Show m one hundred guests awakened in the night to find building burning and escape cut off many of the entrapped guests leap ed from the windows before the firemen arrived with exten s on ladders otherwise lisl of injured would have been small denver colo five men lost their lives and a score of persons were in lured several of them seriously in a fire that gutted the belmont hotel a three story building at 1723 stout street tuesday morning the fire broke out at 3 15 a m on the third floor and spread with abaz ing rapidity nearly guests were leeping in the house and many of them found all means of egress cut off when aroused more than a score of persons jumped from windows be foie the fire department arrived many others were carried down ex tension ladders by firemen and police men working in relays the whole lear portion of the building on which were two fire escapes as well as the stairway was quickly burned away several heroic rescues were observed by a crowd of more than 1 spec gators who stood in the street watch ing the blaze edward moore one of the men killed jumped from a third story win dow and his brains were dashed out when he struck the pavement he came to denver for his health abai t six months ago from philadelphia chere he had been engaged in the real estate business patrick treadwell a fireman of cripple creek colo who was sleep ng in the hotel when the alre started s credited with having saved at least ten lives by inducing entrapped guests to jump from the upper story v windows across a five foot alley to the roof of an adjoining building and catching them in his arms more iran a score of persons jumped from windows before the fire department arrived in the opinion of officials of the alre department the hotel was set afire and a rigid investigation is being made within the last week half a dozen small fires believed to have teen of incendiary origin have oc burred at rooming houses in this city |