Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1901 — Thirty-Fire Hurt in Hotel Fire. [ARTICLE]
Thirty-Fire Hurt in Hotel Fire.
Two persons were seriously injured and thirty-five others slightly hurt as the result of a fire that burned the Stewart hotel, a two-story frame structure at St. Louis, Mo. Forty guests lqst their clothing, and had to make their escape by jumping from windows. S. W. Carr and L. Blake, who were the most seriously hurt, were burned about the face, hands and feet. The loss is about 810,000.
