Show 13 GUESTS LOSE LIVES IN HOTEL I h t. I k FIRE II MANY MORE o ARE MISSING Screaming Vi Victims S c I Plunge to Death in ri Streets and Riv i Many Bodies Believed Buri Buried d in Debris of ot Burned Lansing Hostelry St State te J Legislators Lose Los Lives 4 LANSI LANSING G Mich J Dec 11 AP AP turned the Ker Kerns s hotel filled with sleeping guests into a roaring inferno this morning and the growing growing- list of dead standing temporarily at 13 threatened to triple th that number Captain Laurence Lyon of the Michigan 1 state police said this afternoon that there must be between 2 20 a and 50 bodies boUes s buried in the ruins He Hc said of the persons persons' regis rejis registered ter d had been accounted for and that searchers probably cannot start digging in the ruins until tomorrow Tho Those e known to have died leaped from windows or the the roof into the ice coated coated waters of the Grand river or t to it the streets escaping death by fire only to die by drowning r rr dr or r from injuries Five of them w were re members rs of the the state state I leg legislature legislature g. g he here e for an extraordinary session convened yester yester- d day Police and fire officials viewed the towering mass of f debris heard stories of witnesses about a huddled hud died gr group up of r trap trapped ed g guests ests on th th the roof when it gave rave w way y and declined ed cl d to 10 estimate t the total number of f d dead 1 ad 4 j St State te Se Senator tor Missing l Among the missing was State Sen Senator tor John Leidlein of Saginaw who shouted on the floor of the s senate nate yesterday ay in arguing against delay in a a matter he was pressing I Ii Imay Imay may be dead tomorrow A friend was unable to arouse arouse him when the fire br broke e out and he is believed to have p perished d. d The hotel was vias well filled due to the special ial legislative session when the fir fire broke out about i. i B. B in and within a few lew minutes the flames were raging through the the building Screaming men men a and d women women th their lr escape cut off oU jumped from tram windows to lo o the street or int into the Grand river fiver which flows flows' at atthe at the r rear ar of th the build ing Five Drowned Five of the known dead C drowned owned when they chose the icy ley waters of the river to the hc flames that had trapped them Six others were killed or fatally wounded when they jumped to the streets before firemen could reach them with ladders or spread nets A few threaded their way through pitch dark corridors and down dawn flame flame- licked stairways They had no time to dress and several suffered frozen or frostbitten feet Ceet for the t temperature was near zero zer and snow and ice covered the streets Police Polk and warned it might be days before the full extent of f the he tragedy becomes known for forthe the hotel register was was destroyed and anyone anone caught in the holocaust undoubtedly was was burned beyond recognition Po Police Po li lice e broadcast an appeal to all survivors survivors survivors sur sur- to communicate with the them thern Bedlam of Shrieks Shrieks' F For r 20 minutes after the fire was discovered a a bedlam bedJam of shrieks resounded resounded resounded re re- sounded from th the swept flame build build- ing irig Then the screams either cither were were silenced or were drowned out by the roar of co collapsing w walls and floors Anyone who had not escaped ty by l Y th that t time was doomed firemen said Many of the trapped persons were unable to reach the fire lire escapes escapes' At Atthe t the rear of ot the building where the river flows there were no fire es es- es- es capes A few identifications of the dead were made as the morning passed The bodies of ol R Representatives Charles D. D Parker and John W. W Goodwine Marlette were found tope tobe among them Representative Donald E. E Z Sias died at noon of ol a skull fracture fracture frac- frac ture suffered when he jumped from froma a third floor window to the atre street t. t Swims Swims' to Safety Safely Representative Ja James cs E. E Helme ot Adrian more than 70 years old was Yas found among amoni the survivors He had plunged lunged into the river and md succeeded eded In n swimming ashore Probate Judge William C. C Sevc ance of Antrim county Michigan Continued on Page Pale Two 13 13 LOSE LIVES i IN HOTEL FIRES FIRE 1 I S aming Victims Plunge to toc c Death in Streets 1 and River RiverS S J Jg S SS g S Continued from Pa Pate Pare e One b smoke in advance ad who was awakened by va vance vare c of the alarm called the LireS fire Lire S th most horrible thing I have ever bc through Ie told of f seeing persons jumping trow roW windows and the thc roof to the Cr Grand d river S Some Some ome ome of them hit obstructions on way down he said Others must have drowned in those icY icy wa wa ter Most of th the jumpers were from the story windows arid and roof Af r I got to the street I saw others jump to the pavement breaking legs and arms f Women's Hair Ablaze Representative Wll William ia Green of who fled in pajamas and ba baft bab f feet t told a graphic story of the fire Where here were women with their hair emire and their clothes burning he he saW They ran through the smoke That terrible screaming W ti the worst Women on fire aming up and down the hall hail The the hc known dead included onI only one woman unidentified As s he spoke a doctor was treating hi his frozen feet but he said he Providence to be alive aliv For or or more than two hours the hotel bu built lt in 1908 burned before the thc flames were brought under control le ing a shell The Thc building was was four o Jr stories high and o of brickI brick I Bellboy ellbo Is nero Hero S. S L. L Colburn of Cassopolis who from the flaming naming hotel by leaping into the Grand river and swimming ashore said a b bellboy wV w vose se name he did not know was the tha hero of the the disaster I r dont don't know who he was Colburn Col Col- b burn n said but he was responsible for foe the escape of about 50 per pcr cent of ot those who were saved saved He had pl plenty nty of time to get out but instead raft from room to room k knocking on dd rs and arid shouting to guests I last saW him bim running up a blazing stairway stair stair- way wiy and he wa was in the thc building when th the th first wall wall caved caved in olburn Colburn said he pushed a business acquaintance S. S J. J Clemens into the river riser then leaped after him and sy sm am ashore pulling Clemens after alter h h. h BALTIMORE Dec 11 A W-A A. A sec sec- omi death was feared leared today as the ther r result of a fire Lire that tha t destroyed the thc story four factory of the thc Atlantic R Reg Eg g company physicians believed a a fractured d 1 broken leg shock hock and exposure I be fatal to Fireman Thomas Thomasw ThomasF F w hey y 38 one of 12 trapped as three w of the brick building fell Edward 25 died before belore h he reached a hospital and 11 other S firemen w were we e treated for Injuries received received re reo in infighting fighting the five-alarm five fire last ast night Tanned Fanned by a stiff breeze and S kindled kin kin- died by rags and wool waste the fire Lire swept through the interior of the building The unsupported walls crumbled before belore firemen could retreat across the he ice coated streets Fahey and others fighting the fire from rom the roof of an adjoining building building build- build ing ng were hit by the f ailing ailing- bricks |