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Show Fire In a Hotel, St. Paul, Minn. At Wabasha, Minn., soven, persons wero burned to dth in a flro that destroyed tho do-pyjT do-pyjT hotel cArly Tuesday. Tho dcd aro: Mrs. Hoffman and young baby,-Robert baby,-Robert Johnson, ex-postmaster; Qer-trudo Qer-trudo Stenshcr, Ilebecca Herman, James Hunt. Tho flro, which started In tho kltch-on kltch-on from an overturned lamp, spread so rapidly that It was Impossible to savo anything. Tho guests on tho second sec-ond floor managed to oscapo with but slight Injuries, but cscapo from tho third floor, where Mrs. Hoffman, tho proprietress, and servants slept, was cut off by tho flames and they wero burned to death in their beds, with tho exception of Hunt. Hunt Is said to have osenped from tho building, but later returned to attempt tho roscuoot tbo others, nnd lost his Hfo In tho attempt,. |