Evening star., 1946-12-08

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June s, 1876 -Chicago's La Sale
hotel, 81.
was cfoked by flames and smoke.
She and her husband pulled on
their coats and climbed out OF the
window, eventually making their
way by ladder to an adjoining build :
ing. They suffered singed hair and
scorches.
Daughter of Official Killed.
.Irma Dell Ingram, "a, of Rockford,
III. who recently moved to Atlanta,
was living temporarily at the hotel.
"I couldn't realize that people could
be SO panicky," she said She shud-
elered over the high toll of persons
who leaped to their deaths, but OBJ
served I'm sure would have done
the same thing as a last resort.
one of the victims was Patsy Grif-
An, 14-year -old daughter OF Brig.
Gen. Marvin Grimm Of Bainbridge,
Ga, adjutant general Of Georgia.
Her father underwent a blood trans
fusion in an unsuccessful effort to
save her life.
Betty Huguley, 16-year-old high
school girl of Griffin, Ga, used a
suitcase to batter out the window
and screen of her fourth-flo room.
Then she crawled out on the ledge,
walked cody along 1t past three
other rooms to where two other
girls were huddled. Firemen
rescued them.
Mrs. A. R. Minnix of Columbus,
Ca. was crying Historically when
firemen reached her fifth-f1oor room.
She said her 15-year-old son,
Rutledge, had been trapped on the
18th floor, where he had been as
signed when they were unable to
get rooms together. The boy later
was listed among the known dead.
Girl 16 Escapes.
Patsy Uphold, 16-year-old daugh-
ter of MIR. and Mrs. Albert l.. Uphold
of Thomaston, Ga, escaped with
two other Hi-Y girls from room
on the 14th floor. They were in a
party of six high school seniors
who came from Thomaston Tor a
State meeting.
Tom Scoggins, night inspector OF
the Dawson -Paxon Department
store. across the street from the
Winecof. said: Nothing impressed
me more than the unruffied courage
of a man I saw in window on
the seventh floor of the hotel. Fire
men raised a ladder to save him,
but just then woman leaned from
another window.
THAT man coolly motioned for the
firemen to save her first, and they
did. He watched it with his arms
folded. Later they took him out
and just in the nick OF time. He
was about so years old.
II saw a cool headed girl sitting
in a window ilunched over to one
side so firemen could shoot a stream
of water into her room. Later they
got ladder up and rescued her.
Il saw people dangling from win
dows on sheets. Sometimes they
made it to a room below, and some
times they fell screaming to the
street."
Reunion at Hospital.
Edith Burch, 90. of Chattanooga,
Tenn. fell from the 10th floor to
the roof of a second floor dining
terrace. but survived with fractures
of both hips and both legs. Her hus-
band, G. D. Burch, 81, was rescued
by firernen.
I'VE were on the 10th floor" Mr..
Burch said, when the smoke be-
came so dense, we decided to make
rope and try to escape. My wife
| was first to go out the window. I
was watching her climb down. She
had gone about floor. Then / saw
her fall and in moment she was
| lost in the dense smoke.
II climbed down the rope and
when / reached the eighth floor a
! fireman rescued me. AS soon as
got on the ground I started search
| ing for my wife's body, but no one
knew anything about her. Then fire.
men began bringing bodies off the
dining terrace on the second floor
| was told to go to Grady Hospital
and look for her body there.
'When I got there I found her on
a stretcher. She was just opening
her eyes. I learned the canopy over
the dining terrace had acted as a
life net and saved her life, although
she was badly injured"
"But I'll be we'll soon." said Mrs
Burch, happily, as she grasped her
husbands grimy hand.
Less Fortunate Couple.
Charles Boschong, 81, of Cullman,
Ala. and his wife, Mildred, %. were
less fortunate. They also made a
rope to flee their 12th-fioor room
but Mrs. Boschong slipped and fell
apparently to her death. Her hus-
band was rescued.
w. H. Robertson, operator of the
Princeton Hotels in Gainesville and
Macon, Ga, escaped with his wife
| from a top-foor room. Firemen
| brought them across ladders run
ming to the Mortgage Guarantee
Building at the rear of the hotel
Alvin j. Millman of Chicago tossed
a suitcase with most of his clothing
from third STORY window for iden-
| tification purposes in case he was
trapped. Then he dived from the
window ledge into life net and
came away unhurt. However, he re-
ported his suitcase was missing.
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