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Show Negroes Penned. . in Burning Bnilding Thirty Men, Women and Children Have a Narrow Escape Prom Death. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 22. Thirty negroes, men, womon and children, penned in on the second and third lloors of a burn-Ins burn-Ins Morgan street lodging-house today saved themselves from death by jumping jump-ing from windows Into tarpaulins held by firemen, by groping their way to the 3treet down smoke and flame-filled Ktalrwayy and by climbing through a scuttle to the roof and thence to ad-Joining ad-Joining buildings- to be taken down by firemen. Four women, injured in' their efforts to cacapc. are at the City hospital. One of thm is unconsclou: and probably will d'le. Another, who discovered the lire and dashed Into the building to arouse the inmates, suffered a broken leg. Sho wau Imprisoned by the lire, forced to hang out of a window to ecape .vmoke and llames, and dropped from a third-atory window to the ground. All Bills Aro Paid. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Nov. 21'. All bills of the Loulsdnnu Purchases exposition oxcept a few smnll current accounts have boon paid. PreoldenL Francis announced today. |