Fire at Lincoln Hotel, Seattle, April 7, 1920 (MOHAI 1278)

The Seattle Fire Department battled a large blaze at the Hotel Lincoln on April 7, 1920. The fire broke out in the middle of the night in the hotel's basement laundry room. By the time it was discovered, it had had burned upwards inside the walls. Many guests were trapped upstairs and had to be rescued by ladder or rope. Three guests and a fireman died in the blaze, but more than 300 others were rescued.
Handwritten on sleeve: Fire Lincoln Hotel. Caption by MOHAI staff.
Subjects (LCTGM): Fires--Washington (State)--Seattle; Fire engines & equipment--Washington (State)--Seattle; Hotels--Washington (State)--Seattle