The Washington times., 1920-11-29
GARRY Y2FROM
.BURN|NGHOTEL
Women Are Borne Down Lad
ders in Thrilling Rescues by
Fire Fighters.

Two women, battling to prevent
suffocation from the dense clouds OF
smoke which filled the Hotel Everett
Eighteenth and ii streets. yesterday
were carried by 'fremen down lad
ders to safety.
Several guests of the hostelry fled
to the street when smoke began ia
pour into their rooms. Others
reached the street via the back fire
escape.
ENvOY's WIFE TRAPPED.
Nine. L. d. de Guzman. wife OF
the former minister from Nicaragua.
who was trapped in a room on the
sixth floor was rescued by Frank
Newman, OF No. s3 Truck Company.
after he had groped his way from the
third noor To the sixth in dense
smoke. On the fre-escape At the
third floor he met a woman who told
him not to bother about her. but to
30 to the top fioor where another
woman was shouting for help. Be-
fore ascending, Newman saw TO 1t
that the woman on the third floor
was safe.
When he arrived at the sixth floor
Newman could hear Nine. Guzman's
means but he could not locate the
room which she occupied ana he
broke into fve rooms before he dis
covered her. Through the smoke-hlled
corridors he carried her limp form.
although he was almost collapsing
from the effects of the smoke.
BOTH COLLAPSE.
when he arrived at window at
the front OF the building he smashed
two panes of glass and the crash at
traoted the attention of other firemen.
Firemen G.. b. Watt, John Burke.
George W. McGowan and r. NJ.
Hoover, seeing the peril both were in,
quickly reared a ladder against the
building and hurried to their rescue.
Madame de Guzman, In a semiconscl-
Gus condition. was lying across the
window sill. while Newman was on
the floor, haing fallen back into the
room. Both were rescued and sent to
Emergency Hospital.
After the fireman had taken the
woman in his arms she struggled with
him as a protest against being car
ried down ladder.
George Watson. chief engineer OF
the fire department. said today that
trees in front of the hosterly pre-
vented members OF the department
from getting ladders into place as
quickly as was necessary. Newman"
he said, did not wait for the lad
ders to be thrown against the build
ing. but hurried up the fire escape
and began the work OF rescue. His
actions are highly commendable."
FIRE LADDER BUCKLES.
When the four firemen were going |
to the rescue OF Newman and Madame
de Guzman the ladder buckied and it |
was necessary for one of the firemen |
to jump to the balcony at the fourth |
floor. He escaped injury.
Miss Nettie +. Mabry, another |
guest. was on the third floor, and |
became terror stricken. II. +. Hard |
ing, of Truck No. 3. scaled ladder |
and carried the woman to the street |
lie was assisted by w. J. Reeves, of |
Truck No. =, and 5. d. Ciatterbuck Of |
Truck No. 3
When members of No. l Engine |
Company arrived they cut a hole in
the floor of the lobby and inserted n
nozzle of the revolving type. The fire
was confined to the basement, al
though for a few minutes the flames
were shooting up the elevator shaft
and smoke filled all the floors Of the
building. The damage has not vet !
been estimated. but it will reach sew
eral thousands of dollars.