Atlanta, GA Winecoff Hotel Fire, Dec 1946 - list of dead and injured

ATLANTA, Dec. 9. (AP) - The Winecoff hotel fire death toll climbed to 120 today as multiple investigations were ordered into Saturday's disaster which was the nation's most costly hotel conflagration

Three names were added to the death list. MRS. GEORGE D. BURCH, 20, of Chattanooga, died of injuries suffered when she fell 10 floors to a canvas canopy when an improvised rope of bed linen broke. Her husband, to whom she was married last week, had descended three floors to reach fire ladders.

Two other names which had escaped the Red Cross were recorded. They were CHARLES (BILL) BERRY of Cedartown, Ga., southeastern bowling champion, and JULIA HALL of Albany, Ga., a delegate to a youth congress.

Reno Evening Gazette, Reno, NV 9 Dec 1946

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INJURED
The injured included:
Jane Wallace, Holly Springs, Ark.
Mrs. Alice Ann Gilbert, Portland, Ore.

Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA 7 Dec 1946

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REVISED LIST OF DEAD IN FIRE

Atlanta, Dec. 7-“ (AP) - A revised list of the identified dead in the Winecoff Hotel fire, follows:
Lieut. Comdr. E. A. GONZETT, Norfolk, Va.
W. F. WINECOFF, one of the hotel's builders, and his wife, ATLANTA.
MR. and MRS. WILL D. DICKERSON, Jonesboro, Ga., and their two children, BILL, 7, and MARY MELINDA, 6.
J. R. MOODY, Arlington, Ga.
JOSEPH GOODSON and 4 year-old- boy of Clay City, Ill.
WILLIAM JONES, Oak Ridge, Tenn.
ROBERT CLAY WILLIAMS, Pensacola, Fla.
EDWARD L. PETTIJOHN, Mountain Brook, Ala.
HARRY W. SORRELLS, Ashville, N.C.
BILL BERRY, Cedartown, Ga.
FRED S. SMITH, 13, Fitzgerald, Ga.
DOTSY S. SMITH, 11, Fitzgerald, Ga.
MARY SMITH, 3 Fitzgerald, Ga.
MRS. JOHN WILLIAMS, Cordele, Ga.
WALTER L. BAKER, West Ashville, N. C.
A. J. BURNS, New York City.
M. THEO CONSTANCY, Atlanta.
ELOISE MANSON, Atlanta, Ga.
W. L. ROCHELLE, Marietta, Ga.
MR. and MRS. PETER S. KNOX, Sr., Thomson, Ga.
BILL BRYSON, Asheville, N.C.
CHRISTINE HENSON, Thomaston, Ga.
E. O. THOMAS, Asheville, N.C.
MATSEY DEKLE, Tampa, Fla.
ERIC HAYWORTH ELLIOTT, Oklahoma City, Okla.
ELOISE BUCK, New York City.
MAXINE WILLIS, Bainbridge, Ga.
W. M. CLARENCE, no address.
J. B. SHERRIFF, Atlanta.
JAMES LEWIS McDONALD, Memphis, Tenn.
PHILIP D. DAVIE, Savannah, Ga.
SUE BROOME (girl), Bainbridge, Ga.
WALTER W. BECK, Jacksonville, Fla.
MISS SARAH M. ALDRIDGE, Falkville, Ala.
DR. CARL E. RASMUSSEN, Des Moines, Ia. (attached to Veterans Hospital 48, Atlanta).
DR. and MRS. ROBERT COX, Murphy, N.C.
CHARLES KIETH, Rome, Ga.
MRS. SARAH MILLER, Gordon, Ga.
GEORGE WILLIAM WALDEN, Rome, Ga.
IRENE WILSON, Knoxville, Tenn.
CLEVELAND D. SISK, Asheville, N. C.
JACOB M. MAUSS, Philadelphia, Pa.
EVELYN ADAMS, Thomaston, Ga.
RUTH POWELL, Bainbridge, Ga.
MRS. BORGIA McCOY, Canada.
WILLIAM TODD, Columbia, S.C.
PAUL LAIN, Birmingham, Ala.
MRS. PAUL LAIN, Birmingham, Ala.
PATSY GRIFFIN, Bainbridge, Ga.
PATSY UPHOLD, Thomaston, Ga.
LENA HARRIS, Cofferhill, Tenn.
P. R. MENNIX, Jr., Columbus, Ga.
ROBERT L. SOLLENBERGER, Barnesville, Ga.
H. E. SWANSON, Chicago.
ETHEL STEWART, Ralph, Ala.
IRENE TOLLETT, Atlanta.
CHARLES H. THRUN, Columbus, Ga.
CLARENCE B. BATES, JR., Bainbridge, Ga.
MRS. MARY MINOR, Thomaston, Ga.
NELL SIMS, Barnesville, Ga.
CLARE WILLIAMS, (8 to 10-year-old girl), Cordele, Ga.
FRANK B. HALE JR, Nashville, Tenn.
MRS. JOHN EDWARD SMITH, Fitzgerald, Ga.
HEDY METCALF, Columbus, Ga
BARBARA GOODSON, 2, Clay City, Ill.
MARY LOUISE MURPHY, Bainbridge, Ga.
MARGARET PARKER, Montgomery, Ala.
Lieut. (jg) JAMES R. LITTLE, Charlotte, N.C.
GENE PRUITT, Atlanta.
VIRGINIA TOLBERT, Thomaston, Ga.
B. J. WILLIAMS, Cordele, Ga.
Ens. W. M. JONES, Long Beach, Calif.
MRS. C. T. STEINSPRING, Cornelia, Ga.
MRS. J. E. BROWN, Cornelia, Ga.
ELAINE SULLIVAN, 20, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
JEAN PRUETT, Atlanta.
MRS. FREDA CONSTNGEY, Atlanta.
MRS. FLORENCE A. BAGGETT, Claxton, Ga.
Ensign R. E. WILLIAMS, Naval Air Station, Norfolk, Va.
EDA THOMAS, Asheville, N.C.
MARY ALICE DAVIS, Bainbridge, Ga.
SAM MOONEY, Arlington, Ga.
MRS. J. A. (GLADYS) GOODSON, Clay City, Ill.
MRS. HELEN WALKER, Atlanta.
DOROTHY TYNER, Columbus, Ga.
MRS. CHARLES S. BOSCHUNG, Cullman, Ala.
MARIANNE SCHERLE (or SCHERK), Albany, Ga.
MRS. C. H. TRUEN, Columbia, S.C.

SOME OF INJURED
A revised list of injured included:
Mrs. Kitty Tribble, Rockford, Ill.
Frank W. Tribbill, Newark, N.J.
H. B. Keller, Chicago.
Louis Gilbert, Portland, Ore.
Mrs. Alice Ann Gilbert, Portland, Ore.
Ima Dell Ingram, Rockford, Ill.
E. B. Weatherly, Cochran, Ga.
Bill Dickerson, 7, Jonesboro, Ga.
Mary Melinda Dickerson, Jonesboro, Ga.
Mrs. Robert Dekle, Tampa, Fla.
E. V. Johnson, Asheville, N.C.
Suzanne Moore, Gainesville, Ga.
Capt. DeWitt Lane Morrison, Brunswick, Ga.
Margaret Nichols, no address.
Gloria Reiman, Gulfport, Miss.
Marianne Scherle, Albany, Ga.
Ann Walker, Albany, Ga.
Mrs. W. F. Winecoff, Atlanta.

Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA 7 Dec 1946