Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-12-01 | Page 1 | Three Lose Lives in Hotel Blaze

j If L E Sb f E 8 H 1 E 1L E I GUESTS PERISH I II PORTLAND I CONFLAGRATION None of Victims Identified; Other Guests Flee In Night Clothing I SEVEN DEAD ON LAKE Canadian Steamer Breaks Up Near Coast of Michigan i PORTLAND, Ore.. Dec 1 Threej local men lost their lives and propert-f 1'H damage estimated at $75,000 Wai caused by a fire which early today SW( pt the Ben Hur hotel, a 3-stoii j frame structure on Oak street, be- ! tween Park and .Morrison. Heaviest financial loss was suffered suffer-ed by furniture dealers on the groun 1 I Guests at the Benson and Or eg u i hotels close by were warned and man I feft their rooms. The dead had not been Identified ll ifternoon. Othei guests escaped injury, moat of them were In their nlRrht clothing The number ut injured had not j' I been d termlned at daybreak The fire broke out In the hotel fur- i i nacc room. Taxlcab drivers and po-llce po-llce worked heroically to arouse tho I guests until an explosion on the third I H floor forced the rescuers from tho I building. 4uetM at two of the principal ho- tele, the Benson and Oregon, which adjoin the Ren Hur, were awakenei by the managements and warned to I prepare to leave if the fire spread The fire was controlled, however, be-I be-I fore it reached other buildings. The cause of it has not been de- JJ I termined. Tho loss is estimated at ; $60,000. SEVEN LOST IN GALE. CALUMET. Dec. 1 Captain Nasoi, H 1 Bernard and alx members of thO crew of the t'anidlan steamer Maple, hurst lost their lives early today when the ship broke up a mile west ' H of Portage Lake canal during a heai gale. Nine others of the crew wen', j rescued. Jumping from the bridge Into a .lifeboat. Besides Captain Bernard, the dead Included Chief Engineer Dunn o Kingston, nt., and First Mate Frank Smith of I irewerhills, On:. According to the coast guard ser-vice, ser-vice, Captain Bernard and the sl others lost their lives because they de-dined de-dined to jump from the bridge. Tho Maplehurst, 200 feet lon.r. with an Icon hull, was bound from Loraine. Ohio to Port Arthur, with 1800 tons of