Pioneer Hotel fire: The victims

On Dec. 20, 1982, the Tucson Citizen printed a list of dead and injured who were found in the hotel and included in the Fire Department's report listed by the floor on which they were found.

These lists are combined, with the injured not listed on the Fire Department report, who likely escaped the building with help or on their own, listed separately.

Second floor:

• 350 attended a Hughes Aircraft Co. dance. All escaped.

Third and fourth floors

• No injuries

Fifth floor

• Gertrude Baker, Tucson (permanent hotel guest), injured.

Sixth floor

• Mrs. William (Gertrude) Tanner, Green Valley, injured.

• Jerome Wright, deceased, carbon-monoxide poisoning.

• Betty Rogers, Springfield, Ill., deceased, carbon-monoxide poisoning.

Seventh floor

• Josefina Bustamante, injured.

• Manuel Ancheta, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, injured.

• Roberto Soto, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, deceased, carbon-monoxide poisoning.

• Ignacio Soto Jr., Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, deceased, carbon-monoxide poisoning.

• Edward Ashurst, Wickenburg, injured.

Eighth floor

• Javier Antillon, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, deceased from a fall.

• Martin Antillon, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, deceased, fall.

• Catalina Antillon, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, deceased, fall.

• Jose Antillon, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, deceased, burns.

• Ignacia Antillon, deceased, burns.

• Effie Signs, Okemah, Okla., injured.

• Dr. and Mrs. W.H. Ford, Casa Grande, injured.

• Edith Souers, injured.

Ninth floor

• Antonio Luken, deceased, burns.

• Francisco Luken, deceased, burns.

• Jesus Luken, deceased, burns.

• Rosalia Luken, deceased, burns.

• Maria de Carmen Luken, deceased, fall.

• Rosa Maria Luken, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, deceased, burns.

• R.B. Carmany, York, Pa., injured.

• Russell Hostetter, Camp Hill, Pa., injured.

• Abe Simon, Tucson (permanent hotel guest), deceased, carbon-monoxide poisoning.

• Mrs. Simon, injured (Mrs. Simon became the 29th fatality of the fire when she died of her injuries months later), Tucson (permanent hotel guest).

10th floor

• Paul D'Hedouville, Washington, D.C., deceased, carbon-monoxide poisoning.

• Velma Dale, Englewood, Colo., deceased, carbon-monoxide poisoning.

• Bernice Bond, Shadyside, Ohio, deceased, carbon-monoxide poisoning.

• Estelle Kaufman, Chicago, deceased, carbon-monoxide poisoning.

• David P. Smelser, Tucson (permanent hotel guest), deceased, carbon-monoxide poisoning.

• Ella Gordon, Tucson, deceased, carbon-monoxide poisoning.

11th floor

• Harold Steinfeld, Tucson (permanent hotel guest), deceased, carbon-monoxide poisoning.

• Margaret Steinfeld, Tucson (permanent hotel guest), deceased, carbon-monoxide poisoning.

• Eda Rebbe, Chicago, deceased, carbon-monoxide poisoning.

• Joseph Rebbe, Chicago, deceased, carbon-monoxide poisoning.

• Roselle Haaf, Denver, injured.

• Harvey Mallery, Tucson (permanent hotel guest), deceased, smoke inhalation.

• Elli B. Glover, Tucson, deceased, carbon-monoxide poisoning.

• Emil Bossard, Cleveland, injured.

Also among the injured

• Mrs. Edward Ashurst, Wickenburg.

• Ronald A. Strand, Tucson firefighter.

• Jack Harris, Tucson firefighter.

• Capt. Ellis Franklin, Tucson firefighter.

• Mercedes Ancheta, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.

• Manuel Ancheta Jr., Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.

• Anna Ancheta, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico.

• Maria Camberos, address unknown.

• Patricia Frias, address unknown.

• Pedro Trujillo, Tucson firefighter.

• Arthur Apodaca, Tucson firefighter.

• Mrs. W.C. McIntosh, Okemah, Okla.

• Several others were treated and released.

Compiled by Johanna Eubank