Show SCORES BURNING BUILDING SEVEN KNOWN TO HAVE MET DEATH WHILE MANY MORE ARE AHE unaccounted fort FOR many escape death by jumping to roofs of smaller Bu buildings illings ad joining while others are dashed to pavement st loula louis from thirty to thirty five guests of the missouri athletic club peri perished in the flames that destroyed the building early monday la Is the belief of officers of the club seven bodies have been rec recovered and from twenty three to twenty nine ne nar occupants of the structure still aro unaccounted for the blaze was the fourth serious fire in the downtown district of st louis in eight days and the most serious as to fatalities of any fire in the city cites s history this blaze which started at a in monday morning wrecked tho seven story building occupied jointly by the missouri athletic club and the Hoats mens bank caused a property loss estimated a at il the number of guests who had rooms i in the clubhouse either permanently manen manent aly ly or for the night was about many of these escaped some checked out before the fire others it Is thought were not in the building when the blaze broke out some were injured in leaving the blazing structure and the rest are listed among the dead or unaccounted for the fire which was discovered by a woman who was waiting in the club lob by tor for her escort swept rapidly through the building when the first fire company arrived the building was a mass of names flames one man theodore levy of jackson tenn clung to the sill of a sixth r tory story window until both his big hands were w ere charred black just as he was about to let go his hold te was waa rescued by firemen when he had been treated at the dispensary levy said two of the men who were killed had bad jumped from the window to which he be hung |