| Show ME LUES RES LUST LOST IN HOTEL one hundred guests awakened in the night to find building burning and escape cut off many of the entrapped guests leap ed from the W endows before the firemen arrived with exten s on ladders othera s list of injured would have been small denver colo five men lost thelt their lives and a score of persons were in aured several of them seriously in a fire that gutted the belmont hotel a three thre story estory building at 1723 stout street tuesday morning the fire broke out at 3 15 a in on the third floor and spread nath abaz ing rapidity nearly guests were leeping in the house and many ol 01 them found all means of egress cut off when aroused more than a score of persons jumped from windows be tore fore the fire department arrived many others were carried down ex tension ladders by firemen and police den iren D en working in relays the whole i ear rear portion of 0 the building on which were mere two fire escapes as well as the stairway was quickly burned away beveral several heroic rescues were observed by a crowd of more than 1000 1 spec gators who ho stood in the street watch ing the blaze edward moore one of the men I 1 llred 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 about s x months ago from philadelphia v chere here he had been engaged in the real estate business patrick treadwell a fireman of cripple creek colo who was sleep ing in the hotel when the fire started Is credited with having saved at least ten lives by inducing entrapped guests to jump from the upper story windows across a five toot foot alley to the root roof of an adjoining building and catching catchin them in his arms more tl flan an a score of persons jumped from windows before the fire department arrived alrh ed in the 0 opinion P anlon of officials of the fire department the hotel was set afire and a rigid investigation Is being made within the last week half a doen small fires believed to have leen teen of incendiary origin have oc oe burred at rooming houses in this city |
