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Show Lost Life in Hotel Fire. Topeka, Kan. Topeka's famous hostelry, the Copeland, noted as the stopping place of legislators and politicians, poli-ticians, was destroyed by fire early Thursday. The body of I. E. Lambert. Lam-bert. ex-United States district attorney attor-ney for Kansas was found in the ruins with the head, arms and legs burned cff. The body was found in the north-cast north-cast corner of the building. Lambert's loom was on the fourth floor directly above. A dozen of the 150 guests were Injured, In-jured, but none but Lambert are thought to have been fatally hurt. There were many sensational escapes, r.everal persons jumping from windows. |