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Show ITEL WRECKED BY GAS lates Awakened Frem Sleep to Face Death. 3 BEAD, MANY INJURED I Blawn-Out and Tap Floor Collapsed, rietor and His Wife Among the ctims, Their Bodies Bein IncineratedList In-cineratedList of Injured. Marlon, InJ.. Jan. 21. Three pcrsonu' ice burned to dentil, two fatally and Sfbndly Injured In a ens explosion that k tecked the Scltz hotel here early to- Wfnk ifia.il: Charles Bcltel. proprietor of I ejsholel, nnd wlfo; James Devlin, pro-I pro-I letor n the cafe. EJ ritallj- Injured. Edward Gasklll and Ij jjjL llobls, oil well contractors. lerlously Injured: Thomna Twlpp, Ran-liBiddle, Ran-liBiddle, John DIcherty. John Schott, is Carrie Tllnsr. Orvillc Bcltcl. Harry Ntol. TVllli.im Bant, Frank Gasklll' and l5 Penii Cnsklll. The seriously Injured were kuosIf - of fI hotel. Til hptel was situated three Jes from the center of tho city. Kat-iV Kat-iV safc Is said to harp escaped from a. pc-Hno that panned near the building, Sjbnsoment being: filled, and when the ms on tho first Moor began to 1111 with sas It was lilted by the burning i ir. Thcro were thirty guests at the tel. all of whom wero asleep. Eho outer walls of I he building, a two- i'ry brick structure, wero blown out, fesocoJid floor falling In on the first. 5 oj. sucstH were under the wreckage. 3 Jch Ignited at once, and rescuers! had I Tat difficulty In rrmovinp them. The w could no: bo shut off, and added to 5fury of tho firp. jlnc bodies of Mr. and Mrs Bcltel were in through Ihe flames and wreckage JrJan hour before they could be rccov- Afr |