Show DOZEN LIVES LOST IN HOTEL mm unfortunate guests of fort wayne ind hotel cut off by flames from elevator and stairway fire department rescued many of the entrapped guests by meant of ladders but many leaped to the paved streets and were fatally injured rort fort wayne ind x nat n at least 12 pel pei bons bona lost their lives in a file that destroyed desti oyed the new avelino hotel here ealy caly sunday the entire interior of tile the building Is a smoldering heap of ains nud and how bow many dead aie con on coaled b the debits it bils can call onla agni bo be con jaectin ed the hotel te leg gister lster was consumed y tit thi fire and there are no accurate nicais of determining debei mining who file aio missing the complete of tire the in terigi of the lie hotel tit the worl work of ie covering bodies a difficult task tak A confused heap of charged wood brichs and twisted guidles Is piled up between tile the bar baie walls walla to the second story piece by piece this must be ranio removed d Ie defoi foi the loll 1011 of the de dead a d can call be comple completed td some of the boa bod les out are ining mingled led and chaired be beyond oaid recognition the flie file wig at 3 30 36 a tn in in ili tho eava ek valor 1 tor 13 b night ciok ralph lie ho to tile the upper floors the guests until the flames which had with appalling dilvo him back his efforts effort fe however lio sated lives lue hotel was erected many halt a century ago and the woodwork Oo dwork was dr as tinder it buind buin d lile like matchwood and within a few minutes tes front the time tile tho lie file was discovered the whole interior of the hotel was waa a maas of flanig that filled the corri doi doia s and looms with suffocating clouds ot of sli smoke jolO and laid flory fiery bar across all of escape save by tile the windows tile the hie flie department miny m iny 1 eople by means of 1 lidders but sonie some lien Iten by the rush of the llamo i i leaped aiom high windows to the dived treet street tho iho new avelene hotel N was as a six 3 building of bi balck lei in the business center of the city its erection wag begun in but it was inas not completed until sescial ears later in ili 1895 the building was waa ex iv remodeled and two stories m ere added the hotel and furnish ings were valued at ba within a quarter of an hour from the time the fire was wai discoN eted in the elevator kfaft the entire building was nas in flames the whole interim became a x i oaring goaring furnace and irom from ba badent ment to roof all was blazing at once in ili lapid succession the floors fell to the basement carrying their toll of dad |