The evening world. Newspaper, February 22, 1902, Page 2

SCENES (Continued from First Page) ford, acting under the instructions of District-Attorney Jerome, went to the hotel at noon to-dey and served Proprietor Reid with a subpoena to appear before the Grand Jury Monday Mr. Reid wou Feporters after he receiv poena. He fused certain questions put Sanford Fire Marshal § tended investigatic its origin. He will report to ¢ missioner Sturgis this afternoor “The fire in the Park Avenne,’ declared Chief Croker. ” say also re @rate and distinet from that of the armory, nnd the el did not catch fire from the armory. The fre in the hotel started tn basement and spread through elevator shaft Hotel People Crittcised. The police charge that loss of life was due to th he oun of the hotel people to arouse the guests to a proper sense of ir | danger. Proprietor Reid answers that the fact that the victims were fully dressed indicates that their fa the result of iheir foolh remaining in the hotel had warning of danger Some of the injured d after being aroused they looked the armory fire awhile and then went back to bed again. Fire and Hote Prietor Reid agree that the h did not take fire from the armory, at f Croke verted Mr. Held 1 was fired by an Incendiary, as it atart- ea the bottom of an clevator shaft in the basement Two Hoel As a matter of fi there were two fires in the from Below, of sus and another t of th thas dd ignited fr th ke driven by the wind from he barning a rc in the armory O'clock in the third Thirty-third street or started at floor the ide, Ment occupied by the Fir Signal Corps. The building. which extend from Thirty-third street north to Thirty-fourth street, fronting Park avenuc, wa. also the head quarters for the Fifth Brigade, the Seventy-first Regim@™mt and the| Second Battery Woman Discovered BL A woman was first t Dlaze. She had presence of mind to run to headquarters of Battalion Chief Ross, in Thirty-third stre near Lexington avenue. She pounded on the door until she aroused the firemen. For God's sake, ed; “the armory ablaze’ Ross rushed and at once t 4 triple alarm. When the Ment responded flames were from the thire forcing their Meanwhile transit saw the flames doors aroused Armores Andrew who slept in the bu wie discover the she shout depart- burst! through the ro workmen e rap Par excavation venue and th armor of the intil they Patterson with h and two barely the plac time file fan t alive Hampered The awtu retarded thy the fire, and mory, hemmed | the street rail way tunne! cavation into action A rumor that im one of the by Slushy on and th dynamite was shantie transit contractor burning building ac comfort of the fighte This was increased when th wnk and bal! cartridges gade Headquarter a the flames reache Powder in Ar Down in the building wa stored oa the nl pounds of powder. W erashed in, fifteen minu he firemen reached th by powder exploded with a report t shook the mastive stone walls o building. The Thirty-third str wall crumbled and fo! At first it was thought that the hotel was in 10 danger, though Pro- Prietor Reid had a force the roof sweeping off the shower ot Sparks and brands. The windows of the hotel were filled iwth guests, whi Viewed the fire from a point of vant age. — 880 Families Driven our “Meanwhile the fire had spread the armory to the apartment on Thirty-fourth and Thirty strects, immediately adjoining Was carried up to stay the of the flery rain carried by and meanwhile the police Occupants into the street. eed and Chaton Falls, an adjutant of the| nth Regiment, who has lived at] Avenue Hotel for som d at a window on the sixth Mr. and Mrs. Berwick Bradley {al couple from South| Carolina, who were leave to-day on transport MeClellan for Ma-| nila, appeared fifth floor window Th y-third corner Mrs Charlotte Beanett and het und Alabama, ate on a le on the fifth floor, just jover the portico over the main trance to the hotel Mrs. I tt was terror-strich THE WORLD: SATURDAY &VENING, F OR AT THE ~OF HORR were thus driven out in their night | attire onto the icy walks. Many were] sheltered in the Albemarle Stables it Thirty-third street and Lexingto avenue, Others were driven in cabs to nearby hotels The mpathy of the crowd was those whe on the to th " He whi C ves trapped by fire Pantie in the Me | A 4, the origin of the fire ascribed to two causes | sutil the Dames w mt win po ng into ediate Win nil med f some one to res er Her husband grasped her, a: from the crowd in the streets were ited warnings not to jump Woman Leaps from Fifth story. When it was seen that she was de to Jump. the firemen gat a circle and stretched their arms. Mrs. Bennett wrenched free from her husband, and flung herself into the waiting firemen five ream f the below were behind of licking out of the her as she jumped | her room was 1 ames window The interior aflame M Bennett struck in the arms of Her weight caused them woman struck the was terribly burned was carried into the hotel man O'Connor, where hospital ons attendea her Later she was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where she died. When Mrs. Bennett jump ed her husband disappearm. back Into his rooms He was not seen after-) ward | On an ley Ledae Mrs Bradle neared at 4 window on the fifth floor on the Park avenue side of the building. ; near Thirty-third street. Mrs. Brad- ley appeared to be cool, her husband hysterical. Mrs. Bradley stepped out of her window onto an elghteen-inch ledge This ledge was covered with ice and BRUARY ° 1902. BURNING HOTEL. snow. 5 nw coping. with) inet fale fad aloes ipiagaltiat FIRE RUINS FROM PHOTOGRAPH TAK the walls of the building, Mr. and) ————— = = Virs. Bradley crept, hand in hand, for! her up in his arms and carried her the wer sixty feet to a point directly to the street f above the portico In the middle of ' ‘tel, upon whieh a dozen fire Rescued Several sane 4 {and from which they had : / mite Alsed sto the fifth floor HAIN Peasee ieee ei 1 Then the ‘two climbed Ol on the seventh floor He helped him the ladders were helped onto the po ; : a tico, and from down to the ! hop Ludden told the firemen atret by th ald « Pr OFeenen | then that there were, on tae fou Ry Stood Like a Stole A number of other priests. ; | cluding Me. Kenney, also of Syra 4 : . time twenty min “ Hi bial it ne elapsed Adjutant Falls The Fire Chaplain retur ° a There waa 10 ee tT ll_and white haired, stood on the! building He fought his way through Afternomm Wha PE TGUEL NE HO edge of the window of his room. onthe amcke and up the stairs to the fand ectoanend iy mie yale ue the «ixth white fourth tloc It Gkele had ai beenine | pase vam noke was gathered the priests from two K spneeaer miele | mT Fy pou all about adjoining coms and had th \ Corey ie we onied carelenaly him. he wait ally until it was) wet avout ir 1 sacs AA) ; to be taken down by the guided them down the stairs ca dlacm fir words “ : { © Was Too Short ' A ap When re® “al ‘ f to Fane Chief ¢ rot Capt. Kenlon] th ng to the n had not hose enoug! 1 $150,000. ‘The woodw dtd he \ { fi ym this he floo. and wher tler f the re 1 The and ladder | the third, four! fifth floor ensive , mild Falls helped all) Capt. Kenlon will report this vic The Seventy-fret Resin ‘ tin j lation of the ordinance to the as built at a cost of $400 actder Marshal. The firemen w rdered} tutidi 1 total lo Re o let the fire take Ite ind} In addition to t are the ; Ket the guests out in sa | personal property pat . eman Hodgins of the East — Col, Thurston, Deputy ¢ Com-| hotel and nts of the apart y mynd str station, found missioner. ordered the police into attacked hy the flames. ha tting on the ledge tutidin ALIATE Hors GAMA IE window xth floor on of citizens who were in the h aes \ th reet aid The tunda assisted In the work of “= hiss cues vita assisted tn th k FIRE CHIEF CROKER < ae ‘ y in he Many Ambulances Catled | DESCRIBES THE BLAZE.) 8st) te Meanwhile the hotel fire had spread — = ment gir t r such rapidity that Chief Croker sett f fe OAepen alt je Barat A Had there been proper fire ape ee i Mee h to their efforts to saving t Hances in the hotel (he tr ¢ down the stairwa how- Seven trucks were ordered have been y the enests ae x the eo wa Thirty-third street side of ¢ of the emaclyes, An ine te ' t aT f and ing and the pla wa J with vesttent ved that there was there found Mr. an th wate ‘ ' he Ambulances were summoned from "Ol Sten @ backet moke! Halcarnied them Bellevue and New York Hospitals. A sles tine: (of Nene ble Half way down he met Father ( temporary hospital was rigged up in Apine tw Avenne liv. ¢ Binghamton, who the basement of ot the 7? ' way He enlled to the p Phirty-second str de, which the Croker | flames did not reach , F Snved by a Petest Wieniate Ren nen hacenecerncn: ' - R feta In. th me Miss Schanz had suffered burns we ’ i forw) ited. ( ned/ fore being sent : BAG , 1p the unconscious Many were taken across the t nen Ww ay \'te d rm of (he nurse, and he and the po-| ig (he private sanitarium of Dr. Bull] jartionar Vay eman found thelr way downsiains and others to the home of Mrs. Wray, | Wor, wan. at pie eae t the blinding smoke the of No. 46 Bast Thirty-third street Varick and late st ot and thence into th who threw open her doors to. those . H 5 Capt. Donohue. of Truck No. 7, and ere Injured or Incked shelter. | a4 atavelthormit : * numer of flremen had raised an fire in the hotel was not under |i) scart hel a tmmen!iate elebty-Ave-foot extension ladder up| control until 6.30 o'clock. Hardly ex iin [sonia to the sixth ftoor on the Thirty-se had the guests returned to. th Hag At Jonen stre ane ond street end of the hotel rooms to estimate thelr damag ne . ‘ { | From this ladder they carried down! when the flames broke out afresh on| tin f T fre eleven persons, men and women. the sixth floor, and there was a rppe- ' t ra whowe names they did not take noritition of the panic of a few hours tite ; ri did the police secure them. Three! previous ae , persons, names unknown, were res- e ° 4 sree y- Tarsus nena ie cued from the Thirty-third street end EI dai He! the Akt ba ‘ epee Sry Va Se : of the building. jeaten their way up the elevator shaft; Capt. Delaney, of the East Thirty- fifth street station, ind Mrs, Dyea, the wide corridors an aged woman, unconscious from The woodwork from the fourth to from the basement and swept through the . families smoke on the second floor. Hq Dicked the seventh floor throughout 1 _— wait Many at Hotel Windows. 1 immediately directed the attention of my men to ¢ F stables next to the artory.’’ sald the Chi “At that time the stables seemed to be thy dan- Adie trcin iatinastititsaiil inate iecaptisatnncerciiliatit saailstiiasds'-phaatinas vator —— “ REID ACCUSED OF NEGLIGENCE. mow hotel Issuing mory blaze from He at once I xpla d ht ed. 7 ! lost th AN Howe side a BANKER Meo aot NO INCE Samar | PROPRIETOR CALLS | IT INCENDIARY. rKe SAYS INSPECTOR. | and the escus Re emun Saved > MRS. FOSTER, ‘TOMBS 5 GEL,’ PERISHED. Park Avenue) ® Gibson Frea eee MAJOR SPAHN CAME TO CLASS REUNION. —— CURREY SAYS | | WARNING WAS GIVEN.) | a It NDIARISM, | \ and there no ts ect w Park Avenue was set on . from the armory. Fire as my ! ere flont he alr as thick as know s far as Broadway. | me New York} yaa 8. The he bu extingy tops ral Mrs, Mesinn Without a Sec i the ttme.” | Oetogenarian ‘BOAT UPSET AND ed Two Brothers, E who ow an f Broker Fr k noon a Wom a Winner ra Thinks There Were Thieves Ma Mount a Unconscious, njur —— ‘INCIDENTS OF THE FIRE. tie man, 1 Broker elghs 20 ankin rome! by, to free, but nar nt ried dead, na, who Was among the Hellev elahty-five tried to ne gas inconscious from the He ts not BOY LOST. j > fa [Lighthouse Tender, with Hix Som ; ne ‘Tried a Perilous Trip. : ‘| ‘The fourteensyear-old Dantes Wright, a lighthouse tender in the Kast River, w rowned off Randalls [siagd to-day, Wright and the boy were in rowboat on thelr way to put oil in a | lsat near North Brother Island waen 1! SOUNDED THE ALARM. |iway. sna sucked siner by the cursine ® t real —_—_——— but Wright managed to keep afloa f to “| ALF Besand, head bookkeeper at the |e Wht Cescued, He was taken aa Park Avenue Hotel, said Ran Is) The As soon as the fire had broke — —~ Mr I the armory, at the first intimation SIRE BROTHERS ENJOINED. wv (wa n unknow vuld be able to cover more were unhesitating in de-) MANY IN to be neglect of the proper pre- cautl ——S— Telegrams graph office a of the countr: the safe! HOTEL PEOPLE MUST EXPLAIN. gin, of Clevell was asked Why [on ihe fifth Inspector Thompeon FOR THE MISSING, auiries was for Mri ed myself t Uifferent | all the floor mat in tm wixth QUIRIES pouring into the t the hotel from all Ys Aeking questions ats ; tele and, fluor, im her ted Casi Keulon ty take hls com- (he fatalities were so many in aa of father in Washington, She is misaing./ alten ieee ht New 3 t Thentr ted ne Sup CLERMONT AVENU SKATING RINK, BACE MEET TO-NIGUT. “OMISSION 1@ orty= ges the plans are not according ntract Amusements