The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-08-22
DEATH LIST GREAT.
Awful Disaster Wrought by a Den-
 ver Hotel Explosion.
Forty People Killed and the Death Rate May Reach Seventy Fif-
 teen of the Inmates Are Accounted For.

DENVER, Col, Aug. 19.-The Gumry hotel, 1725 to 1733 Lawrence street, was wrecked by terrific explosion at l2:lo this morning, the rear half of the building, fve-story brick and stone structure, going 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 at the time. On both sides of Lawrence from Seven- teenth to Eighteenth streets, and on Larimer, directly back of the Gumry, the plate glass windows of the business houses were blown in and number of pedestrians were injured by falling glass. The fronts of many buildings in the vicinity were badly wrecked.
 At 12:35 o'clock five injured persons had been taken out. They were all inmates of the upper story and sank down with the floors, escaping more fortunately than those below, who are still buried in the ruins. By some esti- mates forty people were in the portion of the hotel destroyed, nearly all of whom must be dead. The cause of the explosion is uncertain, but it is sup posed that the battery of boilers in the hotel basement must have ex- ploded.
 Two injured women had been almost extracted from the ruins when the flames approached so close that the rescuers had to abandon them for their own safety Both voices have now been silenced, fire completing the work commenced by the explosion. The bodies of three women are to be seen in the back part of the building, but cannot be reached.
 At i:3O o'clock the flames were still keeping the fremen back from the work of rescue, except just at the line of the alley wall Thus far six persons have been taken from the ruins, all badly injured. In addition four were severely cut by glass falling into the street Among the dead are Peter Gumry and R. c. Greniera, the propri- etor of the hotel, the day clerk and the night clerk, none of whom have been found.
 The force of the explosion carried away large portion of the rear of the building adjoining the hotel and occu- pied by A. Lillyblade, wholesale and retail furniture. The walls of the Gumry on the side toward Eighteenth street crushed stable and small frame house, but no one was injured.
 No meals were served in the hotel and every guest entered on the register occupied room in the hotel last night. Twenty-two people registered yester- day, most of them late at night, the list being as follows: Mrs. O. H. Knight, Lake City; Mrs. Knights sons; J. l.. Kirk, Omaha; J. C. Brown, Omaha; Bud Buren. Colorado Springs; J. w. Roberts and wife, Colorado Springs; Miss Jennie Howard, Boston; Mrs. c. w. Williams, Boulder; Miss Hattie H. Williams, Boulder; w. c. McClain, Hu. ron, Kan; Mrs. McClain and child. Hu. ron, Kan; Henry Sloan, Huron, Kan; George Eurte, Colorado Springs, Col. E. T. McCloskey, Cripple Creek. Col. F. French, Central City, Col; B. Lo. rah, Central City, Col; NJ. E. Letson, Denver; w. J. Corson, Pueblo, Col. Thus far only fifteen people who are known to have been in the building at the time of the explosion are account. ed for. This leaves sixty supposed to | l.