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Show The sit. LonlH Firo-foroui-r's luqiiesi.. St. Louis, 16. At the coroner's inquest in-quest on the Southern hotel firo over the body of K;tte Nolan, a servant, it was decided to admit one reporter from each city piper aud the Associated Associ-ated Press, and a few others. Jxseph Pulitzer, boarder oh the fifth flior in tho hotel, testified to hearing the shrieks ol woman and meeting volumes of s uokn when he opened his door, but heard no alarm of fire. He believed the women's cries saved a hundred lives. He never saw so many appliances for prevent-ing prevent-ing firo as the Southern had. J. Russell, chiet engineer, repeated hie statement already telegraphed as to the fire in the store room, his attempts to subdue it aud its rapid progress. There was no special watchman watch-man in tho baseoient, but there wa3 one on the office floor whose duty it was to watch the whole house. He reached tho engine room at 1:25. The fire was then so fierce that no firo deptrtment in the world couid have subdued it. T kiiuis Hal-.iv, fireman, and a number of other emploves corroborated corrob-orated Russell's lo-timony. Haley testified that he saw a pot washer go, about S o'clock, to the Bloro room door with a ligh'.td paper in his band apparently looking for the keyhole ot th door. He supposed he had a right there, and did n-jt interfere. Adjourned. No more bodies were found to day, but considerable property found. |