Show it I 1 alij foo TO DEATH L C I 1 I 1 hotel guests hemmed in by D B fierce flames 4 iii 4 it III BU BURNED za FAMOUS STRUCTURE xi I 1 ib cirrie charles at A t now mow orleans D de 0 be st jt d abere were quota guests and starch search of the bailis buln will Ss ito I 1 I 1 01 only X the til 1 umber of deotha deaths two men from windows window and were sprang to piece 64 kl 4 aa now orleans wll 28 firc started al aboul ut 11 tonight to night in the kitchen 0 hotel on an st char charles st N if the and commerce streets ale alra lr cradler 41 from the hie it ascended through I 1 A uck elevator to the upper stol les lea ot of lk the building bu the progress ot of the flames 11 aiu so rapa old that tile commerce Cin moise street il of tie the third ounh fourth and fifth 1 nort were in flames lai nefi and before the truetta ests and servants the b c M ir be W movas ved every effort t was to awake nil ill the occupants but elitie do and oth els drove the firemen ajo farres absel were seen at a winlaw 46 gernal persons I 1 lo 10 on the fourth floor f acing on commerce street apparently in flames 11 tying tor for help one of them a man from roil the window failing alline on oil the sprang 3 pavement on his bead and dashing out brains ills his clothes were burned its his ta from him and aal the body was black w ith hh ft it burns X what bat became ot of the others 0 ho he were pta at around aund hirn him w whether bath ut they escaped ctr or were burned to it death ll it la is impossible to say and bill ill M not net tt he onoan until tile ruins are arched to lo morrow the dead man ac wag burned beyond rec recognition 0 and it to whether ho he was impossible say li ati aa Is i 1 0 a tit A ladders were ere placed against the win ia lows aws a on A the loer floors and several 4 t re taken down many of them k ind 1 I fainting condition another man ill ft ho he from a 9 window was ins instantly tant killed his name and residence are arc ay iy unknown toe the flames were confined to the rear tt 9 nd ad ii liler leaving the front on st sit haries street d so eo that the trunks ranks and baggage babow of 0 the guests were csuy saved as well as the goods in V lie stores on st charles street 4 the hotel had quite it a number of eats how many cannot be stated but bout most ot of them were tit in the A front tit rooms and eti z Thell the liobel otel was wan built in 1856 at a cost coat of it JW and for or years vas aa the finast in A the south it IL looks now ax as though ibous it it I 1 would be a complete loss although be front colonnade may ho be saved ane 1 osivill trill probably exceed |