Show HOTEL IN INI j I fRISCO DEATHTRAP EA m f Structure With Rooms Built Buil Soon 1 After Ar Great Fire Burns to Ground Many o Incinerated Others Seriously Injure Ill In- jure Hundreds Barely SAN su FR FRANCISCO L CISCO April Six 16 Six Sis bodies recovered and ad proba- proba eight or ten buried in the ruins six injured one ono fatally and a Ity loss of are arc the results of an early carh morning fire hieb destroyed the St. St George hotel a lodging houses for laborers JHoward and Eighth streets and md eight small buildings The bodies n to the the morgue were wore so charred that identification was I t I D. D S. S Cartwright a carpenter formerly of Salem Or and said possessed considerable mone money was burned all over o the head headd d and no hopes arc are felt for his recovery er Nine others slightly arc Patrick John Neil John Erickson John Main rain Win in Potts Fireman James Rogers William McKinley Don Haggerty Haggert d i James Campbell fi hotel was as a three frame framo ramo burned rapidly that di and BO io 0 of ISO guests e had to heSS dress U escaped bo by jumping to tn theIo tho the thool e- e fl Io ol of an adjoining work workshop hop Scores bred red down the ladders of the fire fire- c In IID and sd tho fire firo escapes and at least into the tho net held beld tar jumped j to safety it tt tte th foe fife fighters It is not known kno to avail them them- unable were cre 1 m many amy ny I. I E Tn u not of t any of these means of escapes t As In Trap tie the fire wa was Wag discovered short short- fter r 3 o'clock Ni ht Clerk Arthur I k three or four other othor employees lid iid j Pol Policeman man W W. F. F Kruger ran arousing tho the sleep sleep- m the tho house z In the smoke filled halls NT dir ted d the half crazed people to 4 exits The panic that followed it difficult for tho the tenants to toh al h a their way ay through tho labyrinth 1 I 1 kills hill which threaded the small t and pol police co worked heroically 14 b 11 tor their efforts the loss 1085 of mo liCo bare havo been much greater reater Fire Fire- KS Junes James Rogers was one ono of those who hed themselves He lie entered a aLili Lili aag room and carried carrid an m can down don a ladder OT Amid Arald Hot R Ruins Eulus ulD s. s bl the ruins had cooled firemen carch th arch for bo bodies hodic Within two k tan ai ra n five charred cham d bodies bodie's bad had ben been benM M tIl and tad only a small portion of the toned Iud area aru had been explored j K ns St. St George hotel botel was a flims flimsy den n structure built as an emer emergency ncy ic rl houe after tho the great lire fire iro of The guests al all men mostly 1 Is Separated Ose On of the most thrilling e escapes of IT that thit were witnessed was WIS that of James Jams T. T BriJ Briggs Bricks s b his s wife if and their I seven children The Tho famil family occupied two rooms on tho the third floor and one ot of tho the seven Feen children awakened b by the tho li light ht of the flames ran to the tho adjoining room and awakened awaken cd Bri Briggs s and rind his wife Flora the year old daughter daugh daugh- ter assisted her ber father to carry and drag tho four youn roun younger er children to the street and Mrs Briggs S with tho the remaining re re- re two children found the tho street through h somo some other cx exit t. t Neither section of tho the divided divider family was certain of tho the others other's e escape Ipe and for a n time timo the tho terror stricken children ran through h tho the gathering crowds seeking seek seek- in ing ono one another When finally reunited tho the children an and their mother still in their n night night- Continued on pa page e 10 REFUGEE HOTEL Continued from page 1 clothes T cro taken to a n Dei neighboring house b by tho police Thero are aro now DO six dead bodies at the tho morgue ono one of which has born boon partially identified b by means menns of n got gold filled fillet tooth as ns that of a man named Johnson recently from San Antonio Tex Two Hundred In to Hotel Two hundred bundred people p were in tho the hotel when the tho firo fire broko out ont Ono One hundred and thirty seven of theo them oro re regular ular boarders and the tho rest transient Of tho the thore re regular boarders thirty have havo not been accounted for but it is believed that many of them escaped J in tho the confusion and have havo neglected to report their safety There was a n high wind blowing and tho the street side of tho time hotel fell Ill out crushing a number of refugees refugees' shacks adjoining It is supposed suppose d that the tho fire firo iro started in a 1 cabinet makers maker's shop n next door Joor |