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Show GUESTS IN PERIL AS BIG HOTEL IS BURNED LONG BEACH. July 20. Eight hundred hun-dred guests at the Long Beach hotel, ono of the largest senshore hotels upon the Atlantic const, had to ilee for their lives when the hotel wne burned to the sande. There was no loss of life, and, so fai as can be learned, no one wns Injured. In-jured. The guests lost almost, all their clothing cloth-ing and personal effects. The fire was discovered upon the first floor shortly after 5 o'clock. Hall hoys and clerks hurried through tins smoky corridors nnd aroueed the guests. The flames spread 'so rapidly that the guests had barely I time to seize some scanty clothing nnd j escape. 'They tied to the beach and I were taken care of by the cottagers. The j hotel burned like tlndor. and within a I short lime was n smoldering mass of i ruins. It was three stories high, and when filled to Its capacity housed 1100 I persons. The loss is about $200,000. ' |