Show carelessness CAUSES A FIRE ATTENDED BY LOSS OF LIFE grand rapids midi march 21 by the careless throwing down of a lighted match by a guest in his room a fire was started night which practically destroyed the clarendon hotel at canal and bridge with its contents entailing total loss estimated at and causing the loss of one life and the more or less belious injury of beveral persons THE DEAD william G traveling man of bay city THE INJURED peter sternberg chicago severely burned on face and hands mrs william it Laugh cray dancing teacher licad burned guy doty yardman bead and face blistered I 1 harry morri bellboy burach on hands and face peter sternberg went to his room on bo second floor and after igniting the ga threw the lighted match among a lot of his silk goods which took fire immediately the flames spreading with irrean rapidity and by the time the lire department got to work they were bursting from nearly every window the body of william G hawking was found in a back room on the third floor badly cd had been cut off from escape by the flames in front and hi room looked out over the power enal in the rear of the hotel where it would have been practically impossible to reach him even if his plight had been known |