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Show oo SETS FIRE TO HOUSE AND BURNS TO DEATH Salt Lake, Feb. 12 Saturating his room at 309 East First South street with coal oil, Otto Burkman, 40 years of age, set fire to the house at 3- 45 yepterday afternoon, and died while being taken to the police emergency hospital. While murky black smoke poured from the windows, Chief W. H By- water led a hose squad through the ft m, crackling lower floor to a roaring fur- I 1 nace of flame whero the torch had I B been applied. ' E Shouting for Burkman, the men B groped through the squalid rooms. -1 They heard a shuffle of feet mount- ing a pair of narrow stairs that led I from the room to a loft above. It ' ' I uas Burkman ascending. , ' Dies in Auto. Blinded and choking with the ' ' smoke, the firemen carried him to the street. He was placed In the chief's car and rushed toward the hos- '. '. uital, but he died just as the powerful car swung around the corner to the I Public Safety building. 1 |