Show DIE IN FIERY FURNACE Eleven People Ten Men and One Woman c Cremated Alive Twelve Others Receive Injuries in a Conflagration Which Destroyed the Empire Hotel in St LouisFlames Break Out at 330 Oclock Sunday MorningEscape by Stairway Shut Off St Louis Feb 9An early morning fife which destroyed the Empire hotel ho-tel a large three lln lare threestory dwellinghouse at 2700 and 2702 Olive street occupied by men exclusively cause the death of eleven persons ten men and one woman and dangerously injured seven sev-en others A dozen or more who had narrow escapes from death received less serious Injuries or were frostbitten frostbit-ten I ia estimated that there were between thirtyfive and forty persons in the building last night and It Is believed be-lieved all have been accounted for The financial loss Is nominal I is thought that 510000 will cover the damage to buldlnS and contents which were totally to-tally detrJcdDEAD DEAD Morriss Tall senior member of the firm ot Tall Clark Cowen manufacturers manufac-turers of fine cut glass formerly of Chicago burned to a crisp Tobo Davis man about town suffocated suffo-cated cate John C Lueders skull fractured In Jumping from thirdstory window Gcorg rhompson switchman terminal ter-minal yards burned to death Sarah Harris colored chambermaid burned H F Woodley employee Hamilton Brown Shoe company burned J A McMullon carpenter burned S T Corey telegraph operator Merchants Mer-chants Terminal association Vance Martin civil engineer Indianapolis Indian-apolis burned A J Allen stone mason Scdalla Mo burned Unknown man who died at city hospital hos-pital from burns INJURED Harry Cline medical student of la lion l hands burned badly Walter Johnson hands burned both legs broken injured Internally HenI Robinson colored night porter por-ter badly burned < 3eorge Lane medical student Rich Hill Mo ankle sprained In Jumping from second story window Sturgeon medical student back sprained In jumping from secondstor window HartyThonison medical student Nashville 11 ankle sprained In Jumping Jump-ing from secondstory window J H Lally manager Empire hotel back badly r mnagcr Jncl Con Ryan burned about face About ten or twelve others less seriously se-riously injjucd being bruised burned or suffering from exposure WAS SEETHING FURNACE Tho Ire started about 330 a m when few people were abroad and gained much headway before it was discovered and the alarm given There was considerable delay in turning in an alarm and when the engines finally reached the scene the whole front of the building was in flames and the interior in-terior was a seething furnace By that time all who escaped death had gotten out off tho building by Jumping from the windows or climbing down hopes made of bed clothes A few escaped from door the ground floor through the front MANY NARROW ESCAPES Some of the escapes were very narrow nar-row Most every one who got out suffered suf-fered some Injury or was frost bitten Some barely had time fo get out when aroused the flames had spread so rapIdly rap-Idly Some saved their clothing which they carried in their hands but others were not r fortunate losing everything every-thing After some delay nearby houses were opened to the unfortunates uiu they were given ohelter from the biting cold weather It was one of the coldest cold-est nights at the winter the ground being covered with Ice and snow alt everyone suffered from exposure The suffering ones were put under the care of phjwiclans SEARCH FOR VICTIMS After a short fight the firemen got the flames under control and assisted by the police made a search of the ruins The first body found was that of John C Lucders who wns killed by jumping rom the third story Ills bead was crushed In The body of Leuders and those of the others found later were taken to the morgue where friends and relatives later identified frerd9 Sarah Harris was found on the first floor The remains of the other victims were found In their roomy lms they were suffocated or burned NUMBER PEOPLE IN BUILDING J J Lally who managed the hotel for his brotherinlaw J W Glllam had rooms on the frt floor He stated there rm four rooms on the first floor nine on tho second and seven on the third I all the guests occupied their rooms thirtysix persons Including Includ-ing the colored porter and chambermaid chamber-maid wero In the building when It burned Lally said he hal no means of knowing Just how many persons were in the habit of staying out late and It Is possible all were not there thenSTAIRWAY ON FIRE He was awakened by hearing Con Ryan one of the roomers crying fire Lally said he grabbed his clothing and money and hurried Into the hal which was ablaze and without stopping to dress stepped out through the front door Both stairways were on lire and ho barely had time to get out being scorched and spraining his back Lane Ryan and a man namcl Nicely escaped for the the same way The only way r others who got out alive was through the windows the burning stairways cutting off their escape that way Some Jumped and sustained injuries more or less serious while others who look time whie oter to improvise ropes from their bed clothIng cloth-Ing got down safely FIVE GUESTS UNACCOUNTED FOR Tonight most of the guestshave been accounted for In the Hot of dead injured In-jured and escaped Among those unaccounted unac-counted for is A Goldberg an unknown stranger who came In lute and vent to bed without registering the two students stu-dents whose names arc not known and F P Contrand I Is not believed there are any more bodies In the ruins which have been carefully searched For that reason It Is thought they will turn up UNKNOWN IDENTIFIED Late tonight with the aid of papers found near his body Ihcjunjcnown man who died at the city hospital wan partially par-tially identified as C E Cantrout a1 Cntout n union carpenter |