The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-04-07
Father and Daughter Leap to Death
From Window; Third Body
Found in Ruins

Firemen found the body of Miss Blanche Crowe 20
year-old clerk for the Chauncey Wright Restaurants
company shortly after noon today in the ruins of the
old Lincoln hotel, at Fourth and Madison st.,
which destroyed by fire this morning She Is the
third victim accounted for
Mayor Caldwell has asked Building Inspector
blackwell to launch sweeping investigation OF all
hotels and large buildings to if fire safety laws are
being enforced.
Three hundred transient and residential guests sleep
ing in their at IL 40 o'clock this morning when Frank
automatic alarm and puff of smoke coming from
basement window
Jacobs into the lobby and shouted to the night cerk
"Your hotels afire,"
At today the bodies of two victims lay in the
morgue, dangerously injured fireman was fighting des-
perate struggle against death in the city hospital dozen
other persons suffering from burns and broken bones
scattered in hospitals thruout the city, of
men and children clad In nothing but their night clothes,
in refuge places the fire. and half dozen hose
lines playing constant streams of water the still
smouderng ruins where intrepid remen searched for other
bodies under smoking tottering walls
The ruins presented the appearance of
ant hill torn to pieces The west wall facing the harbor
had fallen in leaving the three remaining walls standing
with watersoaked curtains flapping in the wind.
CHECK NAMES IN
HUNT FOR VICTIMS
Inside the walls great heap of umbed and twisted
debris Over this and high up along the walls scrambled
concerned about their danger Points of flame still dared
out of the smoke subbony resisting the streams of water
pumped by half dozen engines Third ave. below the rin
a blackened river.
An effort being made to check the of guests
feared The result several unaccouned for at
Fire Chief Frank Stetson said at there way
of telling whether had been lost Police Chief
Warren who spent the morning helping the search would
not venture to whether all had been accounted for
When Photographer Jacobs shouted first warning to
the clerk he rushed to the floor above while the clerk was
carrying out the from the safe by shouts and
pounding on doors. aroused many sleeping guests
Another hero of the fire c. W. Tebaut newspaper-
who to the floors and awakened seepers then
assisted IN their rescue remaining at his seapponed
until his hands and face painfully burned
When the fire apparatus began to arrive from all points
tho flame
of basement windows all along the alley The fire rapidv
spread to the elevator chute and shot into ali the
floors Smoke filled the corridors and rooms binding
and choking the of persons running for the fire
escapes
FLAMES SHOOT UP
ELEVATOR SHAFT
The elevator shaft perfect flue for the roaring
fire beneath and the rapidly increasing throng outside saw
great flame shoot 100 feet above the the build
ing while fremen their scaling ladders uneashed
life nets for the rescue.
rumor that of the doors leading to the fire
escapes were locked probably occasioned several
persons leapng out OF windows. In this
killed.
While the work of was being started the face
of man appeared at fourth story window He crawed
onto the ledge. where he stood shouting some
thing. then jumped His life crushed out on the
pavement below. A moment later young girl came to
the window and looking out eaped with scream and fell
beside the body of the Death both was nstan-
taneous They were identified Frederick r. Hamilton
and his daughter Gray, 20, of Berkeley CAL Hamilton
was part owner of Pussn Boots" confectionery here
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