Show riGHT fUR LIFE iN HOTEL fIAt Three People Suffocated In a Pittsburg Building + SIX WERE RESCUED I BY A TRAVELING MAN + Frantic Struggle Amid Flames and Blinding Smoke t Fire Was Started By An Explosion and Within a Pew Minutes the Whole Building Was Ablaze Traveling Salesmen Locked Six Guests In the Reception Room Until Un-til the Firemen Arrived Wreck OntheDILG v T Pittsburg Pa Jan SAt a fire which broke out in the Hotel Richelieu at 315 t lis morning three guests lost their lives < and live people were badly hurt y The dead Amos Landis Grapevlllo Pt George A Waters Camden N J trs Katherliie Boyle Pittsburg The victims were suffocated by the dense smoke rhe injured Dr Robert Blacksley of Plymouth Pa fracture of verteurae caused by falling from thirdfloor window win-dow will probably die Henry Painter Grapevilie Pa small booa vessels of lungs ruptured by in hcumg smoke may recover John L Aluls proprietor of the hotel lace ana body badly burned Miss Mills his daughter cut by glass while bieakmg througn the window toE to-E caIJc William Garretson Clear eld Pa delegate del-egate to the miners national convention gainfully burned about the back and hips rt turned home The lire originated on the second floor from tan explosion of gas and within a few minutes the bundling was a mass of flames and blinding smoke The noise of the explosion awakened most of the iufv > ts a > out twenty in number and a irsintic light for life ensued Kobcrt N Thompson of Kalaska Mich a salesman for the Cadillac Lumber company com-pany was the meand of saving at least SX lives In the first moments after the tsplobion he rushed into the hail of the second floor and stumbled over the unconscious un-conscious form of a woman whom he dragged into the reception room Five others three men and two women who had been turned back from the stairway by the flames were shrieking and fighting fight-ing for some exit Thompson forced them an into the big room and locked the door Knormg that it meant death to go into the hall he fought the desperate men back until the arrival of tne firemen I when all were rescued The pecuniary loss is but 15000 |