Ingham County MI Archives Photo Tombstone.....Unkown, Five Unidentified Victims Of Hotel Kerns Fire 
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Cemetery:           Mount Hope
Name:               Five Unidentified Victims Of Hotel Kerns Fire Unkown

Date Of Photograph: September 8, 2008
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Located in Section W:

Five Unidentified Victims of Hotel Kerns Fire, Dec. 11, 1934

Additional Comments:
The following is written on a Michigan Historic Site Marker:

At 5:30 am on December 11, 1934, the fire alarm outside the Kerns Hotel 
sounded.  The 211-room, four story brick hotel that stood on this site had 215 
registered guests.  Before the last embers of the fire were extinguished 
thirty-two people people were known dead and forty-four, including fourteen 
firemen, had been injured.  Two of the injured people died later.  Among the 
dead were seven Michigan legislators and five unidentified people.  Many 
guests escaped by descending four fire ladders, and eight people jumped into 
life nets.  However, the fire spread through the hotel's wooden interior so 
rapidly that many people were trapped in their rooms.  Seventy-two members of 
the ninety-seven-man Lansing fire force fought the fire using eight of the 
force's eleven pieces of fire apparatus.

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