Show FIVE liVES lOST IN HOTEL HORROR One Hundred Guests Awakened in the Night to Find Building Burning Burn-ing and Escape Cut Off Many of the Entrapped Guests Leaped Leap-ed From the Windows Before the Firemen Arrived With Exte slon Ladders Otherwise List of Injured Would Have Been Small Denver Colo Five men lost their lives and a score of persons were Injured In-jured several of them seriously In a fire that gutted the Uelmont hotel a threestory building at 1723 Stout street Tuesday morning The fire broke out at 315 a m on the third floor and spread with amazing amaz-ing rapidity Nearly 100 gaests were Bleeping In the house and many of them found all means of egress cutoff cut-off when aroused More than u score of persons jumped from windows before be-fore the fire department arrived Many others were carried down extension ex-tension ladders by firemen and policemen police-men working In relays The whole rear portion of the building on which were two fire escapes as well as the < stairway was quickly burned away Several heroic rescues were observed by a crowd of more than 1000 spectators spec-tators who stood In the street watching watch-ing the blaze Edward Moore one of the men killed jumped from a thirdstory window > win-dow and his brains wera dashed out when he struck the pavement Ho came to Denver for his health about six months ago from Philadelphia where he had been engaged in the real estate business Patrick Treadwell a fireman of Cripple Creek Colo who was sleepIng sleep-Ing in the hotel when the flre started Iscredited wltli huvlng saved at least ten lives by inducing entrapped guests to jump from the upper story windows across a fivefoot alley to the roof of an adjoining building and catching them In his arms More than a score of persons Jumped from windows before the fire department arrlv dIn d-In the opinion of officials of the fire department the hotel was set afire and a rigid investigation Is being made Within the last week half a dozen small fires believed to have been of Incendiary origin have occurred oc-curred at rooming houses In this city |