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Show DOZEN UVES IJDST IN HOTEL HORROR Unforlunale Guetti of Fort Waj it InrJ., Hotel Cut off by Flamt from Elevator and Stairway. Fire Department Rescued Maiy I the Entrapped Ouests by Means of Ladders Dut Many Leaped I to the Paved Streets and I Were Fatally Injured I Fort Wayne. Ind At least 12 pe tone mat Ihelr live In a fire tu ueatroyad Ihe New Avellno hotel rtra early Hunday Tho entire Inter) t tha building la a smoldering hel i riilna, and how many dead nr c realed by tha debrla can only bg to) jectureil The hotel register M conaumnl y the lira, and thero aril a accurate maii of determining k are ralsalng I Tho complete deatructlon ot trn( k torlor of tha hotel make tho vjisj of reentering hodle a dlfllcult la) A confused henp of charred t brick and twisted girdle la plki a) letween the bare walla to thu fcrnos) story Piece by pleco this mine I remoied Iwfore llio roll of tlmifial ran la completed Homo of tin Let la taken out aro manglel M charred Itayond reeognlllon I Tha flra wax illaeoverad at tub I m In the elevator ahafl by iflst Clerk Italph llopklna lie nrsfca I Iho upper lloora alarming the pih until the llnnie whleli had iptl with appalling rapidity, drcire m back Ilia effnrta. however, yivi many Uvea The hotel wna Septal half a century ago and the wnflweal wna dry aa Under It liiirnfd lie matrbwiHMl and within n few annual Irom tho lime the lire wna dlsjbveitl tha whole Inlerlor of the hotel wsn man of Itamea that tilled thf cor dor and rooma with aurDcntlaj cloud of ainoke and laid flejy W rler aero all mean of oacase a by tho window The Urn department rescued masj people by mean of ladder, bat eon Iremled by Iho onward rush, of til llnme, leaiml from high windows tho naTod atreet The New A veil hotel wna n six story bulldinRt brkt In tho huslnea center of tho cjjy la erection waa begun In 18G2 lirtlt "a not completed until aoveralj' ypae later. In IS'J.1 tho building o tenslvely remodeled and twojtorfcl TvVerWabUStiaVoJKt n quarter of an hour from Un Uia the flro wan dlscntered In thereatar ihaft practically the entire tslldlif waa wraiepd In flame Tie whole Interior beramo a roaring furaeo ani Irom bnscmeiil tu nwf nil wmblatlag nt once In rapid aucccasao the floor fell to the basement, nrrylnf their toll of dead |