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Show SCORES OF LIVES IN DANGER FROM A FIRE Aged ilan So Badly Burned That There Is No Hope 'of 'Saving His Life. NEW TORK, Nov. 28. Fire In a five-story five-story flat house at No. S East One Hundred Hun-dred and Fifteenth street threw thirteen families into a panic. Adolph Burk-hardt, Burk-hardt, 75 years old, father of a vaudeville vaude-ville actress, was so severely burned that the physicians in the Harlem hospital hos-pital where he was taken have no hope of saving his life. Burkhardt lived with his daughter on the third floor and both were in bed when the fire started. When they were aroused the flames were leaping up the stairs, cutting off escape by that means, and Burkhardt. clad only in a night robe, ran into the hallway. v He was found there by persons who discovered the flames and climbed up the fire escapes es-capes to alarm the sleeping tenants. When the firemen reached the house every window was crowded with figures attired only in night clothes, while a chorus of bhrleks went up from the women wo-men and children, many of whom wanted to Jump. Extension ladders were quickly raised and all were saved, the only person injured being Burkhardt. It is believed that the fire started from a gas stove on the first floor. The damage dam-age was about 13000. |