Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1902 — Fire Causes Panic in Hotel. [ARTICLE]

Fire Causes Panic in Hotel.

Fire and panic threatened the lives and property or the guests of the Plaza hotel at New York for an hour or more Friday, but the blaze was extinguished by the tire department after It had done $5,000 damage. The guests of the hotel, mostly women, were nearly all at luncheon when the cry of fire rang through the corridors. Women crowded the elevators while smoke in dense clouds terrified and stifled them. The two elevator boys stuck to their posts and carried as many to the street as they could.