Unknown County MO Archives Obituaries.....Norton, C.F October 7, 1904
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Monring Oregonian October 8,1904
FATAL FIRE IN HOTEL
Four People Lose Their Lives- Blaze Starts When They Are All Asleep
St.Joseph,Mo.,Oct.7- The Stracy Hotel, in South St.Joseph, burned this 
morning, four person losing their loves. The dead:Lafayette Frew,aged 50, 
livestock speculator.
C.F.Norton, aged 35, employe of Stockyards Company.

Joseph Dillingham, aged 50, livestock speculator.
Mrs. Anna Weston,of Gentry Conuty,Missouri,guest.
Gilbert Weston, 12 years old, son of the dead woman,is fatally burned, and 
William Simmons,a cattle buyer, was badly hurt by jumping from a third story 
window. The fire started in the kitchen of the hotel, which was a frame 
building, and the guests and boarders were aroused with great difficulty. The 
three dead men were boarders ans unmarried.

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