Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-09-16 | Page 1 | Timbers Hold Man as Blaze Sweeps Room

1 TIMBERS HOLD HOLDMAN HOLDMAN MAN AS BLAZE SWEEPS ROOM Badly Injured Woman Rescued After Vain Attempt to Flee Special to The TheT Telegram OGDEN Sept 16 Peter 16 Peter Canavos 51 54 4 was burned to d death ath and Mrs Clayton Collins 26 was seriously injured here early Monday when fire tiro swept the interior of the National National National Na Na- hotel Twenty-fifth Twenty street Damage was estimated at approximately approximately Although all aU occupants of the hotel were believed accounted for Assist Assistant nt Chief E E. B. B Phillips after the fire Ire was brought under control at a m directed a search of the smoldering ruins before making a definite announcement Th There lc were 27 guests in the hotel when hen the e Was discovered jit t 7 a R. R in m. Canavos- Canavos proprietor of ofa a cafe caf at To fifth ty-fifth street was found in a southeast corner room on the second floor where the fire apparently apparently gained its earliest headway His Hiso body was burned almost beyond beyond beyond be be- yond recognition Both legs were ere broken apparently by falling timbers timbers tim tim- bers hers from front the third floor and roof Hold Brother Back Christopher Christop er Canavos a brother of the burned man was kept back backby backby backby by force by police officers when he attempted to enter the hotel while the fire was at its height in a search for his brother Mrs Collins is In the Dee Memorial Memorial Memorial Memo Memo- rial hospit hospital l I her ner condition critical She was rescued by Firemen John Burnett and Fred Thompson who fo followed a path into the building made by streams from three lines of hose She had apparently attempted at at- tempted to reach the roof and fallen back John A. A Child Southern Pacific railroad conductor was was the only other person injured He Be received severe arm arm burns The fire when the alarm w was s turned in by an unidentified woman passerby at a a. a m. m mo had gained a big start and was roaring through all three floors floors' of the tho structure Flames were reported reaching 40 feet above the building Guests Flee FIe Flames Hotel guests roused from sleep by smoke the e crackle of burning timbers timbers' and the scream crea n of fire sirens escaped through windows Continued on Pate Pare Three IE E MAN MA N BURNS B URN S SIN IN OGDEN HOTEL k Continued from rare Pare One d th the roof when they found d and the thc waY to the he first floor H j t blacked LUt of them were clad in night few v CW pausing to grab crab any flier ther garments garment YAH All I available equipment was wa lied Into action by Assistant Chief B B. B Phillips and a spread to other dings prevented Heavy brick Ii 3 prevented any major damage 1 adjoining structures e firemen fought the fire from from the theet rooftops and iet et laying hose from hydrants around Dog Rescued small white terrier which m-f m Kd d its way to the roof was resby resby res- res 0 by firemen a few minutes bethe bethe be- be 1 the structure caved in le Ie C fire firo is believed to have starton start- start on n the ground floor r occupied he e C National Tavern and to have haven Ten n n It Its way slowly upward until bole ole ale was burned in the s 's second cond floor This created a l draft lh h i the fire suddenly gh the the entire structure Tie e e building constructed many firs rs rs ago is owned by the D. D A. A yh estate Officials could not reached Breached for an official estimate Jf damage Canavos is survived by bya a wife and pro daughters I