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Show I FIVE LIVES LOST I IN HOTELHORROR H One Hundred Guests Awakened in H the Night to Find Building Burn- H ing and Escape Cut Off. Many of the Entrapped Guests Leap ed From the Windows Before the Firemen Arrived With Extendi Exten-di slon Ladders, Otherwise H List of Injured Would Have Been Small. 1 Denver, Colo. Flvo men lost their lives and n score of persons wore In-Jured, In-Jured, sovernl of thutn seriously, In H a flro that Rutted tho Ilolmont hotel. H n throo-story building at 17211 Stout ntrcet, Tuesday morning. H Tlio 11 ro broko out nt 3:1G a. m. on 1 tho third floor, nnd spread with nmaz- H Jng rapidity. Nearly 100 guests wero H flecplnR In tho houso, and many of them found all mennH of ogrcsB cut off when nrousod. Mora than a score of persons jumped frotn windows be-foro be-foro tho flro department arrived. Hany others wero carried down ox-tension ox-tension ladders by firemen nnd police-mon police-mon working In relays. Tho whole rear portion of tho building, on which wero two flro escapes, as well as lira ntnlrway, was quickly burned awuy. 1 Several heroic rescues wero observed H by a crowd of moro than 1,000 spec tutors, who stood In tho street watch Jng tho blaze. H Edward Mooro, ouo of tho men hilled, Jumped from a third-story win-dow, win-dow, nnd his brnlns word dashed out 'when ho struck tho pavomcnt. Ho came to Denver for his ltcnlth nbout elx months ago from Philadelphia, H 'whero ho had been engaged In tho H .real estato business. H Patrick Trcadwcll, n flrcmnn ol H Cripple Creek, Colo., who was Bleep- H Jng In Uio hotel when tho flro started, it credited with having saved nt least H ten lives by Inducing entrniipcd guests to Jump from tho upper story ! -nlndowB across a flvo-foot alloy to tho roof of an adjoining building and H catching them lu his arms. Moro H than a score, of persons Jumped from H -windows before tho flro departmont H arrived. H In tho opinion of officials of tho flro H department, tho hotel was set nflro , nnd a rigid Investigation Is being inado. Within tho lost week iralf a dozen small fires, believed tn liavo H teen of Incendiary origin, hnvo oc- H curred nt rooming houses tn this city |