FLAMES IN HOTEL ARE DEATH TRAP
ROBINETTE HOSTELRY BURNS AND TWO SHORT LINE MEN PERISH.
WILLIAM TRAVERS AND ROY CORNELIUS DEAD
Several of the Guests and Hotel Proprietor Are Burned and Injured From Jumping—Special Train Carrying Physicians Sent From Huntington to Scene of Conflagration.
HUNTINGTON, Or., Oct. 5.—Roy Cornelius and William Travers, two Oregon Short Line employes, both of Pocatello, Idaho, were burnt to death last night when fire destroyed frame hotel at Robinette, Oregon.
P. E. Parsons, of Nampa, an Oregon Short Line superintendent, was severely burned but jumped from the hotel, saving his life. His condition is very critical.
Patrick Brenn of Weiser, Idaho, and Mrs. G. O. White, whose home is near Cambridge, Idaho, also jumped and were injured.
J. B. McGhic, hotel proprietor along with several other guests were injured by burns and jumping from the burning building.
A large building near the hotel was also destroyed by flames.
A special train, carrying physicians was sent from Huntington to Robinette as soon as word of the fire reached this place.
Robinette In Baker County:
The little town of Robinette nestles in the Snake river canyon in the Baker county north of Huntington. When the railroad was built to Oxbow and Homestead this town became a traffic point for the people of Eagle valley who drive to Robinette and there take the railroad. All freight for Eagle valley gees in by thy Robinette and it has caused a little village to spring up on the Snake river. The buildings there are all frame.
Findagrave does not recognize the town of Robinette, Baker County, Oregon. The town is now under the waters of Brownlee Reservoir, which was created by the damming of the Snake River by the Brownlee Dam in 1958. Before the flooding, the Robinette Store was moved to Richland, where it still stands today. (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinette,_Oregon)
Roy was burned to death in the Robinette Hotel where he was staying while working for the Union Pacific Railroad (Oregon Short Line)
ROBINETTE HOSTELRY BURNS AND TWO SHORT LINE MEN PERISH.
WILLIAM TRAVERS AND ROY CORNELIUS DEAD
Several of the Guests and Hotel Proprietor Are Burned and Injured From Jumping—Special Train Carrying Physicians Sent From Huntington to Scene of Conflagration.
HUNTINGTON, Or., Oct. 5.—Roy Cornelius and William Travers, two Oregon Short Line employes, both of Pocatello, Idaho, were burnt to death last night when fire destroyed frame hotel at Robinette, Oregon.
P. E. Parsons, of Nampa, an Oregon Short Line superintendent, was severely burned but jumped from the hotel, saving his life. His condition is very critical.
Patrick Brenn of Weiser, Idaho, and Mrs. G. O. White, whose home is near Cambridge, Idaho, also jumped and were injured.
J. B. McGhic, hotel proprietor along with several other guests were injured by burns and jumping from the burning building.
A large building near the hotel was also destroyed by flames.
A special train, carrying physicians was sent from Huntington to Robinette as soon as word of the fire reached this place.
Robinette In Baker County:
The little town of Robinette nestles in the Snake river canyon in the Baker county north of Huntington. When the railroad was built to Oxbow and Homestead this town became a traffic point for the people of Eagle valley who drive to Robinette and there take the railroad. All freight for Eagle valley gees in by thy Robinette and it has caused a little village to spring up on the Snake river. The buildings there are all frame.
Findagrave does not recognize the town of Robinette, Baker County, Oregon. The town is now under the waters of Brownlee Reservoir, which was created by the damming of the Snake River by the Brownlee Dam in 1958. Before the flooding, the Robinette Store was moved to Richland, where it still stands today. (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinette,_Oregon)
Roy was burned to death in the Robinette Hotel where he was staying while working for the Union Pacific Railroad (Oregon Short Line)
FLAMES IN HOTEL ARE DEATH TRAP
ROBINETTE HOSTELRY BURNS AND TWO SHORT LINE MEN PERISH.
WILLIAM TRAVERS AND ROY CORNELIUS DEAD
Several of the Guests and Hotel Proprietor Are Burned and Injured From Jumping—Special Train Carrying Physicians Sent From Huntington to Scene of Conflagration.
HUNTINGTON, Or., Oct. 5.—Roy Cornelius and William Travers, two Oregon Short Line employes, both of Pocatello, Idaho, were burnt to death last night when fire destroyed frame hotel at Robinette, Oregon.
P. E. Parsons, of Nampa, an Oregon Short Line superintendent, was severely burned but jumped from the hotel, saving his life. His condition is very critical.
Patrick Brenn of Weiser, Idaho, and Mrs. G. O. White, whose home is near Cambridge, Idaho, also jumped and were injured.
J. B. McGhic, hotel proprietor along with several other guests were injured by burns and jumping from the burning building.
A large building near the hotel was also destroyed by flames.
A special train, carrying physicians was sent from Huntington to Robinette as soon as word of the fire reached this place.
Robinette In Baker County:
The little town of Robinette nestles in the Snake river canyon in the Baker county north of Huntington. When the railroad was built to Oxbow and Homestead this town became a traffic point for the people of Eagle valley who drive to Robinette and there take the railroad. All freight for Eagle valley gees in by thy Robinette and it has caused a little village to spring up on the Snake river. The buildings there are all frame.
Findagrave does not recognize the town of Robinette, Baker County, Oregon. The town is now under the waters of Brownlee Reservoir, which was created by the damming of the Snake River by the Brownlee Dam in 1958. Before the flooding, the Robinette Store was moved to Richland, where it still stands today. (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinette,_Oregon)
Roy was burned to death in the Robinette Hotel where he was staying while working for the Union Pacific Railroad (Oregon Short Line)
ROBINETTE HOSTELRY BURNS AND TWO SHORT LINE MEN PERISH.
WILLIAM TRAVERS AND ROY CORNELIUS DEAD
Several of the Guests and Hotel Proprietor Are Burned and Injured From Jumping—Special Train Carrying Physicians Sent From Huntington to Scene of Conflagration.
HUNTINGTON, Or., Oct. 5.—Roy Cornelius and William Travers, two Oregon Short Line employes, both of Pocatello, Idaho, were burnt to death last night when fire destroyed frame hotel at Robinette, Oregon.
P. E. Parsons, of Nampa, an Oregon Short Line superintendent, was severely burned but jumped from the hotel, saving his life. His condition is very critical.
Patrick Brenn of Weiser, Idaho, and Mrs. G. O. White, whose home is near Cambridge, Idaho, also jumped and were injured.
J. B. McGhic, hotel proprietor along with several other guests were injured by burns and jumping from the burning building.
A large building near the hotel was also destroyed by flames.
A special train, carrying physicians was sent from Huntington to Robinette as soon as word of the fire reached this place.
Robinette In Baker County:
The little town of Robinette nestles in the Snake river canyon in the Baker county north of Huntington. When the railroad was built to Oxbow and Homestead this town became a traffic point for the people of Eagle valley who drive to Robinette and there take the railroad. All freight for Eagle valley gees in by thy Robinette and it has caused a little village to spring up on the Snake river. The buildings there are all frame.
Findagrave does not recognize the town of Robinette, Baker County, Oregon. The town is now under the waters of Brownlee Reservoir, which was created by the damming of the Snake River by the Brownlee Dam in 1958. Before the flooding, the Robinette Store was moved to Richland, where it still stands today. (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinette,_Oregon)
Roy was burned to death in the Robinette Hotel where he was staying while working for the Union Pacific Railroad (Oregon Short Line)
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