Show FIVE PERSONS BURNED TO DEATH Perished in a Rooming House HOlse Near the Business Busness Center CenterO Of O Kansas City CAUSED BY GAS EXPLOSION Flames Spread So Quickly That Before Alarm Could be Given Escape Was Cut Off Of Victims Were Wera cre All AU Al Asleep l cil find 1111 Apparently CIt Suffocated Before They lucy Were cro Incinerated Kansas Hanas City CI Mo to Feb 1 Five Ie per persons persons sons SOIlS vere burned hUle to death and five ft others were Injured In a tire fire In a three story rooming house h ue at nt 1116 16 street streel near noar nar tile tho business M center this tills morning Tm DEAD Mr Mrs Jennie Bert aged 29 9 HarrIson Harrlson Mo 10 Mabel Poster Porte aged IS 18 1 f Nine Nino Graves Ores aged 18 IS waitress Peter Ieter Rooney noone aged 31 II cook nok Charles Charle Johnson aged 28 cook cOnk The Injured received d slight hums horns and Cuts euls and nono Is iii In 10 a Ii I dangerous condition con llon All 1 of oC the tue dead except Mrs Bert lived 1 in 11 Kansas City CI The Tho lIre lira ro stalled from rota nn no explosion of gas Hns In Ill II the basement at nt 5 r ocl ck this thus morning Tho The flames and amId ald dense delse spread quickly throughout the tile building and before an In alarm nl rm could coul be bo given nil all ni means moans ot of escape by b the tho ordinary exits exi had hac been b cn shut off orThe The five fhe who lost their thel lives were asleep on the tho third thir floor toor anti and nl nil all save Mrs Bert Hert were burned to death drIll In their theft rooms Evidently hud had been bOon suffocated and nd none apparently had h d oven even made at attempt to escape FLA KEPT KEP OUT FIREMEN Before tim the firemen arrived the tue build log ing In was a I moss nimis of or names and Ind the rooms roms on the tho upper floors could co ld not rot b be r filtered entered Mabel Porter and auth Nina lna Graves Gra el two t 0 of nt the tile dead occupied a it I room together The he Injured slept on the lower floors and In Inthe Inthe inthe the basement b Rement Most of these the e escaped anc without aid fighting their way wn through the lIe flames and smoke moke The Tile firemen were able to lo rescue others front from the tho burning buring building Mrs Bert ert lost her hor life In trying tr ug to lo arouse the inmates The dense d pouring puring up II the stairway soon filled the tho hallways h and nd entered the rooms Mrs Irl Berts Dertl room rom on the third floor foor was wan WI clo to lo the iho and It Was one of the first to be by lh he smoke Silo She was vas awakened aWIl ed timid and ald hurrying hurr down don tho th dali Ial on Oil that attempted to awaken a the thu th sleeping roomers The smoke soon dt her bel to tM second floor f or whre hd tried tb repeat her ef of C fort at giving an alarm The Tito smoke lole and lames flames however now flOW crowded lames iOl her hr ho tO closely that uhe Bhe he was IS comi to do sit and sought escape by tile the stairway At tile the top of at the second floor foor landing sue she ho stumbled and falling headlong down dOl the stairway landed In the thick thickest thickest est eat of ot the flames flame At the bottom bollom her hor charred remains were wore later laler found by b the recognizable firemen fr men The body hody was almost amo un tn unrecognizable unrecognizable There were 22 persons In Ill 11 the tim building when Whet the Ihn fire fre lir ko out Most of oC tho the I roomers worked nt at night as ni assad ai es sad and cooks cokl at It hotels anti and Inel ei is e who vilo Imd only on retired n It I short time previous anti and one they were deep m in fl slumber I This doubtless accounts tar for tho the Inability of or Mrs fr Bert to Tho tilo he bodies of oC the tIle four Cour other r I were found In their beds had limiti been beon terribly burned burl d and amid limbs dropped from frum ono one of o tibia them a nf as tho the re ro remains mains house were WCO Inter later curried carried from rob tile Iho houseA A TRAP The alarm of fire firo was turned In by b bol Col ol Willis wood wooi a I capitalist former Conner Connerly ly iy of ct 81 Rt Joseph JO Mo Me Jl Tim The he building WiS ono of tile the tc oldest In ii II the th city The Tho build bull building ln Ing wn WIll a n veritable firo fro trap trail WhO when the Iho firemen Imen arrived It was then thell thel ld doomed II It I WIlS WI not supplied with wih lire fire lre escapes antI and tho Iho only moans of escape escalle WISH by ly way WI I nf If lt the Iho stairway up which tile the Humes and smoke poured |