chlcl
Gus Preuss discovered how serious the
fire was and the entire fire hghtihS
equipment of the community respond To-
ed.
The fire gained headway rapidly ana
soon cnveioped all three stories oi the
building. The smoke and famc ne
came 80 dense i'm the Railways tha'
the inmates found their escape uVNI
tie regular stairwayS cut off ana theS
ver, forced to jump from the win
dows
MIR. Toupin, proprietor of the Motel
estimates that within eight minutes
of thc time the fire was first discover -
ed. it would have been impossiplc
To pass through the Railways anu
stairs. The Laurium department M
,ived ,n the scene even before the
..peral alarm was turned in, for the
members responded to the stili aIarin'
The two streams of water of the Laur-
Ium department were soon supple =
nennted by the streams from other
fire departments and although caV'N'
a was seen the building was doo'n'"
Prevented the flames from spreading
Ia other structures. The neat was '''
tense and combined with the smoke
made the work of the iiremeh uin'
c,rt. Plate glass Windows IN every III
rection we're broken aud sparks from
th. fire flew several blocks The
building. with two sides of brick ven
Ger and two sides of solid sandstone
and brick was not an easy one ~
which io combat are only icW
personal effects were saved
All Have Narrow Escapes.
when the alarm of fire was sounded
Adelord Audctte and Frank pistronp
who occupied the same ROOM rusheo
out into the hallway. In the dark-
ness and smoke Audettc was unapie
to find the head Of he stairway ana
he returned to his room. trasp'hs
the pillow from his bed he broke
the window aud the storm sash anu
then hurled his mattress down on
to the street before jumping. lie mao
no sooner jumped than his companion
DIstromb. who was forced back from
the stairway. found his way TO the
window of another room ana Juhlpeu
down upon the mattress, anu then
Audette pulled the mattress beneath
the windows of several other inmates
so that Il might break their fall
Eva. the fourteen year-old daughter
Of Walter Toupin. opened her window
IND crawled out ON an electric light