New Britain herald., 1926-07-14
Inn, Summer Hotel In Catskills, Razed Scores of Occupants Forced To Leap From Upper Windows g Miss ing.
None of Dead Are Identi- fied-Red Cross Elmer gency Hospital Is Set Up at TannersviIIe, N. r., to Treat Injured.

Tannersyille, N. Y, July fl P)- Twelve bodies had been recovered \ early this afternoon from the ruins of Twilight Inn, the Catskill noun tain summer resort which was burn ed to the ground shortly after 1 g. m., today. The bodies were so bad ly burned that Identification was i'm l possible.
 Sixteen guests and seven employees of the hotel have not been account ed for
 According to the dispatch, scores of guests and employees were forced to leap from under windows. Nine of 10 persons in the Red Cross emergency hospital at Tannersyille are suffering from fractures and / dislocations sustained in their leaps l for life.
 List Of Injured
 The injured at the Tannersville emergency hospital are:
 Mrs. Dorothy Poetsch, Bernards- vile, \. J., burns about face and body.
 Mrs. F, D. Backus, New York, fractured elbow and possible frac- ture of skull.
 Oscar Backus, New York, burns and cuts.
 Mrs. Emma Mattasch, New York, broken ankle and strained back. W. S. Rockwell, New York, brok- en foot.
 Mrs Laura VI. Garrett. New York. fractured thigh. Mrs. Nellie Monsalvatge, Forest Hills, fractured arm and broken foot bones.
 Mrs. Peter Martin and little son. Jersey City, the mother with a frac- tured leg and elbow and cuts about the body.
 Mrs. May Fleming, Jersey City, fractured leg. The blaze was discovered by H. Stryker. night watchman who 2rous- ed employees and guests. but the flames spread so rapidly throughout the frame building that all could not escape uninjured.
 Other victims, who were taken 10 Lockhurst hotel, Haines Falls, in- cludcd;
 Miss Estelle Harris New York two ribs broken and hack injured.
 Miss Katherine E. Russell, New York, suffering from shock.
 Mrs. Julia Rentrop and son. Der nar1. Brooklyn, both suffering from shock.
 Mrs. Edward A. Carter and son, John, Brooklyn, mother with nose broken and both suffering from shock.
 Mrs. Helen Hoy, E. r. D., four, Bellcfontr, Pa, and Miss Beatrice Naylor Norristown, Pa, are suffer ing from shock.
 Waterbury Couple Missing
 Among the missing, including the dead are: Mir. and Mrs. H. l.. Beardsley, Waterbury, Cenn.
 Inn Is Destroyed
 Tannersville. N. T., July fl tP,- Three persons were killed, nine are missing and II injured in a fire that destroyed Twilight Inn. at Haines Falls early this morning.
 SS Persons In Hotel
 There were 4S guests at the hotel and about 4o employees. The fire started from an unknown cause and spread with great rapidity, many of the guests being forced to jump from the windows. The hotel was of frame construction and three stories high.
 The dead had not been identified this forenoon. The injured were treated at the Red Cross station nearby.
 Haines Falls is a popular Catslill mountain resort, in Green county with a summer population of some 5000 persons, largely vacationists from New York
 The resort is patronized by many prominent New Workers. Former Mayor John r. Hylan has often been Eguest at Twilight Inn, which was the most pretentious of group of hotels catering to the summer trade.
 Village Two Miles Away
 The village is about two miles from here and is at an elevation of $500 feet from the Hudson which lies but a few miles away. The rearest Hudson river town is Cats kill
 Twilight Inn was situated in Twi- | light Park. near the village of Haiues Falls. The park is a private preserve owned by a small colony of i summer residents.
 Wingate Home Destroyed
 Cottages in the vicinity were | scorched in places by falling embers, l and the summer home of General 1! George Wingate of New York, which | adiomed the hotel, was reported to | the Haines Falls police station to | have been destroyed.
 The gates of the park were clos, ed today, and no information re- garding the fire was made public. | State troopers were on guard at the |
 (Continued on Page 16)