Show BURNED TO BEATH DEATH IN A disastrous FIRE IN POTRERO DISTRICT SAN FRANCISCO before the italian occupants could be B aroused they were consumed by the flames ban san francisco april 4 fifteen italian laborers were burned to death andi na a hundred burned or injured in a fire in tho the strong house in fourteenth street in the potrero district of the city this morning the names odthe dead except joa jos andars and Mrs filipo wife of the proprietor of tho the hotel are unknown san francisco april C 4 twenty men were wore burned to death and twenty seriously injured in a firo fire which destroyed an idallan hotel at seventeenth and connecticut streets in the potrero district shortly after midnight this morning the injured were of the laboring class and were asleep in their rooms when the fire tire started before they could be aroused the flames had spread through the building the walls fell and the inmates were buried in the ruins twenty being taken out dead and dying people from other it hotels in the vicinity rushed to the assistance of the burled buried victims and BUC sue ot of it Is believed from the flaming timbers teams were hurriedly harnessed and automobiles brought into service 3 and the injured were rushed to the potrero emergency hospital where several died while awaiting treat ment the ime small wards ot of the potrero hoa has pital wore soon filled with the dead and dying victims ot at the fire the scene was terri terrible blo but in the midst of the suffering the surgeons worked calmly andi and swiftly over the charred victims the fire Is believed belle vedi to hava have started in the kitchen and had bad gained great headway boadway before it was discovered there were over lodgers in the building which bernod like tinder and most of the unfortunates who lost their lives ware were caught in their sleep and roasted to death so rapidly did the fire spread that it t was impossible to do much in the way fay of rescue and even when the fire alre department arrived the blaze was BO 80 fierce florce that the firemen were hardly able to place ladders against the walls ivales they did however manage to save a number of people on the top story in the work of at rescue lV willlam illiam Vil llam cole a fireman was thrown from a ladder paid nd injured it is believed fatally the majority majoria a of f those in hospitals were injured through leaping from front tho the upper windows A number of worn wom I 1 en are known to have been in the building and all of them are thought to have perished the exact number of the dead can not yet be ascertain cd but the proprietor of the house is quoted as stating that it Is its over twelve one of the women who met death in the flames Is said to be sirs mrs wife ot of the proprietor of the hotel botel an other of the dead Is 13 Diz the names of the other victims la have not yet been ascertained an adjoining lodging house at no IS 18 kentucky street was aleo also destroyed there wag was also forty seven men sleeping in this place but if it was thought that all escaped the property loss ie Is estimated at from to |