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Show CREMATED ALIVE. 3Tive Italians Meet Awful Death in Fire. LANCASTER, Pa.. Nov. 24. Five Italians perished in a fire which last night destroyed tho old Noble grain warohouso at North Bond. "For some time llfty or more Italian railroad laborers la-borers have been slcoping ln the building. build-ing. One of them was washing a jkiIi of overills In a pall of gasoline, whon a spark for his plpo fell Into tho pall, causing an explosion that scattered the burnlnir oil- Instantly there was a panic among tho men. most of them being asleep. They fought madly lo escape from tho burning burn-ing building. One man leaped from a window and was picked up with a broken 'otT- It la believed that tho flvo who perished per-ished wero trampled upon In tho rush to get out. Their badly charred bodies have boon recovered. |