Cover page of Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper from April 28, 1877. Vol XLIV, No 1,126. It features eight lithographs of the burning of the Southern Hotel in St. Louis.
Text from various works surrounds illustrations of a fire that broke out in the Southern Hotel on the morning of April 11th, 1877. The text and captions are in German. The illustrations deal mainly with the victims of the fire and their rescuers.