Show Guests Flee FleeTo To Street S In Hotel Blaze SPRINGFIELD Mass June 7 INS INS Four Four hundred p pc persons e r s son o n s 8 many of them women were driven to the street in Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day and six firemen were overcome overcome overcome over over- come by smoke from a stubborn fire in the basement of the four four- story hotel I 1 Several women carried babies to safety Deputy Fire Chief Frederick Frederick Frederick Fred Fred- erick C. C Wright said Id smoke did not rise to the upper floors and nd there I was no general excitement until women guests reached the lobby Firemen used pneumatic drills to cut holes in the lobby floor to combat the blaze The six taken to the hospital were overcome when they were lowered Into the tle e basement through the floor holes hoes The storage room to which the blaze was confined contained mattresses mattresses mat mat- tresses linens furniture and cleaning cleaning clean clean- ing fluids Guests notified of at the fire by bythe bythe bythe the night clerk and by a special detail of at police who went through the hotel knocking on doors left the building by stairways elevators elevators elevators eleva eleva- tors and over fire escapes |