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Show IK BLOCK If BUSINESS HOUSES BURN plosion of Oil Burner in 'furniture Building Starts Blaze JOTEL ELEVATOR BOY STAYS AT HIS POST hundred and Forty Guests in Hotel Removed to Safety Without Injury fOfXCIL BLUFFS, Dee. 3. iPj-The "loop" district (if this .;t was almost totally destroyed H lire which did damage estimated .-nearly $1,000,000 and which wip-j wip-j out almost a block of business today. Ilie greatest damage was to tho :jnd hotel, the city's leading hos-Irr hos-Irr and to Uie Continental Furni-rectmipany, Furni-rectmipany, across the street. Doss j the hotel will be $250,000 and to ;e furniture compay about $350,-i.ft $350,-i.ft A check-up by the- hotel company -dk-ated that all of the W0 guests fspt-d from their rooms uninjured, first reports were that three had iraed to death. Milton Allen, elevator boy, whose St-rloc work in staying at his post probably saved man lives, said he :-;lieied all guests were accounted ;, r except "the lady in 512," whom :e did not remember taking' down .-airs in the elevator. The first started from an esplo-..on esplo-..on of an oil burned in the Con-;.futnl Con-;.futnl furniture building. |