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Show FIRE CAUSES PANIC. Thirteen Families Frightened, but All Rescued and Only Ono Hurt. NEW YORK, Nov. 2S.-Fire In a five-story five-story flat house at No. 5 East One Hundred Hun-dred and Fifteenth street has thrown thirteen thir-teen families into a panic Adolph Burk-hardt, Burk-hardt, 75 years old. father of a vaudeville actress, was so severely burned that tho physicians in Harlem hospital, where ho was taken, have no hope of saving his life. Burkhardt lived with his daughter on the third floor and both wore In bed when the. Arc started. When thoy were aroustd the flames were leaping up tho stairs, cutting cut-ting oft escape by thai means, and Burkhardt, Burk-hardt, clad only in a night robe, ran Into tho hallway. Ho was found there by persons per-sons who dlscovored tho flames and climbed up tho fire escape to alarm tho sleeping tenants. When tho firemen reached the house every window was crowded -with figures attired only In night clothes, while a chorus of shrieks went up from the women wo-men and children, many of whom wanted to Jump. Extension ladders were quickly raised and all were saved, tho only person Injured being Burkhardt, It Is believed that tho fire started from a gas stoc on the firsi floor. The dnm-ace dnm-ace was about S3CO0. |