Show DOTP7V TO DEATH Two Girls Jump from t Hotel Window Win-dow lmore 0 Ja 27Al fire which was started by Q gasoline explosion in the kitchen of the American hotel at 730 this evening destroyed the principal part of the business portion i of LIe town and caused the death of Iwo I-wo people A strong wind was blowing at the time the fire started and the hotel was soon a mass of flames Two girls employed in the hotel Afaggie Flynn and Mary OMalley were hemmed in hy the flames and were forced to jump from a second story window Miss OMalley was fa ally burned and cannot live until morning Miss Flynn was seriously hurt and It is believed sh will die Besides the American hotel the following lowing other structures were destroyed The Elmore house Johnston Cos hardware store Frank Smiths clothing cloth-ing store William P Van Dorns grocery gro-cery Isaac Mandelbaums dry goods store Jacob Kaisers meat market the potofflce five dwellings and a barber shop Most of the mail from the postofflce I was saved and the merchants succeeded suc-ceeded in rescuing a large portion of their goods It is impossibe tonight to learn the loss and insurance |