The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1914-10-13
FATAL fire
TWO MEN LOSE THEIR LIVES IN
HOTEL FIRE AT MONTROSE.

Montrose, Oct. 13.-At 6 o'clock
Sunday morning. the residents of this
little city were aroused from their
slumbers by the fire bell ringing.
Upon investigation fire was seen to
be pouring put OF the windows and
roof of the City hotel building which
has been occupied by a Mr.. Stevens
for the last two months as a short
order restaurant, the second story be-
ing used by Joe Kapaun as an annex
to his hotel for sleeping rooms. The
cook in charge of the restaurant was
getting an early breakfast, when the
gasoline stove which he was using ex-
ploded and set fire to the building.
He tried to put the fire out, but see
ing he could not, ran out and rang
the fire bell. Before the iremen
reached the scene the fire had gained
such Roadway that the building,
which was an old frame structure,
was doomed. They used all their eff
forts in saving the adjoining build
ings which were frame structures
also and fire had caught in the sides
and roof several times, but they final
ly succeeded after a hard fight to
save them. The hotel building and
contents were all consumed.
There were six men sleeping in the
building when the fire broke out.
Four Of them succeeded in escaping
by jumping through the windows;
they were all badly cut and bruised
from the window glass and coming in
contact with the cement pavement be-
low. They reported n mar left In
the building, but the roof had fallen
in by this time.
When the fire was under control
and the blaze squelched sufficiently
to let the firemen search the ruins the
body of John Nesbit was found. He
had wrapped himself in the bed
clothes which saved his body from be-
ing badly burned. His remains were
taken to Odell's undertaking rooms
and his parents at Creston, Ia, were
notified. He had been employed
around here for the past four years
during the harvest and threshing sea-
son and was a friend of everyone who
knew him. They all join in SYM
patty with his parents in his sad
ending. Again, last evening while
the firemen and others were looking
through the ruins of the building
they discovered another body which
was burned beyond recognition. AS
near as can be learned it is the body
of a Mr.. Dye from Ohio. He was a
comparative stranger here, being
around town for only a few days. His
remains are at Odell's undertaking
rooms awaiting some clue to where
his people are located.
There is more Catarrh In this section
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put together. and until the last few
years was supposed to be incurable. Fol
a great many years doctors pronounced
it a local disease and prescribed local
remedies. and by constantly failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced
1T incurable. Science has proven Ca
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therefore requires constitutional treat
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Adv.