Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-19
MANY MUST BE KILLED
Frightful Hotel Disaster Report.
 ed From Denver.
IT WAS CAUSED BY AN EXPLOSION
Although the Details Are NTeager, It seem Probable That Forty People Were Buried In the Wrecked Gumry Hotel-Fire Add. ed to the Horror of the Scene.

Although the Details Are Meager, It seem
 Probable That Forty People Were Buried
 In the Wrecked Gumry HoteI-Fire Add. ed to the Horror of the Scene.
 DENVER, Aug. 19.-The Gumry hotel, 1725 to 1733 Lawrence street, was wrecked by a terrible explosion at 1910 a. m. this morning. The rear half of the building, a five story brick and stone structure, went down with a crash.
 The hotel was crowded with guests, and many of them must have been killed, as well as the entire force of hotel employees who were sleeping in the portion of the building which fell.
 On both sides of Lawrence, from Seven teenth to Eighteenth street, and on Lori meri directly back of the Gumry, the plate glass windows of the business houses were blown in, and a number of pedestrians were injured by falling glass. The fronts of many buildings in the vicinity were nearly wrecked
 The hotel structure for 100 feet along the alley and extending 75 feet toward the front is a mass of debris. Brick and plas- ter are piled in heaps 20 feet high, and from this mass of wreckage can be heard the moans of the injured and dying. At 1885 five injured persons had been taken out. They were all inmates of the upper story and sank down with the floors, es- caplng more fortunately than those below, who are still buried in the ruins
 The tiremen are working like beavers and digging into the debris, but are mak- ing little progress. The remaining portion of the building from which the guests are being removed by ladders as fast as possi- ble, is expected to fall at any moment, and precautions to avert further loss of life adds to he-difficulty in reaching the in- jured.
 Forty People May Re Buried.
 By some estimates 40 people were in the portion of the hotel destroyed, near ly all of whom must be dead. It will be late before a full list can be obtained.
 The cause of the explosion is uncertain, but it is supposed that the battery of boil CTS in the hotel basement must have ex- ploded. The sound of the explosion was heard throughout the city, awakening people in bed mile from the scene. A cloud of dust was thrown 1, 900 feet in the air, and as there is not breath of air stir ring 1t still hangs in the air like huge column. Minute atoms of powdered brick and mortar are descending like gentle snow.
 At 1850 the ruins were burning fierce ly, and the firemen were obliged to retreat from the work of rescue. Every engine in the city is pouring streams into the mass, but the flames cannot be possibly got under control before many of the injured have been cremated. As their chances of escape lessen the cries of the imprisoned people are increasing heartrending shrieks rising from every portion of the great mass of wreckage. Fears are now enter tained that the front of the building, which seems to be tottering, will fall and bury the fremen at their work.
 During the height of the excitement 8 horse team ran away on Eighteenth street, stampeding the great crowd of spectators. A number of people were more or less in- jured by being trampled upon and falling in the broken glass which covers the streets and sidewalks i'll every direction