Show fire in a hotel st paul minn at wabasha minn seven persons were burned to death in a fire that destroyed the de pot hotel early tuesday the dead are mrs hoffman and young baby robert johnson ex postmaster ger trude St ensher rebecca herman james hunt the fire which started in the kitch en from an overturned lamp spread rapidly that it was impossible to save anything the guests on the ond floor managed to escape with but blight injuries but escape from the third floor where mrs hoffman the proprietress and servants slept was cut off by the flames and they were burned to death in their beds with the exception of hunt hunt ie said to have escaped from the building but later returned to attempt the rescue of the others and lost his life in the at tempt |