Show PERISH A ATLANTIC CITY N. N J. J Feb 4 Five 4 Five persons lost their lives and eight others were seriously injured early today in a fire which destroyed the Overbrook hotel at Pacific and Mount Vernon ave avenues ues in Jn inthis inthis this city The bodies of some ome of the tha dead are still sUll in the ruins Several of the injured are expected to die The known dead are NICHOLAS DE GE RAY engin engineer er of hotel THOMAS MOTT father of the prop proprietor MISS MARIE JOHNSON of of New York a guest A search of the hotels resulted In Jn locating all persons known to have been in the Overbrook except six aiL Some of these are believed to have escaped I The fire is believed to have bae started in the tho kitchen When it fl was discovered cred ered flames were shooting up the elevator ele le vator ator shaft and soon afterward th the entire building was burning There were not many guests in the house and most of them were aroused in time to escape Their exit was cut oft off and most roost 0 of them had to jump ump from fron windows One woman was seen to faint after calling for tor help from an upper wIndow window win wIn- dow and was burned to death while her body lay across the sill In tn view of hundreds of persons unable to help her The engineer of ot the hotel hung bung out of a window until the fire reached his hands and caused him to 0 o drop to the street He was killed almost instantly Another woman who managed managed man man- aged to crawl out of or a a. window fell fen felland felland and also lost her life Ufe |