100 Dead in Hotel Disaster
100 Dead in Hotel Disaster
Clip: 344051_1_1
Year Shot: 1933
(Estimated Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1510
Original Film: 006-310-01
HD: N/A
Location: LANSING, MI
Timecode: 00:31:07 - 00:32:50
Shaky light in contrast and imagery State legislators and many prominent citizens are burned to death or drowned in the icy waters of a river while they struggle to escape flames raging through the hotel kerns in one of the worst disasters the Mid-west has experienced in several years. Falling walls and bitter cold hamper the efforts of firemen, caught between the inferno in the building and the inclement weather. Automobiles parked in the street are crushed under tons of masonry. Many victims remain unidentified after the hotel register is destroyed. Horror-stricken spectators stand by, powerless to aid, watching in grim silence as trapped men and women leap to their deaths on the pavement and in the adjacent river