Show Just a Couple of Bums' Bums Prove Heroes in Chicago Flop House Fire CHICAGO Dec 10 AP Some AP-Some- Some Sometimes times heroes are as in tho the case of the Reliance hotel fire yesterday just a couple of ot bums burns The Reliance Is one of those South State street hostelries which the flotsam of the city calls flop houses The Tue Salvation Army operates op op- it as a refuge for the tho poor who too must sleep Smoke e billowed through the tho hotel when nearly OO guests were in their rooms There was a stampede for the tile street Many men were roughed and bruised but all aU got out safely All but three Two of those who remained choking on the theP P smoke could easily have gone out with tile the others They elected how- how I over r to remain to help the third I This third man was Peter Rector Recter 54 years ears old who earns a precarious livelihood peddling handbills He was trapped on the third floor Hemmed in by the tile flames which were lapping at the coverlets of his bed his cries were ere heard by the theother theother theother other two Turning back these two fought through the blinding smoke and amid with their bare hands beat out the flames which already alread were licking at Recter's Heeter's flesh Choking and beating out the fire which had spread to their own meager rags the two carried Recter to the street loaded him into a waiting ambulance ambulance lance and amid then shambled away down the street S SNo No one got goot their names no one Inquired They were just a couple of bums humus |