Show HOTEL GUESTS GUEST I PERISH V WHEN rI E N NI I FLAMES BLOCK EXIT AVENUES Scantily Clad Victims Are Arc I Drenched By Ji Fire ire If ose Str Streams ams MANY MAXY r Y I IX IN HOSPITAL I One Bites Off Part of Tongue rong In Iii Leap t to Escape I II i I I I LLE ALLENTON TOX Pa Jar 23 3 BY The Associated Ire s I Eight guests guesta of the Lar hotel were killed and a n score were wore Injured in a II fire that destroyed cd The he he build build- buildIng building ing this A revised list of the thi identified dead follows William J Shanahan regular boarder at al h h hotel hold James Allentown Ann Novak Soak waitress Mrs Irs C Deamont Philadelphia Alexander Troup oman no Pa One of tham lost his life when hen he fell feU from a window on n the he top floor of at the four stor story four t- t tIck hick Ick buildIng building build build- Ing and landed handed on tilt th sidewalk The others were fourd huddled together In a 3 corner on the fourth floor when at 5 a m the ruins had tooled sufficient 10 to permit firemen to explore M It The tire fire broke out shortly after atter 2 a moo m and spread so o rapidly that It cut ort oft th escape of at most of the guests many ot of o whom had to be carried down ladders a by firemen There The was no time to dress and the guests v vre forced Into the cold blasts o 0 winter II in th their r night cloth clothes s The TIe tempera tempera- temperature lure ture hovered between 15 5 and 18 above zero elo Twenty 11 enty of the guests All suffer suffer- suffering sufferIng ing from burns or injuries re- re received received re received when they jumped to the were taken to hospitals Six at one hospital are unidentified fled fied Three of hem hein doctors said I will die Oe 01 of at the six had bitten Litten off oft part of his tongue On One of hose accounted for Is WM t S e K I eVIr Li Li's s 's ph p p r subscription lIb MISSING The other guests were William Fred Frederick Pa I W Yo v Gorsky Gorsk Trenton frenton X N J A Al I Jackson Hazleton Pa George V Philadelphia G I l kelser Binghamton N Y V John East Pa In It J Charles ila Anton l u Allentown I lost of the Injured guests taken to hospitals were tere from various Pennsylvania lewns I The cauSe cause of f the fir had not been determined noi fbi had any I reason been blen advanced when firo- firo men n were able to ent enter I the ruins The Inside of or the hotel was a amass amass amass mass of or flames when fremen ar- ar arrived arrived ar arrived rived The hallways hallway und Ind stair stair- stairways ways waye ablaze and unable to leave their rooms frightened and anti be- be be bewildered guests guess stood a the win win- windows win windows I dows waiting ailing for or th thir 1 rescuers Spectators cOuld caul see the lile occupants occupant of ot the burning and ana hear their cries for help VICTIMS oc Few of those bo so rescued reached reache-d the sidewalk without a drenching of water over the th films flimsy e few which turned into Ice f fw w mm- mm ute min I utes later laler and taxi taxi- taxi tabs crabs were tj and the I guests taken to the hopital Ralph Lehman the night clerk reported hearing a cr of fire shortly after ter h a j in m I I spread the alarm hy bv liv ringing the fire Ire alarm bell behl he said and started Inless to 10 arouse th the guests In less than a minute It emed the flames were shooting through the elevator shaft rendering the ele- ele elevator ele elevator vator ator useless use Ie The he next minute I the flames lames had spread through possible pos the hallways hallwas ind md nd cut o off f all pos poe Bible sible escape through hose holle ho e aye ave nun flues I The hotel contained 68 rooms It wu was w s built in troll yoi 09 but bill had been remodeled SPI sp eral e tinier |