Show THREE HOTELS ABLAZE Niagara Falls N Y V the Scene of an Exciting Fire Niagara Falls N Y Dec hotels and several other buildings ad adjacent adjacent jacent to them were badly damaged by fire which broke out today In a grocery store in the basement of the old Porter hotel The blaze originated In an ex explosion which aroused the occupants of the hotel All made their escape in safety but with the loss ot of their cloth clothing clothIng ing and other personal effects The flames spread through the Porter hotel to the store of J and G Rae next door and communicated to the Im hotel ot of which the Porter house is a portion and to the Tem erance house annex itt In the rear of the Imperial hotel The upper story of the annex was destroyed The total loss Is esti estimated estimated mated at When the fire nD ap appeared to be beyond control an appeal for ld was sent to Buffalo but before the engines arrived the local firemen had the situation well In hand |