Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-23 | Page 1 | Welve Die as Commerce Blaze [Illegible] Tacks Hotel

LYE LVE DIE ASCE IS AS CE BLAZE FACKS HOTEL shy liy at Allentown Destroyed by Fire I Unknown Origin FADING ADING FLAMES DING IJ I CUT OFF ESCAPE of Dead Identified fete e e Still Unaccounted in Final Report I UPTOWN Pa Jan 23 3 AP Ar fi least 1st twelve gue guests ts of the theet theme et me e hotel were killed and a ae ae e Injured in a fire tIre that the the building this morn- morn L' L ne guests were r rK s eral oral hours after the fire list of Identified dead rs I am J. J Shanahan regular r at the hotel tes es Alle Allentown town Int waitress Deamont Philadelphia Kander xander Troup Bordman Pa of the men lost his life when I from a window on the top It f the story four-story brick build build- d landed on the sidewalk were found huddled toI toMEn ton to- to MEn n a corner on the fourth I when hen at 5 a. a m. m the ruins 00 d sufficiently to permit n 0 o explore I f fire r broke out shortly after n. n nd spread so rapidly that of off the escape of most of the many of whom had to be down own ladders by firemen was no time to dress and ests uess were forced into the I its of winter In th their lr night The temperature hovered n a 5 and 18 above zero ty of the guests all aIr suffer suffer- or injuries received they hey jumped to the street I It t taken aken k n to hospitals Six at h are unidentified oft them doctors said tn die One of the six had oft of part of his tongue M MISSING of those unaccounted for was wasa a McKeever 62 a newspaper solicitor missing gu guests ts were Jows lam l i Frederick Hazleton Pa 6 isky Trenton N. N J. J i ickson Hazleton Pa ge V. V Forry Philadelphia lan an G. G Kelser KeIser Bingham Bingham- ma East Greena Green- Green a a. a Charles Philadelphia U n Allentown of the injured guests taken p were registered from Pennsylvania towns UNKNOWN cause of the fire had bad not nott t nor had any rea- rea iT advanced when firemen bl to enter the ruins Inside S de of the hotel was a mass nes s when firemen arrived and stairways ablaze r able lable ble to leave their rooms ned Sed and bewildered guests p t the windows waiting for rescuers Spectators could Continued on page 5 GUESTS BURN URN TO DEATH MANY MISSING I from rom page 1 occupants of the burning d n rig and hear their cries for f f those so rescued reached d walk without a u t c drenching V over the flimsy garments garments ch fumed into Ice a few min min- ter er Automobiles and taxie taxi- taxi e commandeered and antl the ken iken to the hospital There Lime ime im to wait for blankets or orb orl b Allentown hospital was wase waso e l o D call every even nurse to duty 11 was sent out for extra ot and nurses Iv Lehman the night cle clerk k hearing a cry of Fire tl Sf after 2 a. a m. m the alarm by ringing f alarm Ularm bell he said and I t dio arouse the guests In Ina than a minute It seemed the thees es were shooting through the theato thelO ato I shaft rendering the eler ele- ele r eless The next minute the theles tes les ad spread through the halls hailS hall hall- lO s pd cut off all possible es- es through those avenues he otel contained sixty-eight sixty ns It was built In 1809 1800 but be been n remodeled several times