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Show Woman Loses Her Life in Hotel fire Proprietor Overland House, Myrtlo Creek, Or., Suffocates in Bed Bo-fore Bo-fore Help Can Reach Her. PORTLAND, Or., June 8. The Overland hotel at Myrtle Creek was destroyed by fire at an early hour today Miss llattlo Dement, "tie of the proprietors, wa.s burned to death, several other persons were more or less burned or Injured and a number of others narrowly escaped with their lives by Jumping from the building, leaving their cffc ts to tho Ilamea, Injured. WILLIAM MANCHESTER, badly burned about face and hands. HENRY MANCHESTER, hands quite badly burned. J. M HOFFMAN, representative of a Chicago portrait company, Blight flesh cut on left side and severe burn on rlglu hand F. BILVERSTQNB, San Francisco comic com-ic r. lal trav eler, badly bruised and llmun sprained through Jumping from a second- story window. Tiie origin if the fire. cnnot he learned, though from tho statement of the night clerk and other employees who say there were no lights In the house, tho belief Is growing that tho fire was of Incendiary origin. Flames Spread Rapidly. The hotel consisted of an old building and an annex. The flames spread with remarkable re-markable rapidity, many of the .. . upants having to Jump to safety. Miss Dement, tli young woman who lost her life, died In her bed She was a heavy sleeper and was suffocated before aid rea hed her. Tho property loss will reach $12,000. |