Show SCORES TRAPPED I 1 BURNING BUILDING SEVEN KNOWN TO HAVE MET DEATH WHILE MANY MORE ARE unaccounted FOR many escape death by jumping to roofs of smaller buildings adjoining while others are dashed to pave pavement ment st louis from thirty to thirty five guests of the missouri athletic club perished in the flames that do strayed the building early monday la Is the belief of officers of the club seven bodies have been recovered and from twenty three to twenty nine occupants of the structure still aro are unaccounted for the blaze was the fourth serious fire in ili the downtown district of st louis in eight days and the most moat serious as to fatalities of any fire in the cites history this blaze which started at a in monday morning wrecked the seven story building occupied jointly by the missouri athletic club and the Boa Boats mens bank caused a property loss estimated at the number of guests who had rooms in the clubhouse either permanently manent 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 somewhere 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 w woman 0 who was waiting in the club lobby for her escort swept rapidly through the building when the first lire fire company arrived the ballering ball eling was a mass of flames one man theodore levy of jackson tenn clung to the sill of A a sixth story window until both his hands were charred black just as lie he was about to let go his hold he was 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 hung |