| Show M 0 ZEN LOST IN IH HOTEL unfortunate guests of fort wayne ind hotel cut off by flames flame from elevator and stairway fire department rescued man many y of the entrapped gueta guests by meant of ladders ladder but many leaped to the paved streets street and were fatally injured fort wayne ind at least 12 per pel fons lost their lives in a fire alre that destroyed the new avelino hotel here early sunday the entire interior of the building Is a smoldering heap of ruins mine and how many dead are con cealon by the debris can only be ba con jer lectured aured the hotd boti register was consumed y the fire and there are nu ni accusato maans of determining who are missing the complete destruction of abe in horlor of 0 the hotel makes the work mork or of recovering bodies a difficult taik A confused heap of charred wood bricks and twisted girdles Is ellid up between the bare walls to the second stoby piece illece by piece this mut bo be removed before the roll of tho the dea dead d can be completed some of the bod les lea taken out are niang mangled ld find and charred beyond recognition the fire was discovered at 3 30 a m in the elevator shaft by night clerk cleric ralph no lie rushed to the he upper floors alarming the guests until tho flames which had spread with appalling rapidity drove him back ills his efforts however saved many lives the hotel was mas elected balf bait a century ago and the wood woodwork ilc was waa dry as tinder it burned like wood and within a few minutes front from the time tho the fire an as a the whole interior of the hotel v was fie a maws of flames that filled the corri dors and rooms boonis with suffocating clouds of and laid nory fiery bar tiers across nil all weans means of escape save by the windows the fire department many people hy by means of ladders but some frenzied by the onward rush of the flar flarrie Il aniCT rim leaped from high windows to the paved tire the new avelino hotel was waa a six story building of trick brick in the business center of the city its erection was begun in 1862 but it was not completed until several bears ears later in 1895 the building was ex ten tenal vely remodeled and two stories ore ere added the hotel and furnish ings inga were valued at 80 a quarter of an hour from the time the th fira ww la th tha elp elevator thant practically the entire building was in flames ahe whole interior became a roaring furnace and from basement to root roof all was blazing at once in rapid succession the floors foil fell to the basc basement ment carrying their toll of dead |
