Show disastrous denver aug 19 the arary hotel no 1725 to 1737 17 it wrence street was wrecked b y terrific explosion at 1210 a in 1 rear half ball of the belld 2 story brict slid and klone oil st s C re grieg down with a crash the hotel was crowded with guests and many of them have hare been killed as well us as the entire force of hotel employees who were sleeping in that poi coition lien of the building at the time on loth both sides of lawrence street from seventeenth to eighteenth streets and on lawrence street directly back of the gumry lien holec B c the plate glass glah windows of the bus buei nees houses blown blon in inanda and a number of pedestrians injured by falling glass the fronts of many buildings in the vicinity is ere badly witchard the hotel structure for feet along the alley and extending for everit five feet toward the front is a boass masa of debris crick brick and plaster at aie e piled in a heap fix twenty belity fe feet high and from this mass mas s of wreckage ageman can be heard the maans of the injured and dying at 1225 fi five ve injured people hal had been taken 0 out u t they were all inmates of the u upper story and tank lank down with the file floors escaping more fortunately than than those below who are still buived in the ruins the flieman are aie working like leavers beavers digging into the debris but are making little progress the remaining lema tema ining portion of the buil building diug from which the guests are b being sit removed by ladders as fast as possible is expected to fall any moment and precautions to avert further loss of life adds to the difficulty in rea reaching bing the lead dead and in jure d dv by some estimates forty people were iver in the portion of the hotel destroyed nearly all of whom must be dead it ri nill ill be mor coining ning bea before a correct list can be obtained the cause of the explosion is un certain but it is supposed that the battery of boilers in the hotel base ment must have exploded |