Buffalo, New York
Hotel Broezel Fire
September 17, 1913
Six Men Injured in $100,000 Fire at
Buffalo Hotel
Buffalo, Sept. 17.-- Fire which broke
out in the plant of Dirnberger Popcorn company,
No. 135 Seneca street this morning spread to the
Hotel Broezel and within a few minutes the
third, fourth and fifth floor of the hotel were
ablaze.
No one was killed, but six men were injured.
They are:
John J. Ryan,
Boston, bruises on right ankle.
M. H. Day, New Manchester, O., bruised back
and body.
Captain Nerchel,
engine company No. 7,
fractured left leg.
E. J. Voye, Boston, bruises on right side.
E. J. Fair, Saginaw, Mich., injured by
running into side door in dense smoke.
W. A. Williamson, Newark, N. J., who was
overcome by smoke.
The hotel corridors were filled with smoke
and flame, and policemen and employes of the
house rushed through the hallways to arouse the
guests.
Doors were battered down and frightened men,
women and children were handed down the
stairways and elevators to the lobby.
Within fifteen minutes after the alarm was
raised the top floors of the hotel were a
seething mass of flames and it was with
difficulty guests not aroused when the first cry
of fire was raised were carried to safety.
The total loss will be over $100,000.
Syracuse Herald, Syracuse, NY 17 Sept
1913
Fire Fighters are Injured.
Buffalo, N. Y. -- That there was no loss
of life in the fire which swept the upper two
floods of the Hotel Broezel was made certain
when the list of the 250 guests, who fled to the
other hotels, were accounted for.
The total loss from the fire was $500,00,
divided as follows: Eureka Coffee Co.,
$200,000; Hotel Broezel, $150,00;
Dirnberger Pop
Corn Co., $150.000. Two fire captains and
five guests received minor injuries.
Elryia Democrat, Elryia OH, 18 Sept 1913
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