Show FATAL OMAHA r FIRE TWO PEOPLE MEET DEATH AND AT LEAST TWENTY INJURED ady tady l members of the lie loioco cut cot off from the me elevator leap lap from the windows to tue pavement below omaha march 33 23 the patterson raU erson block at seventeenth and douglas streets was partially destroyed by lire fire tuesday afeei afternoon noon and two lives live 11 were lost and about twenty others are ale suffering from broken limbs and burned and lacerated flesh the blaze started just after 3 from a gasoline stove store explosion in a room in the rear of the third floor or of the building and next to the elevator shaft it was not discovered until it had bad spread to the adjoining apartments slid and the entire floor was filled with smoke and flames about twenty me members abers of the lodge of were attending a committee meeting in the waiting room in front of the middle of the building on the same floor they were unconscious of danger until a janitor threw open the door and told them to S yet et out betre the flames cut them off the L be warnia aarni came too late the fire swept through the door and down the single stairway those nearest the door red fled through the blin blinne ling smoke and reached the street with hands bands and face burned and blistered the rest faced a solid wall of flame there was a fire escape at the south front of the building but not one of them seemed to have thought of it they rushed panic stricken to the window through which the smoke was already pouring in suffocating puffs in another instant the spectators attracted by the clouds of smoke were horrified to see one after another spring from the hie open windows and fall heavily to the pavement two of the ladies have died from their injuries another is is not expected to live while bout about twenty occupants of the building receive more or less painful injuries |