Show I 1 HOSTELRY BLAZE SAN FRANCISCO APARTMENT HOTEL THE SCENE OF EARLY MORNING TRAGEDY at least leant score meet death when trapped by flames while many are arc taken to hospitals 0 suffer affer ing from injuries san francisco an unknown number of lier persona sons estlina estimated ted variously from froin twenty to double that number perished lit in a fire which early monday morning swept the berkshire apart le nt hotel the number way never be known the blaines flames tire believed to have originated on the third floor of tile tho hotel a five story structure all tile the downtown firefighting fire alic fighting apparatus was called to tho the spot the flames ate their way with great rapidity and tho the ruins were so 0 lot hot the work of searching for Tret tins was necessarily slow firemen coming coaling town down broin from the liard third floor said there were fit at least bodecs on oil that floor about twenty five persons por bons chiefly women lit re rescued nt at various rious stages of tile firo and sent to hospital suffering from burns of moro more or less severity tho the hotel ans said to havo had about abou occupants two to persons were brought brou glit out of the building nilve i after being trapped in it two hours during which time tile tho fl fire re had readied reached its height they were hurried to it 11 hospital |