Eureka Reporter | 1903-02-27 | Page 2 | Meet Death in Hotel Fire

MEET DEATH IN HOTEL FIRE ten lives are lost in cedar rapids iowa ten alves according to the best in formation obtainable were lost in fix a fir fire which destroyed the clifton hotel in cedar rapids iowa the fire start ed d at 2130 0 clock and at id 10 clock the shouldering ing debris furnished so fierce a heat that search for bodies was impossible the list ot of the dead may prove larger than the number given but it Is hoped that information which accounts for all but this number Is 19 correct two persons were fatally injured and two score or more injured f more imore or less severely mostly by jump j ing from windows