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Show BURNED IN A HOTEL. The Planters' House, in St. Lonis, Tates Tire Four Tictims to the Flames. Cambridge Takes the Honors in the Great University Boat Kace. The Ways and Means Committee Con-sidcrinff Con-sidcrinff the Tariff Bills. Hotel Fire In St. Lonis. St. Louis, April 3. At 3:50 this morning a fire was discovered in the rear portion of the Planters House, corner of Fourth and Pine streets. It was found that the laundry-room laundry-room as well as the drying-room of the hotel were in flames and burning fiercely. The watchman and night clerk awakened the guests, 134 in number. The GREATEST EXCITEMENT PREVAILED, And for the time a panio was expected, but as Borne of the guests reached the ground floor and found no immediate danger in that portion of the building, the excitement grew less, and some of the guests returned to their rooms to procure such valuables as had been left in their hurry to escape. Several Sev-eral trunks were thrown from the third and fourth floors, only to be dashed to pieces. One lady appeared at the third story window, win-dow, and throwing out her grip, reached for one of the rungs of the fire escape and landed land-ed in short order on the sidewalk. The firemen worked vigorously, and at about 5:20 the fire was extinguished, and, but for the complete drenching of the main portion, the hotel suffered little. The firemen, fire-men, in making their rounds through the building, made A HOBEIBLE DISCOYEBT. On the fourth floor, in the north hall, they came across the bodies of two women servants, ser-vants, stumbling over them as they made their way through the smoke. They were conveyed con-veyed to the dining room floor, where a doctor doc-tor was called and every effort made to resuscitate re-suscitate them, but it was a hopeless task, and after working over them for half an hour they were pronounced dead. The bodies were clad merely in night robes. Their faces were blackened by smoke, and the skin on their hands and arms peeled off at places, showing where they ran against obstacles in their efforts to escape. One was immediately recognized as Kate Cas-sidy, Cas-sidy, and the other is supposed to be Mary Burk. In another room ANOTHER PITIABLE SCENE Was witnessed. Here a third unfortunate was found, who proved to be Mary Cooney, another employe in the linen department. The dead girls were employes of the house, and were not over 2J years of age. The body of another girl, who died from suffocation, suffo-cation, was found later, making four deaths in all. One male employe of the house made his escape with great difficulty, after suffering terribly from smoke. When he reached the sidewalk blood flowed from his ears and mouth. THBEE TEAES AGO The hotel had a narrow escape. It was about the same hour in the morning that the fire reported to-day broke out, and in the kitchen wing facing on a narrow alley in the rear, when three lives were lost, the employes em-ployes sleeping in the top story of the wing i on fire. |