A Terrible Fire

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 82, 30 December 1890, Page 4

A Terrible Fire

\"" The Leland' Hotel, at Syracuse, Kew . York, v large building six storeys high, ft^i.* 1 I^* on Ocu 15. Over .two hHucfred people were asleep m it at '* ? tn§ x tim6r^ r i'h'e fire began in the kitchen, | aud iv half-au-hiVur the whole buildiug 'was blazing:. IM.auj.-pf the guests escaped *ln4h&r tnght cliithesi many jumpiiigfrom ?^e ''windows! Some were .rescued by ladders. "The •catastrophe was attended —fev-SHme terrible scenes In one instdUj.e, -^a w(mfUn"wag>' beinf» lowered fi'orri v C WJS^ I>W : by * I'opsi a burning window silt kny i-eijad l thje.; Hue, and the liuforturiate . W'i'.nan fell a shapeless uiuss upon the pay nHW»ut b'filow. Many, persons, crazed with .'iiffiightj sjuuiped from the window* : and werei^ashedl, to pieces the , r streetl jOne particularlj affecting scene wae jjVfitoessed. A/man and c wife'were . ;seen t at a ; winfiqw. on the , fifth storey, escape was impossible. The women '^l/iwed " a ''dispbsitiou to juuap into the street below, -bftt "her husband was seen "^eptreafing her upt to, do. so. The crowd '.' were ' imuaedi'a'tely afterwards •^hortbr-sitriekenib see : both husbaiidfand ~mih ais^ppeaT'envelbped 1 inflame. Other yaimilajr tragedies were .witnessed. Many persons jumped , h«vlf;Oaked from .the - -■upper- floors on to some sheds and re* BsSvjßJdjsJsfeioue:! fiijiiries. ' - one-b£ thefnfost e jfsjgb^fe6ij>incidents iv cpnueetion with the '■Ajsasten jwW the death pf a .woman who * leaped ffo^.the 'fifth ajprey; ' The jiplice ■ypere jgre^^eu with diets' to .catch feose r. whQjnadßjhe ternblo- : leap*; .A-nian and , aluipjst the same I C'nVo^i'enoiri6> ''the '"".net,' iirid e'sca.ped with bi^oletfHmfess j The next persoiij'howeyer,, —^roleaped was a .women dressed in hejr £3mjßfc T a^ire7 Wiskn^ tHpiriet she te^l -aWilhialteraftie c^asn '■ upon* the pavement.