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Show I r,1ANY VICTIMS LEAP TO DEATH j AS FE HEARS Subzero Cold Hampers Rescue Work in Minneapolis MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Jan. a 3 (UP) Twenty persons per- ished today when trapped in the Marlborough apartment noil no-il tel by flames that survivors said "seemed to shoot right out of the walls.", i The fire apparently started in I the basement at 6 a. m. Even before be-fore an alarm could be turned r In It had licked upward through the halli and stairways, trapping scores of residents In- their apartments apart-ments and In the hallways. Many of them still were In their beds. Five-Jtours alter the fir was discovered IT bodies were lined up i In the Hennepin county morgue. Three more were being removed from the still burning building. Several of the bodies were burned beyond recognition. , Kin' Seek Bodies Relatives and friends swarned through the morgue. Identified were the bodies of Mrs. Jay Franke, 52, her son, Otto, 25, and her daughter, Renee, 16. A woman who Jumped head first from a third story window was ' identified tentatively as Florence Hessing, 30. I Others Identified were Mabel Brown, 34, and the Infant son of Charles Coovert. S Forty persons were Injured, and 23 of them were taken to three hospitals. Two firemen and two ' policemen were among the in- i Jured. 1 Survivors said that when they were warned nearly every avenue of escape was blocked. Most were 1 saved by Jumping from windows V in the upper floors of the thrce-1 thrce-1 story building. Some managed I to crawl to fire escapes. y Escape Through Window Charles Norton, 61, said he was j awakened by an explosion. He j ran into the hallway, but found 1 It a mass of flames. ! "The fire seemed to shoot right ; out of the walls." he said. "I opened a closet door to get . my clothes, but the closet walls also were ablaze. The flames 1 were licking out of the walls in our room when my wife and I jumped from the window to the 4 ground a few feet below." ' Edward Holm, another survivor, told a similar story of seeing flames J "leap from the walls." After an investigation, Fire Chief William Traeger said he was cer- tain that the fire started In a rub- bish heap in the basement. i Discovery of the burned rubbish 1 pile led investigators to abandon J earlier theories that a boiler ex- (Cnutluand on Pan Two) J (Column Oo f Freezing Weather Tnrna Death Hotel Into lee Palaee ' : y&X: . yx'"e ' v T v. .. ..Sf - . r" I y V I Zm . i?,V?-::- I hi V xmxicrf I ; p) A)Mfn'' sr- . ... tKg' .i , , Li x-" - v-t- 20 LOSE LIVES i IN HOTEL FIRE TOealla Cms raa Cw) plosion or escaping gas might have ) been th aouro. Many Trapvcd i Traeger said he believed all th dead had been removed from th building, although It was possible other bodies might have been burled whan th second floor of 5 th building caUapsed. ! Screaming women and children jumped from second and third-story third-story window Into th icy street. Many were trapped In their beds. Others ran Into th flaming hallways hall-ways where firemen found their charred bodies. Neighbors for blocks around reported re-ported that they were awakened shortly after S a. m. by the scream tf th dying and Injured. Tea were Injured seriously when they Jumped from th second and third stories. 1M fa Hotel Two hundred resident of th hotel were routed from their bed by th fir which was discovered shortly after a. m. Those who ; could ran from th building in their aightctothei. Neighbors aaid they were awsk- ened by th (creams of those , trapped Inside. They took ovr l coats and coffee to those who ran T barefooted Into th Icy streets. Th ( temperature waa ft below sera Firemen arrived within 10 min-1 min-1 rate after th fir waa discovered, i but they were hampered by th 1 extreme cold and it was another ', 13 minute before thay could bring their ho line Into action. Water from th boas froa on th outald of th building and th street soon became a frozen , pond. Within few minutes th j building was blazing. Richard Daniels, 39, sprained his ; back when he Jumped from a third n story window. A woman who f Jumped from third story window was killed. ! See Child Die j A. B. McWade, 43, wh lives aero th street from th Mrl-t Mrl-t borough, atd he was awakened by f "th worst (cream I ever heard." . I He mid h looked out th window AS FIREMEN BATTLED GHASTLY MINNEAPOLIS HOTEL BLAZK Twenty persons wr killed as flames trapped score la rooms and saw th entire hotel, covering half a block. In flames. "I saw a child trapped In the middle of th building on th third floor," McWade said. "Thar were flame all about him, and he Just stood there screaming. "That lasted for IS minutes, and then he was quiet I was through th war, but I never saw or beard anything Ilk this." . |
