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Show FAMOUS OLD IDAHO HOSTELRY 15 BURNED Shoshone Falls Hotel Destroyed; De-stroyed; Built About 40 Years Ago. ' 8p-ei0i to' The Tribune. TWIN FALLS, Auk. Ki. Fire fitart-ine; fitart-ine; about 2 o 'clock this morning completely com-pletely destroyed the Shoshone Falls hotel, a larjjf new dancing pavilion ad j joining the hotel, and several outbuildings. outbuild-ings. Kd lufresue, one of the lessees of the property, waa sleeping in the hotel and narrow ly escaped. He was , awakened about 2 :'.' o'cloek choking and nearly fufTorated with smoke. The ferryman and his assistant, stationed a quarter of a mile distant, joined by two dicd from a touring party camping Dear by, rushed to the scene as Dufresne es: caped from the fiercely burning structure, struc-ture, and a-sisted him in Having a piano, Vidrola and three, lamps, all that could be taken from tile building. No water wab available fur fighting fire and cv-j ervthing burned rapidly. I The propt rty was owned bv Senator 1 W. A. Clark of Montana acd the f'reigh- ! ton, Dewey and Stone estates, of Oma- ha, and was uninsured. The large en- : cloned da ncing pa vi lion was rfecenfT' ! e reeled by the lesseeis and was fairly j well covered by insurance. A big dauc- ing party was held there a few hour? ' befure the fire and it i? thought a cigar i or match lert smoldering in the hotel1 or the dry gra-s adjoi ning sta rred tin3 conflagration. (. Jnly the firs! floor of the hotel wa,s in use this, year. The1 hotel was built some forty years ago, and for many years was the onlv stopping stop-ping place on the sixty-mile stge road j through the sagebrush between the I towns of Shochone and Ko:k Creek, and had been visited bv thousands ot tourists, tour-ists, many of uat ioual prominence. It was for some time managed bv Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Spangler of Salt Lake, editors of the New Wct magazine. |