Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-18 | Page 4 | One Life is Lost in Fire at Boise

ONE LIFE IS LOST IN FIRE AT BOISE John M. Myers Dead and His Son in Serious Condition; Guests Flee From Sherman House. Special to Tho Tribune. BOISE. Idtiho. March 17. John M. .Myers is dead and his son, Horace C. Myers, a prominent Boise photographer. Is lying at death's door as tho result of a fire In the Sherman house, a private fashionable hotel of this rity, today. Scantily clad tn their night powns, about twenty-five roomers ma1o t heir escape from the burning building to the ftatc eapltol, ncroM the street. . Two of tho maids were saved from ilea l h by firemen. Both threatened to Jump from third-story windows. Horaee Myers made a heroic Attempt to av his father after discovering the fire.' lie was terribly burned about the he.'nl nnd body. Ills father was suffocated and lived but a few mlnules after being removed from the hulldinw:. Horace Myory was unconscious when illsi'nvered in his room, where he bad earri'M his imed father jiflcr battling with h' llames ami suuk' Si o I flvluu f mm "ne of tho chimneys and alightinc nn tile ronf Is believed to hav . anscd thf fire. Tlin enllro tnp.nf the huildlm; was In flames when the do-part do-part men I arrived. The lo runa Into sev-, sev-, (iral I linusand dnllarn.