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Show Fourteen Meet Death In Hotel Fir. Fourteen men mot death by suffocation suffoca-tion iln a flro which occured in the Lincoln hotel, in Chicago. Thirteen of thoso who lost their lives were stifled whllo lying in their beds. Ono victim was takon from tho building before life was extinct, but ho died in tho ambulance on tho way to the nearest hospital. Corner Traoger, after inspecting in-specting the building, united with Fire Chief Musham In declaring that tho building was averitablo trap.and never 1 thould havo boon used for hotel purposes. pur-poses. Chief Musham declared that there woro such wide cracks In tho floors that the smoke poured through thu building In clouds, rendering escape extremely difficult for those on tho upper floors. |