Show SUFFOCATED BY SMOKE Fireman of the McKissick Hotel at Reno Victim of Fire Reno Feb 4 One man is dead and guests were driven In terror from their rooms as a result of an early earl morning fire tire In the McKissick hotel today The victim was suffocated by b the dense smoke that filled the basement of the hotel where the fire originated and was con confined confined confined fined by the efforts of the firemen and tho the loss Is estimated at about 1000 The dead man Is August Schaefer fireman at atthe atthe atthe the hotel Schaefer was waa found In a attitude at the side of his cot where he was accustomed to rest during the night His body was discovered by Night Kight Clerk Mackey and brought to the street despite the suffocating fumes of the dense smoke Guests clambered down the fire escape and made their way with difficulty down the stairways to reach the open air not one oi Q O the throng being Injured The fire probably originated from an I overheated range In the kitchen p S |