Show I I HELD BACK BY FIRE SENSATIONAL SCENES AT BLAZE IX CHICAGO Men Spring From ThirdStory Windows Win-dows to Receive Their Death Wonnds on the Pavement Below Good Work of tho Firemen > Chicago May 10A fire in which one man is known to have lost his life and ten others were injured four of them probably in a fatal manner occurred in a boarding house at 10 Sherman street at 115 this morning The building is a threestory brick I concern standing directly across Sherman street from the north end of I the board of trade building The fire was started by an explosion explo-sion in Rappels saloon on the ground floor and inside of a minute the I whole lower front portion of the building was a mass of ruins The inmates In-mates never had the slightest chance to escape for the only door by which I entrace was had to the hotel was in the front and close to the saloon door I The flames blocked that means of escape es-cape at once I Michael and his wife occupied tho upper portion of the third floor and I they were at the windows calling for help in a frantic manner when the first firemen arrived Unfortunately II I there was not a truck and thinking his chance of life would be gone in another minute if he lingered in the building Michael sprang from the third story to the pavement below His left arm was broken and he sustained internal injuries A second sec-ond after Michael hit the sidewalk and before the firemen had lifted him another form sprang from the third story and came down on the pavement pave-ment with a crash It was a man and he was alive but unconscious when carried to the hospital Mrs Michael stuck to her window and was carried down by the firemen a her was her little girl who remained with herThe The fire was quickly extinguished and the firemen plunged into the house in search of more victims One dead man was found in a front room and two others badly burned and nearly suffocated Tn another room was foynd another daughter of Michael Mich-ael and in the other rooms and hal ways five other men One of them was said to be dying when placed in the ambulance Five men are badly burned All o them were unconscious and if their rescue had come five minutes later 1 none of them would havewkeen alive |