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GUESTS OF HOTEL AT FORT WAYNE, INDIANA, PERISH IN FIRE
TWO DROWN
NEAR SHORE
BODIES OF YOUTHS SWEPT
TO SEA
HUNDREDS WITNEBB FIGHT FOR
LIFE
Identity of Young Men a Mystery but
Police Are Convinced Both
Were Residents of Los
Angeles
Special to Tho Herald.
LONG BEACH, May 3.—Two uniden
tified young men were drowned near
Alamitos Bay shortly before 7 o'clock
tonight while out In a skiff.
Both are believed to be residents of
Los Angeles.
T:.3 men hired the boat, which was
:. common skiff, early In the afternoon,
and It la believed they went rowing
far out to sea. The windy weather
made the water rougher than they
had supposed and It is believed the
men lost control of the small craft In
the angry waters.
At about 7 o'clock last night the boat
was seen drifting in toward the pier.
The remaining occupant, whose com
panion had already gone overboard
and drowned, was trying to save him
self by getting from tho open sea to
the quieter waters of tho bay.
Shrouded in the gathering darkness
his form was so indistinct that no one
could tell who he was. But Patrolman
Phillips of Long Beach is convinced
the man was an employe pf a Los
Angeles picture show on Broadway,
near Fourth, whom he knew; while he
Is as firmly set in his opinion that the
other man was also from Los Angeles.
He had seen them previously.
The first sign of the craft being in
distress was noticed by a Naples con
tractor named Smith, who was stand
ing on the Alamitoa Bay pier. He saw
the unidentified man in tho skiff bat
tling with the huge combers. Wave
after ■ -ye smote the frail boat and
threatened every time to sink It and
seal the doom of the solitary occupant.
Smith saw the latter's peril Instantly
and ran to the bayatde, sounding a call
for help for the stranger who was en
deavoring to find a haven from the
storm.
People Gather on Shore
Quickly the news spread. People
gathered on the sands by the score
and soon hundreds were standing as
near as the angry breakers would let
them, straining their eyes to pierce
the gathering gloom and see how the
heroic boatman was gaining In his
fight for life.
Two rescuing parties were formed.
One started in the boat Louis, while
Contractor Smith, who first noticed
tho storm-tossed boat, together with
N. H. Becker, started from shore In
the launch Arrow.
They knew full well that the strug
gling can could not reach the shore un
aided.
The breakers were beating against
the small skiff with all the fury which
today's high wind could lend them, and
tho occupant of the craft, was seen to
be struggling ".iravely to gain the shore.
Hl» efforts never relaxed until death.
This much could be made out by tho
anxious watchers on shore. Some In
their excitement even waded into the
waters.
But willing hands were clenched In
vnin and the occasional shouts of en
couragement and direction were lost In
the howling of the wind.
Man Struggles Hard
The people on the rescuing launches
who liad a slightly closer view of the
boatman cnulil see his body swaying
with the mighty efforts which he was
making to bring his boat toward the
shorn line.
They saw him lunge and swerve with
.his efforts to send the boat farther
toward the shore. But his feeble strokes
wore illy matched against the might of
the angry sea and fierce wind, and
slowly his efforts became fainter.
Finally he was hurled Into the waves
nrd his frail craft was capsized.
Efforts to locate the body were futile.
It is believed the corpse may have been
carried Into the inlet.
After sinking the first time, at the
capsizing of the boat, the unidentified
man was not seen save once, when he
rose to the surface, only to disappear
again quickly.
The skiff was painted black on the
outside with a blue interior.
BRAKEMAN KILLB SWEETHEART
AND ENDS HIB OWN LIFE
By Asuociated Pre»».
PORTLAND, Ore., May 3.—A special
from Heppner, Ore., says: Henry P.
MorrUon, brakeman on the Heppner
branch of the O. R. & N., shot and
killed his sweetheart, Nora Wright,
near Morgan, and wounded Bonnie
a halt, her companion today.
On hearing that the girl was dead
Morrison went into a wheat warehouse
and shot himself. He Is still alive
but there is said to be little chance
for him to live.
STEAMER GOEB ASHORE;
TWO LIFE SAVERS LOST
By Associated Press. ,i', . ..' ''J<S3S?li>EjJBSa3
PORTLAND, May B.—A telephone
message j from j Newport, Ore., «ay»' an
: unknown steam schooner, lumber laden
and waterlogged, struck on Otter rock
at noon today.v.■,'s•-'■•'-■,•,.-..'-,■ ■_..•.* ■■''X'X-!:':?-*
, The Taqulna % bay life \ saving crew
went Ito } the J scene and llnf an I effort >to
rescue, those on | board I the craft; two of
the life saving crew were struck by the
parting of a rope, knocked from the life
boat and drowned.
LOS ANGELES HERALD
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BERKELEY TRACK CAPTAIN
DROWNED AT STANFORD
Prominent Athlete of California Unl.
verslty Meets Death While Canoe-
Ing—Efforts to Save Him
Futile
By Associated Press.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, May 3.—
While canoeing on Lake Lagunita in
back of tho university this morning,
Rnrl Service of Berkeley, captain of
the Berkeley high school track team,
was overturned and drowned.
As soon as his cries were heard two
of his team mates who were in a row
boat on the further side of the lake,
started to his assistance, as did N. K.
Carpenter, who has charge of the boats
on the lake, but he went down for the
last time just as they reached him.
The body was not recovered until noon,
after being in the water two hours.
BRITAIN ALARMED BY
SITUATION IN INDIA
AFGHAN FORCE IS REPULSED
IN BATTLE
Plot to Blow Up Europeans with
Bombs Is Discovered—Active
Warfare Planned by
English
By Associated Press.
LONDON, May 3.—lndia is a source
of considerable uneasiness to the Brit-
ish government at the present moment.
The difficulties with the Mohmads
seem on the eve of/settlement, when on
Saturday, according to reports received
here, a new danger threatened.
Another attempt was made by a large
Afghan force, numbering from 13,000 to
20,000, which went across the border
divided into two bodies, to seize the
block house at Khyber pass, near
Landl Ksol.
The attack was repulsed with trifling
casualties among the British, Hut the
Afghans remained in front of Landi
Ksol and another body is reported to be
moving Into the Bazar valley by way of,
Llsote pass.
General Willcoz, in command of the
forces recently dispatched to quell the
troubles, has gone to Jamrad, a few
miles west of Peshawar, at the en
trance of Khyber pass and Is hastening
forward hi* troops to meet the new de
velopment.
All frontier telegrams are carefully
censored at Simla. From Calcutta
comes news of the discovery of a plot
to murder Europeans by means of
bombs. The conspiracy appears to be
of an extensive character, and many
arrests have been made.- The responsi
bility for the plot is placed on the na
tives, a number of incriminating docu
ments having been seized, together with
a supply of bombs and other explosives.
The discovery of the plot was made
through the arrest and confession of
the author of the bomb outrage at
Almorufferpur, the capital of the pro
vince of tho same name, in Bengal, in
which two Europeans were killed.
The morning papers, referring to the
Indian news, generally concur that
there Is no cause for alarm or for grave
anxiety, if, as is hoped, the ameer is
not directly responsible for the attitude
of the Afgha . border tribes, but they
say until the ameer's attitude is defi
nitely known. It behooves the govern
ment to be alert and prepared for
eventualities.
Death Calls Banker
By Associated Pros*.
REDWOOD CITY, May 3.—Charles
E. Dugan, manager of the Redwood
City Commercial bank, and secretary
of the Savings and Trust company of
San Mateo county, died at his resi
dence at Belmont at 3 o'clock this
morning of pneumonia.
THE NEWS SUMMARY
FORECABT
For Lo« Angeles and vicinity: Fair
Monday; light west winds. Maximum
temperature yesterday, 64 degrees;
minimum, 45 degrees.
LOCAJ.
Two unidentified men meet death In
skiff near Alamltos bay while crowds
look on.
Governor Sheldon and party or Ne
braska visit Catallna Island; go to Pas
adena.
School board and city council may
wage further battle for $60,000 school
fund,
Los Angeles boy run down by auto
mobile and Is badly hurt.
Husband anxiously seeks trace of
beautiful bride who vanishes after
(juarrel.
COAST
<ial<> blows battleship anchored at
fanta Cruz from its moorings and col
lision Is narrowly averted.
San Francisco prepares to entertain
several hundred thousand guests who
will witness entry of warships through
Golden gate.
Admiral Evans prepares to rejoin the
battleship fleet at Monterey.
FOEKION
Fire destroys small town m Philip
pine islands; hundreds of persons are
rendered homeless.
Prince Wilehlm of Sweeden weds
grand < uchess of Russia; brilliant mar
riage ceremon- attended by many mem
bers of royal household.
KASTEHN
Twelve persons, guests of hotel In
Fort Wayne, Ind., perish in fire which
destroys entlr building.
Blaze in tenement distrlst of New
Tork snuHs out lives of six persons.
WARSHIPS
IN DANGER
HEAVY GALE BLOWS VESSELS
FROM MOORINGS
COLLISION OF BOATB NARROWLY
AVERTED
Illinois Drag* Her Anchor During the
Storm and Nearly Rams Alabama.
Wind May Delay De.
parture
By Associated Press.
MONTEREY, May 3.—A northwest
gale sweeping into the harbor gave the
eight ships of the second division of
the Atlantic fleet several hours of
watchfulness last night and cut oft
all communication with the shore.
A serious accident was narrowly
averted when the battleship Illinois,
second in line from the Alabama, flag
ship of Rear Admiral Sperry, parted
her anchor chain in the height of the
blow and went drifting toward the
shore. The Illinois headed directly for
the Alabama and it looked for a time
as though a collision was imminent.
By heroic work the helmsmen man
aged to steer the drifting ship away
and the only damage done was the
tearing away of the port gangway of
the Alabama. The Illinois drifted fully
800 yards before her emergency an
chors, sent spinning into the white
capped waters, finally held fast.
The high wlnda continued today and
the Illinois made no attempt to regain
her position in the fourth division
column.
No Quarter* for Sailor*
As early as 9 o'clock last night it
was announced that no more steam
launches would run between the ships
and shore. Many stout little steamers
that already had made the shore were
held in the sheltered waters and the
launches near the ships were hauled
out of the water.
A thousand liberty men were ashore,
and the problem of finding a place for
them to sleep severely taxed the avail
able buildings in Monterey. The patrol
officers on duty had to share the lot of
the men and sleep on hard pine floors
with only their capes to protect them.
Admiral Sperry's barge from the Al
abama had a hole stove lrl her bow as
the result of a collision with the ship's
gangway and was beached later in the
night. A schooner laden with lime also
went ashore and a gasoline launch In
which an unfastened lighted lantern
had been left burning caught fire and
went to the bottom.
It is believed the anchor from the
Illinois, lost when the cable parted
last night, may-not be recovered, as
the water is too deep for divers to
work In.
All of the ships managed to send
boats to the shore today at intervals.
It was said, however, that if the blow
continued it might delay the depart
ure of the second squadron ships for
Santa Cruz tomorrow.
Plans Are Changed
"Word has been received here that
Secretary of the Navy Metcalf has or
dered that the Pacific squadron shall
join the fleet oft Angel island, in San
Francisco bay, May 6, Instead of out
side the Golden Gate, as previously ar
ranged. The change is made. It is said,
for the reason that a fog is liable to
be hanging over the entrance to the
bay, which might cause collisions.
Rear Admiral Thomas has received a
letter from the mayor of Santa Bar
bara saying the city had no complaint
to make against the sailors who at
tacked a restaurant during the stay
of the fleet in that city. No action
will be taken against the bluejackets
and the incident will be ignored.
Henry Reutordahl, who left the fleet
at San Diego, rejoined it today. He
was cordially received.
SAN FRANCISCO PREPARES
ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION
By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 3.—ln eager
expectancy San Francisco is awaiting
the arrival of the Atlantic battleslhp
fleeet.
Fluttering flags, navy pennants and
streamers and Rear Admiral Evans
picture are everywhere. The streets
are a long vista of bunting In national
colors and flags waving from white
poles fifty feet high, every 100 feet, one
large and a cluster of five smaller flags
flying from each one, and terminating
In the huge red, white and blue shield
on the tall Ferry tower.
On each side of the Ferry tower,
stretched on long wire cables, are the
words "Welcome to the Atlantic Fleet"
In the kalaeidoscoplc colors of the In
ternational navy signal code flaga and
pennants, while on Telegraph Hill the
word "Welcome" stands in letters fifty
feet high, which can be read for many
miles and which at night will be illumi
nated by 600 electric lights.
Festoon* of Light
Festoons of incandescent lights run
on both sides of the principal streets
and prominent b,uildtngs are outlined in
electric bulbs, furnishing at night a
mo3t magnificent illuminatton.
Relatives and friends are coming In
from the north, south and east to assist
In the entertainment and to witness the
pomp and pageantry of an event which
beyond -kindling pride and love of
country marks the beginning of a new
epoch in the development of the Pa-
It is estimated that there will be be
tween 700,000 and 800,000 people in San
Francisco on the day that the fleet ar
rives The suburban cities adjacent to
the bay and towns within a radius of
fifty miles will practically be depopu
lated and will contribute 200,000, while
the railroad companies estimate that
they will bring at least 150,000 from
noints beyond, as far east as Omaha
and from British Columbia on the
north to the international boundary on
the south.
The Southern Pacific company has
placed 250 extra cars and sleepers in
commission In addition to their regular
equipment. Twenty special trains
from California points and the Pacific
(Continued on i'age Tw«»
MONDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 1908.
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WHEN CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS MU ST BE REPORTED TO CONGRESS
ROYAL WEDDING
BRILLIANT AFFAIR
PRINCE WILHELM CLAIMS
DUCHESS AS BRIDE
MAGNIFICENT CEREMONY SOL.
EMNIZED IN ST. PETERSBURG
Close Alliance Between Czar's Realm
and Kingdom of Gustav Is
Cemented by Matri.
mony
Ey Associate) Press.
ST. PETERSBURG. May 3.—Prince
Wilhelm of Sweden, second son of King
Qustav, the popular sailor prince who
visited America in 1907, was married
this afternoon to Grand Duchess Marie
Pavlovna, cousin of the emperor of
Russia and daughter of Grand Duke
Paul Alexandrovitch.
The ceremony took place at Tsarskoe-
Selo and -was accompanied by all the
pomp and brilliant display characteris
tic of the most stately court in Europe.
The day was marred by frequent
heavy falls of snow, which, however,
failed to chill the enthusiasm of the
great crowds that gathered around the
palace to catch a glimpse of the em»
peror and othed royal personages and
the arriving guests. The crowds stood
for hours in the bleak and muddy
Palace square until the conclusion of
the ceremony.
In the evening a great state banquet
was served, at which toasts were drunk
to the good understanding between
Sweden and Russia, recently reached
in the Baltic agreement, which today's
wedding—the first in modern times be
tween the ruling houses of the two
countries —puts the seal.
Noisy Salutes Fired
The beginning of the nuptial cere
monies was announced by the firing of
five guns simultaneously at 9 o'clock
this morning by the battery at Tsar
skoe-Selo and by the fortress of St.
Peter and St. Paul In St. Petersburg.
This was but the beginning of the noisy
acclamation, for the thunder of the
salutes was heard almost Interruptedly
throughout the afternoon and evening.
The wedding guests who took part
in the ceremony assembled at half
past 2 o'clock in the great palace at
Tsarskoe-Selo. Only Premier Stoly
pin, the members of the cabinet, the
president of the duma and the presi
dent of the council of state, the prin
cipal ambassadors to Russia and their
wives and a few. of the highest digni
taries of the empire found place in
the small blue and gold chapel of the
palace where the orthodox ceremony
was performed. The other guests were
stationed, according to their rank, in
the various salons through which the
bridal procession passed.
The robing of the bride was per
formed, In accordance with court cus
tom, In the private apartments of the
empress. She was dressed by the em
press and the dowager empress, assist
ed by their maids of honor and ladies
in watting.
The bride wore on her head a jeweled
diadem and from her shoulders hung a
long trained mantle of strawberry vel
vet, lined with ermine.
In the procession the train of this
garment was borne by five court cham
berlains. As soon as the bride had
been completely arrayed Prince Wil
helm was notified by the master of
ceremonies and conducted to the inner
apartments, where Grand Duchess
Marie was waiting.
Ceremony Impressive
A salute of twenty-one guns and a
blare of trumpets announced the start
of the procession. At its head came
the dowager empress on the arm of
(Coullnuml on Fas* two)
RACE TRACK GAMBLING
BARRED AT LOUISVILLE
Detail of Police Will Be on Hand to
Prevent Betting on Results
at Churchill
Downs
Or Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, Ky., May 3.—When
the spring meeting of the Louisville
Jockey club opens, Tuesday, May 5,
with the historic Kentucky derby as
the opening day attraction, there will
be a large detail of police on hand to
arrest any person who attempts to
make a bet on the races, either
through auction pools or the Paris mu
tual machines which have been in
stalled for the coming meeting.
The policy of the mayor and board
of public safety was announced today.
At the close of the last spring meet
ing it was determined to relieve the
racing game in Louisville of the evils
that have grown up as a result of
bookmaking on the American plan and
the practice of bookmakers owning
horses at the coures where they were
making books. By installing the Paris
machines, which went out of use In
this country twenty years ago. It was
thought the greater part of sentiment
against betting had been removed. It
was then determined to establish the
mutual machines, but they were not
in time for the fall meeting, which was
declared off.
The charter granted to the jockey
club by the legislature legalized Paris
mutuals and auction pools, but had
no reference to bookmaking, the latter
form being in vogue at that date As
there was no doubt as to the validity
of Its charter, tho court of appeals,
having established the fact in the La
tonia franchise case, the jockey club
determined to restore the Paris mu
tuala and auctions.
BOY RUN DOWN BY
AUTO; IS BADLY HURT
Driver of Car Takes Injured Child to
the County Hospital, Where
Physicians Attend
Injuries
Fred Horowitz, 12 years of age, the
son of Morris Horowitz of 922 West
First street, was run down by an auto
ir.oblle driven by C. P. Illingworth of
kOB East Seventeenth street, at Hunt
lngton drive and Alhambra road last
night and was seriously injured.
Young Horwitz, accompanied by a
companion, was riding toward Los An
geles mounted on a bicycle. Illing
worth was driving a sixty-horse power
Thomas machine in the same direction
and overtook the boys.
Young Horowitz' companion rode to
the opposite side of the driveway, but
the former retained his position on the
right side of the road.
Illingworth brought his machine to a
full stop and Horowitz cut across the
road to let him go by. At that moment
another motor car came along and the
boy darted back to the other side of the
road directly in front of the Illingworth
machine, which had been started up
again.
The boy was struck and knocked off
his wheel and the big motor car passed
over his leg, breaking It in two places.
He also sustained a concussion of the
brain.
Illngworth took the injured boy in his
machine and rushed him to the county
hospital, where his injuries were at
tended to.. It is possible his leg may
have to be amputated above the knee.
QJTIVPT T) POPTTT'Q* daily, 2ci Sunday, so
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THAW'S CONTEST
STARTS TODAY
SLAYER HOPES TO OBTAIN
FREEDOM
MOTHER DENIES SHE SOUGHT
TO INCARCERATE HIM
District Attorney Jerome Will Oppose
Efforts of Young Millionaire
to Escape from
Asylum
By Associated Press.
POUGHKEEPSIE, N. T., May 3.—
Public Interest in the case of Harry
K. Thaw, slayer of Stanford White,
will be revived tomorrow morning,
when Thaw will endeavor by habeas
corpus proceedings to secure his re
lease from the Mattewan hospital for
insane criminals.
The writ was issued by Judge Mer
schauser at White Plains on April 22
on the application of James G. Gra
ham, an attorney of Newburg. Dis
trict Attorney Jerome of New York
county will try to prevent the dis
charge of Thaw, who, under tho law,
is Insane.
The first step in the court proceed
ings will be a motion by Mr. Jerome
to have the trial transferred to New
York county. Mr. Jerome thinks it
will be more convenient for witnesses
to have the trial in New York and
he hffs pointed out that it will cost
Duchess county $30,000 to have the
case heard here.
Mattewan is sixteen miles from
Poughkeepsle, and it will be more
convenient to the hospital management
to have the case tried here.
Thaw will be brought to Pough
keepsie tomorrow morning by Dr. Ba
ker, acting superintendent of the insti
tution, and two attendants.
Dr. Baker will testify that Thaw is
not mentally fit to be given his liberty.
One of the insanity experts who have
examined Thaw will be put on tho
stand by Mr. Jerome.
Among the experts retained by Thaw
to testify as to his mental condition
are Dr. Charles W. Pilgrim, superin
tendent of the Hudson River State
hospital and Dr. Charles H. K. Lane
of Poughkeepsle.
Up to this evening no relative of
Thaw had arrived here. Neither his
wife nor his mother has visited him in
two months. During the three months
he has been at Maateawan he has
gained twenty pounds.
NEW YORK, May 3.—Mrs. William
Thaw, mother of Harry K. Thaw, Is
sued a statement today through her
counsel, Colonel Bartlett, in reply to
the rumors that she Is opposing her
son's release. It reads:
"I am authorized by Mrs. William
Thaw that the story to the effect that
the Thaw family is opposed to Harry
Thaw's release is without foundation.
While it is not necessary for them to
take any active part In the matter,
nevertheless they are all in full sym
pathy. At no time has • Mrs. William
Thaw been reconciled to her son's de
tention In Matteawan, but the sweep
ing order of the court was so swiftly
carried out that there was no oppor
tunity for remonstrance against com
mitting an acquitted man to an asylum
for the insane."
Cleveland Recovering
By Associated Preu.
Ii VKEFORD. N. J., May 3.—The con
dition of former President Cleveland,
who is said by physicians to be suffer
ing from acute Indigestion, continues
to show daily improvement, according
to Mrs. Cleveland, who expresses the
hope that the progress of her husband's
recovery may permit an early return to
Princeton.
Q CENTS
MANY DIE
IN FLAMES
ESCAPE CUT OFF, TWELVE
LOSE LIVES
FRAME BUILDING BURNS LIKE
TINDER
Thrilling Escapes Witnessed by,
Crowds in Street—Salesmen for
Wholesale Houses Are
Among Victims
SUNDAY'S FIRE RECORD
At Fort Wayne, Ind. Hotel burned,
twelve guests perish.
In Brooklyn sli die In tenement hlnze.
Town of Antipole, Philippine island*, de
stroyed.
By Associated Prnss.
FORT WAYNE, Ind., May 3.—No
fewer than twelve persons lost their
lives In a flro that destroyed the Ave
llne hotel hero today.
The entire i-terior of the hotel Is a
smouldering mass of ruins, and how
many dead are concealed by the debris
can only be conjectured.
The hotel register was consumed by
the fire and there are no accurate
means of determining who are missing.
The known dead are:
R. S. JOHNSON, Pana, 111.
;M. HIRSCH, New York.
J. B. MILLER, Sheboygan, Win.
J. K. ELLIS, employe of Carson,
Pirie, Scott & Co., Chicago.
W. A. PITCHER, Fort Wayne, sales
man for S. F. Boyster & Co., Fort
Wayne.
O. W. DEVINY, salesman for Craw
ford & Lehman, Philadelphia.
Three unidentified men.
The known missing are:
Max Wessem, wrestler, Fort Wayne,
formerly of St. Louis.
E. B. Alty, Wabash, Ind.
Charles Benjamin, salesman for a De
troit neckwear company.
Mrs. Sarah Hathaway, Mlshawaka,
Ind.
An unknown woman, companion of
Mrs. Hathaway.
The complete destruction of the Inter
ior of the hotel makes the work of re
covering Lodles a difficult task. A con
fused heap of charred wood, bricks and
twisted girders is piled up between the
bare walls to the second story. Piece
by piece this must be removed before
the roll of the dead can be completed.
Some of the bodies taken out are man
gled and charred beyond recognition.
Militia in Control
Infantry company D and battery B, In
diana national guard, are on duty aid-
Ing the fire and police forces to clear
away the debris.
The fire was discovered at 3:30 o'clock
this morning In the ulevator shaft by
Night Clerk Ralph Hopkins. He rushed
to the upper floors, alarming the guests,
until the flames, which had spread with
appalling rapidity, drove him back.
His efforts, however, saved many lives.
The hotel was erected half a century
ago and the woodwork was dry as tin
der. It burned like matchwood and
within a few minutes from the time the
fire was discovered the whole of the ho
tel was a mass of flames that filled the
corridors and rooms with suffocating
clouds of smoke and laid fiery barriers
across all means of escape save by the
windows.
The fire department rescued many
persons by means of ladders, but some,
frenzied by the onward rush of the fire,
leaped from high windows to the paved
streets below.
Jumps to Death
Tt. S. Johnson of Pana, 111., jumped
from the fifth story. His body struck
a balcony and bounded far Into tWp
street. Ho was a crushed and bleedinK
mass when picked up, and died a short
time later in St. Joseph's hospital.
As the flames increased men and
women were seen In the windows of
their rooms, where they wildly Implored
help. Those who left their rooms be
fore the flames cut off their retreat
were able to make their way to tho
flro escapes and so were saved with
comparative ease. Soon the flames
curled about the fire escapes. Some of
the more hard r ones braved the flameß
and made theU- way through smoke and
nre down the iron stairways.
There were many thrilling escppi.:--.
Claude H. Varnell of the Fort "Wayne
baseball team, his sister, Mrs. John
Hendrieks, and John Hendrlctai < '•'
Chicago, manager of the Fort Wavr.,
team, with Master Hendrieks, aged o,
barely escaped with their lives. Var
nell lost all of his personal belongings,
valued at several thousand dollars.
Hendrieks, with his wife ahead of
him and his boy in his arms, was de
scending the flre escape from the fifth
floor. At the third floor the flre broke
out below them. He swung Mrs. Hen
drieks over the railing and she dropped
to the platform of the story below. He
then dropped his son Into the waiting
arms of his wife and all made their
way to the ground.
Other rescues were thrilling and es
capes as narrow were numerous.
When the flre was at Its height a
man at a third story window was seen
wildly waving his arms. He shrieked
"My God, men, save me! Will no one
save me?" and then leaped from the
window and went swirling to the pave
ment below. He was picked up fatally
hurt. He was E. M. Matthews of Co
lumbus, Ohio.
Woman Jump
A score or more of women employed
in the hotel were in the upper room*
In the rear of the hotel. Most of them
escaped without injury, but some of
them in their fright leaped to the alley
and were more or less injured.
That there are still many bodies In
the ruins in ts the belief of Fire C!hief
Hllbrecht and Chief of Police Ancken
bruck. Chief Anckenbruck gives the
number of dead in the ruins at twenty.
At 6 o'clock eight bodies had been re
covered.
A guest on the fifth floor, who was
aroused at the outbreak of the tire
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