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Show FIVE LIVES WERE LOUT In a Fire That Destroyed a Row of Cheap Fraine Buildings at Columbus. Columbus, O., Nov. 14 Five lives -were lost yesterday in a fire which destroyed a row of cheap frame buildings on. North High treet, the entire family of Charles Rctheard being burned. A strange feature of the affair af-fair is that when the Arc was extinguished the firemen did not suspect that any lives were lost, and not until late in the day, when the family was missed by a friend, was a search made. The firemen then returned to the house, and on entering an upper room met a horrible sight. The father was on the floor with his six-year-old girl in Bis arms, both bodies being burned to a crisp. The wife was partly on the bed and partly on the floor. Her body was nude, all the clothing having been burued off, and the flesh burned from the back of her skull. The unfortunate unfortu-nate woman would soon have become the mother of another child. A girl of 4 and a boy of 2 years were lying face downward on the bed, where they met death, their bodies being horribly burned. |