Salt Lake Tribune | 1903-02-27 | Page 10 | Lives Lost in Fire

II l LiVES LOST IN FIRE Eight People Cremated in Blaze in Lowell < MANY PERSONS INJURED Burbank Building and Belvidere Hotel Are in Flames Conflagration Eaging in the Hsrtrt of the Mercantile District of the Massachusetts City Lowell Mas Fob 27The Buibank iMiIlding on Prescolt street caught 11 rent re-nt H I oclock this Friday morning ands and-s burnIng fiercely probably wIll be a total loss The DcIl ere hotel next door Is alio on lire The entire department depart-ment Is on the scene At 4 oclock this morning It is said there t IB good < reason to believe that seven or eight lives were lost Jn the lire The Burbank building contains jiiruiy lodging rooms It Is Impossible to get at this time a definite Idea of the number ho were sleeping in the building build-ing when the lire broke out The building was of five l stories and is completely destroyed The Howe block adjoining has also been destroyed de-stroyed Efforts arc now being made tot to-t a list of the people who had lodgings lodg-ings in the block to ascertain positively if t lives have been lost A large number were 1 injured In being removed from the building and hnve been talcn to hospitals The building Is located In the heart of ihe mercantile district five stories high nnd Is valued at between OOOO and SJOOCO W 13 Shattuck Sons are the owners The ground floor Is occupied by four stores all or which are submerged sub-merged in water Only the skeleton of the two upper stories remain and it looks as though they may fall at any moment About seventyfive rooms were on the second third und fourth floors Those In the second story escaped by the stairways but those above who had been less fortunate in reaching the street were taken out on ladders Several lodgers are still unaccounted for although it Is barely possible that they were successful In setting away by the rear windows which open out into an alley leading l into Merrlmack street