New-York tribune., 1921-01-31
= Women and Six Men
{ ace Lives in Hoboken
pl..e: Three Others Not
Expected to Recover
|nrly Six Bodies
So Far Identified
Throng Morgue
= Search of Friends or
# Relatives; Cigarette Be-
l;eyed Cause Of Tragedy

-. ,,vsstirations of the fire in the
c.,.,;.l Hotel, Al Newark Street, Ho-
soten. which resulted in the death Of
s. roren and six men late Saturday
s;.ht were ordered yesterday by Ber-
I'D N. McFeely, Hoboken Director OF
| ~, pnh,;c safety. One will be conducted
4 the Police Department to ascertain
/ i. manner in which the hostelry was
.n.,ated. and the second by the Fire
n.r.ytment to throw additional light
8 The circumstances of the tragedy.
Tbronrs of persons from New York
Nd surrounding towns whose friends
s relatives were missing crowded the
Hoboken morgue yesterday in an ef-
Tort to identity the charred bodies OF
H. victims. Many of the bodies were
burned beyond possible recognition,
md late last night the police said only
il Of the dead had been identified.
Three Others Near Death
One woman and two men, burned so
badly physicians held out slight hope
81 their recovery, are in St. Mary's
Hospital, and another woman' less
seriously injured, is in Ackerson's
sanatorium, 259 Eighth Street, Jersey
CITY. where she was taken by her com"
panion, the police say. after he had
rescued her from the burning building.
The known dead are:
Mary Schumacher, forty-two years
old. 2l7 Second Street, Jersey City.
Daisy Gray, twenty-seven years old,
|s21 Pacific Avenue, Jersey City.
Hester Constance Peterson, twenty
Xix years old, $50 Fortieth Street,
Brooklyn.
Herman Linke, Irvington, N. j.
4 Emo Snider, twenty-eight years old,
$50 Fifty-second Street, Brooklyn.
+ Frank Logan, thirty-six years old, 221
Fir re- .Ier-ey City.
Joseph Riker, twenty-nine years old,
VIII ~. WIN ms widowed mother at
100 Oak Street, Jersey City. His
kother made the Identification. Riker
vas veteran of the World War.
All except Mrs. Schumacher, who
died last night in st. Mary's Hospital,
we're dead when taken from the debris.
The injured in St. Mary's are:
Blanch Kahaler, thirty~eight years
old, 7S Madison Avenue, jersey City.
Josiah Reider, thirty-eight years old,
1850 Hudson Boulevard, Jersey City.
Richard Dierksen. an employee of the
burned hotel.
The woman in the Jersey City sana-
tarium. according to the police, is Mar
sgsret Hare, although the name under
which she is registered at the institu-
ton is Mrs. Kelly.
Fire Chief Gilday, Of Hoboken, said
last night the heavy toll of life was
largely due to the physical condition
M the victims, as the building was
amply supplied with fire escapes, to
which open corridors afforded easy ac-
cess. He said Henry Scharshing. pro-
gietor Of the hotel. had gone through
!ae corridors and knocked on each door
IN plenty OF tim to afford the occupants
sa opportunity to escape had they been
Bottle Of Whisky Found
There are features Of the fatality
lnio q which the investigation of the
roiice Department is expected to delve.
folicemen reported that in one of the
rooms a bottle of whisky and two
sumbiers had been found, and there
vas an impression among the investi
sators Yesterday that other similar evil
'snce m would come to light.
me exact origin of the fire is still
pnaeclded, but the consensus yesterday
Vas Y snat it started in the one room Of
y sne notel's complement of forty-six
saat ~ was unoccupied. This room. No.
&, which abuts the air shaft, had lust
r neen vacated, and it is believed that
tas departing occupants left burning
keafette, which came into contact with
sas - bedding or other material.
when George Groll, clerk, saw
lpnoEe issuing from the door Of the
linen room, near the desk, he began an
ssasestlgation of the immediate
sssmises. ss' BY the time he had thrown
s.ue the piles Of linen and convinced
e'usel1 the blaze was somewhere else.
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