Show i TERRIFIED GUESTS LEAP FROM HOTEL Four Fall Victims to Fire in inthe inthe inthe the Belmont at Denver DIE FROM THEIR INJURIES RIES Two More Are So Severely Injured That Death Is Certain Don Denver r. r Sept 8 Four S.-Four Four men inca were killed and md a man and a young oung woman are arc dying as tho the result of or a tiro 1110 which shortly before 4 o'clock this morning completely burned burnet out the Belmont Delmont hotel occupying tho ho two upper tipper storIe stories stor stor- 1 Ie ies 8 of oC tho ho three-story three building at 17 1725 1721 17 1 G Stout street Half a score of others were welo more nuoro or less injured In their frantic 1 efforts to escape cremation cre cre- mation Time The panic which followed the tho discovery ills dis covery cry of tho the uiLo 10 Watt Was without doubt ono one of or the mot most frightful over enacted In this elt city Pressed closely by tho the which within less than lIum t 0 minutes minutes min min- utes had lund eaten caten their way Into ever every everyone ono one of the Jl 11 1 rooms of tho the hotel men and amid women unmindful of tho the terrible chances they were vere taking leaped from their windows to tho pavement ninny many feet reet below belo tilling the air all with their shrieks antI and cries for help as they leaped heaped through space The rhe DentS l. l J J. J B. B Moore real estate dealer died from rom fracture of tho time skull sustained in Jumping from tho tIme third-story third win win- dow ow George D D. Ott Olt collector for lor tho the Singer Singer Sin Sin- Machine died ger cr Sewing company compan from Internal injuries sustained by Jumping ln from third story window George GeorgeV W. W Colorado Southern South South- ern orum brakeman lied died from flom internal in injuries in- in juries sustained by Jumping from third-story third window A man mun believed ed to n. be John Juhn J J. Kane formerly of Atlantic City N N. J J. suffocated suf suf- located In rear room on tho ho third floor noor Mrs Dora Lanham burned from heath hou l to foot toot and Internally injured by lIy fall fail from Crom third floor lal taken en to a hospital William 13 E. Lewis Colorado Southern South South- ern elU brakeman badly burned while In room on third hoer taken to tit St Josoph's Juseph's Jo Ju- soph's seph's hospital i tal The remainder were slightly burned or 01 bruised All tho time at hand leads th the police to o that tha l tho the lire wa was of Incendiary origin It seems that the time lire tire started In the rear of tho hotel near the time foot fool of or n a back stairway and from there thoro spread upward Of tho four men who lost their their- lives three of ot them lost their lives hies by Jumping jumpIng Jump jump- ing lag from Cram tho third story of ot tho to hotel The Time fourth victim tho the man believed to be John J. J Kane was suffocated suffocate I b by I smoke That not lIot more met their fate falc is considered con eon miraculous Fully one fourth I of time the more than titan GO CO guests of or the hotel hotel ho ho- tel teI risked their lives In jumping from tram either oither tho second or third soI story The rime fatalities all occurred before time the arrival of ot the time fire department nt So closely wore tho quests guests by bythe h bythe the onrushing flames that they could not wait walt for or 01 the thA arrival of or tho time lire department another evidence of or tho ho rapidity with which tho limo lire 1110 spread Some guest rather than take tim tho frightful l J VP p Into nto acl to tIme tho ills H l Cl vur l ro toil 11 tt tt 5 k 1 rr u 1 r tor fo wl om the time strain an and time tho proved too much either c de deliberately de- de jumped or 01 dropped to tho pavement from sheer exhaustion llon Patrick PUl Treadwell a member of tho the Cripple Creole Creek lire fire department but at atI present a D. visitor in this tills city was ivas the tile hero o ot of the fire for b by his hh courage he save saved no loss ions than ten lives hives The Denver Denver Denver Den Den- ver t remen unreservedly paid Tr Treadwell Treadwell Tread Tread- d dwell well tile the compliment that his work saved more lives titan than that of oC any other man |