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Show ELEVEN LIVES WERE LOST. A Pi.A.trou. Fir. in a Millinery Htore at lloehentr. RortiESTEit, April fi There have been eleven bodies found at the fire of Keen's in ill: not store hero.only two hav e been recognized. SloO.OOO in gold supposed sup-posed to belong to the Italians was found in the ruins. Tho conclusion is that the Italians became confused and could not get to the stair, thus losing their lives. The lire broke out about midnight in a large frame building occupied as a dwelling by Mr. Keen, and he and bis son Walter were suffocated by the smoke. A number of Italians occupying occupy-ing rooms in tho upper portion of the building were burned to death, with the exception of a girl of 111, whotseaped with slight injuries by lcpiag from a wiudow. Mario Tecchio, the girl who escaped, says she tried to arouse her people, but they were already asphvxiaied. She stayed until fht Haines burned her, aud she was compelled to jump for her life. All the bodies have been recovered. The list of dead is as follows: C. J. Keen and son; Raptisto Te -chie and Annie, his wife, their three children, Annie, YosetT and Rosa; Victor! Tecchio, a brother of liap-tiste, liap-tiste, and Joseph Kaema, a boarder. It is thought the fire started from tlio eiulnsion nf . ' |