June 25, 1973, AP - UPI

June 25, 1973, New Orleans States-Item, Labeling the Dead: An Impossible Job?


June 25, 1973, AP - Observer-Reporter [Washington, PA] page 1, Fire Kills 20 In New Orleans French Quarter,
June 25, 1973, AP - The Victoria Advocate, page 1, New Orleans Fire Kills 20,
June 25, 1973, New York Times, page 1, Flash Fire in New Orleans Kills at Least 32 in Bar, by Roy Reed.
June 25, 1973, UPI - The Sun [San Bernardino, CA] page 1, New Orleans fire leaves 38 dead, by Joseph A. Reaves,
June 25, 1973, AP - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, page A13, 28 Perish In Blaze, [continued page A13]
June 25, 1973, AP - The Post-Standard [Syracuse, NY] page 1, New Orleans Fire Claims 28 Lives; Tavern Swept by Blaze,
June 25, 1973, AP - The Kansas City Times, page 1, New Orleans Fire Kills 28,
June 25, 1973, AP - The Kansas City Times, page 6B, Stand-Alone Photo, Fatal Fire,
June 25, 1973, UPI - The Waco News-Tribune, page 1, 28 Persons Die in Fire,
June 25, 1973, The Milwaukee Sentinel, page 1, Patrons Trapped in 2nd Floor Bar; New Orleans Fire Kills 28; Witness Say Blaze Was Set,
June 25, 1973, AP - Bangor Daily News, page 2, Fire claims 28 in New Orleans,
June 25, 1973, AP - The Evening Times [Waverly, NY] page 1, Burglar Bars Trapped Most of 29 Who Died in New Orleans Fire,
June 25, 1973, AP - The Daily Times [Salisbury, MD] page 1, 29 Die In Fire In New Orleans Pleasure Club,
June 25, 1973, AP - The Times Record [Troy, NY] page 1, 29 Bar Patrons Trapped, Die In New Orleans Fire,
June 25, 1973, AP - Santa Cruz Sentinel [CA] page 1, Nightclub Fire Kills 29 Persons In New Orleans,
June 25, 1973, AP - The Bee [Danville, VA] page 1, 29 Persons Die In Lounge Fire,
June 25, 1973, AP - The Daily Times-News, page 1, 29 Killed In New Orleans Blaze, by Eric Newhouse,
June 25, 1973, AP - Wilmington News-Journal [OH] page 14, New Orleans blaze claims 29,
June 25, 1973, AP - Indiana Evening Gazette [PA] page 1, 29 Sie In New Orleans 'Up Stairs Bar' Blaze; 15 Others Injured As Tragedy Halts 'Beer Bust' Party,
June 25, 1973, AP - Arizona Daily Sun [Flagstaff] page 2, 29 Charred Bodies Pulled From Bar,
June 25, 1973, AP - The Kane Republican [PA] page 1, 29 Trapped, Die in Fire at New Orleans, by Eric Newhouse,
June 25, 1973, AP - Nashua Telegraph [NH] page 1, 29 Killed, 15 Injured In New Orleans Blaze,
June 25, 1973, AP - Reading Eagle [PA] page 19, Fire in Lounge Rakes 29 Lives,
June 25, 1973, AP - Eugene Register-Guard, page 3A, 29 die in New Orleans fire; Possibility of arson investigated,
June 25, 1973, AP - The Oregonian, Fire leaves 'mass of dead' in bar; French Quarter revelers trapped,
June 25, 1973, UPI - The Brownsville Herald [TX] page 1, Arson Suspected In Fire Fatal To 29 Bar Patrons,
June 25, 1973, UPI - Wellsville Daily Reporter [NY] page 1, 29 persons die in New Orleans blaze,
June 25, 1973, UPI - The Amarillo Globe [TX] page 1, New Orleans Bar Fire Kills 29,
June 25, 1973, AP - The Amarillo Globe [TX] page 2, Survivors Say Arson Caused Fatal Blaze,
June 25, 1973, UPI - The Times [San Mateo, CA] page 1, New Orleans Fire Kills 29 Bar Patrons,
June 25, 1973, UPI - Galesburg Register-Mail [IL] page 1, 29 Killed in New Orleans Fire, Authorities Say Arson Suspected,
June 25, 1973, UPI - Pharos-Tribune & Press [Logansport, IN] page 1, French Quarter Fire Kills 29, by Joseph A. Reaves,
June 25, 1973, UPI - Lodi News-Sentinel [CA] page 1, French Quarter flames kill 29 in New Orleans,
June 25, 1973, UPI - New Journal, Stand-Alone Photo, page 6, Gruesome Task,
June 25, 1973, AP - The Kansas City Star, page 5, Unpleasant Fire Cleanup,
June 25, 1973, AP - Lewiston Evening Journal [Maine] 29 Perish In New Orleans Bar Fire, by Eric Newhouse and Ed Tunstall,
June 25, 1973, AP - The Abilene [TX] Reporter-News, Arson Eyed in New Orleans Fire, by Eric Newhouse, AP Writer,
June 25, 1973, AP - Wilmington News-Journal [OH] page 8, Snake handlers ignore court ban,
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June 25, 1973, AP - Observer-Reporter, page 1, Fire Kills 20 In New Orleans French Quarter,


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June 25, 1973, AP - The Victoria Advocate, page 1, New Orleans Fire Kills 20,



Fire swept through a second story bar in the French Quarter Sunday night, leaving 20 dead in what the coroner called "a mass of death."

After touring the scene, where bodies lay stacked under a burned piano and jammed against three windows, Coroner Carl Rabin said he would verify at least 20 dead. Earlier he had said there were as many as 28.
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June 25, 1973, New York Times, page A1, Flash Fire in New Orleans Kills at Least 32 in Bar, by Roy Reed, [continued on page 66]

At least 32 persons were reported killed in a flash fire in a French Quarter bar tonight. Another 15 were injured, nine of them seriously. The figure of 32 dead was not an official estimate, but was reported by an ambulance company that was helping the coroner's staff remove the bodies.

United Press International quoted Police Sgt. Frank Hayward as saying that 38 persons died, including nine who jumped from second-floor windows in panic.

Fire Department officials said they strongly suspected that the fire had been set by two men who had earlier been thrown out of the bar and returned and threw gasoline in a downstairs bar and in the stairway leading to the second-floor place.

The bar, a second-floor place called the Upstairs, was packed with a Sunday evening crowd drawn by a weekly "beer bust" and show given by the bar. A bartender and 35 or 30 customers escaped through a back door.

A witness who had left seconds before the fire started said all the customers appeared to be men.

None of the victims were identified. Many of the bodies were charred so badly that identification of them may not be finished for two weeks, a [Continued on Page 66, Column 4] spokesman for the coroner said.

Three hours after the fire was extinguished, rescue workers had still been able to remove only a few bodies. A reporter who saw the second-floor scene before the police blockaded it said he saw "at least 20 bodies, all melted together," jammed against the front windows. Three bodies still lay in the windows, one with head and shoulders protruding through the frame, hours after the fire was out.

Fire Chief William J. McCrossen said that the fire might have been the worst in the city's history. He said its cause was "under investigation."

Some firemen reportedly heard witnesses say that the fire had been set by an angry customer.

Two young men from Pineville, in central Louisiana, said they had entered the bar shortly before the fire started, but had left at once because they "didn't like the looks of the place." A neighboring bartender said the place was frequented by homosexuals.

"We walked in and there were two guys arguing," William White said. He and his companion, Garry Williams, left immediately and had walked about half a block when he looked back and saw the second floor of the building in flames, Mr. White said.

The bar was in an old three-story building at Iberville and Chartres Streets, one block from Canal Street and a few blocks from the Mississippi River.

Four men, including one or two seamen lived in rooms on the third floor, but they apparently were not hurt. Neither were occupants of a second bar on the first floor. All the victims were thought to be in the second-floor bar.

The fire was brought under control in about 20 minutes.

Douglas M. Rasmussen, the bartender at The Upstairs, said he heard the doorbell ringing before the fire, indicating that someone wanted to be admitted.

"I saw the front door opened and it stayed open for a second," he said. "That's when the flames started coming in. I took 25 or 30 people out the back way with me."

Walter Harris, a bartender at a place next door, said The Upstairs "puts on shows on Sunday nights, playing the piano and all."

Siege Last January

Last Jan. 7 and 8, the 18-story Howard Johnson's Motel in New Orleans was gripped in terror for 30 hours after a band of gunmen---the precise number was never determined---set fire to rooms on the upper floors, shot guests and then engaged the police in a long gunfight.

Seven persons were killed, including three policemen and Mark James Robert Essex, a 23-year-old rifle-toting black who was flushed from a rooftop hideout by police marksmen in a hovering helicopter. Fifteen others were wounded, eight seriously.

Some six weeks earlier, six persons died when a fire swept the upper floors of the 16-story Rault Center Building, across the street from the motel. Three of the victims died when they plunged eight stories from burning rooms, another was found dead in a hallway, and two others succumbed weeks later of burns.





Photo: Associated Press
View of The Upstairs, bar in the French Quarter of New Orleans, after fire last night

Graphic. The New York Times / June 25, 1973: "New Orleans French Quarter,"
corner of Iberville and Chartres Streets, one block from the U.S. Custom House; several blocks [quarter mile or so] from the river.
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June 25, 1973, UPI - The Sun [San Bernardino, CA] page 1, New Orleans fire leaves 38 dead, by Joseph A. Reaves,







NEW ORLEANS (UPI) -- A flash fire swept through a French Quarter bar last night, trapping dozens of patrons in the flames and heat. Police said 38 persons were killed, including nine who jumped from second-floor windows in panic.

"That's official -- 38," said police spokesman Frank Hayward. "We have 29 here and nine at the hospital."

Police said 15 persons jumped into the street to escape the fire and nine of those died at Charity Hospital. The bodies of the other victims were found in the "Upstairs" bar, a lounge no bigger than a large living room.

The only persons injured were the six who survived the plunge. They had to kick out plywood veneers which covered lounge windows.

"We got 24 down and there's five still up there," one fireman said of those who could not escape the flames.

New Orleans Fire Chief William McCrossen said, "It was a rapid moving fire." He said the flames "did not extend beyond the second floor" of the three-story building.

There was only one entrance to the bar, although there was a fire escape at the windows. Bodies of the victims were found in the bathroom, across the floor and at least three bodies were visible from the street, crumbled under a charred window.

McCrossen said one of the first firemen on the scene told him the building was "a complete inferno." The cause of the fire was undetermined.

Police, however, questioned a number of persons, including two who left the bar because of an argument involving two customers minutes before the fire started.

One witness said he saw three persons jump out of second-floor windows.

"I saw the first guy jump out and I saw the second guy land right behind him," the witness said.

"They didn't move when they hit. The fire trucks drove up just as the third guy was jumping. The third guy weighed about 300 pounds and he was still on fire when he hit the street."

Another witness said one of the injured ran screaming from the building, located only two streets off famed Bourbon Street, with all his clothes burned off.

"One lady was in the street screaming 'Please, God, call somebody'," said a resident of a nearby French Quarter hotel. "One guy was running down the street with his hands in the air and blood streaming down his face. The rescue units had to stop him, he didn't know where he was running."

"I've lived in this city all my life and I've seen films of the Rault fire, but this was unbelievable."

The fire was put out by firemen only 16 minutes after it was reported, but it moved so rapidly through the building many patrons apparently were cut off from fire escapes.

Police said bodies of dead and injured who jumped out windows to escape the flames were lying in the street when they arrived.

"I saw the front door open and stay open for a second and that's when I saw the flames come in," said Douglas M. Rasmusfen, a bartender on the ground floor Jimani Lounge. "I took about 25 or 30 people out the back exit when I went."

The second floor of the building housed another cocktail lounge and the third floor also had a small bar.

Antoinette Evelyn Harris, who runs the second-floor cocktail lounge, said, "I was playing bingo when somebody came up to me and said 'My God, Evelyn, your place is on fire'."
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June 25, 1973, AP - Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, page A13, 28 Perish In Blaze, [continued page A13]
 
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June 25, 1973, AP - The Post-Standard [Syracuse, NY] page 1, New Orleans Fire Claims 28 Lives; Tavern Swept by Blaze,

  
Linn Quinton, 25, of Houston, TX
Bert Barere, assistant Orleans Parish coroner
Coroner Carl Rabin
Fire Supt. William McCrossan
Kenneth Meynard, assistant chief of security, Marriott
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June 25, 1973, AP - The Kansas City Times, page 1, New Orleans Fire Kills 28,



McCrossan said, "It could be one of the worst fires in the city's history in terms of people killed."

"It is burned so badly in here it is hard to tell what happened." Kenneth Maynard, assistant chief of security at the Marriott, said, "It went up real quick. From the second floor up, flames were already at the windows when they started to jump out."
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June 25, 1973, AP - Bangor Daily News, page 2, Fire claims 28 in New Orleans,


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June 25, 1973, AP - The Kansas City Times, page 6B, Stand-Alone Photo, Fatal Fire,

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June 25, 1973, UPI - The Waco News-Tribune, page 1, 28 Persons Die in Fire,


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June 25, 1973, The Milwaukee Sentinel, page 1, Patrons Trapped in 2nd Floor Bar; New Orleans Fire Kills 28; Witness Say Blaze Was Set,


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Coroner Carl Rabin said he found bodies stacked near a stairwell and that it appears there may be more.

Cause of the fire was unknown, but witnesses told firemen that an angry bar patron set a fire in the washroom.
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"All we can say is there is heavy loss of life," said Mr. Crossan. "It certainly...far aas death toll, it certainly may be one of the worst in New Orleans history. It was a rapid moving fire."

Bodies of the victims were on the street when police and firemen arrived and at least three bodies were visible from the street, crumbled under a charred window.

One witness said he saw three persons jump out of a second-floor windows.
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Another witness said one of the injured ran screaming from the building, located only two streets off famed Bourbon Street, with all his clothes burned off.
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June 25, 1973, AP - The Evening Times [Waverly, NY] page 1, Burglar Bars Trapped Most of 29 Who Died in New Orleans Fire,


Adolph Medina, 32, of San Antonio
Bill Larson, a pastor at the Metropolitan Community Church
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June 25, 1973, AP - The Daily Times [Salisbury, MD] page 1, 29 Die In Fire In New Orleans Pleasure Club,



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June 25, 1973, AP - The Times Record [Troy, NY] page 1, 29 Bar Patrons Trapped, Die In New Orleans Fire,


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June 25, 1973, AP - Santa Cruz Sentinel [CA] page 1, Nightclub Fire Kills 29 Persons In New Orleans,

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June 25, 1973, AP - The Bee [Danville, VA] page 1, 29 Persons Die In Lounge Fire,

  
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June 25, 1973, AP - The Daily Times-News, page 1, 29 Killed In New Orleans Blaze, by Eric Newhouse,

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June 25, 1973, AP - Wilmington News-Journal [OH] page 14, New Orleans blaze claims 29,

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June 25, 1973, AP - Indiana Evening Gazette [PA] page 1, 29 Die In New Orleans 'Up Stairs Bar' Blaze; 15 Others Injured As Tragedy Halts 'Beer Bust' Party,





June 25, 1973, AP - Indiana Evening Gazette [PA] page 1, The Blaze Lasted Only 16 Minutes,

NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) -- The suspicious speed of a fire that killed 29 people at a Sunday night "beer bust" in a French Quarter bar was under close investigation today.

For the 29 that death found trapped in The Up Stairs lounge, located on the second floor of a three-story building, the end was like a quick, searing blast from a blow torch.

Firemen said the fire lasted about 16 minutes. It consumed the interior of the bar but apparently did little serious structural damage to the old stone and brick building.

Courtney Craighead, a survivor, said he believes somebody dashed an inflammable liquid on the stairway and lit it.

"The fire came up the stairs fast," he said. "There was an immense smoke in the room immediately."

Fire Supt. William McCrossen said homicide investigators and the state fire marshal would take a careful look at reports that "some people smelled gasoline just before the fire."

However, he cautioned, such reports were unconfirmed.

Craighead, a deacon of the Metropolitan Community church, said he got out by a rear exit, following a bartender who led about 20 men to safety.

Most others in the bar were trapped. Those who lived had to leap for their lives.

"There's nothing like seeing human fireballs break through a window and jump -- and never a word from them, not a scream, not a groan, nothing," said a shaken young man who lives in a second-floor apartment directly across the narrow street.

The young man, who declined to identify himself, said he was looking out his window because of the insistent honking of a white auto which had paused in the street by The Up Stairs stairway entrance.

He said two men dashed down the stairs and got in the car.

Moments later, he said, fire erupted in the lounge and he watched horrified as several men, hair and clothing already aflame, smashed window glass with their shoes and scrambled out onto the fire escape landing.
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June 25, 1973, AP - Arizona Daily Sun [Flagstaff] page 2, 29 Charred Bodies Pulled From Bar,

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June 25, 1973, AP - The Kane Republican [PA] page 1, 29 Trapped, Die in Fire at New Orleans, by Eric Newhouse,


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June 25, 1973, Nashua Telegraph [NH] page 1, 29 Killed, 15 Injured In New Orleans Blaze,



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June 25, 1973, AP - Reading Eagle [PA] page 19, Fire in Lounge Rakes 29 Lives,


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June 25, 1973, AP - Eugene Register-Guard, page 3A, 29 die in New Orleans fire; Possibility of arson investigated,


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June 25, 1973, The Oregonian, Fire leaves 'mass of dead' in bar; French Quarter revelers trapped,

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June 25, 1973, UPI - The Brownsville Herald [TX] page 1, Arson Suspected In Fire Fatal To 29 Bar Patrons,





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June 25, 1973, UPI - Wellsville Daily Reporter [NY] page 1, 29 persons die in New Orleans blaze,

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June 25, 1973, UPI - The Amarillo Globe [TX] page 1, New Orleans Bar Fire Kills 29,



June 25, 1973, AP - The Amarillo Globe [TX] page 2, Survivors Say Arson Caused Fatal Blaze,


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June 25, 1973, UPI - The Times [San Mateo, CA] page 1, New Orleans Fire Kills 29 Bar Patrons,




  
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June 25, 1973, UPI - Galesburg Register-Mail [IL] page 1, 29 Killed in New Orleans Fire, Authorities Say Arson Suspected,

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June 25, 1973, UPI - Pharos-Tribune & Press [Logansport, IN] page 1, French Quarter Fire Kills 29, by Joseph A. Reaves,


NEW ORLEANS (UPI) -- A flash fire raced through a small upstairs bar in New Orleans' famed French Quarter Sunday night, killing 29 persons.

Authorities said today there was some evidence of arson.

Fifteen persons escaped death by bolting through a second story window, but they were all injured in the plunge. Another five or six persons perched on a window ledge or a fire escape until they were rescued by firemen.

"The detective bureau is investigating witnesses, looking into the possibility of arson," said Frank Hayward, information officer for the New Orleans Police Department.

William J. McCrossen, New Orleans fire superintendent, said the blaze began on one side of the second floor lounge, a bar about the size of a living room. A bathroom--and the only exit--were located on the side where the fire started.

Fire Moved Rapidly

"It was a rapidly moving fire," McCrossen said. "We are checking several reports that some people smelled something that smelled like gasoline."

The four alarm blaze was reported at 7:56 pm. and was brought under control 16 minutes later. In that time 29 persons died, all but a handful clustered at the base of windows on the opposite side of the room from the exit. The bodies of the other victims were found in the bathroom.

The survivors crashed through thin plywood panels, which boarded the windows.

"Fifteen persons were able to leap from the second story of the building and firemen were able to rescue about five or six other people standing on a window ledge and a fire escape," Hayward said.

Six Seriously Hurt

"I heard all the commotion and ran into the street," saif Gene Davis, the owner of a bar two doors down the street. "There was Luther Boggs---I cash checks for him---dancing at the window with his clothes on fire. We told him, 'Jump! Jump! He did, and they took him away to the hospital."

Gary Williamson, 19, of Alexandria, La., said he and a friend went to the lounge minutes before the blaze and left because an argument was going on. Williamson said minutes after leaving he saw flames pouring from the three story building.

Firemen and crews from the Orleans coroner's office worked for more than four hours after the blaze, lifting the charred bodies onto a 65-foot snorkel truck and down to a waiting line of ambulances. Each ambulance carried three or four bodies covered in green vinyl bags.

One witness, a resident of a hotel two blocks away, said he saw three persons jump.

"I saw the first guy jump and I saw the second guy land right behind him," the witness said. "They didn't move when they hit. The third guy weighed about 300 pounds and he was still on fire when he hit the street."

Another witness said one of the injured ran screaming down the street and had to be stopped by firemen.

"One guy was running down the street with his hands in the air and blood streaming down his face. The rescue units had to stop him, he didn't know where he was running."
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June 25, 1973, UPI - Lodi News-Sentinel [CA] page 1, French Quarter flames kill 29 in New Orleans,

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June 25, 1973, New Journal, UPI Stand-Alone Photo, page 6, Gruesome Task,

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June 25, 1973, AP - The Kansas City Star, page 5, Unpleasant Fire Cleanup,



Death Scene
This view of the Up Stairs Lounge following a flash fire that left 29 persons dead and 15 injured. Most of the victims were found near the windows in the background. The bar is in the French Quarter of New Orleans. (Wirephoto)



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June 25, 1973, Lewiston Evening Journal [Maine] 29 Perish In New Orleans Bar Fire, by Eric Newhouse and Ed Tunstall,





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June 25, 1973, AP - The Abilene [TX] Reporter-News, Arson Eyed in New Orleans Fire, by Eric Newhouse, Associated Press Writer,

NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) -- The 29 charred bodies of victims killed in a cocktail lounge fire were stacked in the city morgue today, and officials said identification was difficult because most of the bodies were burned beyond recognition.

The brief, intense fire, which swept through a Sunday night beer bust at The Up Stairs Lounge in the French Quarter, trapped most of the victims behind burglar bars.

A police official, calling the lounge a homosexual bar, said identification was made even more difficult because some of the men could have been carrying false identification.

Fifteen men, some of whom got to the fire escape and leaped to the sidewalk one story below, were injured, and six remained in serious condition today. Hospital spokesmen said they feared some would die. Because of the almost unbelievable speed of the blaze, officials said they were checking the possibility of arson.

"There are hints of a fire bombing," said Chief of Detectives HENRY M. MORRIS, "but no evidence has turned up to support it. Every story we get conflicts with every other story."

He said no arrests were anticipated immediately.

One survivor said he believed somebody dashed an inflammable liquid on the stairway to the lounge and lit it.

When the fire broke out, the bar, known locally as a hangout for homosexuals, was packed. Sunday was its biggest day, featuring a 5 to 7 cocktail hour with all you could eat and drink for $2, followed by partying until the wee hours.

Coroner's assistants said they would have to check dental records to get identification for some of the charred bodies.

Some small persons managed to escape by squeezing through the burglar bars on the lounge's front windows and then leaping to the street. Others left the building by smashing a side window and climbed onto a fire escape. A few made their way to another fire escape in the rear.

The bodies of those who did not make it lay jammed like logs against the front windows, with four huddled under a charred grand piano.

Some of the injured apparently were hurt in jumping to the street.

Authorities said there was only one woman among the dead.

Fire headquarters is but three blocks away. Units were on the scene in two minutes, said Supt. WILLIAM McCROSSEN. The fire was out 18 minutes later.

ADOLPH MEDINA, 32, of San Antonio, Tex., said flames engulfed the bar in a short, panic ridden moment after fire broke out on the front stairway. He said, "I was panicked about jumping, but two guys urged me to jump and I was small enough ... Some big guy on the ground caught me, and I kept looking back but my friend never got out."

LINN QUINTON, 25, of Houston, Tex., said, "The place just went up. Everyone panicked and started running for the windows. I jumped to the window in the left corner, opened it, swung out, grabbed a pipe and slid down."

"I turned around and broke a couple of other people's falls, but there were one or two who just wouldn't jump."

QUINTON said: "The bigger people just couldn't get out."

"BILL LARSEN, a pastor at the Metropolitan Community Church, got caught in the window, and I just watched him burn. He had one arm out, and I heard him scream: 'O God! No!"

"In the next window beside him, three people burned to death while I could only watch."

The bar was at the corner of Charters and Iberville, one block off Canal Street and across the street from the back entrance to the Marriott Hotel.

Marriott security guard KENNETH MEYNARD said, "It went up real quick. Second floor, flames were already at the windows when people started jumping."

Police said the floor above the fire-gutted bar included three single-room apartments that were empty at the time.

A bar downstairs and one next door were damaged but there apparently were no injuries in them, police said.

Hundreds of persons swarmed from the busy Quarter area to watch firemen remove the bodies, lowering them one at a time with a snorkle truck.

A bartender set up a bar on the sidewalk across the street and did a brisk business with the spectators.

THE LIST OF FATALITIES:

JOE WILLIAM BAILEY
CLARENCE JOSEPH McCLOSKEY, JR.
DUANE GEORGE MITCHELL
LOUIS HORACE BROUSSARD.
MRS. WILLIE INEZ WARREN.
EDDIE HOSEA WARREN, son.
JAMES CURTIS WARREN, son.
REV. WILLIAM R. LARSON.
DR. PERRY LANE WATERS, JR.
DOUGLAS MAXWELL WILLIAMS.
LEON RICHARD MAPLES.
GEORGE STEVEN MATYI.
LARRY STRATTON.
REGINALD ADAMS, JR.
JAMES WALLS HAMBRICK.
HORACE GETCHELL.
JOSEPH HENRY ADAMS.
HERBERT DEAN COOLEY, bartender.
DAVID STUART GARY, pianist.
GUY D. ANDERSON.
LUTHER BOGGS.
DONALD WALTER DUNBAR.
JOHN THOMAS GOLDING, SR.
ADAM ROLAND FONTENOT.
GERALD HOYT GORDON.
KENNETH PAUL HARRINGTON.
GLENN RICHARD GREEN.
ROBERT LUMPKIN.
FERRIS LeBLANC.
Three Unidentified White Males.
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June 25, 1973, Wilmington News-Journal [OH] page 8, Snake handlers ignore court ban,


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