Show 8 r w LEAPS TO NUS MARK CHICAGO FIRE Girl Near J Death Deat t 11 i Scaling Ladders Save Tr Tripped Trapped Facto Factory orr W Workers i d CHICAGO 1 11 AP Leaps P-Leaps Leaps f for r life h from eighth story windows into n nets ts and precarious descents on op scaling scaling- ladders were wore thrillers that thousands saw last night when fire swept st two floors l ors of at the tho Gunther Gunther Gun- Gun I ther b building Just south of ot the I roo loop I Miss Miss Margaret Paino Paine ono one of at the three o who sought escape from the I flames by leaping Into a a. net was injured so BO seriously shea may die 2 Ie Sho Size struck tho net feet teet d. d qt t and her body rebounded several feet Into the theair air A fl flying ing heel cut a d deep gash gashIn In the check cheek of oC one of or the time men holding holdIng holding hold hold- ing tho the net On the rebound she struck another net nel holder Ralph de dc deButch deButch Butch A L cab driver and his shoulder should should- er cr was t broken SKULL LEG BROKEN The young womans woman's leg teg was broken brok brok- en and her skull fractured Miss 1 Paine ric was tho the second of or three persons to leap from the cl eighth floor The Tho first Jumper was Joseph Sandman He struck squarely In tho the center of or one of tho the five nets spread below helow and suffered only a slight wrench to his left shoulder Cecil McDonough l 1 32 who ho welSh weighs I po poUnds jumped d last Jast and came camo from the net os as he put It ft without a aa bruise or a n. scratch I landed ho said If It Miss Paine hadn't closed her herr eyes when she hc jumped and had fallen straight Instead of oC tumbling over and over I 1 don't dont believe belleve shed she'd have been hurt either The blowing of at a fuso fuse on an elec clee- electric trIo stuffing pillow machine In tI the e factory of at tho Thompson Thompson-Thome Ion Thorne company compan on tho seventh ll floor started started start start- ed cd tho the fire a a. spark igniting a a. bin of at cotton and silk ISm shreds Three hundred girls by tho the Thompson Thorne company compan es escaped escaped es- es capel by mc means ns of or elevators which were kept running even cn until flames wore leaping across the shafts Several girls unable to rea reach h tho cleva elevators tors in time ran t to tho the win win- dows dow Three e of or them were hanging I to window ledges of ot the seventh floor when firemen arrived Extension Extension Extension Exten Exten- sion ladders reached only to the fifth floor Firemen used scaling ladders consisting only of ot a single nosed hook cd upright with cross bars and carried these girls to safet safety Battalion Chief Michael l Kerwin sal said that in his 39 years experience he never before had hud seen a a successful successful success success- ful rul leap to a life Ufo net from an any floor loor higher than tho the fourth The rho damage was estimated at |