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Show fsTARBED THESPIANS ige Peoplo Meet Fiery iNemesis in Chicago. mJ IN BLAZING HSTEL I jfrly 200 Thsalrical Mamb'ors Have CIoss Call. md Palace Hotel Tnkes Fire in tho fStirly Horning, and Inmates Have Narrow Escapee. Ueaso, Jrii. 20. Jll-fortunc ot Chiw.KO Itxlcal people durlnjr tho last few -weeks iiagaln in evidence at a. fire In tho nfl Palace hotel, Tndluna and Clark ts, early today; nearly 200 members Jisatrtc&l troupes bshiff driven into tho Sts by the names It wn with dirtily dirti-ly tbat n. panic was averted and the litened men and women agisted from (Structure In safety. 1b flrc originated on the second floor, po'sodly from crowed electrical wires, l-iras carried qulcltly up the elevator ft by a. draught to tho top floor. eph Northrop, a guest, saw tlie smoke jnotlfU-d the nlpht clerk, who Imme-;'y Imme-;'y started awakening the guests. Yhrop stepped into the elevator, ran rard throiifrh tbe smoke and Humes und ied arouse the puests on tlio top lloor. iio balls were soon tilled with excited itRJid women. Tho cooler guests wero inched to force them hack fron tho dows and fire escape toward which a I' was boln? made A number of wo-ilwere wo-ilwere preparing? to Jump from tho whirs whi-rs when peillcomcn arrived and .nldod t,work of restraint and rescue. The nen were led to a .rear stairway down ch they escaped through the smoke, tfwas pourinp upw:u-d from the lower ra. Miss Louise Mitchell, who had rT hemmed in by th lire, was rescued the firemen and taken down a flrc cs-e cs-e bw of tho guests had time to dress. Th Awns extinguished quickly after the eta had been taken from th" building I the damage to the structure was ut S3CC0. Ills m the second fire in the building- In last two weeks. Almost all tho guests the hotel aro members of theatrical ipanles stranded in Chicago. |