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Show LIFE LOST AA FIRE Seventy-Five Persons in Apartment-House Blaze at Lowell. LOWELL, Mass.. Feb. 27. One person per-son and possibly others lost their lives In a fire which broke' out in the Bur-bank Bur-bank block here early today. The building build-ing was used for business, lodging-houses lodging-houses and social purposes, the street floor containing stores, the second, third and four floors lodging-rooms and the , top floor a dance hall. There were seventy-five lodgers In the house when the Are broke out. Reports that lives had been lost were circulated and contradicted, con-tradicted, but when a search of the ruins was made the, body of Mrs. Sarah F. Klttredge, correspondent of the Ladles' Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post of Philadelphia and other periodicals, was found. Later It was reported re-ported that four other persons were missing and search was continued. 1 The tots I financial damage is estimated esti-mated at $125,000. partly covered by insurance. in-surance. The Are threatened the Bel-vldere Bel-vldere hotel, which adjoins the Bur-bank Bur-bank block, but a heavy fixe jjyaJl proved, aa,aecilve harrier. . X. J |