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Show HOTEL DISASTER ! PROBESTARTED MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 4 UF Fire department officials began today to-day an exhaustive inquiry Into yesterday's yes-terday's disastrous Marlborough hotel fire that took at least 19 lives, sent 24 persons to hospitals and left three unaccounted for. While It was believed a lighted clgaret carelessly tossed Into the garbage storage chute set off an explosion to start the blaze, Arthur Ar-thur Spottswood. tire prevention chief, said he was unable to determine de-termine the cause definitely. At least nine of the injured were In a critical condition. . Only 13 of the 18 victims had been positively Indentified early today, and two others were Identified Iden-tified tentatively. The list of dead, as it stood early today, was: Otto Franke, 2ft, machinist; Gerhard Franke, about 43, his father; Mrs. Helen Franke, about SO, his mother; Miss Rene Franke, 16, his sister; George Jarkley, about 45, waiter; Mrs. Tina Jack-ley, Jack-ley, 41, his wife;; George Mltlff, 53, former dishwasher; Miss Florence Flor-ence Heeslng, 35, waitress; Carl E. Welsell, 48, director of the Minnesota Min-nesota symphonic band, a W P A .ur4LAt Welsell, 46, his brother; Mrs. MaEeTBluwn. 94, Edward-Coovert, Edward-Coovert, 10 months old: Charles Coovert, 31, his father; Mrs. Margaret Mar-garet Coovert, his mother tentatively tenta-tively identified; Joseph Prlgl-meier, Prlgl-meier, also known as Joseph Movers. Mov-ers. St. Joseph, Minn., tentatively identified. Steve Brazil, 54, died from In-. In-. juries suffered In a Jump from the third floor. |