Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1902 — ELEVEN DIE IN FIRE. [ARTICLE]

ELEVEN DIE IN FIRE.

Hotel Guests in St. Louis Perish at ' N ght. • • ■ Eleven persons perished in a fire which destroyed the Empire Hotel, a threestory lodging house at 2700 and 2702 Olive street, ■ St' Louis. Eight others were seriously hurt in leaping from windows or burned as they tied through Uie blazing hallways. Tlje dozen who escaped before the fire caught then! fled to the street in their night clothes and were severely frost bitten. There were about forty persons in the hotel, and it is believed all are accounted for. The building and contents were destroyed at a loss of $20,000.