Show MANY NANY CAUGHT ON FLOORS One Life Lost and Many Per Persons Persons PerSons sons Injured in Fire at Kan Kansas Kansas Kansas sas City Kansas Kansas Kansa City Oct 24 More than a en persons were injured and It is be bp believed that one ene or more lives were lost lostin lostIn in ill a fire which which destroyed the tho Chamber er of Commerce building a tour tor brick and stone structure used as us a L store and ancI tenement building p at Park and Central Gentral streets in the tile Riverview district of Kari Kan Kansas sas City Cit Kan Han at an early hour this morning Injured Among the injured are the following Thomas Hunter blacksmith bruised and overcome by smoke Patrick Morley railroad laborer hip broken A II IL West Vest bruised overcome by smoke Frank Betar railway mail mall clerk fin fingers fingers gers of both hands bands broken and body bruised Captain J T H fireman back hurt by b falling ladder S SIr M Ir F r McCall railroad laborer badly badh bruised U UA A J Jackson badly bruised Tenements Up UpStairs Stairs The lower Jower floor of the tile Chamber r of Commerce building which was built twenty years ago for the purpose its name indicates in but has long since been abandoned for such mch uses use was occupied by br stores while the upper floors were used as a tenement and contained rooms The families of sixty laborers or fully persons were asleep in the building when the fire broke out The fire start started ed Cd at the tue th bottom and before the inmates were awake wake n all means of escape through I Ithe the building were cut off Before the firemen firt men arrived men and women and children were groping through the halts halt halloin haltin in an to escape from the suffocating ing Ini smoke The fire ladders did not riot reach above th the third floor and several persons on the fourth floor did not root pot get t down to the floor below in time to make I use of the ladders Frank Betar jumped i irom from rom the fourth floor and caught his hi I fingers rs between the rounds of a ladder below belo and although h he held on he lIe 11 broke all of his fingers I Miraculous Escapes H G Wilson pitched his wife from the fourth floor to the firemen on the tile lad ladders la laders ladders ders below bc and then with his young oun baby U Jumped into the arms of tile the firemen himself lf The file firemen fir carried carri out about thirty thirl people who were yer unable un ble to escape seap without assistance Jesse Ford a laborer with his wife and young baby in his arms aIms climbed out of a room on the fourth floor and walking along a beam to a point di directly directly above the firemen dropped his wife and baby bab safely to them He him himself himself himself self and was saved by the th fire firemen firemen firemen men Many miraculous escapes are re reported reported reported ported U UThe The firemen believe that some of the th people in the building failed to escape and that their bodies will be discovered in the ruins wh when n an a investigation can be made mad The cause of the fire is not known It was under control at 2 a m The loss on the is |