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Show FOREIGN. Tlie Ifuueu Fir. London, 27. A Paris correspondent correspon-dent Bays the fire in the Ihratre in Roueu broke out while the actors were dressing for the performance, and was discovered before the public were admitted. The II imes spread rapidly. The millets of tlie building wen: so narrow that the exit of the members of the chorus :md super numeraries wac cut oil, nr.U the poor people Crowded tho wir -dorrs, many lep::g from them upn bedding piled below by the inhabitants. One 1 chorus singer was visiblo for an hour in an upper window, beyond the reach of help. Four soldiers were killed and tillfeu .vouniled in en- ' dc-avtr:i:g to titvc lives. About fifty ' were badly injured and taken to the hospital. Tne Ic-adiuc singer, Mde. Pzys, entered Iho burning building in searched' .:er husband and perished. Her Irndy has hot been found. Toe lia-aire Continued to burn until noon uu Wednesday. The fire w-s caused by a jjas jet lguiling lb curtain. load iitiuti to the victim whose bodba hive already been found, four persons havo died from, their burns in the bo.-pital, nnd tun r soldicra are mi-;aing. Twelve ndj a-cent a-cent houses were destroyed. Th: total lo?s ot property is estimated at f 100,000. |