Show causes bealli and GEN MILE to the broods of his aei ment A big fire in almosa colorado the first prea ever experienced from the use of natural as occurred shortly before 2 sunday afternoon white the greats of the hotel marvin were waiting to be summoned to dinner this cumine it was discovered that gas was e leaping from a leak in the pipes where into the dining room and mr marvia owner of the building with three plumbers spent the entire forenoon fore noor tryout to locate the leak about 10 they entered a chamber under the dinine room and found such an accumulation of aa that they could not br catlie and it was suggested that a liole be sawed through the floor into alie dining room in order to obtain fresh air alua badone wa done and just as the hole wae diode one of the dining room girls who was sweeping the floor stepped upon a unit chand in an instant an explosion oc ared which not only wrecked alic building but killed two girls and bamm ed and injured a dozen other employees the force of the explosion was so great that it blew out the flame of ignited gis and no fire followed the awful ruin which the shock caused the whole city rocked aa if m an earthquake and all the windows on the square were demolished moli shed had the explosion occurred ten minutes later the loss of iffe would hay been frightful as nearly a li undred people were waiting to be called to dinner when the rescuing party begun work in the debris the body of katy a girl was soon aund un der a mass of brick and mortar but slie died in a short time kate a waitress anson maryin owner of the building and frank andrews were fa tally injured frank poundstone the clerk and charles graves philip weil and jack cinell were painfully bruised and cut but will rr cover the pecuniary iad 1111 nut to |