Word: smelt
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...impossible to save anything in the rooms on the upper stoies. With but one exception, J. B. Henney, Jr., 1901, of Hartford, Conn., no one was caught in the building. Henney who rooms in number 38 on the top story was reading in his room when he smelt smoke, and on going into the entry was nearly stifled by the dense cloud which was rolling up from the floor below. He attempted to go down the wooden ladder in the air shaft but finding it on fire started down the stairs. Whether he forgot that from the end room...