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Show TWO BEAD; ONE MISSING AND SEVERAL INJURED IN A FIRE AT CHICAGO ' CHICAGO, May! 15.!-Two lives were lost in a fire that destroyed the Westchester West-chester apartment building' at 5017 Cottage Grove avenue early today.; One man is missing afcd is supposed 'to have perished in the flames, while two persons were probably fatally, and others seriously injured, by jumping from the windows. win-dows. ........ v.- j ;'. , , ) . . '. ' ,The dead: Louisa Phaesa. 10 -years old; Harry Strubley, 60 years old, ' Missing: Samuel Call.. 45 years old.! ' -A , . The injured: ' Theodore 'Whittle,; arm broken; Patrick Bolger, hands cut; Nelson Lundborg, badly burned about' head; Mrs. G.- D. Hoffman, back broken and internally injured: Louis. Herbert, back broken. ( - - The dead girl was found in the hall on the second floor of the building, where she bad apparently been overcome by smoke. -The body of. Strubley was recovered recov-ered from the basement, where he was accustomed to sleep, It Js thought he was rendered insensible by smoke and -drowned by the deluge of water from the engines. , ' :. . ' ' - T. Hoffman saved his two children by throwing therti from the second-story second-story window upon a mattress. His -wife," however, fainted and fell to the ground. It. is thought she will die. ) .'i " " The fire started beneath a grocery store which' occupied the' ground floor and spread raplily through the air-shafts. Many persons narrowly escaped in the panic The property; loss on building and contents is estimated at 150,000. |