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Show ABB USE LIS HOTEL BURNS IN THE EARLY MORNING, ELEVEN LIVES BEING LOST. There Were About Sixty Guests, and the Flame3 Spread With Such N Rapidity It Was Impossible to Save Everyone. Vancouver, B. C. Eleven lives woro lost whon tho Okanngnn hotel at Vernon, B. C. was burned early Tuesday morning. Four mon aro in tho hospital, ono .or whom cannot recover. re-cover. Th building was a largo brick veneer structure and was patronized chiefly by tho laboring classes.' It had about sixty guests, and so sudden sud-den was tho onrushlng of tho flames that thoso who escaped did bo with great difficulty. Somo of thorn never got out of tholr rooms. Tho flro was discovered about 2 o'clock. When tho firemen arrived a fow minutes lator both stairways were seething alloys of flames, and In n short tlmo the building was blazing in all quarters. |