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Show Poerteae Meal Heath la Hotel Vlra. Fourteen meo met desth by suffocation suffoca-tion In a fire which occurcd In th Lincoln hotel, In Chlcsifo. Thirteen of those who lost their lives were stilled while lying In their la-da. One victim was laken from the building- tie fore life waa extinct, but ho died In the ambulance on the way to the nearest hospital. Corner Traeger. after lo-apecllng lo-apecllng the building-, united with Fire t'hlef Miinham In declaring that the biiildlni; was a veritable trap, and never Itiotllil liavo la-en used for boU'l pur-iHincB. pur-iHincB. Chief Musliain declared ihal there wure ttu'ih wide cracks in the fltsirs that the smoke poured through the building In clouds, rendering- escate extremely diflk-ull for those on tbe upiier floors. |