Saratoga, New York Fire

June 9, 1902

DIE IN A FIRE.

HOTEL HORROR AT SARATOGA IN WHICH EIGHT PEOPLE LOSE THEIR LIVES.

GREAT DAMAGE DONE.

FLAMES SPREAD TO SURROUNDING BUILDINGS AND LOSS WILL BE $500,000.

SARATOGA, N. Y., June 9. – The block opposite the United States hotel is in flames. The Daily Sartogian, the Arcade, the Western Union telegraph office and the telephone office have been destroyed. Three fatalities are reported. The Citizens’ National bank building, the store of Tyng, the hatter, C. L. Haskins’ jewelry store and Brunner’s news room were also burned. The loss is over $500,000.

EIGHT PROBABLY BURNED.

MRS. ELIZABETH M. MABIE is known to be dead, and sever persons are missing and are probably dead. They are MR. and MRS. HOWLAND, MISS FOSTER, MISS AHEARN, MRS. OWENS and MISS MORRIS. The fire started in the Arcade building and spread quickly to the Shackleford block, and it was practically destroyed.

Later. – The dead so far as known are MRS. ELIZABETH MABIE, and the missing are DAVID HOWLAND, the Arcade janitor, and his wife; MRS. SARAH OWEN and MISS HARRINGTON. These are undoubtedly dead.

Fort Wayne News, Fort Wayne, IN 9 Jun 1902

SARATOGA, N. Y., June 9. – Fire early to-day destroyed the Arcade and the Citizens’ National Bank block and the Shackleford building and caused the loss of five lives.

The dead are:
MRS. ELIZABETH M. MABEE, suffocated and body rescued by firemen.
MRS. SARAH OWENS, burned to death, body recovered.
DAVID HOWLAND, burned to death, body recovered.
MISS FARRINGTON, burned to death, body still in the ruins.
CHIEF ENGINEER ELIAS CHADWICK was severely injured while rescuing people from the building and to-night his condition is critical.

Daily Gazette and Bulletin, Williamsport, PA 10 Jun 1902

SARATOGA VICTIM.

Saratoga, N. Y., June 10. – The body of MISS MARY F. CHARRINGTON, the fifth victim of the fire which destroyed the Arcade and other buildings, was taken from the ruins today.

The Daily Northwestern, Oshkosh, WI 10 June 1902.

PERISH IN FLAMES
SEVERAL LIVES LOST BY FIRE AT SARATOGA, N. Y.
FATALITIES IN BIG BLAZE
A NUMBER OF BODIES YET IN THE RUINS.
PROPERTY LOSS IS HEAVY
EARLY MORNING FIRE HAS A TRAGIC RESULT.

Saratoga, N. Y., June 9. – One person was killed, one fatally injured, two others severely hurt and a number are reported missing as the result of a fire here early today.

The property destroyed was valued at $300,000, with estimated insurance of $175,000.

THE CASUALTIES.

The dead:
MRS. MABIE.

Injured:
FIRE CHIEF SHADWICK, badly burned about head, fatally, it is feared.
MRS. HART.
Servant girl, name unknown.

The missing:
MRS. OWENS.
MRS. M. C. HART.
MRS. AHERN.
DAVID HOWLAND and wife.
MRS. MORRIS.
MISS MORRIS AND MISS IDA FOSTER.
MRS. SARAH OWNERS.
MISS MARY F. FARRINGTON.

The fire is believed to have caused five fatalities besides the death of MRS. MABIE. Search will be made for bodies as soon as the ruins are sufficiently cool.

MRS. MABIE, who was burned to death, was asleep in her apartments in the Arcade.

FIRE STARTED IN ARCADE.
The fire started in the Arcade building, on Broadway, and destroyed that building, together with the Shakleford and the Theater Saratoga, located in the Citizens’ National bank building. That portion of the latter building occupied by the bank was damaged only by water. The contents of the safes and deposit vaults remain intact.

Fortunately there was no wind. Otherwise the fire, which was in the heart of the city and not far from several of the largest hotels, might have developed into a general conflagration.

By hard work the firemen succeeded in checking the flames and at 5:25 a. m. the fire pronounced to be under control.

CHIEF SHADWICK was injured in rescuing MRS. HART from one of the burning buildings.

The missing persons were tenants of the Arcade building. The burned buildings were occupied by offices and stores, among them being the post office, the Daily Saratogian, newspaper, the Western Union Telegraph Co., Saratoga and Boston Telegraph Co., Municipal Telegraph and Stock Co., Saratoga county treasurer’s office and theater Saratoga.

Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel, Fort Wayne, IN 11 Jun 1902

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