The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1921-08-22
Another Victim Dead


Macon. Ga Aug. 22-Elarry Swans
berg Central of Georgia locomotive
engineer, who was burned and in
jured jumping from the building, died
shortly before noon. bringing the
known dead to four. 1t is believed at
least eight other bodies are in the
ruins.
Macon. ca, Aug. - Three per-
sons are known to have lost their
lives in fire which destroyed the
EiuWn House. frame hotel here
carly Today. and tiremrn expressed
the belief that the death list would
be materially increased when the
ruins of the burned structure had
been explored.
John * Hayes, former justice of
the peace, who lived at the hotel,
Wae on of those killed. The bodies
of two men which were taken from
the second floor of the building today,
have not been identified.
Approximately twenty of the one
hundred and fifty guests On the hotel
were injured in the fire which fol-
luWrd an explosion OF chemicals in an
1dioiuin& drug store. one whole side
ol the hotel was smashed.
one oi the most seriously injured
l.; Harry Swansburg. of Atlanta. an
engineer employed on the Central
of Georgia railway. who had both legs
broken in jumping from the third
floor Others who jumped were more
cr less seriously injured.
Many guests were cut off from the
aircases by the blaze of flames and
the greater part of these had only
one means of escape-that of leaping
from windows. Spectators on the
sidewalks saved some of them from
injury by catching them in their arms.
Hayes was fatally hurt in jumping
from an upper window.
Destruction of the hotel register
hampcrcd the work of checking the
list OF dead and injured,
The Brown House was the oldest
hotel in the city, and was located
close to the center of the business
district The flames from the wood
on structure spread to adjoining
buildings. burning practically half of
the block from Plumb street to Poplar
street
The explosion occurred at 1:30
o'clock and was not brought under
control until several hours later. The
ruins were still smouldering today.
Electric power lines in the downtown
district were prostrated, and firemen
worked by the light of the burning
building. which Illuminated the entire
center OF the city.
Two other hotels near the Brown
House were saved.
Ten injured persons from the fire
we're being treated in city hospitals
today.
The following have been added to
the list of missing:
Sergeant Oscar Knight. Columbus,
Georgia.
Private Henry Moore, Camp Upson,
New York.
b. a. White. Melford, Ga.
one of the charred bodies taken
from the ruins this morning was part
ly identified as II. a. Turnipseed, of
Hampton. Ga He was a flagman EN-
plcyed by the Central of Georgia rail
way.
Two Bodies Found
Two bodies were found at 10 o'clock
this morning on the second floor of
the Brown house, bringing the total
known dead to 3
The latest known victims are men.
Their bodies We're taken to Jesse B.
Hart and Brothers funeral parlors,
where an attempt is being made to
identify them.
The other known dead is j. Fl.
Hayes. a former justice of the peace.
who was fatally injured when he
leaped from the top of the Collier
Manufacturing comany's plant and
fell head first on a pile of iron. He
died on the way to the Macon hospi-
tai
j. w. Hayes. sixty years old. died
on the way to the hospital. A par!iai
list of the injured as checked early
today, include:
Harry Swansburg. 61, East Poplar
street, Atlanta. engineer on the Cen.
trail of Georgia, both legs broken as
result of jumping from a third story
window of the doomed hotel. His
EOdy was also badly burned.
II. NJ Smith. Terre Haute, Ind,
burned about the body.
L. A. Tinsley, Macon. burned about
the body.
A. K. Floyd. Albany. Ga, body
burns. ...s.ya 4,
L. T. Walton, Macon, Ga, body
burns. sae
II. r. Pippins, Round Oak, Ca.
badly burned and injured as result. Of
jumping from hotel. sA 4as 44 s8,
ID. 0. Crushfield, Round Oak, Ga,
right leg broken. n IN.
Robert Smith, Macon, body burns. IA.
The missing include: sso gaol.
| w. L. Williamson, engineer on the
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