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Show OWNERS WERE TO BLAME. Denver, Aug. 29. The coroner's jury after six days investigation of the Gumry hotel disaster, made its report this evening. It Bays that from the testimony submitted, which was con flicting, it is impossible to tlx the responsibility re-sponsibility for the disaster on any one person, but that the owners Peter Gumry and Robert C. Greiner, were blamable for requiring of the engineer sixteen hours workout of twenty-four, and for employing an inexperienced engineer, whose habits were dissipated and unreliable. Engineer Hellmuth Loescher, the report says, had been drinking on the aight fi' the disaster and further, he had not examined the safety valve to the boiler for two months, proving him unfit to occupy any position of responsibility. The city boiler inspector is censured for failing to inspect the boiler after recent repairs were made on it. The report closes with a recommendation recommenda-tion that an ordinance be passed regulating regu-lating the use of steam boilers. |